It's safe to assume that not many people are working on ANTHEM right now. The game's had one heck of a rough year, launching all the way back in February to lukewarm reviews and then gradually falling apart in the months that followed. We'd be shocked if it currently has anything that remotely resembles a healthy userbase at this point.
And the bad news just keeps coming. Chad Robertson, head of live service at BioWare and one of the key voices behind ANTHEM, is leaving the developer next week. Robertson has been with the company for 14 years.
"This is my last week with BioWare. I've been with the company for 14 years and am grateful for everything I've been part of here. SW:TOR, ANTHEM, the Austin studio, and BioWare are in good hands; you can expect great things ahead," he wrote on Twitter. Naturally, we wish Chad all the best in his future endeavours.
Robertson's departure comes just two and a bit months after lead producer Ben Irving left the studio. It's not entirely uncommon for key members of a development team to leave once a project no longer requires their input, but in the case of ANTHEM, it's hard not to be cynical.
Honestly, it just feels like we're waiting on the seemingly inevitable word of ANTHEM's cancellation, although it's difficult to pinpoint when that might happen.
[source twitter.com]
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how exciting
And remember that dragon age 4 was put on hold for this game...
Well clearly they realised that anthem failed so maybe they will scrap their idea to make dragon age 4 a online live service game.
The only thing they can do right for that game now is to make it SP only with the vision of dragon age 1and2.
Although 3 was not bad either.
Did we already pass the amount of time between Mass Effect: Andromeda’s release and support drop? Or not yet?
Take this out back, put it out of its misery, and switch gears to the ME Trilogy & DA:O & II ports for PS4 & PS5.
You would think & hope that Dragon Age 4 would be single player only but this is EA so it will be a live service
In good hands!
Excellent, well that's me completely reassured. Full steam ahead, choo choo!
Does Anthem have some small print in the terms and conditions suggesting EA need to keep it going for at least 12 months? It will be done sooner or later i'd expect
You would think EA would grow some sense and stop this live service nonsense, because they clearly aren't very good at it aside from maybe Apex Legends.
They just can't have nice things, can they?
@LieutenantFatman Yup. Right off the 2nd circle of development hell directly into the 3rd or 4th.
@ZeD EA recently said its doubling down on Live Services unfortunately
What a debacle. Just a matter of time for Bioware it seems, hope the folks that work there are actively looking for other opportunities as it appears the clock is ticking on the studio
As I said already, this game should be better called Requiem
the head of live service leaving the live service is a bit more significant than other development team members leaving or moving to new projects though?. it wouldn't shock me if there's external pressure from EA to try and turn anthem around, but there's only so much CPR you can give the game before admitting it's dead.
Wow what a Chad.
I hope they announce the end of ANTHEM soon. Just admit defeat, admit you F’d up so royally with this game that they just cut their losses and try a lot harder next time. Better yet, BioWare should just tell EA to F off and make single player games again.
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