https://www.ea.com/games/anthem/news/anthem-game-update

STOP KILLING GAMES

well deserved

Anth nothingth ofth valueth wath lothst.

I didn't even know it was still active

>>714405341 (OP)
>STOP KILLING GAMES
>but games are shit
why are people hating pirate again?

>>714405407
We gotta fast track the legislation before we lose this one forever.

damn, can't wait for the "Anthem was actually kino" threads..

The servers were still up? I actually played and enjoyed Anthem at launch, and I had no idea it was still around. Testament to how dogshit it was when a shill like me didn't even want to play it anymore and had no idea it even existed. The game had massive issues, but as a once and done campaign game for $15, it was good fun. Loved Colossus and the co-op ability synergies.

>>714405341 (OP)
I thought they EoS'd this years ago.

>>714405341 (OP)
No! Not Anthem! Nooooo!

>>714405341 (OP)
The servers were still up? Wtf

>>714405407
I’m going to kill games with my own two hands.

>>714405341 (OP)
They killed another one, bros..

Is BioWare finally on the way out?

Sad news for the 3 Anthem fans out there

>>714405341 (OP)
wait, this came out already?
I only remember them presenting this at some e3 type event as the next coming of christ

Yeah, just kill this one.

>>714405341 (OP)
Anthem was still running?

>>714406253
>wait, this came out already?
Anon, it came out in 2019.

>>714405341 (OP)
wtf i legit thought it happened years ago

>>714405341 (OP)
Holy shit, Anthem servers are up? In the year 2025?

>>714405568
this

NOOOO YOU CAN'T DO THAT THINK ABOUT THE 7 RETARDS THAT ARE STILL PLAYING THIS GAME NO YOU CANT SHUT IT DOWN ROSS HELP ME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The Moldman gets more bullets for his initiative and Anthem is his ammo.

>Anthem moved on?

>>714406357
oh..

>>714405341 (OP)
thought it was already dead

>>714405341 (OP)
Literally no reason to not being able to play this offline. Good, it will bring more attention to Stop Killing Games

>>714405840
It's not even attempting to save already existing games. Too much to chew. It aims to give devs plenty of time to make End Of Life plans before the game goes into full production.

>>714405341 (OP)
That sucks, I unironically loved the game and put over 100 hours into it a while ago. Keep coming back to it every now and then. People who say it's one of the worst games ever made never actually played it. The gameplay is so fucking fun, no other mechsuit game even comes close to it.

>>714405341 (OP)
i thought it was already kill

>>714405341 (OP)
The fuck I thought it shut down last year.

>>714405926
>>714405341 (OP)
I remember hearing about this game.
I played Marvel Avengers after it went down and it was alright. God some mileage out of the photo mode.
I'm a sucker for average, mediocre games though so I hope they make Anthem playable offline.

I didn't even know he was sick

>>714405341 (OP)
>anthem was still live

>>714405341 (OP)
Man, the push for live service games is fucking heinous. I dont even care about this, but it seems like it couldve been a much better one and done game rather than a GAS game.

>he was just a kid..
>not older than my wife's game

>>714405341 (OP)
It's still ALIVE?

>>714405341 (OP)
Huh? But... I thought... oh.

>>714405851
Better than Veilguard

Damn, they did just kill a video game?

>>714405407
It's okay to kill this one though

>>714407463
That's much more than I thought, what the fuck.

>sold 5 million copies
>will now all be disabled thanks to Stop Killing Games legislation not passing quick enough.

All they had to do is
>fix performance issues
>fix loot
and the game would've been a hit. Instead the devs dropped it halfway through the first content drop cycle because of a couple negative reviews. SAD

I don’t care about Anthem so I don’t care if Stop Killing Games fails to save it.

>>714405341 (OP)
>anthem lived longer than concord

>>714405341 (OP)
Wait, it was still up? I thought it got shut down years ago.

>>714405691
Action 52 is
>shit
>still playable

Destiny 2's original campaign, which was total shit, is not completely inaccessible to anyone, even Bungie, so now no one can cover it. There will never be a grand 'Destiny, what went wrong?' retrospective without using recycled footage because no one can play it anymore. That game is literally not dead and yet vast swathes of its content are unplayable now. How the fuck is someone supposed to do this with a game like Anthem or Concord? We talk about ET and the video game crash today, but Concord was rhe single greatest media failure ever; not video games failure, media failure. No one has ever lost more money on a piece of fiction ever than Sony did on Concord, and no one in 10 years with 10 years of hindsight, interviews and leaks that we don't have yet and likely won't have for years, will be able to get original footage of it.

