Anthem: Finally EXPOSED! + Bioware's Response!

Now we finally have some answers from Bioware Staff themselves on what happened with Anthem's development. Here are our thoughts and discussion on the bombshells dropped!
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[@druchii_or_death1642]

E3 2017 Trailer Everybody: cool game. Bioware: cool game, who's making it?

[@SlawBunnies909]

😂😂

[@infinitebeast5517]

Hold on a second Sam....is that the bioware logo I see?

[@Ioo-nd6hf]

LMAO This. 1000x this. lol

[@TyrDrum]

Bioware: Wait? Why does this have our logo? Also Bioware: Shit!?

[@Jaqen-HGhar]

That's basically what happened to Guerilla Games and Killzone 2 for that notorious E3 showcase. They knew that wasn't real gameplay and never meant that to go out to public and a Sony marketing guy put it in the reel at the last minute so they were surprised watching it with everyone else. It's literally false advertising (many people were only interested in Anthem because of that original E3 trailer, I know I was because the flying and movement looked a certain way that they completely removed after) and wish these companies would be held responsible or that the devs would be honest that they weren't going to be able to hit that or that it was just a proof of concept.

[@trueballerkj]

E3 2017: Everyone: That’s an amazing looking game. Can’t wait til it’s finished. BioWare: That’s an amazing game. We should start making that.

[@ianiskandar890]

Win

[@Matt-fh4bk]

W

[@thestwinner680]

Laughing My God Damn Fuqkin Ass Off ;D

[@Neil-qg9cw]

Was I the only one that thought the E3 vid looked like boring trash? They didn't really show anything.

[@kieranb7747]

no one in their right mind actually thought that a game by EA and Bioware would be any good. thank fuck i just 3rd party bough battlefront for 1£ cause that game is a disgrace as well.

[@voxkine9385]

This reminds me of my dad. He’d been a chemical engineer in the refining industry for his whole life. He’d risen to be a huge name in the industry. When it came time to retire, his coworkers tried to find his big mistakes and add up how much his mistakes had cost the company... but they couldn’t find anything. He’d been working for 50 years and never had a single mistake. They asked him how he could do that and he responded roughly: “Oh I made plenty of mistakes. I was just smart enough to trust the people working under me even if they didn’t have a fancy degree and to take their feedback into consideration every time. The reason why I never made a mistake after the fact is that the labourers below me helped catch all my mistakes before it became a problem.” I’ve always taken that to heart and it sounds like BioWare needs to learn from that.

[@voxkine9385]

Buck Main thanks! Always appreciated! He was a far better old man than I could have ever asked for. He passed away a few years ago but it’s always awesome that he helps me today! I’m glad someone appreciates his wisdom and might benefit from it too!

[@Wahid_on_youtobe]

nice story man :)

[@pinnaclegaming4544]

VP Perf i was gonna be real cynical about that story but RIP your pops, glad he left a good impression

[@mish375]

Sounds like a smart man who employs the CYA (Cover Your Ass) approach to his work. Respect.

[@alvernonjunior1701]

Mad respect for you & him for this. I know I'm kinda few months late replying, but that sounds to me like the term "Teamwork makes the dream work." I live by that saying sometimes when I need it as a motivator to keep me going through my day.

[@westham1516]

Bioware employees: Please, give us a break! We've been working 50 plus hour weeks! Bioware: ASSUMING DIRECT CONTROL!

[@coreygumbs8114]

This comment is underrated and needs more attention lol

[@burningphoenix6679]

Cleisthenes and Pericles they had a 5 year break.

[@DA-to6gi]

50 hours is not that much, that's not the issue

[@dastardlybastardthe2nd]

"Ignore the fallen."

[@dreadpenguinlord340]

"I know this hurts you, Fanbase."

[@thepermanentshockedface9177]

BioWare: "we'll start tomorrow" -4 years later.. EA: "have you started the game" BioWare: "yeaaaaaaaaaaaahhhh...."

[@FGazi-qf1hp]

yeaaaaaaaaaah about that xD

[@gameralien9984]

😂😂😂

[@AmazingBreadEdits]

😂😂😂

[@Chan-md2hb]

Me preparing for exams.

[@AmazingBreadEdits]

Chan me telling my mom I’ll clean my room

[@Lobos222]

2015: Buy the Season Pass. 2020: Buy the Beta Pass.

[@wheeliebin18]

2021 Buy the Beta Season Pass

[@binary1123]

2025: buy the rights to purchase the beta season pass

[@GrayGeist]

2026: Buy the Virtual Experience of buying the rights to purchase the beta season pass

[@lesten2707]

Too many games are released unfinished nowadays.

[@theerikin8431]

It is essential... It is essential... It is essential...

[@Movie_Games]

Imagine being a developer for both FIFA and Anthem. Like, what do you do all day? Take long lunches? Play Destiny?

[@battlion507]

Crunching... crunching till your finger bones go to dust on that keyboard.

[@joshuajimenez9105]

Most game developers don't want a bad game but companies give them ridiculous dead lines and shit. So they have to deal with what they got and thats how most shit games come to exist

[@DoinkertonGreeble]

As a developer who's been on a mismanaged project before: meetings, 4-6 hours of meetings a day.

[@DrWho2008t101]

probably

[@thegrayyernaut]

@@DoinkertonGreeble My condolences. I hope the best for your career :'(

[@adrias4685]

EA 6 years later "So.. what do we got? It's time to launch." Bioware "Behold.. the GRABBIT!"

[@executioner_ecgbert884]

They could smell our money, so they tried to just grabbit

[@Dr.Ultraviolence]

"Ah, so that's Bioware's new game." - Consumers "Ah, so that's our new game." - Bioware devs

[@TubeEamo]

It's kind of amazing it was even remotely playable given they couldn't play-test it properly.

[@alexandrostheodorou8387]

A Time For Wolves Gotta give the Bioware team some credit. What they did in 1 year is make a pretty good skeleton of a game. Like Warframe back in 2013. Go F2P and just add stuff over time and look at over games and work off that. Or use the skeleton as basics for Anthem 2. Watchdogs 2 Titanfall 2, Division 2 and quite a few games this generation first game sucked but the second one was everything the first game was supposed to be.

[@Geneforson]

Pretty spot on lol. And what an amazingly written article... someone / ppl should really make a documentary of it (and the complete and utter decline of BioWare)

[@Dr.Ultraviolence]

@@Geneforson what a downward spiral its been... I stopped buying their games after the mass effect 3 ending. Red, blue, or green. I'll never get over that lol

[@Sixstringman]

@@TubeEamo thats what preorderers are for didnt you know?

[@trustfire]

People who started on Anthem at 23 years old are now 30, depressed, unemployed and have a failed game to show for it. Unforgivable really.

[@TransparentLabyrinth]

Jesus, I didn't even think about it that way. These poor people. Please for the love of fuck, game developers, unionize. And if they try to shut you out, keep trying to unionize. Never stop. Because if it's not clear by now that employers are not going to stop fucking you over, I don't know when it will be.

[@pypy1986820]

And the "leaderships" at Bioware are enjoying their corporate compensation packages thoroughly

[@LeFuze]

Wow, that's pretty depressing thinking about it.

[@TransparentLabyrinth]

@16Notepads I'm glad to hear that. That said, I'm guessing I know where your hesitation toward unions in general, considering how comprehensive and effective anti-union propaganda has been in the US over decades. As I understand, companies basically represent unions as the worst-case-scenario, focusing only on perceived negatives, spun to make it seem like they are a terrible thing for workers and play on the fact that people like to think they are better than each other (e.g. the whole "unions allow people to be lazy and those lazy people take advantage of the hardworking ones" trope - points like this I'm sure fail to look at more than one example of a union or address any factor other than throwing out the easily swallow-able character judgment of 'lazy' people who are 'freeloaders').

