Lots of concerns have been raised about BioWare’s next game, Anthem. It may not offer the single-player experience the studio is known for delivering. The live-service qualities may get in the way of a true BioWare experience. The list goes on, but the development team seems certain of one thing?Anthem won’t be like others of its kind. For starters, it’ll launch as a complete package.
During an interview with USgamer, Anthem’s Executive Producer, Mike Darrah, was asked what the team had learned from other live-service titles. Interestingly, Darrah’s response focused solely on the trend of live-service games often feeling incomplete at launch. Darrah told the publication,
Yeah and you know one of the things that I think has been a relatively recent lesson in the live-service space is that before last year I think you saw games coming out that were relatively incomplete. [Games] that then sort of built up and built their fan base over time and grew and got bigger. And I think in the last year you’ve seen a couple of games launch that were in that same kind of space that you would’ve thought, ‘Okay this should be fine’ that then didn’t work out. People came in and they went, ‘there’s not enough here’ and they left. So, I think it’s partially because the competition in the space has gotten harder people are less willing to just kind of hang out and hope that stuff is going to come along. There ...