Right? They mismanaged the game since inception and then had the audacity to blame its failure on the pandemic. Anthem could’ve been an IP defining title like Destiny and Warframe but the suits couldn’t pull their heads out of each other’s asses to make it happen.
Honestly, not sure how they fucked Anthem up. A looter shooter where everyone gets to fly around like Iron Man and customize mech suits? That sounds awesome!
Then you see what it is, how it was monetized, and you say "Oh, right, EA".
EDIT: Monetization was not much of an issue, I was mistaken.
The monetisation was the least of their problem. The lack of endgame, their first Maelstrom event being super disappointing and the weapon scaling being so fucked that the level 1 grey weapon had a better DPS than a maxed legendary weapon killed the game far more than a few skins being slightly overpriced
The older you get, the more you realize the suits generally catch a lot of flak for simply doing their jobs and herding the developers.
I can't remember, and I don't care enough to look it up, but wasn't Anthem sort of sent out to its death after they realized very late in development that the core game loop simply wasn't fun? I seem to recall there was some situation along the lines of, "yeah by the time we realized it was a problem there was no time to fix it." Or maybe they just kept rebooting the game until EA finally told them they had to ship something.
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u/FrostWendigo 8h ago
Right? They mismanaged the game since inception and then had the audacity to blame its failure on the pandemic. Anthem could’ve been an IP defining title like Destiny and Warframe but the suits couldn’t pull their heads out of each other’s asses to make it happen.