[@joshuasmith8742]

Oof

[@scarletpsychowolf3578]

EA: Hey Bioware, we want you to make a brand new IP. Now don't worry we'll give you plenty of time, so make it a big one. *Years later* EA: where's our game? Bioware: what game?

[@mainmanmagellan3803]

oh sorry our direction leader left about 4-5 years ago and we've had no direction since. plz tell us what game u want it to be. EA: oh the flying looks cool. what about a flying looter shooter? Bioware: but we're an rpg company? EA: Not anymore ur not. GTFO Bioware: loses 20 more employees.

[@BlueBamboo9]

Literally the equivalent of "When your mom pulls into the driveway and you forgot to take out the trash, take out the chicken, clean your room, and vacuum"

[@daethe]

@@mainmanmagellan3803 Yeah, you realize that flying wasn't part of the original game design right? you actually have an EA Executive to thank for that. They playtested the game and said it would be cool if you could fly, and that they should add it.

[@TheNightman.]

@@daethe No it was, they took it out, patrick fucknugget told them to add it back in

[@daethe]

@@TheNightman. No. It wasn't. It was never in the initial build, they never intended on flying to be part of the game.

[@intorsusvolo7834]

It doesn’t take 7 years for even 1 person to think of these concepts in their free time. How did an experienced team of employed professionals- ugh...

[@Lyonlionify]

Intorsus Volo h1b visa

[@TheWaitingRoomTWR]

it was a 7 year gig nobody was complaining w those checks coming in

[@thememelord5975]

Apparently the higher-ups couldn't stick to an idea

[@RudeAndObscene]

someone could legitmately learn how to be a game dev and probably put out multiplie better games in that time

[@Persephone01]

I know right. I started my own ideas but I'm bad at coding and stuff 🤣

[@ColeKinghorn]

THE GAME WAS STILL IN PRE-PRODUCTION DURING THE 2017 E3 DEMO. THEY HADN'T STARTED REAL DEVELOPMENT YET LMFAO.

[@lightningbolt4419]

No u

[@clauderonald6724]

Holy shit man

[@BloddyTomato]

@@lightningbolt4419 why are you mad lol

[@ImperiaGin]

It's sad to know that EA won't learn and that people will lose their jobs while the top execs are paid millions of dollars.

[@standardmemechannelanimefa8865]

Don't play this shit game Bioware are greedy EA don't give a fuck about customers

[@oskarthor5707]

What bummed me the most is the excuse for Mass Effect: andromeda was so bad is because Bioware said their A-Team was working on something bigger and better, witch turned out to be Anthem....

[@royalrumble7185]

Oskar Thor ahahahahahah 🤣👍

[@Kronos0999]

The real Bioware died long ago.

[@guyincognito7188]

for that excuse to have weight they would have to price andromeda appropriately for a b-grade game they did not

[@yourdaddy.956]

Oskar Thor “bigger and better at robbing your money”

[@greatgoblin3065]

@@Kronos0999 Bioware: I'm afraid it's too late for me. (Removes Darth Vader mask)

[@dompoon]

Anthem is like the Fyre Festival of the gaming industry.

[@daltoncraig9649]

As bad as this release was, I think No Man's Sky still holds the title of biggest disappointment in gaming history . It isn't unusual to see it compared to the infamous "E.T." game, of which was a contributing factor to the destruction of the video game market. Luckily it was revived.

[@spethmanjones2997]

Dalton Craig NMS is awesome now though

[@daltoncraig9649]

@@spethmanjones2997 it is now. At release it was about a tenth of what was promised and Sean Murray straight up lied to the entire gaming community on multiple occasions. Watch Joe's No Man's Sky review.

[@spethmanjones2997]

Dalton Craig lol I am well aware the game was a blatant lie upon release

[@justifano7046]

@@daltoncraig9649 nah NMS had nowhere near as much going for it as anthem did. Anthem had massive backing, sacrificed mass effect for it, coming from some of the biggest names in gaming, hyped beyond belief. NMS was a indie game hyped by Sony, being made by like 5 guys.

[@slyfox2640]

My uncle used to work at BioWare Edmonton and he quit. He said they were the worst company he had ever seen, And I was so confused because this was after mass effect 3’s final dlc and everyone was loving them, but it’s starting to make a lot of sense now..

[@Nottyastro]

What were some of his experiences?

[@bigdan4829]

Bioware is basically me remembering I haven’t worked on my project due tomorrow

[@asterisk4979]

Bioware is the college student writing their research paper night of

[@sthrncrss8402]

tomorrow? that means you still have a few more hours to procrastinate

[@bustin9938]

Hahaha....fuck

[@amvhate]

You going to need some of the that Bioware magic

[@zekiel2533]

@@amvhate that magic is black coffee to help them stay up for them 15 hour work schedules.... XD

[@blackoutnow]

EA: "Howdy Bioware, how's it going with that title we ordered 7 years ago. Is it done?" Bioware: "We finished the loading screen." EA: "Ok, let's release it!"

[@orangejoe204]

Those two idiots deserve each other. A match made in hell.

[@johnaspaul]

Made my day

[@warhawk9566]

I think Joe made a fair point here though where EA is like "We gave you 7 years to work on this, you had more than enough time" and it makes me kinda worry for future EA games even more cause the next time an EA game is rushed and someone calls them out on it they can so easily go "Well we didn't rush Anthem and look what happened to that game." I feel like Anthem just solidified that EA will never learn it's lesson and every developer they own is doomed.

[@600mikey]

Bioware was fucking around for 7 years not doing shit for anthem and EA had to push it out. FYI Every game development has a time it needs to be done and finished by released day. So i'm not blaming EA on this one

[@jean-phil]

@@600mikey I somehow agree but at the same time, Andromeda was released in 2017 and we don't know if Bioware had enough resources for Anthem during these 7 years. Maybe it was just a few junior developers who never used Dice Engine before. Maybe if EA had released ONE game instead of Andromeda AND Anthem, we would have at least one good game.

[@gdwnet]

In otherwords, don't trust any footage from E3 because it's all fake.

[@JPOG7TV]

Gary Williams in other words, don’t trust shit devs.

[@EmporerAaron]

I wouldn't say that, trust developers you know are good on their word. How many games at E3 turned out to be true to their word in looks. A few that come to mind.

[@gdwnet]

@@EmporerAaron None of them.

[@gdwnet]

@@JPOG7TV I don't blame the devs. I blame the management teams who see money and not potential.

[@SCREAMIIING_]

I haven't believed game reveals from E3 after the Divison and Watch Dog's

[@OldGamr]

I think the censor guy went on lunch during this video. Starts off bleeping words then just gives up!! LOL

[@tommytheotaku828]

it got pointless lol

[@thegamegarage69]

probably cause yt literally has a rule for monetization that says no swearing in the beginning of a vid

[@jupiter252]

Pretty sure the youtube AI algorithm only scans the beginning sections of videos for tags to put on the video for advertisers. So bleep out words so the bot gives it an OK for advertisers. Ways around the system.

[@MrSqeez01]

There are a lot of AJS videos that do this. It’s something to do with the algorithm.

[@zombified_pariah7720]

That's some sort of running joke, I think. Words like "fuck" are always sometimes censored and sometimes not.

[@getmepaid2day653]

E3 Audience goes "OHH Shit that's the game"! At the same time the Developers Go "Ohh shit that's the Game!" LMAO I Died when AJ said that lol

[@Quantum6190]

So funny yet so true 😂.

