@EA. Just so you know. I'm not spending a dime on Anthem

EA logic: Make Bioware - a company legendary by their RPGs - to create... an FPS shooter... Brilliant! What could go wrong?! This game is dead on arrival anyway, no one seems to be interested in it and all we know that it's development is a complete mess atm. It's probably gonna be the end of Bioware too. I just try to enjoy swtor while it lasts

I've come to the conclusion that EA is like a cancer just eating away at the gaming world, bit by bit, and devouring studios. We toss our money to them in hopes that there will be a cure. But as long as they keep the mindset they have now, it's going to continue.

I have no doubt that the almighty Mr. Andrew Wilson, CEO, will not see this. Hell, he may not even be made aware of it. But I'm pretty sure they have someone, somewhere, who's job it is to "monitor" their gaming forums. So while Andrew Wilson may not see it, others may. And if there's enough "fuss" it will eventually make it's way "up the hill."

Add one more name to the list. Not a dime of mine will be spent on Anthem. Not anymore, anyway, since I've unknowingly helped crowdfund the blasted thing this past year.

Anthem doesn't appeal to me, if anything it just makes me think along the lines of 'You can do this? and yet Mass Effect: Andromeda was a bust?'

I might Youtube it at some point, but that will likely be it. I don't have interest in Anthem.

I'm looking forward to Anthem and my friends and I will play it if it's good. That doesn't mean that I don't wish for SWTOR to succeed but it has been in maintenance mode for over a year now. I'm surprised they actually paid for Steve Blum to come back and do the few Andronikos lines he did. I love Steve Blum but he is expensive and very busy.

Friends, this is what maintenance mode feels like. I'm not even sure that EA will get the Star Wars license renewed. Pretty sure they won't which is why they are putting all their effort into Anthem.

If this game dies, i'm done with EA for good.

Also, here's hoping Anthem flops real hard. If there's no SWTOR, EA might as well dissappear, as far as i'm concerned.

It looks good, but I made that mistake with Battlefront and Mass Effect Andromeda, I'll think I'll pass on this game, It's not Star Wars

What worries me most is if Anthem fails, EA might do what they do best, screw over and shut down great developer companies and kill off BioWare. In essence they're already driving BioWare into the ground as it is with all the layoffs over the past several years. They just aren't the same before EA dug theirs claws into them.

I can only hope Disney is serious in shopping around or changing the way they do the game licensing because EA hasn't done crap with it and the tiny amount they did do they manage to piss off more players/fans of the IP. Maybe EA doesn't know how to handle the IP in a respectable way, or at all, but they've done nothing at all to show they deserve exclusive rights. Perhaps I went off on a bit of a tangent but is still valid.

While I'm on this tangent, I'm willing to venture a guess as to why Battlefront 2 sales have bombed. They pissed off so many with their lootbox BS and since word of mouth is one of the highest forms of advertising, everyone shared their displeasure all over the internet and with their friends and people were like "no thanks". That or EA is just a terrible company and more and more have grown to despise them. Just my opinion, I may be wrong but wouldn't be surprised if I'm close. They better think long and hard about how they plan to re-implement those lootboxes or they'll be in even more trouble.

Pretty much what he said.

It's not like SWTOR will see any staff returning even if it is a success. Rather the reverse. EA will follow the money. So here's hoping Anthem is the Cutthroat Island of online games.

I was done with EA when everything happened to BF2. Once that became clear EA was not going to change anything as far as the game went and how progression/microtransactions were, I knew I was done with them. They pull those transactions because of negative feedback. Not because they wanted to or thought it was the right thing to do.

Like you, once swtor is gone, EA is dead to me and that means there is no way I'd spend a dime on Anthem. Nothing more than a copy of other games already out and easily a game that can be skipped.

My money will go somewhere else. once swtor dies, EA is out. Way to many other games I can find entertainment in that doesn't carry the EA logo.