A game sucking doesn't mean it shouldn't be playable. A game flat out being propaganda doesn't even mean it shouldn't be playable. This is one of those things that sounds fine at a glance but then a bunch of unexpected consequences no one could have thought of at the time happen. Like, if I were a Democrat living 50 years from now, I would do what the Dems did to McCarthy and the communist panic and rewrite histroy to act like he wasn't right and just argue the woke push of the past 15 years just never happened or was highly exaggerated, since much of the evidence will disappear by then. I mean fuck, leftists literally do this with shit still well within living memory all the time. If chuds go burn every copy of Ghostbusters 2016, then it becomes much easier to argue it never existed and chuds just fabricated a conspiracy theory at the time.

>>714405341 (OP)
what? the servers were up?

>make iron man game
>fuck it up and refuse to fix it

This is exactly why SKG is so important, to retain cultural masterpieces like this for future generations

>>714407463
It still had a couple thousand players at minimum? That's much better than what I expected.

>>714407982
>or to hint that AAA devs should not make abortions like this, because it's going to hang around their neck

>>714405341 (OP)
DAMN YOU EA!!! WHAT WILL I DO WITH ALL MY COPIES NOW!!

>>714407869
Seek help.

>>714405691
it's not that I want to preserve games, it's that I want developers who make shit games to suffer

>>714405407
1 million retard thinking they will save games they like, but this whole shit is to "save" an abysmally shitty Ubisoft car game and that's the only this that matter to the slopslurper that made the petition.

KILL MORE GAMES

>>714405407
Unironically, this one should be preserved. It's a historic artifact at this point, it's too important to just disappear

>>714408182

>>714408182
this just gave me an idea. If I were collecting games and hated the sight of empty shelves as I accumulate games, id buy these unwanted shovelware games en masse to serve as shelf filler.

>>714407869
well put

>>714405341 (OP)
>EU initiative reaches 1 million signatures
>EA shuts it down quickly
suspicious timing

>>714408457
i dont get it

>>714405926
I wanted to try it but wasn't gonna risk bricking my console over it

>>714405341 (OP)
Didn't even know it's still alive.

>>714406735
Yeah, the actual gameplay was fun, just everything about progression and loot was fucked, half the time your gear didn't even work depending on what order you equipped it.

>>714405407
TAKE ALL MY UPBOATS
EDIT: THANKS FOR 4REDDIT GOLD PASS!

>>714408217
He's right, dumbass. Game preservation doesn't exist just for fun. It's for preserving history too, and this is a big piece of gaming history. Doesn't matter if it's good

>>714409119
gaming "history" is irrelevant and has no impact on social behaviour from the past or future. You just want to worship a literal mountain of shit like the hindu brained slave you are.

>>714409281
This would sound a lot more convincing if you didn't write it on a gaming forum. Stop wasting time talking about games, they're irrelevant. Get the fuck out

We should have sued them for scamming us with that dogshit game

>>714405407
(after this one)

>>714405407
*John Frakes voice* Not this one. This one can be killed.

>>714405341 (OP)
Anthem was still alive?

>>714406152
I still have no idea how EA bought so many great studios only to kill them after one failure or middling success, and they let that shart factory continually pump out garbage while leaving its bloated corpse to fester.

>>714405341 (OP)
I actually thought they already shut it down

>>714410505
I guess they need to double it shutdown when one time isn't enuff

>>714405341 (OP)
Anthem was alive!?

>>714408582
it says MANT

It doesn't matter whether you think anthem was shit or not, it's not okay for studios to just unilaterly shut down a game without any way for buyers to keep playing it privately afterwards

>>714408396
It can't save any games in the past to begin with. Apple did not recall all iPhones to replace the ports with usb-c.

>>714405341 (OP)
Anthem transitioned to Requiem

>>714409560
people who play games know especially well how irrelevant their history is. It's not like war were you learn things to fail to not repeat them. knowing The Crew or Anthem existed will not change your life in the year 2563.

this would have been an amazing single player game
i hate all kikecasians

>>714405341 (OP)
>Keep servers up for dead live service game for like 4 years past its death and development stoppage
what was the plan? Did they forget?

>>714405691
Because it's "apparently" a very difficult task for the devs to not kill games, this means devs who make shit games will suffer more on top of releasing a huge flop. That means good, get fucked.

>>714407463
>29th of all MMOs
Grim.

>>714411884
That says more about the state of MMOs desu

>>714405341 (OP)
I haven't touched this game since before the pandemic but I want to get the most out of it now that it's going to die.
Is it worth the platinum?

I thought they shut that shit down in like 2020.
if they handed the game off to the players, we could have had overhaul mods that fixed it.
Some games deserve to die.

