Anthem?s been something of an odd enigma within the gaming space. Once a massively hyped live-service game that was supposed to compete with the likes of Destiny, its development and subsequent release was plagued with issues, ultimately coming out underwhelming and half-baked, lacking the kind of engaging endgame that it once promised. BioWare?s made halfhearted attempts to fix it in the almost year since it came out, but nothing has helped it recover from the messy launch period. BioWare has even been shedding some of its most notable studio leadership in that time, and many alleged that the writing was on the wall for Anthem, despite ongoing updates.
Reports now say that despite outward appearances suggesting otherwise, BioWare is hunkered down, hard at work on ?Anthem 2.0? or ?Anthem Next;? essentially a complete overhaul and relaunch of the game. Kotaku?s Jason Schreier cites three anonymous sources familiar with BioWare and EA?s plans for Anthem, much of which remains nebulous. There are no launch timelines or even plans on if this will come as one massive update or multiple smaller once. We can easily look to other games for inspiration here though. Titles like No Man?s Sky and even Anthem?s own competitor, Destiny, have undergone both large updates that effectively ?relaunched? the games, while also having smaller updates and improvements along the way. Some considerations say that this ?Anthem Next? could be an entirely new game to help shed the shackles of Anthem?...