It turns out that the report last week that BioWare’s Anthem was getting delayed into 2019 turned out to be correct. Electronic Arts confirmed to the Wall Street Journal that the ambitious action role-playing game will not release in fall 2018 as previously announced, and will instead come out in “early 2019.” Despite just pushing back the game to next year, Electronic Arts’ finance chief Blake Jorgensen says that it’s “not a delay,” and that “people are trying to create a story.” Of course, there wouldn’t be much of a story if a company didn’t announce an ambitious release date so early. For what it’s worth, EA says that part of the totally not a delay was the decision to release a new Battlefield game in October. Here’s more on the initial report, which came from Kotaku:
Anxiety and expectation surrounding Anthem are high, Schreier?s report goes on to say. EA has faced an uphill battle in the face of such failures as Mass Effect: Andromeda (our biggest disappointment of 2017) and last year?s Star Wars Battlefront 2loot box controversy. That was all in addition to some high profile shuffling of BioWare staff at an executive level. Another thing of note has been Destiny fans? recent dissatisfaction with Destiny 2. Anthem has regularly been compared to Bungie?s living world shooter, and some of the development team at BioWare worry that is putting them under undue pressure. There is concern tha...