Wasn't ME:A fobbed off to a suburban branch so head office could do Anthem  and talking about ME:A it had it's problems but for  a game that should have been held back it eventually all things considered became a  pretty good game that I enjoyed.

It's called GaaS because that stands for the type of indigestion you get when you play games as a service .

Play DA Origins. The first and last good DA game.

What irritates me the most is that a couple of reviews have suggested there is the beginnings of a solid single player experience in there that got hijacked by a games as a service game. Like Bioware actually might have delivered what they normally deliver - a high quality single player experience.

Even their latest outing (ME:A) was far better than gamers gave it credit for, which was still a higher score than Anthem is going to wind up with.

But the real risk now is that rather than recognising their misstep and allowing Bioware back to their roots as a profitable-but-not-money-printing single player experience builder, EA will simply declare they underperformed and shut teams/the studio.

The PC Metacritic is up, 70.

I liked the beginning of Destiny, so I was vaguely interested in this one of it was a better Destiny. 

Since it's actually a worse Destiny, it's dead to me. 

I rarely ever want games to fail but I definitely want this one too. Retribution for not doing Andromeda's Quarian DLC. Just go back to Mass Effect Bioware. I don't even care if it's not an Andromeda sequel (which I REALLY want). Just. Go. Back.

I had a feeling this would happen. All the previews i watched didn't paint a pretty picture.

No, it's always EA's fault. Kinda like how everything Blizzard does is Activision's fault.

Bioware has consistently failed at making products that people like. Dragon Age II, Mass Effect 3, Star Wars The Old Republic, Mass Effect Andromeda, and now Anthem. That's basically 8 years of being disliked. Of course, at first critics kind of just gave Bioware the biscuit. But now it seems like there's basically nobody on their side. The one game that was really well received from the past 8 years has basically been forgotten (despite getting so many awards, it doesn't seem like a memorable game).

Honestly, I wouldn't blame EA if they closed this studio. I mean, the best talent there would probably go on to do better things anyways. This is not really a case of being unjust in closure.

Given how popular Apex Legends has turned out for EA out of nowhere then I predict Anthem getting dropped super fast and EA turning more attention to grabbing onto the flash in the pan success of Apex rather than trying to pump more money into the very clearly unwanted by general audiences Anthem, I mean.... over the last few years I think most people read news about it and get anti hyped.