One Month Later and Anthem Is RUINED! What Happened?
1,389Bioware's game Anthem could have been the best project of the year and instead it is a dumpster fire. Let's dig into what really happened in the first month and why this game is SCREWED!
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EA and BioWare have a problem. To say that Anthem is currently underperforming would be a massive understatement. It is the worst-reviewed BioWare game in the studio's history, somehow beating out Mass Effect: Andromeda for that lofty accolade despite the latter having facial animation glitches so prolific they still haunt the dreams of thousands of unfortunate gamers. Anthem also can't seem to go longer than a few days without unearthing a fresh bug ready to break the way weapons work or to force PlayStations to shut themselves down out of fear of having to process whatever's going on inside the game. Just today, Anthem Update 1.0.4 released, only to immediately and unintentionally alter the game's loot tables to behave in such a manner that they actually regressed significantly. That's saying something since loot was already one of the titleโs most criticized features.
Inexplicably - or maybe not, if you're willing to entertain the idea that its convoluted release schedule and review system was deliberate - Anthem also topped sales charts in February. There's a lot to unpack there. Maybe reviews don't matter anymore. It's possible that early review copies will become a thing of the past, since abandoning that practice seemed to insulate Anthem from getting scorched in sales the way Andromeda did a few years prior. There's also the believable argument that fans are so overexposed to an AAA game's development process that they'll have their minds made up well before the game actually launches, rendering critiques of the title ineffective. However you explain the sales, though, they're actually an issue and not a boon. Anthem's early success may well cause EA and BioWare to continue down the spiral that has seen the game patched constantly since launch without managing to fix much of anything. We've been stuck on loot drop rates as an issue for over a month; if this game was salvageable, there would be a better indication of that fact by now. Anthem is not salvageable. It is a collection of good ideas built on a foundation of several bad ones, executed with the precision of an over-caffeinated sharpshooter. That being said, there's historical precedent in an adjacent genre that suggests these problems in execution aren't the end of Anthem's world. Final Fantasy XIV went through a similarly disastrous launch period, but now, nine years later, it's one of the most popular and enduring MMORPGs in the world.
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