Mark Darrah, Executive Producer of Anthem, has detailed some of the differences between the upcoming demo and the game’s final/release version. According to Darrah, the demo will start in the middle of the game, there will be no tutorials and players won’t be able to pick their pilots.
So how’s the Anthem demo different from the game?
– we start you in the middle
– no tutorials
– no pilot picker
– balance is super different
– economy is completely different
– 6 weeks less bug fixes
…— Mark Darrah (@BioMarkDarrah) January 19, 2019
Moreover, the difficulty/weapon balance is different (the demo will be easier than the final version) and the economy will be completely different. The final version will also benefit from additional bug fixes and will be 6 weeks newer than the demo version.
The team has also renamed a few things for clarity in the final game and has improved the PC controls. This basically means that the flight controls in particular have been slightly improved and this is a good thing (as the flight controls in the closed beta were disappointing to say the least).
– with only 1 story arc, I think the mission/stronghold/freeplay balance will be off a bit
– slightly less nuanced PC controls
– we’ve renamed a few things for clarity in the main game— Mark Darrah (@BioMarkDarrah) January 19, 2019
The PC demo of Anthem will be available to those that have pre-ordered the game on January 25th and to everyone else on February 1st. The game is also planned for a February 22nd release!
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No matter how good the game is going to be (if it is any good after all), this game is designed to has a LOT of microtransaction and DLC, is a long term sell, subscription based, like Destiny, the Sims, The Division, etc. The game is, for people like me, dead on arrival, period.
Cosmetic microtransactions only. All expansions of new story, new areas and new Javelins will be free, So the playerbase wont get divided months or even years from now.
Indeed. Thank god EA has never, ever, ever, gone back on its word either. One thing you can count on with “live services”, is that these companies are held to their word by stone. Nothing can ever change.
Remember when they told us that all Andromeda dlcs will be free for everyone?
Well they were free for EA as well since they did not make a single dlc for that game.
Easy to make empty promises ?
Let see, they say that in every game, EA earn his reputation based on lies and shady business practices, even if this is true, and the game is good, I am going to wait a year at least to consider it.
you shouldn’t bother with the ignorant, really.
just let them sing their song, you can explain 100 times they will still move on the next website and post the same
Coming from someone with such a clever name as yours, I really can’t say I’m surprised. Wow……
If for you microtransaction is ok even if it is only cosmetic in a 60 usd game, ok, I am ignorant but the current state of gaming industry is because people like you, they are selling you the f*ing early access demo, my god… do you need to go trough this again? do you do the same with every Activision release and believe in every promess too?
No, studios like Monolith have already detailed why microtransactions are detrimental to the game design art form and its artistic expression (which includes the experience of the interactivity and gameplay) – and yes cosmetics and everything else monetized absolutely hurt games. It’s why they’ve removed their entire marketplace from Shadow of War, not just loot gambling.
Fact is microtransaction-packed service apps posing as real games will never be as great as the best games without them because microtransactions in fact allow publishers to stealth price gouge the actual art and assets – cosmetic or not – thus allowing them to make lesser quality products and continuing high profits.
The high profits from poor games this gen are a measurable truth.
We are making those not reciprocating high quality for our money very rich. Devs, studios, writers, artists, and everyone else involved in the actual creation of games – those deserving – have been paid once the games hit Gold (perhaps a little after for bug fixes, small content updates, etc). Live Services never get big expansions like the best big games without microtransactions because they can drip fed and over charge for each asset. Also, that microtransaction cash goes straight to shareholders and high level execs. You are fooling yourself if you think this goes back to games and R&D. Look at R&D costs this last gen vs all other past gens. Our money goes to anything but games. These are not the starving companies from the 80s and 90s. They are giants in the industry and the high production costs PR is a scam.
If stealthily price gouged art isn’t important to you in the games art form then you are the target market for Live Services.
Yeah For Honor Said the same Garbage. They all do, So please take this rubbish elsewhere. I can’t believe you people still repeat and believe rubbish.
Can’t believe you are so naive.
Implying that the game won’t be pay to win at some point. Black Ops 4 had no micro-transactions during the review period and then added them later.
That is Activision for you…
There is no PvP in Anthem whatsoever, so if anything it might be pay to grind less, Which by the way both Warframe and Destiny have those items for real money.
Yup. It’s the same Live Service AAA scam the kiddos protect every time because they were yet again conned by “oh emmm geee. teh ausome trailors. cant wqait 4 dis 2 plaes!”
AAA preys on uninformed consumers and the salivating fan-teen armies who are blinded by the shiny things and ready to e-lynch mob those opposing their favorite monetized scamming apps disguised as games. Conditioned from their iphone childhood. A shareholder’s dream.
Like I say in my other comments, we go through this every time.
It’s really a sign of the stupid times, when “oh emmm geee. teh ausome trailors. cant wqait 4 dis 2 plaes!”, is considered ‘cool’.
When being able to spell with an aptitude of that over grade 2, gets “you” ridiculed, by the intellectual sludge of humanity.
Great times we live in.
I just have no interest in this game. Mass Effect style combat on steroids without the rpg elements and story? No thanks.
One will charge you straight up the a**, and the other won’t.
Does anybody know if the beta client will be patched for final release or will it have to be a new full download?
Well, I at least know what is shared between the demo and retail. Which is me not spending a God dam” dime on either of them!
and the economy will be completely different . . ….
Yeah… they put grind, bullsh,i RNG and microtransactions and it wont be easy
Multi-million dollar marketing campaigns can make any turd look incredible. Gamers have been falling for this every time this gen. Oh yeah… but it’s really the “games” that cost too much. What a scam, one that started with AAA when Activision/Bungie announced they were doing a $500mil marketing campaign for Destiny and people mistook that money being spent on the actual game development. It wasn’t. None of it was.
Live Services always end up being a con and people compromise more, and convince themselves more, and lie to themselves more – all starving for real, full games – hoping THIS will be the one – the one that AAA Scam Company X finally got right. Hoping it will be way more than it will ever be in reality, all because of that massive marketing budget.
The AAA Scam. Rinse and repeat… as usual.
1,968 titles on Steam, ~200 on GOG and ZERO on Origin. Well played EA.
Hyped for the demo!
It would be nice if full games came with less tutorials, discovering how to play the game is part of the fun that is taken away from you these days.
Anthem….. lol I just see the word now, and snicker uncontrollably.
I feel bad for people, who genuinely find this schlock entertaining. Seek help.
Its a live service game from EA and a Studio who hasn’t made a good game since ME3’s ending. I’ll be giving this a pass because I am 99.99% sure it’ll become pay to win and the so called “cosmetics” will have stat boosts.
Its EA we’re talking about here. You’ll forgive me if I don’t have much faith in the game.