Anthem

Jezzah

Jezzah
verminstar said:
Perhaps frontier set a new benchmark that other dev houses can but try to aspire to? Was elite perfect when it was first released? Throwing stones in a glass house springs to mind.

Do share with me whats actually broken when I play cos Im not seeing it...yer obviously a far more experienced player of anthem, so obviously ye know something I dont. Im playing 5 or 6 hours a day every day so obviously Im not a hardcore player...but you? You claim its incomplete...whats missing? Ye claim its broken and yet I can play it...apologies if I seem confused but...Im confused.

Im fairly confident that all the annoying little bugs will be sorted soon enough, but the game is far from broken if a player like me can have a relatively stable 5 hour session...in that respect, yer hyperbolic comment doesnt even make sense. If its so broken, then what game am I having fun with? It says Anthem on the box...maybe the box is broken? I did notice the plastic case didnt click shut properly is that what ye meant by broken?
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There's not much need to be facetious with the guy here old boy :)

Especially when you look at the patch list above. I get what the chap is saying even with my beloved BFV it's a product that has a patch list on 3 pages of A4 every time they update.

The games are eminently playable for most but many have broken experiences as I did with BFV on release.

It's good you are getting a non broken game but you could count yourself lucky I guess.
 

Chris Simon

Chris Simon
Navigare Necesse Est said:
They dint "end up" like this - they started out with hype and now people are not so hot anymore with what they got.
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Not true, exactly.
For example in Japan, Anthem was a top selling game for PS4 for first three weeks and is now still number 2, only beaten by DoA (26k vs. 20k units sold this week).
And in UK, the physical copies sales did fall off (currently I think it's #7) but that's only PC and nobody released digital sales on Origin, yet, which will be higher than physical sales.

So no, the userbase is growing steadily.
I can see that from a personal experience on matchmaking times. Even when starting some very obscure expedition, the matchmaking rarely takes more than two seconds. When you count in the number of expeditions in game (dozens, I suspect over 50) what are the chances of three other people starting the same expedition at the same time at 3am in the morning? Apparently 100%. I've never ran incomplete team on an expedition.
As I understand it, that means that there are at least 4 people starting every expedition every 2 seconds. That's tens of thousands of people playing at any given moment.
 
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duffbeeeer

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Chris Simon said:
Not true, exactly.
For example in Japan, Anthem was a top selling game for PS4 for first three weeks and is now still number 2, only beaten by DoA (26k vs. 20k units sold) this week.
And in UK, the physical copies sales did fall off (currently I think it's #7) but that's only PC and nobody released digital sales on Origin, yet, which will be higher than physical sales.

So no, the userbase is growing steadily.
I can see that from a personal experience on matchmaking times. Even when starting some very obscure expedition, the matchmaking rarely takes more than two seconds. When you count in the number of expeditions in game (dozens, I suspect over 50) what are the chances of three other people starting the same expedition at the same time at 3am in the morning? Apparently 100%. I've never ran incomplete team on an expedition.
As I understand it, that means that there are at least 4 people starting every expedition every 2 seconds. That's tens of thousands of people playing at any given moment.
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Yes, my experience matches yours. My friend group is as active as on release day. Most of them dont read reddit or any online publications. Coincidence?
 

Chris Simon

Chris Simon
duffbeeeer said:
Yes, my experience matches yours. My friend group is as active as on release day. Most of them dont read reddit or any online publications. Coincidence?
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Elite dangerous forums host about 5% of active players, I've read somewhere. 95% are happily playing the game without all the drama.
I think it is true for any game, really. Including Anthem. :)

More so, I recently started a second pilot and I have no issues matching into early story missions, arguably the least populated game activity, after three weeks. If people stopped buying the game and starting the story, I'd have noticed that.

edit: Oh and speaking of active friends - One thing I really like about Anthem is the alliance system. Friends earning you coin simply by playing and you doing the same for them. It's great. People who are continuously moaning about microtransactions apparently don't have any friends (and frankly, I doubt they are playing the game, simply). I've bought the 4k shard pack simply as a thank you to the devs, but I still didn't actually spend it, because I don't have to. Honestly, I'm almost angry there aren't that many things to buy with them! :D
 
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duffbeeeer

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Chris Simon said:
Elite dangerous forums host about 5% of active players, I've read somewhere. 95% are happily playing the game without all the drama.
I think it is true for any game, really. Including Anthem. :)

More so, I recently started a second pilot and I have no issues matching into early story missions, arguably the least populated game activity, after three weeks. If people stopped buying the game and starting the story, I'd have noticed that.

edit: Oh and speaking of active friends - One thing I really like about Anthem is the alliance system. Friends earning you coin simply by playing and you doing the same for them. It's great. People who are continuously moaning about microtransactions apparently don't have any friends (and frankly, I doubt they are playing the game, simply). I've bought the 4k shard pack simply as a thank you to the devs, but I still didn't actually spend it, because I don't have to. Honestly, I'm almost angry there aren't that many things to buy with them! :D
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Yeah, thats what I thought too. Theyre not doing a very good job with their MTX, my coins from playing alone were enough to buy myself all I was interested in so far.
 

Vasea Azure

Vasea Azure
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Pretty funny story, almost sad that I missed the "loot rain" bug haha
 

Chris Simon

Chris Simon
The reaction is cute.
Loot drops were momentarily upped by mistake and then returned to previous state and now every grinder throws a fit. :D
 

MTBFritz

MTBFritz
Jacques d'Orleans said:
There are two yet to be released games which I surely won't touch even with a 60 feet pole, that's Destiny 3 Anthem and Ubisofts The Division 2.


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You know I came to the same conclusion. I was part of the The Division 2 Alpha tests and consider the first part the "better" Division but hey, maybe it ll evolve into something great....someday. Anyway after participating in the alpa tests I came to the conclusion that TD2 aint worth the money so I took it off my list of "interesting games". Anthem received far too much hype and was immediately shot down after launch so pretty much the same there.

And then I put together a new desktop for my wife, bought a new GTX GPU as well as a Ryzem AMD, automatically participated in a raffle for each one and won both times. 1 copy of Anthem and 1 copy of The Division 2 LOL so yeah, gonna have em in my library afterall.

And after sampling Anthem for about 3 hours I havent touched it since....still waiting for TD2 to receive my gamekey
 

Vasea Azure

Vasea Azure
hunvagy said:
Hey, sales means EA won't throw Bioware to the dogs yet, right? Maybe they get to live long enough to make DA4 then.
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Personally, and I only speak about my worries here - after DAI and ME Andromeda and ow Anthem I`m not really looking forward to any next Bioware products, as the company that created my beloved games is pretty much non existent right now and its all EA influence.
 

Navigare Necesse Est

Navigare Necesse Est
hunvagy said:
Hey, sales means EA won't throw Bioware to the dogs yet, right? Maybe they get to live long enough to make DA4 then.
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It will be an online game. To what extent remains to be seen, but I'm a scifi guy anyway, so I don't give a lot about it. Especially after they trolled me with a stupid cliffhanger at the end of DAI. I'm looking for concluded stories now. Finish what you start.
 
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