They killed Mass Effect for this
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Alternative title: Anthem servers are still online.
I thought it shut down years ago.
No, that was just development on the promised No Man's Sky-style recovery they were working on.
I could’ve sworn they killed it already.
Wouldn’t have been too bad if they had any content. It was fun for a couple of hours. Just a shit GoS.
Great news on the same day the Stop Killing Games petition reaches 1M sigs.
Yeah, even a shitty game like this should be preserved.
I remember hearing about how terrible it was when it first came out and I pretty much never heard about it since so I assume it did not improve LOL
It improved a bit, and then the studio began working on an overhaul internally to provide what the game should have been, sort of No Man's Sky style... but they were shutdown by Bioware.
There's a lot of reasons it ended up the way it did, development hell and poor management mostly. Hell, the flight mechanic, which had been added and removed several times in development, was core to the released game, and easily the best part, apparently wasn't even decided to be a necessary feature until Patrick Soderlund, former head of EA studios, was very disappointed in a demo BioWare had shown in early 2017 that the team decided to add flying back in.
One of the core pillars of the game was essentially added just to impress an executive and keep the development going versus being canceled. Flight like in the game requires the entire map and structure of the game world to be different. If you can fly,. you now need to take advantage of the vertical space, something that simply doesn't even get considered in most games. A mountain you can climb is not the same as needing to fill in an entire mountain range and canyon region with content.
Apparently some people really liked it. I never played it though.
I've heard how amazing the flying feels. Are there any games that has cool flying or better than Anthem I could try out?
Which one was Anthem again?
Anthem launched?
Cunts
Fr they could at least patch it to allow custom servers
But they can't just patch out always-online DRM! Think of all the no more money they'd lose!
Had a lot of fun playing it with friends for a few weeks. People are haters.
This game had so much potential, the combat was fun, the powers/weapons you got were unique and felt punchy and powerful. The flying was amazing, and when you popped your super and everything around you just evaporated into charred metal and meat chunks? Whoo, that shit was fun.
But the gear upgrade system for everything but weapons was very lackluster. The micro transactions were front and Center, and you really didn't get many free options to look cool. The prices were laughable for what you were getting. And as fun as the combat was, it didn't make up for how little content there actually was. You get a piddly squirt of what could have been. And what's there is repetitive.
It had great bones. With a fresh team it could have been phenomenal with what they had already. They just didn't try.
I only played it late, after they basically gave you free legendary stuff, so I can definitely see that being a dealbreaker