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Penny Arcade - Comic - Barrier To Re-entry
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Penny Arcade - Comic - Barrier To Re-entry
Videogaming-related online strip by Mike Krahulik and Jerry Holkins. Includes news and commentary.
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https://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2008/09/03
It isn't real "news" though. It's just a site reporting on what's happening in a Reddit thread.
https://gadgets.ndtv.com/games/news/anthem-ps4-refund-sony-psn-ps-store-2002491
Not to mention games like D3, had a DISASTROUS start, and it was meant to be huge online game game but you could barely log on in the first 4 days, which was absolutely atrocious preparation.
Anthem does have some problems (like difficulties higher than GM1 being kinda hard and stupid, but mostly its cause of clueless teammates who just fly around and die, instead of focus-firing the mobs together, tactics that work on GM1 but not higher difficulties)
Apart from all that I have been enjoying the game A LOT, and I play a SHITTON of video games, so its gotta be decent enough to hold my attention (I mean I already beat Metro and FarCry 6, and Anthem is still what I play anyway).
Ahh. Yes. The ol' "I'm not having these issues so everyone else must be wrong" position. That's... not a very good look.
Not everyone is having the same experience as you. There are issues. You not having those issues doesn't mean anything at all.
Everything else is a mess of bugs, shit UI and way to many fucking loading screens.
Quickplay gets you dropped into broken missions most of time, freeplay is a pain to find anything to do let alone get folks together to do stuff since there is no typing and no waypoints.
Fort Tarsis is a waste of potential. The entire cosmetic microtransaction portion is barren, even if I wanted to buy premium credits there is nothing worth spending it on. 2 maybe 3 armor skins to swap between for various javelins, a couple vinyls and some emotes and a few textures.
Masterwork weapons which are neat but Legendary weapons are just the same Masterwork weapons but a little high stats.. fucking lazy. GM1 to GM2 is not a worthwhile jump. At least Diablo III at launch had variety of loot that could drop, you just never got it without having to hit the auction house....
They have a good idea what needs to change but I hope it isnt insurmountable, cause its a big effin list.
Back from this news post: https://www.penny-arcade.com/news/post/2004/09/13/undisclosed-propensities-part-3
Seems like they're still producing wriggling earwigs and selling it as fruit.
This goes well beyond even my lowest expectations. I expected the poor mission structure, lackluster single-player experience, and dearth of genuine end game content. But, even I was surprised by just how poorly constructed a looter-shooter that Bioware had replaced. At this point Bioware had years of examples from their competitors, yet failed to learn from any of their mistakes or successes. So, it was disappointing to see them create a game that leveraged non of the lessons learned from the past few years.
But now we are getting beyond flaw born of poor game design. We are talking about a released product that fundamentally does not work. Even most most dire predictions failed to take this scenario into account. Perhaps I am simply naive, but I didn't believe that even EA would release a game in this state and charge full price for it. The fact that Bioware allowed a game to release in this state tells me all I need to know regarding the power dynamic between Bioware and EA.
There is no Bioware the company. There is only Bioware the dev team, minions of the whims of their evil corporate overlords.
Blizzard is also like this.
I don't give money to either studio anymore. And likely never will again.
Edit: minor word change for clarity, I don't really care about a company's turnover. Other kinds of personnel changes, like layoffs, are a different story.