The VIP demo for Anthem was released a little more than one hour ago and things are not looking good. Electronic Arts and BioWare claimed that this demo is not a beta and would represent the experience that gamers would be getting at launch, however this definitely feels like a beta.
For starters, we could not login at first at all as we were receiving numerous connection network errors. At some points the demo was claiming that the demo period was not live yet (even though it was) and at other times we were getting a connection network error regarding its maximum capacity.
EA has stated that it is increasing the maximum capacity for the Anthem servers but I have to remind you that this is a demo. A demo that should represent the experience that players would be getting at launch and not an open beta. And… well… EA and BioWare have definitely failed to deliver a working demo.
Assuming you get past these connection network issues, you’ll get to the main hub, talk to an NPC and then launch your first Expedition. And, guess what? The very first Mission is currently not working as the game ends in an infinite loading screen that for some reason also stressed our CPU while loading, reaching 70 degrees of Celsius; temps higher than those we witnessed in Assassin’s Creed Odyssey (and we all know how CPU hungry and un-optimized Odyssey can get).
Now when we got stuck at the infinite Expedition loading screen, we closed the game and tried to re-launch it. And, surprise surprise, the game did not work. The game got stuck in the main menu screen while trying to connect to EA’s online services, without giving us any connection network error.
We’ll talk about the game’s performance in a separate article, however you should know that this game will stress your CPU like crazy. So yeah, you’ve been warned.
Now if this is the day-1 experience that BioWare and EA are promising for Anthem, then count us out. It makes little sense to buy the game at launch day and we may suggest Anthem fans to wait a month (yes, a month) until all of the game’s connection issues have been resolved (or until there aren’t a lot of gamers playing it). Again, this isn’t a beta but a demo and EA and BioWare had more than enough time to fix the game’s connection issues (it doesn’t even have a queue line) and were fully aware of the amount of keys that would be available for this VIP demo; a demo that forced players to pre-order the game in order to play. Hell, imagine what would have happened if this was an open demo to everyone.
John is the founder and Editor in Chief at DSOGaming. He is a PC gaming fan and highly supports the modding and indie communities. Before creating DSOGaming, John worked on numerous gaming websites. While he is a die-hard PC gamer, his gaming roots can be found on consoles. John loved – and still does – the 16-bit consoles, and considers SNES to be one of the best consoles. Still, the PC platform won him over consoles. That was mainly due to 3DFX and its iconic dedicated 3D accelerator graphics card, Voodoo 2. John has also written a higher degree thesis on the “The Evolution of PC graphics cards.”
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Please let this be the one to end BioWare for good.
Fingers crossed.
I hate seeing people in this industry get let go, however, enough is enough. Also, in the long run, I’m sure it will be better for most, if not all, who currently work for this toilet of a publisher.
They are grown adults and these people are willingly working for a giant well known for scheming consumers. I did the same until I came to my senses. No job is worth hurting customers and there are plenty of dev jobs that actually contribute to people vs harm them.
Yep, I’ve used that argument before, and it’s certainly true. They know the reputations of these companies, yet, choose to go work there.
I don’t have the utmost pity for employees of these giant shitbag companies, it’s far more for the smaller studios that suffer, because actions taken by these giant shitbag companies.
You two are idiots. You go where there is work.
Safe to say, you’re the idiot. Unless of course, you are implying that they could only get work at EA, or some other shitbox company. I thought not.
Indeed. Unfortunately, by your hilarious logic, there is only work at these turd companies. They couldn’t have gotten jobs anywhere else, ya?
You make your bed, you lie in it. Get your head out of your a*s.
ya but i dunno man, arent they under contract? its not like they can just leave…without EA killing them first. when ea signed bioware, they were at their peak, and EA was not as scummy as it now. This late however, yes, i do agree to some extent and i do hope bioware dies once and for all.
EA has been scummy for the last three decades. They have used their FIFA franchise to exploit customers and drain their wallets endlessly since day one of the first EA FIFA game in 1993.
Bioware ended a long time ago, if this fails it would just mean another developer for EA to destroy.
RIP Visceral and Dead Space!
When did it end exactly?
Probably around Mass Effect 3
Between Mass Effect 3 and Dragon Age 3, all went to sh*t!
And RIP Criterion and Burnout.
I need Dragon Age 4.
why? 2 and 3 were a joke.
