Jason Schreier at Kotaku had this scouted back in November. I played Anthem and the problems that game has preventing it from becoming the type of game that it wants to be are deep. It's not just...
I played Anthem and the problems that game has preventing it from becoming the type of game that it wants to be are deep. It's not just a tweak of drop tables. There's not a lot of incentive to run the repeatable quests and missions because there's not much to collect or show off. Games like Diablo and Destiny have hundreds of different weapons and cosmetics. Anthem has much fewer weapons, and the cosmetics are sold, not earned or found.
The scale of the environment is also a challenge. The open map is much bigger in size than any Destiny world but there's only one and it's sort of bereft of landmarks. There's no point to wandering because you're unlikely to stumble upon anything cool, so everyone's just jetting from point A to point B.
My question is how much will they charge for this? While I don't doubt that they want to fix Anthem, I don't know whether they can do it for free, and they turned off so many of us early players with this now beta release that they've got a lot of work to do to bring anyone back. They have to convince new players that this one is actually good (the same thing every game has to do and that's difficult enough without the negative hype) and they have to convince old players that this one is different.
I submitted the actual blog post here: https://tildes.net/~games/lr2/one_year_after_anthems_launch_bioware_is_stopping_work_on_seasonal_content_to_let_the_team_focus_on Please copy this comment...
Jason Schreier at Kotaku had this scouted back in November.
I played Anthem and the problems that game has preventing it from becoming the type of game that it wants to be are deep. It's not just a tweak of drop tables. There's not a lot of incentive to run the repeatable quests and missions because there's not much to collect or show off. Games like Diablo and Destiny have hundreds of different weapons and cosmetics. Anthem has much fewer weapons, and the cosmetics are sold, not earned or found.
The scale of the environment is also a challenge. The open map is much bigger in size than any Destiny world but there's only one and it's sort of bereft of landmarks. There's no point to wandering because you're unlikely to stumble upon anything cool, so everyone's just jetting from point A to point B.
My question is how much will they charge for this? While I don't doubt that they want to fix Anthem, I don't know whether they can do it for free, and they turned off so many of us early players with this now beta release that they've got a lot of work to do to bring anyone back. They have to convince new players that this one is actually good (the same thing every game has to do and that's difficult enough without the negative hype) and they have to convince old players that this one is different.
I submitted the actual blog post here: https://tildes.net/~games/lr2/one_year_after_anthems_launch_bioware_is_stopping_work_on_seasonal_content_to_let_the_team_focus_on
Please copy this comment over there, I'm going to remove this one (since it's mostly just a reiteration of the blog post).