Anthem Bombs at Retail

@Rendr44 it’s the biggest triple A title atm

@Rendr44 yeah and it seems, maybe, bioware's life is tied to this game

@Rendr44 when things are trending people talk more about it, kinda like striking while the iron is hot.

@mogsy same. I'm really hopeful because i dont get to play it but for 3 hours a day maybe, and i have fun each time i play. Though i would have more fun if the load times were just cut by 25%

@Sevarg555 Last game i bought i physical copy of was either titanfall 2 or rainbow 6 ( its been so long i can't remember ) and i regret not having the digital copies of both. Physical copies are just clutter and serve basically no purpose anymore

@Sevarg555 My friend and I have a deal where one of us buys a physical copy of a triple A single player game at release and then sells it to the other person for $30 a couple of weeks later after finishing the story. That way we both get a $60 for $30. Also, whoever gets it second can resell it for $30, and give half of what they resell it for. In the end, I paid $15 for God of War, RE2, SpiderMan, and RDR 2 all either at launch, or only a couple of weeks later (long before the price drop). Physical may be less convenient than digital, but it is far more cost effective. Also, you don't technically own digital games (you license them), so publishers could pull them from your library if they ever chose to.

@Sevarg555 not all of us have the luxury of having fast internet. downloaded games are too fucking big. I like physical because it doesnt take too long to install

@Sevarg555 I buy physical when I don't think I will keep the game forever. I can sell it and make some money back.

@wyrmslayer1991 It's sad to see people you know are capable of actual insight reduced to chasing the zeitgeist bucks. Thanks, Google!

@s1lentcha0s I wouldn't be surprised if a lot of people playing the PC version are doing so via OAP. 3 out of the 5 of my friend group that are playing Anthem are doing so via the subscription(myself included). Granted anecdotes are not data, but I would be very surprised if it wasn't a sizeable chunk of the player base on PC.

@AI_North Too many taxes....

@AI_North Same in Canada, Im not paying 120$ for any game. So sticking to steam sales it is lmao

@yazzrael same here 90$ + for a new game fuck off then pay to play online console is a scam that retards allow

@Skychaserr I agree but here in March they are planning on adding some things in order to further the story. itll be the first large post launch patch

@Skychaserr I personally love the game I feel like it is slept on too badly, it's got so much potential.

@chaozules it probably is. But given EA’s track record I can’t blame people too much. But after finally putting down WoW it’s nice to have a new game to come to week after week. Hoping Anthem can find its legs and grow.

@ThiefSainis more fun* dont think its dead yet ahah

@captainShade Being ignorant of a game's flaw doesn't make it a good game. All it does is not let a game learn from its mistakes and improve There is a load time to go in and out of your customization screen, of which you can only do at the fort, and also cannot directly take you to the mission screen, adding another unnecessary load screen. You are forced to load when you are too far away from an activity area. You are forced to load when respawning. When you enter an exit a hidden place, you must load into it from both ends, of which many looters have made instance based rather than loading. Load times can reach upwards of 3 - 5 minutes long (you can see a 5 minute load screen in AngryJoe's channel) and with an SSD, the shortest I've had loading into a mission or stronghold is 45 seconds (I timed it when I compared it to my HDD which took 2 - 3 minutes) The story is better than other looter games like Destiny or Division, but subpar for the vast majority of any other narrative campaign. Dialogue choices meaning absolutely nothing to the overall story, and side conversations filled with absolute garbage conversations like some girl's pet or some guy that cant take a hit that we don't to talk to him. All these useless dialogue making you want to skip those conversations, which consequently has you accidentally skip actual meaningful dialogue like the narrative of the Dominion spy defector that is plagued by memories of his past as a scribe, or the survivor of Freemark City not wanting to have her brother's death be used as basically advertisement for others to go to their death. The actual meaningful and interesting dialogue drowned by the mundane garbage, and in the end mean nothing to the overall story The enemy AI are mindbogglingly stupid, feeling less like enemies and more like targets at a practice range. However, with how dumb they are, shield enemies are literal damage sponges, the worst I've ever seen in the couple decades I've played an RPG game for no justifiable reason. The damage scaling is also one of the most unforgiving I've ever seen. Many times over, you can go from 100% shield/health to 1% from out of nowhere, forcing you to hide in cover just to peak out and have the same song and dance of unfun gameplay on the high end of GM2 and 3. With that said, there's zero reason to do GM2 or 3 because the loot incentive is fucking atrocious, the time it takes to finish rewarding you equivalent to a GM1 in half, or a quarter of the time, giving no point to GM2 or 3 to begin with (you can check Aztecross's video of him doing a GM3 and explaining the abysmal loot). The perks on Masterworks being limited in scope and not drastically influencing gameplay in any meaningful way, as well as being very limited to begin with. With how many stats there are in the game for you to focus on, there's no stats page for you to see what you are getting The game is fucking riddled with negatives and this is coming from a person with 50 hours of gameplay hoping that at least the end game would have any fucking meaning. However, it doesn't. I can't even find a fucking match for one of the strongholds because people would rather play Tyrant Mine because it's x10 easier than Heart of Rage on any difficulty when going for loot