[@wagcwb0]

That was really funny XD

[@kevinlao3690]

I'm wondering if there are other people working as software engineers who also feel for this. I've worked in places where a whole team spent a month on a sprint only for it to be changed during the day of the release. Devs backed up their code on multiple branches in case upper management backpedaled on bs. This specific moment where Joe mentions where the dev team freaking out figuring out that oh shit that's the game also hits the feels. I've had a product manager tell the entire company offhand that by the way this is what we're giving the customer supposedly the next day and did not tell the development or test team.

[@jpxyUA]

unrelated note; please AJ crew edit the volume levels or do not use headset for Joe, like, seriously, the whole thing is low, you turn the volume up then Joe decides to raise your voice now whole neighborhood's up

[@ironsharkpa1026]

This is just insane if you think about it😆

[@strongblade]

EA Response: "We stand behind our team..." My thoughts: 'Yeah, I'd stand behind someone if I was going to be shot in a firing squad too...'

[@joshualagrimas9555]

It's Bioware fam, not EA.

[@haltopen12]

Joshua Lagrimas BioWare is EA

[@natesal5037]

@@joshualagrimas9555 fuck ea anyway

[@SpookyMarine]

Joshua Lagrimas In any case, fuck EA anyway. Them not causing the problem this time doesn’t spare them from the things they have caused for everything else

[@xXlDUBAHOLIClXx]

Joshua Lagrimas BioWare is dead fam, you won’t get the glory days back.

[@georgesalisbury5996]

"Crunch is not a triumph of the workforce. It is a failure of the management" - Jim Sterling

[@ogfrogman2990]

BioWare makes games like I do projects... Procrastinated and rushed

[@TheAlienGangster]

same

[@EmporerAaron]

I difference being when I do that I can usually pull off good results, they do this....well...you can't polish and make it look good no matter what.

[@raremr360games9]

OG FROGMAN same but I still get good grades

[@thomasfernandez6580]

Meh, EA didn't quite give 'em alot of time to work.

[@Solisium-Channel]

They gave us 2 months to do a Vietnam war project and I did it in 1 hour the night before. I just printed a few images, did a PowerPoint, pledgerized the heck out of it, and played ‘fortunate son’ in class.. done! Got a cool 70 grade for no effort whatsoever and that was a win in my book back then.

[@nateo9895]

We got the bad ending. Bioware has turned into a husk.

[@Fletchersketche_]

Nate O. Wait for the dlc for the other endings XD

[@astraeus2524]

Lol

[@GineuEpine]

I mean for the most part it was Bioware's own fault 7 years and only 12-16 months was actually spent making the game. Sure you could blame the limitations of Frostbite but at the end of the day the mismanagement is the main problem, that again is Bioware's own fault.

[@jesuscano9615]

*Reloads old Save* *Changes every choice*

[@WildArmACF]

They harvested all the little sisters.

[@hellfire7614]

I wonder how many people had their dreams crushed by finally entering the gaming industry just to be put on anthem’s team in 2012.

[@holyarmageddon19]

Fuck LMFAO gave it the old college try

[@rehmanarshad1848]

I honestly doubt, that many. Do you think Bio ware, and EA would risk millions on a bunch of college graduates, just walking into the industry for the first time? It would make no sense. In order for you to get into the industry you have to atleast 1-3 years of experience with either another studio, or indie projects (that may or may not have been commercially successful), but it could be a portfolio project on the resume.

[@holyarmageddon19]

I'm guessing rehman didn't see how bad anthem was lol

[@this_is_japes7409]

@@rehmanarshad1848 you've never worked in industry have you? because I have and let me tell you the work they put on new college grads and new hires, at least in the US, is staggering. You're expected to hit the ground running and do actual work that will end up in the final product even while you're still training and learning all the company-specific tools. edit1: example, oh you're an engineer with 6 years of experience in another company, but you were just hired two weeks ago and it's your first time working in this industry? too bad you're a senior engineer, here's a feature we want to implement, we want it done by the end of the week and validated by the end of month. have fun. edit2: not the senior engineer by the way just a previously new college grad in the same hiring wave as the guy, he was laid off about half a year after starting.

[@rehmanarshad1848]

@@this_is_japes7409 Damn, that's bullshit! Then again as a CS major I'm not surprised.

[@jeehoonoh]

Fans: "Oh shit that's the game!!" Developers: "Oh shit that's the game?!" lmao had me dead.

[@AndersonTenecela]

I wish there was a camera showing the BioWare team’s reaction.

[@forickgrimaldus8301]

Fans: dying from joy Devs: dying from pain

[@knightslayer6161]

Me rewatching this months later: “Will Anthem be good down the line?” No, no it won’t Joe.

[@tiagoviana263]

Almost a year later after this comment, Anthem is still not good

[@knightslayer6161]

Tiago Viana bait

[@tiagoviana263]

@@knightslayer6161 still not good*, sorry for the mistake there

[@knightslayer6161]

Tiago Viana ah gotchya

[@vyn8594]

Two years later…. Its bad and abandoned.

[@rodracer4567]

*EA:* Make us a game, you have 7 years to complete it *Bioware:* Ok. *_5 years and 1 month later_* *Bioware:* Oh crap, we have a game to make!

[@xXAquaReaper43Xx]

EA: -_- really?

[@sheltondmello8031]

Good u made this comment people keep blaming ea but everything isn't their fault

[@WandererCayne]

And que the Benny Hill/Home Alone music!

[@cmac1600]

@@sheltondmello8031 but a lot of it still is. Both Bioware and EA have become terrible places to work.

[@sarsona_3611]

@Laharvizanial Sums up the whole situation.

[@TheMysteriousGamer6]

Staff: We want the game to be unmemeble. *Game releases.* The Internet: we're about to end this whole company's career.

[@carsonkouts]

They ended their own career no help needed lol

[@directentertainmentaplacef8630]

@@carsonkouts ^+ years of conceptualizing shows it's done. The Bioware proper fucked up the most, so it might as well die.

[@zeroghost115]

You act like Joe's circle jerk can kill a company. Its fucking Bioware. We will just see another no mans sky where it will be a finished product in about 2 years and continue to grow.

[@cristianlopez_8486]

That's funny. That's like trying to make a game that can't be cracked. Or can't be speedrunned. Listen, you can delay the inevitable, but there's no stopping it. Where there's a will, there's a way.

[@majintroll4454]

@@zeroghost115 thats not how EA operates, EA is known for killing its own properties just to give the illusion it has standards lol

[@jacklajoie9126]

Anthem in 6 words: nothing is sadder than wasted potential.

[@dpresto]

Nothing is sadder than loading screens

[@enashimo]

this game had extremely huge potential. I remember that i heard Anthem was a looter shooter with good graphics and i was instantly hyped but when i was told Bioware was making it i was scared (due to the fact that its under EA) and here i am thanking my mind for not buying this shit game

[@jacklajoie9126]

@@enashimo sounds like you made a good judgement call

[@enashimo]

jack lajoie yeah xD that was the time i learned that i needed to trust my instincts

[@jacklajoie9126]

@@enashimo good idea

[@masatoindou1759]

When an engine requires “hacking around” it or problems you’re having with it have no solutions just “workarounds”, it’s not the right engine for your project

[@matthewmuir8884]

Final Fantasy Versus XIII (which was ultimately rebranded as Final Fantasy XV) had the same problem: the game was envisioned as an open-world game, but Square Enix insisted that the team use Crystal Tools: a terrible, unfinished engine that was only made for linear games. They spent 7 years just making workarounds, and the team was exhausted and fretful. The game was rebranded and moved to the PS4, so Square Enix insisted the game be made using their new in-house engine: Luminous, which was also unfinished, and the problems began all over again (though at least that engine could handle making an open-world game).

