Bioware's Anthem

[Gregster]

Seems servers are offline

 

[LiE]

GG Servers, well played. RIP.

https://www.reddit.com/r/AnthemTheGame/comments/aqxdhb/its_up/

 

[Gregster]

Like the servers will be in a any type of state to allow you to play lol. Awaiting the inevitable can't logon posts

lmfao. Yep, can't log on

 

[TonyTurbo78]

This is standard practice for EA, no one should be surprised in the slightest.

 

[stokecity_m]

I had to go though the EA website to get it to add the trial version to the origin launcher.

 

[SS-89]

Like the servers will be in a any type of state to allow you to play lol. Awaiting the inevitable can't logon posts

Undoubtedly true! I'm not going to get a chance until tomorrow morning so hopefully will have settled down a bit by then.

 

[Calranthe]

I really do think your failing to understand the endgame of anthem and how it works, you strike me as someone who has very little experience of looter based games.
Your just predicting the games demise on the back of your personal crusade against EA.

I have been playing games since 1976, I have actually played Games like borderlands 1/2/presequel (I know its small groups but still), I have just under 400 hours on The Division (stopped playing when my wife did), oh and erm yeah oh thats right 2080 hours on Warframe, Founders edition (early alpha) Excalibur prime owned, but yes I have no experience of loot based games maybe I should check Torchlight 180 hours, Torchlight 2 317 hours.
Screenshots can be provided if you think I am lying.

I run one of the oldest Muds in existence (won't share the name in public because it is Adult in nature) began coding it in 1992 a loot based game with 10-200 players at its peak, it runs on a server in my bedroom, started as a diku, but its now on revision 5 which is a Java and live Mysql dbase.

I was part of the Mud Dev, the old email/bbs/talkie stuff where all the original developers of Everquest(they stole nearly all there ideas from Diku and Rom2.4c) UO and AO got there start, we all started on Muds, in fact a lot of the early loot based MMORPG's are just a graphical front end on a mud back end.

I also played Meridian 59 server 102 character Cal'ranthe (a loot based mmorpg).

never liked diablo 3, I was in early beta for PoE and loved it

Unfortunately a lot of my online gaming when to the side when Paola needed more care.

I think we can both agree that I am not completely naive when it comes to loot based games.

I just think its a mistake to support a company with a track record like EA as a gamer.

I really hope I am proved wrong, I hope it is a success otherwise Bioware will get blamed even though todays bioware is less than 1% what it was as its peak as an independent developer.

I gain nothing from Anthem failing.

BTW I am not taking any of this personally its actually a really good distraction from RL stuff so thank you for that

 

[TonyTurbo78]

I'm in.

All my cores get smashed on loading screens, 100% across all of them, fans are going nuts lol

Intro done, might as well give it a go as I've got Premier, I hated the beta though

 

[oweneades]

Does anyone know when it goes "live" for EA Access basic users?

Tried a quick google but getting conflicting information (some saying its for Xbox EA access only despite the little table released showing it would be available on the 15th).

 

[Wucked]

I did say I was earlier, I just prefer companies that do not try to screw us over at every turn, I lost respect for them after they smashed the mod scene for battlefield, after they stripped the guts out of the Mass effect team it was the "no more" moment for me, before that point I bought every collectors edition of Mass Effect and Dragon age, I supported them in every way I could, the loot boxes and unfinished releases just made it easier to spend my money on teams like CD Project.

So no i'm not the hypocrite, I will never play anthem or any other EA game.

I agree with you, but in this context I am a hypocrite. I enjoyed the demo enough that I’m giving it some consideration. One thing that I won’t do again though is preorder from them. Nope, waiting for the reviews.

 

[atomic7431]

Does anyone know when it goes "live" for EA Access basic users?

Tried a quick google but getting conflicting information (some saying its for Xbox EA access only despite the little table released showing it would be available on the 15th).

its already live

 

[Gregster]

Bloody hell, enjoying this far more than I expected. Good frame rates as well, with everything Ultra settings (60-80 averages) 3440x1440 and looks great.

 

[Minusorange]

Enjoying it so far, the drops need some work though, keep getting nothing but trash and weapons I don't want to use

 

[Carl-Brit]

So the game breaking bugs from the demo are fixed and it's quite playable on release?

 

[Gregster]

So the game breaking bugs from the demo are fixed and it's quite playable on release?

Played for 3 hours without issue and touch wood, stays the same.

 

[oweneades]

its already live

Yeah just checked again and now downloading. Must have been around 6ish it went live to download.

 

[Minusorange]

So the game breaking bugs from the demo are fixed and it's quite playable on release?

I didn't play the demo but everything seems to work thus far and controls are much much better than the weekend alpha they did

 

[SS-89]

So the game breaking bugs from the demo are fixed and it's quite playable on release?

Yep very playable, performance was a lot better than the VIP demo and open beta. Didn't encounter any major bugs in my 2 hour playthrough. Definitely felt a bit snappier with mouse and keyboard both in gunplay and flight.

Played for 3 hours without issue and touch wood, stays the same.

Same 2 hour session.

 

[Calranthe]

Cool. actually happy to hear that

 

[Carl-Brit]

That will do me, subbed a month on premier and installing it now, if it's decent I'll sub for the year I think, plenty of other games there to catch up on after anthem anyway.