Anthem. We Need To Talk About It.

[potato_hamster]

Angelus said:

potato_hamster said:

Anthem is mainly being developed by a team in Bioware Austin with a smaller contingent working on it from Edmonton. This game was not supposed to be announced at E3, but MS paid EA tens of millions of dollars to get this to a point so MS could announce this during their conference. This game was running like hot garbage weeks before E3, and EA actually flew in some specialists from DICE to work on the game for a few weeks with the development team to turn things around and get it ready. Swimming and flying were completely broken before they got involved. The only part of the game that is as good as the E3 demo are the parts shown in the E3 demo, and that came by making a bunch of temporary shortcuts in order to make this game presentable. Practically everything else has to be re-done or completely reworked, and they have a lot of work to do in order to try and match the bar they set for themselves at E3. Do not be surprised if this game looks worse at launch.

The development of this game got off to a very rocky start due to some key personnel being in over their heads. Heads have rolled at EA over this game already and there will probably be more to follow. They're looking to change some development processes to be more like the DICE crew's work processes but that might require a shift in the makeup the development to make it happen.

This game might turn out great but the E3 presentation was a whole lot of makeup on a pig. That's not a lot of time considering they're aiming for a fall 2018 release. You can expect MS timed exclusive content for Anthem in response to Sony's deal with Destiny.

So according to you....

Bioware and EA are lying about which studio is heading up develpment on this game

They're lying about how long they've been working on this game

MS, who has spent remarkably little lately on game marketing, 3rd party exclusive content, etc, paid TENS of millions just to have them announce this....without even a breaths mention of a partnership, exclusive content, timed exclusive, first on Xbox, or anything?

Oh the game was completely broken a few weeks before E3, but a few people from DICE got the game running well enough for a 7 minute demo, when other developers take months of time just preparing a 5 minute demo for E3

 

Sounds legit

I haven't seen anything about EA claiming this game's lead development team is in Edmonton. Also it seems suspicious considering how many positions they're now hiring at Bioware Austin specifically to work on the development of Anthem. Just because many of the leads are in Edmonton doesn't mean the majority of the development team aren't in Austin. As of right now, the majority of the development team is in Austin, and it's been that way for over a year. Whether this gets pulled to Edmonton to get fixed.

As for that "five years". Yes, it's been in concept development for years now. By that same metric, Destiny was in development for over a decade. Many games exist as prototypes and concepts for years before they get a full development team behind them. That full development team came in well less than five years ago.

Yes, MS Paid EA tens of millions of dollars to get this into their E3 presentation along with other things. I don't know what else to tell you. You'll see those exclusive announcements coming. I personally know of many different times deals like this have happened from both MS and Sony, so I'm not so sure why this is surprising to you.

As for those DICE people, it was mainly people that had a much more intimate knowledge of the frostbite engine since the majority of Anthem's development team hadn't had expeirence with it before. I don't know why you think it sound so ridiculous that people that more or less developed and maintain the engine are able to get much more out of it in a short time frame. I've personally seen developers far more talented than I'll ever be personally churn out the back-of-the box feature of a video game in less than a month. There are extremely talented, knowledgable people at EA who can get great work done quickly.

Again, I don't care if you don't want to believe me.