[@optidalfprime3904]

@@matthewmuir8884 Thank god they realised it on Kingdom Hearts 3 and started over again on unreal engine a year in dev. At least made an above average game through that. FF 15 sadly didn't get that far.

[@muhtasimmahin5057]

Real Bioware died in citidal fighting reaper with shepard.

[@BlackPantherN7]

Nope. They did not make it out of the collector base. I called it back then when EA got Bioware that they were going to mess up a good company. ME3, although a good game is much different than the previous games. Tacked on multiplayer, less dialogue choices, shitty frostbite engine, even less for gameplay, etc. Good games but Bioware were making 9/10s and GOTYs before EA.

[@MagicDragonesk]

@@BlackPantherN7 citadel *

[@DanielCastro-tc4rk]

This comment needs more up votes

[@commander31able60]

grammar tried to saved them, but sadly also perished.

[@R3adybreck]

Real bioware died making dragon age 2

[@Aelwyn666]

Also worth noting is that Bioware said all DLC will be free. No wonder it will be free, it ain't DLC, it's them just finishing making the damn game!

[@raziel2760]

I bet this game get minimal updates then gets put in the back of the fridge

[@IlDeimos]

Exactly. lol

[@JMrealgamer]

Aelwyn Ascendant yes sir!

[@dannythecheeto7481]

*D E S T R U C T I O N* 100

[@kiki4910]

The only legacy this game will have is collecting dust on my shelf

[@jazztrumpet-8246]

Today December 17, 2019 Gamestop has it on sale for $5.

[@dags1615]

Manny Rivera I had like 6 dollars left on a gift card and said fuck it why not I’ll try it out maybe the reviewers are just blowing it out proportion... Boy was I wrong this game is GARBAGE.... Straight GARBAGE. I’m tempted to return the game to be honest even if I bought it for $5

[@DarthVader-ig6pb]

Still to expensive)

[@jazztrumpet-8246]

Darth Vader 😂

[@thegrayyernaut]

@@DarthVader-ig6pb Yeah it's still expensive even if it's Free. Cuz it would cost me my valuable time.

[@Rodrigokdo]

EA explain to me one thing, if microtransactions games give you more money than single player rpg, why the hell did you buy BioWare?

[@Shineinpoverty]

To sack all the ideas and game mechanics and then make another microtransactioned abomination

[@mainmanmagellan3803]

@@Shineinpoverty yeah from what it sounds like. EA ceo came in and was like oh its not an rpg but a flying loot shooter. like wtf. like a little kid came in and said what he liked and left and the game direction suddenly is going this way now.

[@wolfdragox5563]

I mean tbf back then mtx weren’t as common as they are now, when BioWare joined EA mtx were still dlc and not just cosmetics bs, that started in the 2010s which was several years after they bought them

[@arthenosthefirst8176]

"we can have a studio on the side to get some of that single-player money" because, rmemeber EA bought Bioware in like 2008

[@kevinvu5432]

Remember when we believed Andromeda was bad because their true project was Anthem??? This makes andromeda development worst

[@chaosdirge4906]

Its funny because Andromeda is the better game.

[@ashleydavis5559]

@@RubicMelody_DS Oh I agree the story just wasn't there to me, Ryder didn't seem important or serious at all and the side characters didn't help. I was expecting to come across more decisions where lives were at stake and tensions were growing..... not a movie night and puzzles.

[@ashleydavis5559]

@@RubicMelody_DS YES!! Customization and story choices are the main reason why I stick with RPGs. If I'm fighting fantasy creatures then I want to be black too. At this point I'm hoping that one of the indy studios will make a scifi Rpg that could improve the old Mass effect idea.

[@not_avaliable]

@@RubicMelody_DS considering ea officially cancelled the andromeda ip and froze the property, i doubt there will ever be another mass effect anything, at least during the 2020's

[@CesarinPillinGaming]

@@ashleydavis5559 I found some of the characters fine and likeable but most were garbage fillers and clearly added as token chars. Felt a weaker version of ME1 which was very bland but with a ton of lore hidden. What killed Andromeda for me, was the giant maps (which have the same style as in inquisition) . But with less uniquedness for secondary and tertiary missions. Bonus objectives and randomly generated missions were an absolutely shitfest specially VOELD. Then in the story.. you find that almost all your actions at first are useless. because you're not really an explorer.. others already discovered the places you are going. There are already other humans everywhere.. the only unique thing was the missions with the robotic thingies whose name I do not remember right now and the first contact on Jaal's homeworld and Aya. all the other worlds? had the taint of humans already making the supposed "you're an explorer" feel like a lie.

[@finnflannigan5104]

"Everything you are about to see was captured in-game running in real-time." Goes to show how meaningless these trailer statements can be.

[@saelin00]

Running relatime on a quantum computer. They always forgot to tell this, always.

[@loficat4993]

How is that not false advertising?

[@JusSick24]

@@loficat4993 it is lol. Someone can sue.

[@ChandlerJC]

@@JusSick24 you might be able to in this case however since it was a early build they can use that excuse to almost get out of anything.

[@LCDqBqA]

E3 Devil may cry 5 trailer said it was rendered in real time, no down grades from the trailer vs game release 👌

[@fyjtyj6tyjt992]

So is this the final straw that breaks the camel's back? Three botched major releases in a row... Battlefront 2, Battlefield 5 and now Anthem. I can't wait to see what they do next.

[@redfern3256]

The next botched major release will be Dragon Age 4, RIP Dragon Age ☹

[@fyjtyj6tyjt992]

@Dante Any company large can make an epic cinematic and any large company can make a good demo. Anthem's E3 2017 demo looked great but... The demo was literally the game, what you saw was all that there had been developed. You can't say anything is certain until the full release, not even betas can be 100% trusted, just look at the BF2 beta.

[@fyjtyj6tyjt992]

@Dante Only time will tell.

[@nikp3572]

whose going to buy it?

[@thomasmurrell9832]

@Dante considering EA (and gamers, but that's for another comment) shat on Respawn through both Titanfall games, it's not hard to see they're gonna squeeze their power with these talented devs to its fullest worth

[@rastas4766]

You know what pisses me off? When people claim Metal Gear Solid V is unfinished. THIS is an unfinished game.

[@thecodenamenoob4042]

RIGHT

[@gyrazal6189]

Mgs V is unfinished. But Anthem is on a whole nother level.

[@battlion507]

Difference is that MGSV is unfinished with a GREAT foundation that people want to play more of. Anthem is unfinished with a mediocre foundation that people left behind or they're "squeezing blood from that stone."

[@looinrims]

Yes because metal gear: cut content was totally a finished product It’s almost like shit isn’t binary

[@greatshinobi-owl3120]

Rastas mgsv aint finished

[@GrippeeTV]

I love how people like to call Joe “overly antagonistic” and that his reviews “are too harsh and opinionated” and yet not ONLY did he 150% predict the current generation of games as a service run by microtransactions way back in the day, but he predicted the Xbox’s abandonment of the Kinect, their change in DRM policies even though major Nelson straight up was AGGRESSIVE towards him when he said it’s as simple as flipping a switch. And now he’s guessed EXACTLY what went on in this studio LOL. Guy seriously knows his shit 😂😂

[@gleenfales]

literally no one says that. idk where you're getting those comments and you seem to be in your own little world

[@FlawlessRuby]

@@gleenfales if you're not aware that Joe got people not liking him, you're the one in your own little world. Not everyone love him.

[@gleenfales]

@@FlawlessRuby yeah I was joking, the guy commenting seems to love him a little too much... And he s just bringing up non existent comments so he can tell his story or whatever

[@Zatherothx]

TheDeadFrozen so did Jim Sterling in 2010

[@HK-nz1hf]

yeah you look dumb now.

