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.

I'm sorry, is the development of Antherm not pertinent?

If you want evidence, PM me.

i saw some stream data issues like texture popping... so, it shows that although looking good, it also looks like a game from this generation. i don't get it either. i might get it if they aren't doing destiny/division style of DLC bullsh*t.

Yea, I remember hearing it from either one of the devs or someone from their PR team.

I personally expect something similar to Xenoblade X. Similar open world RPG concept.

But more detailed graphics, and more loading times than X. A long delay. An underwhelming, yet still satisfactory story.

It won't look near as good as the demo footage. But based on everything else it'll be a solid game methinks.

It looks really good from what I've seen so far, but I'm gonna wait to see some gameplay that is not scripted before I make a definitive decision.

I see where you're coming from, but I disagree. If I play an online game for 5 years and then the servers are shut down, well, the time I spent playing the game doesn't just vanish. I still have all those memories of all the unique experiences and events I had in the game world, plus the good times I spent with the people I met in the game and my friends IRL. I think of it kind of like owning a pet. Yes, the pet has a limited lifespan, and is probably going to die before you do, but the experiences you shared together will stay with you long after it's gone. I'm not going to say, "I won't adopt this dog, because I know it's going to die some day." 

OT: I think people are suspicious because it looks as good as Horizon while being a multiplatform game. Generally you don't see such impressive visuals from third parties, presumably on account of the fact that they're developing for multiple systems.

No, not because "I don't want to believe it". Other reasons factor into this entirely. I sent you a message and we'll follow up on this. This is post reply here is just a nudge and a reminder to follow up.

Its there somewhere. I think it was an E3 interview.