>>714405341 (OP)
>left it on farming idiots who were still spending
>SKG picking up momentum
>oh shit lets shut it down

#stopkillinggames

Anthem does feel like a game the publisher could make an offline mode for.

There is a significant amount of singleplayer content in that game.

>>714405341 (OP)
NNNOOOOOOOOOO I WAS PLANNING ON PLAYING IT THAT DAY

>>714414682
Yea this is actually something that the whole 'stop killing games' thing could work on. I can't imagine it would be really difficult to make an offline of this compared, to, an MMO or something.

>>714405341 (OP)
EA saw SKG and said: try and stop me

>>714405407
I don't want to have shit games saved, I want them to be preserved forever so that publishers can't sweep their hilarious flops under the rug, I want Sony to have to support Concord for the rest of their miserable existence, for some retard CEO a hundred years from now to see the 0.0000001% of money going towards server costs keeping that piece of shit alive and knowing he can't do a damn thing about it so he sheds a tear and curses Hermen Hulst every night for being such a massive fucking faggot

>>714407463
are these numbers even legit

>>714415346
This.

Allowing them to bury mistakes like Concord and Anthem is worse than them being alive. Even if all they do is throw a single player patch on top of it, that alone is humiliating enough to be worth doing.

>>714407681
>the devs dropped it halfway through
the devs were working on a pirate expansion set in the sky, where clouds were like water waves
then EA pulled the plug in 2020

>>714405341 (OP)
I'm surprised the server's are still up, is anyone playing the game?

>>714405341 (OP)
Kill all videogames.

>>714405341 (OP)
modders could have made it better if it had offline mode.

You know, if you stop and think about it, the idea of a video game shutting down and you can never play it again is pretty fucked up. Games are works of art.
We should support Stop Killing Games. Go sign it right now.

When will they finally kill Bioware?

>>714418734
Bioware is already dead, what you meant to ask was
>When will they throw out the rotting carcas?

>>714418734
they get more out of parading the zombified corpse and the IPs associated with it around, it's basically gold for corpos in the sequel/remake/remaster era

you want to buy it before it closes, be part of the class action lawsuit, and still be in the steam return window

STOP

>>714405341 (OP)
Didn't this shut down in 2019 or something?

i thought they shut it down years ago already
bioware's most forgotten kusoge

>>714408396
You're a worthless shitstain /v/ermin, so this might be hard for you to understand, but human beings have principles, rather than being 100% driven by asshurt spite. In short, commit suicide.

>>714405341 (OP)
Power armor animations and designs for this SLOP were really good. Pity that everything else was dogshit.

>>714405341 (OP)
STOP KILLING GAMES is more important because this.
>>714405407
fpbp

>>714405341 (OP)

/v/ told me this was the Warframe killer.

>>714405851
It was. I defended it day one, but eventually EA forced me to quit because they didn't know how the fuck to fix their dumb game.

I won't forgive them for making a villain this fucking kino and then commiting the cardinal sin of never letting us fight against him even though they hyped up that battle for 2/3 the campaign. He dies and is reborn as a standard reskinned mob monster you've already fought a dozen times up until this point in the story. Fuck them bastards, right in the ear holes.

>>714405341 (OP)
Rossisters, how do we cope?

>>714415346
SKG isn't about forcing companies to keep servers up forever, it's about forcing them to release tools like dedicated servers that allow people to play them even after official servers are killed

>>714423304
wow, so it's a nothingburger after all. Would't stop a developer from killing a game without any official servers and with p2p online. See LOTR: Battle for Middle-Earth series and other Lotr games.

I miss the customization menus already. The best materials/color picker I've ever seen in a game like this.

>>714420869
you defend Anthem and The crew. who is the human garbage there? Shit eater

>>714423903
yeah the idea is that they release tools to let the community keep going when they pull the plug

>>714407463
everybody knows that sites bullshit btw

>>714407463
>saddam hussein with a morning stiffie under the covers

>>714405341 (OP)
I honestly thought Anthem shut down a month or two after release, who is still playing?

>>714407463
there's no way this shit had thousands of players every day

>>714407463
If so many "people" were playing why come it's shutting down? :^)

>>714424796
It was always the plan to shut the game down keeping it a live-service game and all that. Was just a matter of when.

>>714420869
As if the recent surge of interest in the initiative isn't almost entirely driven to spite PirateSoftware. You're a dishonest slacktivist faggot, go back to /r/Games.

Posting for the sake of the kino that resided in anthem, pouring one out for the homies that last their javelins.

>Do you see that Bad Guy? You can't fight him.