[@cerealsgames3118]

I watched this longer than I played the game

[@nyxzorander]

Same and i only played the demo. Lasted about 30 min if that and was like nope this is bullshit wrapped in bullshit, with a sprinkling of bullshit just to top it off. Extra bullshit on the side for extra bullshitiness. I could just smell it from kilometers away.p

[@Jackspiring]

It was fun for that demo, i played for maybe 2 hours and for those exact reasons ^ i havent felt a desire to play it since

[@vasred4265]

This video's length is still shorter than Anthem's loading screen.

[@Hk7762Tube]

Yeah, and Im at min 10 mark...

[@ASSASSIN19923]

played around 300 hours

[@Tobo226]

“We want it to be unmemeable” becomes the one if the biggest gaming memes lol

[@nannerdunlocke1231]

What part of Anthem is memeable aside from how bad it came out? Maybe "Get Glitched", but thats a bit too early to put into effect yet.

[@TheAlienGangster]

Fallout 76 didn’t even try that. Bethesda is so sadly oblivious that they tried acting like their engine was still relevant and their improvements mattered.

[@kiki4910]

Cyberpunk?

[@TheNightman.]

@@nannerdunlocke1231 The roadmap, the lack of content, the lies, the false trailer, the complete opposite that came out to what was promised, the stories being told not matching the experience, the loot, the bugged loot, the patching of said bugged loot twice. Need I go on?

[@Herowebcomics]

Sadly NOTHING is unmemeable! All you can do is make a good game!

[@frankieb9444]

After rewatching this, the crazier aspect of this video is that after watching this 2 years ago, hundreds of thousands of people thought to themselves "CDPR is going to show up all these fools"

[@mikesanders8621]

The scariest thing is that in 2023 the bugs have all been fixed and everyone's trying to pretend Cyberpunk 2077 is a great game. It isn't even a good game. It's a walking sim 80% of the time, and the rest is just an archaic shooter that wouldn't have been impressive a decade ago.

[@es9221]

@@mikesanders8621archaic shooter? Yeah but fun if you do a fun play style. Walking sim no. You can drive cars to every quest in the game.

[@mikesanders8621]

You can drive cars? My opinion has entirely changed.

[@G_Moos]

"We stand behind everyone that worked on Anthem, including the leadership." Wrote the guy who's in charge..

[@frozenfury0]

I'm glad social media gives us so much honest insight into how a game is shaping up and shows us all the passion/care being poured into the game.........😑

[@MrZiljon]

The blogpost was fucking pathetic. They didn't even have the courage to sign it with a name instead they signed it with "Bioware". The tiny little respect and hope I had that Bioware would maybe get back in form now that Hudson is back is now finally six feet under. I didn't buy Andromeda or Anthem and thank god I didn't. I would be ashamed to have been giving money to a company that disregard their employees like this. The last game from Bioware was Mass Effect 2 (Maybe also 3 after they fixed it with dlc).

[@thestwinner680]

That CEO speech @ around *35:00* is HILARIOUS and *RIDICULOUS!* LMFAO -__- I have a MESSAGE for them: *EAt a dEAck, all you conceded muthafuckerz...*

[@Tyrinath]

@@MrZiljon I wouldn't put my name on it if I were them, quick way to get fired a black listed. Anonymously throw management and EA as a whole under the bus sure but I'm not sticking my neck out.

[@RiderZer0]

MrZiljon the problem with signing it with a name is people get sent death threats from angry “fans” and get sent mail with crush powder aspirin. People are too shitty now days

[@FGreg111]

E3 2017: Gamers: That's the game?! Developers: That's the game?!

[@carloc88]

Friggin funny AF!

[@nothingelsetodo4229]

I'm really trying to get the joke but it's a miss. Am I missing something?

[@skarf1428]

Nothing else to do The E3 “demo” was basically the whole game up to that point. Very few people knew what they were going to do from there.

[@nothingelsetodo4229]

@@skarf1428 hmm, I get the point but the joke started with E3 2017: With nothing there. I get it. Meaning nothing. But you said few knew what's going on. Am I getting to old or something? I must be, because even though I get it. Still cant find it in me to find it funny.

[@srai5333]

Same response different reaction first one was with excitement and the other was with shock and confusion

[@iRO-pb2mx]

Damn, EA got milked. **insert Palpatine ironic meme**

[@lamfan3591]

Can’t say I’m shedding tears for them.

[@WickedKnightAlbel]

Not like they don't deserve it

[@executioner_ecgbert884]

I am shedding tears, but it's only because I'm laughing my ass off

[@karlhans6678]

EA got uno reversed

[@JoaoVictor-rg5ix]

Man, who would have tought that nearly two years later, Joe would be doing nearly the same conclusions to Cyberpunk 2077. Man, this world is crazy. 😔😔😔

[@YEf-ix1yy]

Mass effect didn't die for this.... Oh wait, it did...

[@KingKhanate1997]

Person No. 17 Don’t remind me...

[@300IQPrower]

Guilty spark

[@marcin5140]

...and it failed, horribly

[@Elnegro..]

Dont get me wrong andromeda was a bad mass effect game and all but I still liked it and I absolutely hate how they completely abandoned it and worked on this dogshit

[@reffa2858]

I like how this is trending #19 on gaming but the other 18 trending videoes are fortnite. As far as I'm concerned this is #1 on trending.

[@manuelalbertoromero9528]

That's not a bad thing. That means people are definitely sering this.

[@rdc4461]

Reffa / I just looked and they are all clickbait for kids it seems

[@Ariaelyne]

#9 now

[@charlesverg2184]

I didn't believe you about fortnite having almost every top 20 video on game trends. So I went to see and wow, just wow, lol. KZbin is becoming such a fucking joke.

[@manuelalbertoromero9528]

@@Ariaelyne It is?

[@idontevenknow9758]

Wow, what a shame. I can't even imagine the company atmosphere, it must have been so toxic and exhausting. No wonder people left and I bet after this game, many more did so they don't have to go through this again.

[@JohnDarksoul69]

I've worked in a similar environment a few years ago and it was the worst time of my life. I couldn't sleep, lost weight, was always depressed and stressed, had persistent migraines and muscular pain... So when I was at work I'd half-ass my tasks just to get them done so I could (try to) take a rest because I was feeling like I was gonna drop dead any minute. I guess that's what the "bioware magic" felt like for their employees, if not worse.

[@idontevenknow9758]

@@JohnDarksoul69 first off, holy crap I’m sorry you went through that! I hope where you are at now is better! Yeah this is why treating staff with respect and care should be top priority for any company. Companies are built by the employees that work their butts off and that should be recognized.

[@johnw9771]

There should be an article like this revealing what happened to Cyberpunk

[@blakbear6528]

bro wtf you predicted it

[@xtiros2672]

Why is this giving me flashbacks of my university group projects

[@Oblivion4777]

I relate to this comment on a spiritual level. LOL

[@MrCatseyes01]

Because you took to much Lsd and your feeble mind can't take it

[@rosco3]

That reminds me my last group projects as well, we're like "Dude this is due next week and we promised the teacher it would have these X features." I don't miss pulling all nighters to finish a month work within a couple days.

[@oldsouls7469]

Saad Kamran Deadass 💀 shit happened to me a few days actually this shit had me rollin 🤣

[@jameszook1956]

LOL, I just realized why reading through the original article affected me as deeply as it did. The development of this game really did come together just like every college group project ever.

[@MegaBusterDude]

I give EA this, the fact they let Bioware sit on literally nothing for 5-6 years is quite surprising.

