Tuesday, February 11th 2020
BioWare is Preparing Anthem Reboot with Major Changes Coming
BioWare, big game development studio which announced last year a highly anticipated game Anthem, is now officially confirming that Anthem is getting a reboot. With many problems hunting the game from day one, BioWare fans were a bit disappointed to see a game with such potential wasted. For example, current weak points were overall game progression and the lack of any meaningful activities in the game. To improve the game, BioWare posted an announcement in their blog where BioWare General Manager Casey Hudson explained what they plan to do in the future.
"We have also heard your feedback that Anthem needs a more satisfying loot experience, better long-term progression, and a more fulfilling end game. So we recognize that there's still more fundamental work to be done to bring out the full potential of the experience, and it will require a more substantial reinvention than an update or expansion", said Casey Hudson in the blog. This confirms BioWare's intention to improve the game and that there is no simple update that could address current issues, so we are inbound for a refresh.
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"We have also heard your feedback that Anthem needs a more satisfying loot experience, better long-term progression, and a more fulfilling end game. So we recognize that there's still more fundamental work to be done to bring out the full potential of the experience, and it will require a more substantial reinvention than an update or expansion", said Casey Hudson in the blog. This confirms BioWare's intention to improve the game and that there is no simple update that could address current issues, so we are inbound for a refresh.
35 Comments on BioWare is Preparing Anthem Reboot with Major Changes Coming
Will give it a chance again after the reboot.
The utter failure of their management
Faking the E3 demo
Rushing the game to meet a financial deadline to keep the shareholders happy
Using a hacky game engine that wasn't designed for a game like Anthem
Relying on the non-existent "Bioware magic" to fix up problems they created
Scrapping updates because of their incompetence
Anthem, as both a game and a franchise, is poisonous right now; no amount of redesigns or overhauls is going to save that dumpster fire.
So bad is the state of the game, it's selling for just $5 AUD at EB Games, which is about the cost of a relatively expensive cup of coffee.
As Shigeru Miyamoto says "A delayed game is eventually good, but a rushed game is forever bad."
Evolve did a brave attempt to bring it back, it failed.
Death Garden, same thing, it failed.
Some indie game I cant remember the title off, it was bought up by another indie company aaaaand it failed.
Seems just better to start from scratch but use as much of the assets to reduce cost and giving it a new title.
Yes, a reboot is a good decision, no, its not a good game - that's exactly why it needs a feature reboot
Also Bioware looked insanely out of touch when it came to looter-shooters, even tho they had tons of games on the market to take inspiration from.
I watched this game on several streams, it didnt look too bad. From what I remeber of it, it kinda looked like it was heading in the P2W direction with the loot boxes. Hopefully the repoop (shiiiit man!) of it will change that.expect a large patch within 4 months after the re-release.
And the development motto was looter shooters don't exist. So taking inspiration from previous games, even discussion about them was no go. Just read the report. Without it we'd still be blaming EA corporate for what is obviously incompetence of Bioware Edmonton.
Otoh instead of a skeleton crew pumping content and updates for Anthem with the majority of the studio moving onto Dragon Age 4, now the reboot effort of this dumpster fire must be leeching development from DA4. Tbf I'm not sure about Bioware's future and sincerely hope EA kills Bioware before their name gets dragged to mud more.
That's when I picked up the game, just to show support and that's when I became a believer (got the following titles on preorder).
In short, if you want to fix a game, you fix it. You don't talk about fixing it.
EA
Who is responsible for insuring that Bioware stays on track?
EA.
EA is the boss. They should have stepped in the moment it was obvious that there was 0 direction for anthem.
I do agree that EA is guilty for nudging its studios to use Frostbite and Bioware paid for it by trying to frankenstein it for RPG a la ME Andromeda.
But then according to the Kotaku report the numb-heads at Bioware scrapped it and tried to frankenstein frostbite again for Anthem. That's sole on them.
At one point we have to admit that legendary studios aren't what they once were. Studios are compromised of people and the same people aren't just there anymore. Bathesda, Blizzard, Bioware etc. Hell even Dan Houser recently left Rockstar so I don't think it'll be same anymore too.
And the fact that Bioware still is putting resources into salvaging it long after it’s way too late for that, shows how misdirected the whole project was.