>>714405341 (OP)
>Be Bioware.
>Make Mass Effect Andromeda.
>Flopped
>EA:"It's okay, you deserve another chance"
>Make Anthem
>Flopped
>EA:"It's okay, you deserve another chance"
>Make Dragon Age Veilguard
>Flopped
>EA:"It's okay, you deserve another chance"
>Make Mass Effect 4
>-----
How many chances will EA give to Bioware? They killed other studios for way less!

>>714405851
I always thought it looked cool but i will never play any of these gay multiplayer PvE game

>>714427786
I think Mass Effect 4 is probably the last straw if it bombs.

>>714405407
lol the game was stillborn on release

Special edition armors were decent.

>>714407869
bungie just straight up removing playable content from the game is what kept me from ever trying destiny, even when they literally gave it away for free

Has it really been six years? Jesus.

>>714422269
That was Firefall anon.

Gonna miss messing with color-schemes on these bad ass suits.

>>714405341 (OP)
It was still up?

>>714429557
Same. God, I am so pissed we'll never see a customization screen like that again.

>>714427854
This. If this was a 15-25 hour singleplayer-focused game, with drastically less "ARPG lootbox grind" elements and more actual RPG elements, I'd probably have been down for it.

Them shaders, mang

>>714405341 (OP)
the publisher/studio literally announced they were stopping development on the game like a year after it released. was i supposed to keep playing it?

the /m/ vidya curse
you can have cool mechs or a playerbase
never both

>>714430672
they were pure sex

>>714405407
Here's an unpopular opinion: Maldavius right about SKG, and it will make the gaming industry worse. Because we know the axiom: the more regulated the market, the worse it is for everyone—both producers and consumers. The direct path to improving product quality is REDUCING market regulations, even to the point of their absence.

This is exactly why American goods are far superior in quality to European ones. This is why American service is far better than European service. Because the market in the US is freer. And the freer the market, the better it is for everyone.

SKG, on the other hand, proposes additional regulations that will burden producers but ultimately lead to all costs being passed on to consumers.

Those who oppose absolute market freedom are shooting themselves in the foot.

>>714405341 (OP)
Sad Anthem was actually fun

SKG will fix this.

>>714421118
They are called JAVELINS

>>714431156
>The direct path to improving product quality is REDUCING market regulations, even to the point of their absence.
So you think a dev selling a multiplayer game for 60 bucks only to shut off servers permanently after hitting the initial player bump is a-ok?

the gaming industry is already turbo shit. you can't make it worse. you're a retard

Have you ever eaten euro food? Believe it or not it's not pumped full of corn syrup and has actual meat in it. Your food is absolute garbage, your product are made to fail and laden with ads. Shut the fuck up.

libertarian unnuanced madness believing no regulation ever is the answer is about the same level of retardation as planned economy communism
ideologues should meme off

>>714427786
They killed the studio that made Anthem

>>714427786
EA is killing Bioware slowly, I would give them 2 more chances.

>>714431478
> So you think a dev selling a multiplayer game for 60 bucks only to shut off servers permanently after hitting the initial player bump is a-ok?
Yes, it's OK. You can just... NOT BUY THOSE GAMES. Some games may burn brightly but briefly. Others will stay with you forever. That's the beauty of a free market—you can choose what YOU LIKE. You're not obligated to buy every game or agree to every condition. It's your money, and only you decide how to spend it.
> the gaming industry is already turbo shit. you can't make it worse.
At the very least, they might start factoring the costs of preserving a game after its shutdown into the product's price, which would immediately drive up prices.

It could also reduce the number of attempts to create a new hype-driven game like Fortnite, meaning fewer live-service games. Let me remind you that, although 95% of live-service games fail, the remaining 5% transform the industry for the better.
> Have you ever eaten euro food?
> Believe it or not it's not pumped full of corn syrup and has actual meat in it. Your food is absolute garbage, your product are made to fail and laden with ads.
Easy, friend. If you're okay with it, that's your right. I'm not judging you. I'm just stating the fact that all the most popular food brands are American. Everyone knows American cuisine, but from European cuisine, people only know pizza. And even then, only because Americans took the concept and made it better than the Italians did.

>>714431156
>Says the american with data cap on his internet

>EA sees the writing on the wall and pushes forward the server shutdown
kino

>>714432037
>Yes, it's OK.
Stopped reading there. Unlike you, I don't hate videogames.

Anthem right now is disappearing before our very eyes. It's sad we won't even be able to use its character creator anymore.

