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Five Years Ago, Anthem Was A Warning (kotaku.com)

submitted 8 months ago by ylai@lemmy.ml to c/gaming@lemmy.ml

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Over the past decade, we’ve seen a massive rise in live-service games with huge AAA budgets that close after failing to find an audience. […] Some studios are finally learning that live service is not always a guaranteed cash cow, and in retrospect Anthem feels like an early symptom of the carnage we’re seeing now. […] Too often, as we’ve seen from the staggering number of layoffs already in 2024, it’s the ordinary people, the rank-and-file developers, who are paying the price. Anthem may have been a warning, but unfortunately, it seems to have gone unheeded.

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[–] jordanlund@lemmy.world 18 points 8 months ago (2 children)

I was in the beta for Anthem and when I first joined in, I was expecting some kind of intro level.

Nope! Thrown to the wolves with other players who apparently had already done this a hundred times.

I'm still figuring out how to change weapons and the mission is 1/2 way over already.

[–] conciselyverbose@sh.itjust.works 7 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

I actually liked the mechanics.

But it crashed constantly and I never went back because I couldn't play enough to get hooked.

[–] Quetzalcutlass@lemmy.world 4 points 8 months ago

Ha, reminds me of Warframe, where I started out playing a stealth assassin build. The first time I tried co-op I was shocked when the other three players finished the level within like 30 seconds.