ANTHEM lead producer Ben Irving -- who's appeared on many an ANTHEM livestream over the last nine months or so -- has revealed that he's leaving BioWare after eight years with the developer. Irving has basically been the spokesperson for ANTHEM since it launched -- he appeared at EA's E3 show to talk about the game's future.
Of course, now more than ever, the real question is whether ANTHEM even has a future. The title's 'Cataclysm' event finally launched earlier this month, and it's largely believed that a very small team is currently keeping things ticking while the rest of BioWare's workforce nails down other projects, like the next Dragon Age. With Irving's departure, it's incredibly difficult not to be pessimistic about ANTHEM going forward.
"I will forever be grateful to all the people who gave me the chance to work on great products with amazing people. I believe Anthem has a bright future - there is a great team working on it and I look forward to following its progress (and playing it!) from the sidelines," Irving writes.
Do you think ANTHEM has anything left to give, or is this just another blow to the head as it continues to tumble down into obscurity? Give us an honest opinion in the comments section below.
[source twitter.com]
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Will be interesting to see where he’s headed next...
I'm surprised he stayed that long having to prattle on about Anthem!
It's weird that none of the ex-BioWare staff haven't made a new company to just basically be BioWare again before EA bought them... I'm sure with that pedigree (Even if don't agree with the opinion they were the bee's knees) they'd get plenty of funding to make narrative driven games of yore they did not Games as a Service tripe
I think I've come to terms with Bioware as I knew it being dead and buried. I was disappointed by Inquisition, crushed by Andromeda and am consistently dumbfounded at their decision making.
Is anthem in EA access yet ? Thats the only way i play it
Well, Ben Irving was one of the reasons SWTOR and ANTHEM went bad in certain aspects. He is very bad at listening to the community.
But yeah, I wonder now what happens next. I hope they get a new and better lead producer.
The cataclysm has been a very good update, and hopefully there is more to come
@Dodoo hopefully not to a lead producer role of a studio i like
How the mighty have fallen.
It's dead. The people have spoken.
@3MonthBeef they should rename it"you sods owe me a decent game like you promised,instead i sit collect dust on the shelf in the dark where the spider uses me to scratch his butt"
The campaign mode was a blast. Great story with a world of potential to introduce a whole host of sci-fi sub-plots, narratives and twists driven by the snippets of backstory we got from various characters introduced in the fortress.
But instead we got bread and butter grind with a bit of cataclysmic jam at the end.
Ugh!
Sad to see - the story behind the scenes at Bioware is a very sad one and truthfully it is hard to see where the blame lies. Creating a new IP is hard and doing it in a genre and technology no one is familiar with is very very hard.
Anthem now officially dead dead
Anthem has to be up for free on PS+ soon; what a disaster, lol.
In my opinion, BioWare peaked at Mass Effect 2. From then on, it was all downhill.
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