[@SpookyMarine]

Megabuster They probably forgot they existed, then realized as they were sniffing their Microtransaction money “Oh shit, I better check on BioWare.” It’s the equivalent of a mother leaving a baby in the bath alone for a whole week

[@MegaBusterDude]

@@SpookyMarine dark lol

[@Gooong]

Duke Nukem sat for way longer. Imagine you are an investor who knows nothing about games paying a company who is famous for making great games. The real heads of the company have left a long time ago and a lot of the talent gets layed off and rehired all the time so all the company has is the name. Every time you ask about your investment they tell you that its coming along quite nicely and it'll be a hit. You know nothing about games, how would you know you're being strung along?

[@KusanagiMotoko100]

Well it's fucking Bioware they thought they let their money into good hands I guess.

[@SpookyMarine]

John Smith You’re telling us to imagine ourselves as “Investors” and not the actual heads of the company. There’s a difference there dude

[@bgsxlo323]

Still can’t find one comment defending anthem 😂

[@thealien_ali3382]

Here's one: Anthem is awesome

[@poere1234]

@@thealien_ali3382 shut up it's trash

[@ritual1174]

How can you defend it after learning all of that shit, the only thing that I would defend is that the game came out an was functioning at a basic level, unlike other games that that barely worked at all

[@thealien_ali3382]

@@poere1234 no it's awesome

[@poere1234]

@@thealien_ali3382 no

[@whistler5223]

I love how this was almost exactly the same thing that happened to ME:A, far too long playing around in pre-production, forced to use and learn Frostbite and then rushed full production with cobbled together half baked systems.

[@Den-qz3rm]

Man game companies are wasting years and ruining good potential games these days...

[@radicalgreek99]

They really are.

[@PINHEAD1999]

They been doing this for years, they are just getting sloppy and gamers are finally waking up.

[@CorporateKoe]

Facts

[@antonioroman8660]

SharkyMike my god, the facts...

[@firehawk0]

And the only honest one left is Nintendo, who in example, gave us gamers a heads up that Metroid Prime 4 was starting from scratch, while most gaming companies dont even do that

[@vasred4265]

This video's length is still shorter than Anthem's loading screen.

[@thunderlord3183]

A ongoing meme in the game

[@patson1111]

Great observation.

[@Slylok226]

Loading for me had dropped to let than 30 seconds on an was before I stopped playing

[@thunderlord3183]

loafhero if you can use your gear and guns like destiny then the game would be ok the bugs a some what fixed more bosses

[@emanuelhawkins8337]

Bioware is done..the exact same thing happened with the awful mass effect andromeda

[@adad87821]

ikr?i feel like if dragon age 4 fails they will fall trust me i feel it will fail to because theyre calling it "anthem with dragons"

[@abrahamdavidgonzalezgonzal364]

Well if you think about it,its actually the 4° or 5° time that they work on the dame way it just DA2 AND DAI were well received.

[@generalshadow9027]

Andromeda wasn't this bad

[@peterclark2152]

I remember at E3 when they talked about Anthem, and I was really weirded out by the fact that they didn’t talk about really anything in game outside of the in game weather and the art work. Now I am hopefully going to become a professional artist in the future as a concept artist so I really appreciated the detail and art work as much as anyone else but if that’s all you have to say.....then what are you really saying?

[@darkamulet5768]

Oh really?

[@darkamulet5768]

How much progress you got into being an artist?

[@peterclark2152]

Dark Amulet I would say a little above average. However many people have told me that I’m better than that but I don’t believe so. I’m going to be taking fine arts in collage to hopefully get a lot better.

[@darkamulet5768]

Got a way to show me? I also draw too@@peterclark2152

[@kiki4910]

If you work for EA , Bethesda , Ubisoft , Square Enix you should just throw away your college education

[@lux6230]

When I saw the E3 trailer for Anthem, I thought, "I wish they gave this much effort on Andromeda." It turns out they did.

[@SynysterLeo]

Turns out that Andromeda is better than this shit.

[@nelsonmuntz8159]

Andromeda was flaming explosive dog shit.. N its still far better than Anthem. Bioware has no A team. Bioware Edmonton thought they were the shit. Turns out they were just shit.

[@agrey832]

You are absolutely correct!!!

[@thedarklordx]

@Dcard Dcardian E3 is still better than nothing but everyone who plays games knows what a video game looks like and it doesn't look like an E3 trailer

[@pedromoreira6218]

@@nelsonmuntz8159 What Bioware Edmonton got was a reality check like you said, they thought they where the shit and then got hit with the always very tasty Humble Pie

[@jackcristo1628]

"We stand behind our leadership." - The Leadership

[@biziluxgames8924]

i cant believe so many idiots bought this game... i tried beta for 2 hours and got sick of loading times and horribly designed levels split into 20 parts. thanks but no thanks

[@Doom_Hawk]

@@biziluxgames8924 I got to the first mini-boss/boss? I don't really know what it was, but the gameplay never felt fun to me and the arena sucked. Destiny is a lot of broken things, but their gameplay and level design, as well as lore, are top notch. I seen all of that quickly with Destiny's beta, even though they screwed us still, and Anthem never even drew me in in the slightest.

[@music_mana7993]

@@biziluxgames8924 so that makes you a genius...some standard you have.

[@PuReXVetEraN1]

So many people ripping Destiny 2 and boasting about Anthem now probably look like idiots. So glad I didn't waste my time with this shit and watch the dumb play and defend it.

[@raphk9599]

@@PuReXVetEraN1 I don't play either. That must mean I should be the ruler of the universe. See how it doesn't make sense?

[@OscarRodriguezGuitar]

I have to say, your Anthem: Review, Extended Review, Exposed Trilogy is epic. This is my third time watching all three installments.

[@hashim3393]

Hell yeah It's like a whole story arc

[@alexdasliebe5391]

🤣👍🏼I rewatch the series too. Never occurred to me to call it “a trilogy.” Smart! 👍🏼😂

[@williamyang2058]

E3: Audience: Ohhhh this was the game they have been working on, interesting Bioware: ohhhhhh this is the game we are working on, interesting

[@jbigboi13]

This also explains why PlayStation had that photoshopped gameplay of the Xbox footage. there was literally no gameplay to record for PlayStation

[@TheSpongyMallard]

I forgot about that.

[@rdzr1kinpin]

Jajajajjajjaja damn, wtf bioware

[@jeremyroberts8822]

jbigboi13 smh how in the fuck does a game get mismanaged this badly

[@KusanagiMotoko100]

Oh yeah you reminded me of that.

[@NaikoArt]

Even if we had gameplay they shouldnt do that

[@BoucherRaphael]

People who were defending this game must feel damn foolish now.

[@abny14]

Thier pretty quiet now. Most EA game changers quit defending the game after the last patch but there's still 2-3 still trying to hold on to their integrity like open world gaming and dadfyue who claim this is the best game ever.

[@Hellcaiser4]

I know I was embarrassed when I convinced three of my friends to play it with me.....we all returned it inside a week :(

[@DedricSilva]

I stopped playing in after a few missions because of the loading screen and problems with the game.

[@omaririzarry2901]

They still defend it

[@steverl22]

People that defend companies are flat out FOOLS!! I’m glad they get screwed over every single time.

[@American-Giant]

Sounds like what happened to cyberpunk 2077

[@blakbear6528]

i searched this video because of that lol

[@wolverize9707]

The only thing keeping Bioware alive is SWTOR. For now, but not long.

