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/wakito64 7h ago
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