>>714408396
>first, they came for the abysmally shitty Ubisoft car game
>and I did nothing but talk shit on the internet
The thing about opinions is your favorite video game is fucking dogshit and should die

>>714405341 (OP)
AIEEEEEEEEEEEEE YAMEROOOO!! You will make Ross shit his pants!

>>714431276
yeah it was, and I'm tired of pretending like it wasn't

>>714432284
they wasted a metric fucking ton of money on it; I can't understand for the life of me why they would've even try to make something of the IP and recover their losses.

>>714405341 (OP)
Does anyone have pics of that chinese girl in Anthem who is unbelievably ugly?

>>714405341 (OP)
it wasn't down already? I could have sworn

>>714434541

>>714434541
enjoy

>>714405341 (OP)
Remember when they promised Anthem 2.0? Fucking assholes

https://youtube.com/watch?v=mwzph0BKlEk

>>714434842
>>714434969
the height of biowares delve into DEI slop

Ya know, I'd buy it for 2 dollars and play through the campaign before it shuts down. But its not even on Steam.

>>714405341 (OP)
How in the fuck, what the fuck, I thought they crashed out years ago lol

>>714435330
effectively they did, there's nothing worth doing if you already beat that dogshit campaign

>>714435328
>I'm too busy gargling semen to gargle different semen.
What in the fuck is wrong with you cultists? Seriously WHAT THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH YOU?

>>714405341 (OP)
good riddance, kill it

I remember when this garbage was being spammed on /v/ by shills saying it was the best game ever

top lmao

>>714405691
because he's an ugly faggot

>>714422616
i enjoyed the moment to moment gameplay - flying and fighting in the javelins felt great. everything else about it was complete ass though. the characters and story were not memorable, the main hub as annoying to traverse, the different activities all felt exactly the same, it was too hard to get gear then it was way too easy. i played it and tried to love it but it was just too messy. i want bioware to take the flight and combat system and make a tight single player game with it

shit game but another example of , "If buying isn’t owning, then pirating isn’t stealing."

>>714405341 (OP)
wait this game was still alive? dont they have an offline version?

>>714405407
Worth keeping alive so people can study its implementation of flight.

>>714434842
>>714434969
They're related, not scissoring each other

>we'll never get a resolution to the "the videogame characters are aware they're in a videogame" plot
Life is unfair.

Creature design was actually kinda nice for once. I hate most sci fi creatures nowadays, but this one looks believable and fantastic at the same time.

>>714405341 (OP)
I actually bought anthem on release date.

>>714443482
Same. I even defended it on /v/

>>714405341 (OP)
why didn't they try and engooden it?

>>714405407
fpbp

>>714405407
I say the modern 'free to play' shit deserves to die.

>>714445061
We need more singleplayer with a concrete endpoint for gamers to enjoy and waste their time on, not more multiplayer slop whose 'gameplay' is essentially endless as long as the servers are running. Companies should feel free to take games like this out back to see the rabbits, i'll be cheering with a bucket of popcorn on the sidelines.

And nothing of value was lost.

>>714444106
cool guy anon was right

>>714445416
>>714445061
>We need more singleplayer with a concrete endpoint for gamers to enjoy and waste their time on, not more multiplayer slop whose 'gameplay' is essentially endless as long as the servers are running. Companies should feel free to take games like this out back to see the rabbits, i'll be cheering with a bucket of popcorn on the sidelines.
this isn't what gamers want
go look at global achievments on games you like

>>714405341 (OP)
>Anthem
>isn't shut down yet
>definitive ending soon

>>714405341 (OP)

>>714424796
Stop Killing Games won so they're shutting everything down before they pass a law

There's never been a more undeserving end to a character such as The Monitor. EA though should get an award for that fuckup.

>>714405341 (OP)
I thought this happened years ago

>>714407869
>A game sucking doesn't mean it shouldn't be playable. A game flat out being propaganda doesn't even mean it shouldn't be playable.
Are you jewish? Serious question

>>714405341 (OP)
it was still online? i thought they shut off years ago

>>714405341 (OP)
Wait, this game was alive the whole time?

>>714444106
Oh hey I was there

>>714434989
That was a thing they promised. From what I remembered, there was just a meeting about whether they should go on board with supporting the game still.

I had a pc that was considered a lightweight at the time, but it still looked pretty good to me. I definitely think there's a lot of potential left on the table with the engine, the controls and the (loose) world build.

>>714405341 (OP)
i thought this already shut down like 5 years ago

We're going to get to 500 posts just with this same shocked reaction, aren't we?

>>714407463
>never seen this website
>numbers definitely don't look legit
>let's see how they get their data

lol. lmao even.

I'm going back to DS2.

Goodnight, sweet prince.