[@acebrawler2000]

Scared for a console port

[@golfer435]

A console port would be a very good idea. Player base would grow from it

[@scottishjedi1522]

Console ports have worked for other MMOs like DC Universe and Star Trek. SWTOR could do great on consoles

[@Insidiouswetrust]

I used to think like you guys, but after playing SWTOR a bit. I just don't see how it could be ported and made to play on a controllwe. And plus it's fucking a humongous game lol

[@lxospect4492]

Problem is, even on high end computers, the Hero engine they use is not optimized well. People to this day have problems with the shadows on and weird graphic pop ups in the middle of the screen. Dont get me wrong, i love the game but....it wont work well on a console if PCs have trouble.

[@Nick-cg5hi]

Project Dylan trailer plays at E3: Team: ohhh what game is that? Looks pretty good, flying, great graphics, pretty sweet *Anthem Logo Pops up* Team: OH SHIT THATS US!

[@oppressorb7196]

Haha 😂

[@phillipeldridge-smith1982]

Nick Whittle this is the best Anthem comment I have seen so far!

[@mdoucet7907]

Hahaha

[@randino2030]

😂😂🤣🤣 yooo

[@WISD0MPUNK]

Anthem 2017 trailer Everyone: DAMN that game looks good Bioware: damn that game looks nice i wonder what game that is.

[@adamzez]

hahahaha Bioware: Shit, that looks great. We got some competition this year.

[@Gomu.]

Stolen

[@OGX3NO]

Underrated comment 🔥😂

[@Nick-cg5hi]

Tral *name pops up* OH SHIT THATS US

[@Lupasan]

Tral LMFAO

[@jacobodell5231]

Gaming Community: "Hey, EA, this article says you guys had really poor leadership and stressed out your entire staff. Can you do something to change it?" EA: "Don't pay attention to that article. Fake news. Also, we're not going to change anything. GFY." (Sometime next year) EA: "Worst company in the world again? But how?"

[@looinrims]

What’s EA supposed to do? They publish their (BioWare) games they don’t control their employees, otherwise they would’ve put a stop to this stupid that BioWare was doing All they can do is PR speak because they can’t do much else besides just shutdown the studio, which wouldn’t do anything for them

[@matthewshiers9038]

There was no "BioWare magic" to begin with. There's talent, effort and commitment, or there's stress, anxiety and casualties.

[@luan-leeolivier3518]

Joe Literally got everything right in his review. Well done Joe, you called it months ago.

[@senpaiammo602]

Luan-lee Olivier well let's be fair . It's almost every problem that destiny had .

[@Nickyreaper2008]

In all honesty, you didn't have to be a rocket scientist to figure this out. I also called these things and i'm not youtube reviewer, i just play video games.

[@Khronik_]

Sabeh Chatteli at least destiny got its shit sorted out

[@MaxwellPublishing]

@@Nickyreaper2008 Everyone's acting like this news is a revelation but yeah, like you said, anyone with an inkling of observational skills regarding video game trends can see these problems are cropping up as a pattern with obvious causes.

[@phajduk86]

Didn't he blame EA? Sounds like Bioware lacked direction

[@zunny9040]

Bioware and audience at the same time: *oh shit thats the game!* Audience: *what?* Bioware: *what? We didn't say anything?*

[@cloudedmartin8455]

Stolen comment 😢

[@VampageRampage]

Clouded Martin he’s a Destiny player, everything he bases his life on is stolen.

[@Majestic7274]

Just to put things into perspective, this game's development is taught at my college's gaming program on how NOT to develop a game

[@shrimshimiryo5257]

Coming from 2042, the conclusion is that EA has learned nothing from this $hit.

[@andrewsmith9179]

yup

[@jesuscano9615]

EA (2015): So what is this a looter shooter, a first person shooter, third person rpg, or what? Bio(2015-17): Yes

[@threat9231]

Me: lol

[@threat9231]

Also me: cries

[@jesuscano9615]

@@threat9231 Me: dies

[@asmr-sensei]

Destiny and Division: Cheers brother! 🍻

[@charlieniven6558]

Hi there, love your content!

[@kiki4910]

Buy division 3 now? Baaaaa ? 🐑

[@dominickfrable3642]

Not to mention thee worst loot system ive ever experienced in any game ever

[@mainmanmagellan3803]

because bioware made rpg games not looter shooters. the engine didn't even support it lol.

[@MrDewknight]

when a phrase like "stress casualties" becomes normal in your work environment, something is significantly broken, perhaps irreparably so.

[@hastings8490]

It's sad we can't even really single out bioware for this. Nothing about stress casualties as a concept is unusual in the industry. Most game companies have freaking dedicated rooms for their staff to go break down and cry in.

[@HolyknightVader999]

@@hastings8490 Goes to show how bad a shape the industry is in right now.

[@hastings8490]

@Burst Your Bubble mind doing me a favor? Download a program called Pixia. Its a raster graphics editor. Good for pixel art. I would like you to make me sprites for a video game. Characters, enemies, backgrounds, the full works. Your work schedule is 9 AM til... Roughly 9 PM. You can take an hour break at some point in between there whenever you feel like it. Just one. You can have one day off, Saturday or Sunday, your choice. Keep following this schedule for three months. Thanks in advance! Looking forward to seeing your work

[@frieda8745]

@Burst Your Bubble it's not that simple and shows just how ignorant you are. The amount of pressure and work that goes into actually being a dev and making a game is rediculous enough. When everything is working against you, your job is on the line, leadership is jerking themselves on and the thing you poured so much time into is turning out to be terrible due to mismanagement by others of course you're going to be stressed. Dont downplay others struggles.

[@HolyknightVader999]

@Burst Your Bubble Well, they have stress because they work for weeks or months and some dipshit director throws it all away and tells them to start from scratch while the deadline approaches fast.

[@Twofix]

They faked a gameplay demo for E3 2017 lol. RIP BioWare.

[@tikajurig9226]

The article said that faking gameplay demos are apparently the established norm for the industry.

[@Twofix]

@@tikajurig9226 And that's a good thing?

[@blushingralseiuwu2222]

@@Twofix he didn't say its good, read it carefully.

[@atomic_wait]

@@tikajurig9226 Yeah, it's super common to put together a vertical slice just for conferences. Usually developers really hope to live up to or exceed the promise of their demos, but sometimes I'm sure they know they're writing checks that probably won't clear.

[@jasonhannah7483]

Fuck BiowWare

[@DeepCover66]

The development style shown from bioware in the making of Anthem was a flashback to ANY and ALL group projects in high school chemistry class (for me). The whole group KNEW that we were in that group to do SOMETHING because there was a deadline, but we all chose to dick around until the last week then shit hit the fan hard. In the end we turned something in, but it sure as shit wasn't the assignment.

[@thsudy]

It’s sad to see people still defending this “game” even tho there a lot of proof of this is just trash and the companies abusing both the fan base and the employees

[@mainmanmagellan3803]

They don't give much blame to EA here but i still do. EA is trashbag of a company. no supervision potential at all. Even their PR is complete garbage. An indie dev or even Joe could give better responses.

[@jabronibasher]

7 years!?!? Star Citizen devs would be proud.

[@The666Reaver]

Nah, Star Citizen dev's think Bioware are pussies. Star Citizen will be released in 2350, 10 years after ACTUAL intergalactic starship travel is ended by the invention of the teleporter. It's gonna be a great game though, or so goes the hype. I've pre-ordered it for my great, great, great, great, great........*has a nap*......great, great, great grand kids. XD

[@MiorAkif]

lol

[@Shipprofile08]

lol to be fair Star Citizen is a very ambitious title with a small team that got the majority of thier developing money from thier backers and they know exactly what they are devloping. Anthem was developed by a big team with endless amounts of money since they have EA as thier puplisher and has no clue hat they were doing thinks to the leaders changing thier mind constently!

