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ATTN BioWare fans, Anthem shuts down forever in one week

DonkeyPunchJr

DonkeyPunchJr

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BioWare’s Anthem will soon be completely unplayable

Replay the troubled jetpack shooter before the servers shut down for good on Jan. 12.
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We'll admit that we weren't paying enough attention to the state of Anthem—BioWare's troubled 2019 jetpack-powered open-world shooter—to notice EA's July announcement that it was planning to shut down the game's servers. But with that planned server shutdown now just a week away, we thought it was worth alerting you readers to your final opportunity to play one of BioWare's most ambitious failures.
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Sucks, I have such great memories of this game. Such as the time I played about 5 hours of my free 10 hour trial on Origin before uninstalling it.

What are your favorite Anthem memories?
 
DonkeyPunchJr said:
What are your favorite Anthem memories?
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My favourite memory is finding out online that lvl1 starter weapon deals the most damage out of all weapons in the game.
 
Man what the fuck were they thinking with this? Seriously, they had an incredibly potent IP and they just pissed it all away.

Unreal.
 
Still wish they built something more out of this IP. The world and story wasn't interesting, but for the 4 hours of content I did enjoy being in an iron-man RPG.
 
Durin said:
Still wish they built something more out of this IP. The world and story wasn't interesting, but for the 4 hours of content I did enjoy being in an iron-man RPG.
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It's still only the second time we've explored flight fully as a game mechanic. Superman returns was kinda (very) ass but I deny the foundation it set.

And I'm not counting those iron man games, they suck.
 
Arsic said:
This game was totally salvageable and it's insane to ditch it when it launched.
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There was a plan to reboot it as Anthem 2.0 but they canceled that project (IIRC because the director and some other higher ups left).

Hawkeye2890 said:
Never been more hyped for a game in my life. And never so disappointed.
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Yeah I was really hyped for this one. BioWare "Destiny killer" with mech suits and Iron Man-style flight, it should've been awesome.


Also remember when people said that the reason Mass Effect: Andromeda sucked was because BioWare's "A team" were all busy working on Anthem? Ahh how naive we were.
 
Would have been cool if you picked your suit and jumped from the platform down into the open world seamlessly with your squad. I mean that's what they showed in the trailer right? I can't remember it's been a while.
 
I will Stan that this game had phenomenal gameplay feel. Like 11/10 "this is the Ironman fantasy we've been waiting for"

Such a shame that everything else about it was dogshit
 
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I vaguely remembered that the obligatory Normal Looking White Guy of your crew was this meek soy loser who stays in his lane and was unable to pilot mechs for some reason. I recently found out that this guy ends up betraying everyone lol.
 
I remember playing at launch and it's amazing the stubbornness when the drop rates went up because of a bug or whatever but it felt good and was enjoyable, and they couldn't handle it and reverted back... And that was it, game over. What a shame, pure idiocy
 
SJRB said:
Man what the fuck were they thinking with this? Seriously, they had an incredibly potent IP and they just pissed it all away.

Unreal.
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Mark Darrah detailed the shit show that was the Anthem development and the general incompetence of Bioware after Casey Hudson left. It's an interesting story if you have 3 hours to spare lol.


grvg said:
I thought anthem had been shut down for years.
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This is the last step, but they've been slowly phasing out over the last year.
 
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I remember trying the demo and was just shocked at how totally awful it was in every way and how it ran like dogshit even on a One X.
 
Will there be an official way to play this after the servers shut down, or is it like The Crew where it'll be lost to time (or emulation)?
 
Oh fudge, I bought this for 30eu or something and have never played it lol. Kind of crazy that they can't make this work offline or something.
 
Branded said:
Oh fudge, I bought this for 30eu or something and have never played it lol. Kind of crazy that they can't make this work offline or something.
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Whats more funny (or tragic) is that it probably won't result in a backlash like The Crew did, since the game is pretty much completely dead, and those that wanted to play it have already done so. I had bought the super duper deluxe edition for $3.49 and had a decent 30-40hr fun with it.
 
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I am old enough to remember Casey Hudson talking about this like it was the 2nd coming (when it was Project Dylan I think). Good times. Never played this game myself. No regrets.
 
They actually had a good game here, but so much of it got twisted and cut away until it was just a big empty husk. Flying around with the interceptor was a lot of fun, but there was nothing to do and nothing to unlock. I played through the entire, shit single player campaign and I didn't even unlock anything. How does that work?

Also I can't play it anyway because the stupid EA account I need to play it got lost and it's permanently linked to my PS5.
 
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Wait, I thought it was already dead years ago when the idea of reviving it was canned? Am I missing something??
I always wanted to give it another shot.
 
Man this was one of my biggest disappointments. It had such a cool aesthetic, the flying was phenomenal, the mechs were so badass.

What an epic fumble, this could have been special.
 
As a big BioWare fan at the time I bought the day one deluxe version. I played through it and was so disappointed in the writing. It was terrible and the the characters were garbage.

The gameplay surprisingly was pretty fun, the mechs were fun to control and the world although small was nice to look at. The problem was the gunplay/scenarios were fun but repetitive and nowhere near competitors such as Destiny, COD zombies, Borderlands, The division, which are are all doing similar things.

With terrible Politically correct characters and writing there was not much there to make you say I want to keep playing this over the above mentioned titles.

I think the game could have been saved but the caveat was that BioWare was not a studio that could do it. Unfortunately EA probably came to the same conclusion that getting an outside studio to take over would have been too expensive.
 


Anthem will be dead and buried in a few days, and will join numerous other live service games that squandered their potential. The truth is that the game, despite having some really good parts, didn't do much above the required minimum. And simply put, that is not enough.

It's a shame that, for most of us, Anthem won't be remembered as a game worth our money or our time; rather, it'll stand as a reminder of how poor management, weak planning, and troubled development can doom a game in a matter of weeks.
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Thats how you let a bunch of good for nothing imcopetent devs smelling their own farts thinking this "art" is beyond anything that it doesn't need content or anything.
The cope from people defending it was ridiculous. Its like dumb people buying a scam and had hard to justify the wasted money.
How they still let Bioware being alive after that shit I got no idea.Well, it served them right for still believing in Bioware and it shows they still cant be trusted. Fuck around find out.
 
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