[@alexhamilton3522]

@@The666Reaver Look at the bright side though, at least they put out a micro-transaction that allows you to have every item and ship within the game! All it costs is $27,000 or so... To those who know nothing about this game, this micro-transaction actually exists. A 27,000 dollar dlc ACTUALLY EXISTS.

[@jacobschmidt8539]

@@alexhamilton3522 even more crazy is that people probably bought that

[@pertehdoh7634]

EA: heres your homework Bioware, you have a week to complete it *the night before* Bioware: i still have time...

[@RedXLink]

Consider Bioware memed

[@Xthatboss87]

made my day

[@Ioganstone]

Bioware: Last wipe came back clean *blows nose with it*

[@liddz434]

I got burned by purchasing destiny 1 and it was no where near what it promised...now I just wait for game reviews before I purchase

[@alexdasliebe5391]

I got burned by BF4 ... same thing, wait for reviews and sales just in case I’m unsure if I’ll like it.

[@liddz434]

@@alexdasliebe5391 BF4 is one of my favourite games...sure it was a bit twitchy at launch but when you're dealing with massive levels and player counts I think that is unfortunately a given these days (although we shouldn't be giving hall passes) They continued to make DLC including some free ones for quite a while after launch which I still enjoy today.

[@adamfrazer5150]

An old friend of mine ended up working at one of the studios mentioned and within a few months he reported back that the single biggest problem across several projects was always the same : Unqualified producers. Nothing more infuriating than being part of a talented, enthusiastic team only to be lead into the jaws of failure by someone who is dangerously unsuitable for leadership, at the minimum. If studios and publishers had to earn their reps like Michelin stars, I'd like to see Angry Joe branch out and do Studio Rescue or Studio Nightmares 😉😎

[@sergiomorfo]

"We want it to be unmemeable" They CLEARLY don't know the internet LOL

[@youraveragethanos7734]

sergiomorfo you can’t be memeable if you meme yourself 🤷🏻‍♂️

[@lewisconnor9613]

sergiomorfo Exactly are they dumb? They do realise that they could make a 10/10 game and it will still have a meme come out of it. God of war is the perfect example with that BOIIIIII Meme.

[@darkstar4341]

They set the bar themselves, and then missed it completely!

[@LegateSprinkles]

IHE's "Get Glitched!"

[@sergiomorfo]

@@lewisconnor9613 the internet meme'd God of War with "BOI", warframe is basically a videogame meme generator, Overwatch has memes ... EVEN dark souls is a meme factory too (make londor great again btw)

[@cahyoadi1554]

Anthem Dev : So this is like Destiny with Iron man suit? Higher up : *Gasp* Did you just say the D word?!

[@Mesjach]

Read it with Ryan Reynolds voice. You're welcome.

[@MrRedberet]

Anthem Dev (pulling a Cartman acting dumb): ... Iron?

[@BigTylt]

Anthem is the equivalent of forgetting to do the chores that your mom told you to do, realizing that you forgot, then rushing to get them done in the 15 minutes before she gets home.

[@Riflery]

You will never know what my original comment said! 😈 HaHaHaaa

[@thomasfernandez6580]

Believe me, they are working on it lad.

[@deimos2k6]

haha that made my day... still today!

[@Eiraqucam]

Is your icon the Australian aboriginal respects logo

[@RevelationOne]

😂😂😂 this killed me lmao

[@Riflery]

@@Eiraqucam That's a lotta big words. So I'm just gonna nod my head, and back away.

[@Learnme2play]

A legend says that the game is still in pre-production

[@bigbrockbear4963]

Hahaha

[@andrewboyer7544]

@E. Hilariously Star Citizen is more fun than Anthem. It's in alpha and still better.

[@gelul12]

Remember All those "Game changer KZbinrs" saying the game was amazing before launch. Yeh.... Shills

[@nickwash3r3]

They’re still lying through there teeth towards their ignorant fan base, disgusts me

[@jamaly77]

well, all of you who watched them are the real idiots. because that's how they earn money. I've never heard anyone say that anthem is going to be a game changer. so why are you watching paid content creators?

[@FlyJonat]

Because they got paid by ea.

[@blank003]

@@jamaly77 game changer is the name of the program ea used to bribe those shills that chase money like a dog.

[@PaulXPZ]

That minius sg or xg what's his name comes to mind

[@beatofmysteps]

this review his hilarious... yall cuss so much the censor guy gave up

[@honeyblade5243]

Man now I'm scared for Dragon Age, my all time favorite series.

[@kameronhowell8575]

Why was dragon age your favorite series? The only good one is origins, 2 had no content, inquisition was fucked story wise(the gameplay wasnt too bad), the only thing all 3 dragon age titles did well was the soundtrack, the rest just went downhill every release

[@honeyblade5243]

KAmeron howell I know a lot of people didn’t like the story, but I enjoyed them. I just enjoy the series even it is bad. Unless the next one turns out extremely horrible then yeah I’ll be really pissed.

[@Insidiouswetrust]

Origins is a masterpiece as far as rpg's go and da2 was decent enough for a playthrough, but inquisition is literally an offline mmo. It feels less like Da and more like a mobile version with good graphics

[@Valleyraven007]

@@honeyblade5243 yeah i get people not liking inquisitions gameplay and map design but.. I personally thought the story was fantastic and waaayyyy better than 2. It provided some neat twists with old lore and expanded the world so much more, brought back old maker-fen Harel theories, etc. I loved the story, made up for the bad parts of the game imo But yeah I'm terrified for DA4... especially since trespasser left off on such an epic note

[@SEJohnson09]

In summary: this was Bioware's first college group project.

[@marcuskane1040]

Cause Bioware IS a college group now

[@vlweb3d]

The OLD GUARD has left and been replaced with young college Ideologues who have absolutely no idea what they're doing. Bioware is gone and people need to seriously start accepting that fact.

[@TheRezro]

@@marcuskane1040 After EA reconstruction? Yes, yes it is!

[@directentertainmentaplacef8630]

@@vlweb3d The game director was 40s you dumb ignorant fuck. If you actually watched the video, you'd see this was incredible because this was made in a little over the year.

[@directentertainmentaplacef8630]

@@vlweb3d "OO, young people are the problem for everything." - every generation that becomes irrelevant.

[@mrsamuraiist]

"Make it Unmeme-able" **makes biggest meme in gaming**

[@CarbonRollerCaco]

Should've fumigated the building where Sonic Chronicles was made. With napalm.

[@falconeclover3857]

Idk, Sonic 06 and fallout 69 were memed to shit

[@seniorgrocco]

Get get gliched.

[@Pouncingpuma7]

My face is tired from thinking about how dumb that is.

[@HyPNoTiKx]

Yo what i think is funny is that they still have a ton of Anthem updates and changes to make that are probably undecided as of right now...So even as we speak there's literally STILL BioWare staff sitting there in meetings trying to figure out what the fuck they're doing.

[@SD-ud5rn]

I love how your computor treated parts of your coffee mug as greenscreen! I could see through the superman logo!

[@ajimit8669]

Bioware: we made a disastrous game CD Projekt Red: hold my beer

[@granitiser]

Dice: hold my barrel

[@celticluna1691]

hey at least cdpr hasn't just pulled the plug on cyberpunk unlike bioware/ea did with anthem

[@thenobletaco4232]

Clusterfuck doesn't even begin to describe this fiasco.

[@OoXLR8oO]

From the length of this video, shitstorm isn’t gonna cut it either.

[@antonioroman8660]

Indeed. Honest question though, what makes us buy this shit?

[@blackg450]

It's a slaughterhouse.

[@edpaolosalting9116]

@Antonio Roman because stupid hype and rabid fanboys thats why.