The overall writing is still much much better than the alternative i.e witcher 3, though dialogue writing remains cringy as fck. Bioware story writing is still great. I need more, 3 set-up quite a few interesting things yet to come.
Better than TW3…yea some of you are absolute idiots.
Yeah , better than tw3? That one made me bust a gut laughing XD , I mean I liked da 2 and 3 , 2 suffered from the whole area re-use , its story wasn’t horrible but sticking to the same small amount of areas after what origins started with , was just a “….what..?” Kind of feeling /letdown. Inquisition was good in it’s own rights , but I didnt care for alot of the romance options XD , I’m cheesy like that…..story wise though wasn’t bad and didnt suffer like 2 did with the reused areas.
Indeed. Ofc TW3 with it’s paper thin villian, completly abandoned kingdom plotline, complete 360 on character personalities and behaviour. As well the utterly rubbish overall story is a much better game than DA3 which does all of this and more.. right! Just because the game does characters, dialogue and moment to moment flow really well topped of with some excellent presentation and cinematography does not mean it has good story writing. Witcher 3 story is an insult to the people who followed from the 1st game. The side content is great but, much better than most things out-there atleast interms of presentation, but FONV and some Mass Effect stuff were much much better. While on the subject should I bring up how utterly broken the game balancing is? Well, whatever. Keep coke suking the witcher 3 that’s all anyone wants to do afterall.
LEL
what trolling exactly? having a different opinion on things isnt trolling kiddo. also its a objective fact that 2 and 3 suck. look at the reviews compared to the first. look at general consensus on forums,etc. grow up.
i agree. rap music sucks. i also agree that only idiots and minorities like nu-bioware and rap.
“also its a objective fact that 2 and 3 suck.”
That you do not understand what “objective fact” means, does not mean that it’s an objective fact. It means that you don’t understand the term you’re trying to use.
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user scores show that there not even a decent game let alone good. objectively im right. subjectively i believe your a dummy.
Which means exactly one thing. That you proved yourself wrong. Bra-vo.
“objectively im right. subjectively i believe your a dummy.”
The irony of someone unable to user punctuation, grammar and basic spelling calling someone else a “dummy”…is rather sharp. And the scores are irrelevant. Fact still remains that you don’t know the meaning of the words you’re using.
the fact that your replying to a 4 month old comment i made while drunk that i cant even remember shows how worked up you are. im sorry i offended you. relax big guy. its just video games.
No, you don’t.
I really enjoyed DA Inquisition! I also enjoyed Dragon Age 2. A lot of people hated it, but I also love ME: Andromeda.
Lol what an absolute clown.
Who gives the slightest F*K what your dumb worthless a*s thinks? If you died in 5 mins, no one would miss you. Go kill yourself you sorry loser b**ch.
Wow, holy crap, you just became the scummiest person in this comment section. Congratulations.
Thanks f*k face! I just rolled my eyes so hard they did a full 360 in my head regarding your worthless opinion.
No one said the games were the most flawless creations ever made. I just said I enjoyed them… some people are simply ridiculous and irony is lost on them. A ridiculous comment requires an even more ridiculous response. I can definitely tell the (lack of) intelligence level in Andrew and Mr. Miller by comparison to the obviously INTELLIGENT response given by Johann… Some people are hopeless morons. Such a shame for our entire planet.
wtf is wrong with you?
After my favorite games ever got annihilated : mass effect 1-2-3 because EA didn’t let Bioware fulfill their dream and make a mass effect 4 OR a fantastic new mass effect title,
I don’t care about what bioware might be doing.
Another thing, on many interviews, journalists ask the anthem devs all kinds of questions about the game, what it is about, how it plays, bla bla bla…. but the most important question ALL journalists should be asking is:
-What about monetization ?
– will anthem have loot boxes ?
– will anthem have a few/many/a ton of in-game items to buy, like skins, etc.
– will gamers have to play 300 hours, just to get enough in-game currency to be able to buy 2 or 3 minor items ?
THOSE ARE THE MOST IMPORTANT QUESTIONS
knowing when the beta will be playable, or how many characters the game will have, how many versions gamers will be able to buy, or how many weeks it takes to animate an enemy, etc etc, those are questions no one cares about.
WHAT the gaming media should be asking the devs, specially when EA is controlling everything, is what kind of monetization the game is going to have, loot boxes, microtransactions.. etc etc. THAT is the most important thing.
Bioware were able to destroy mass effect, with a really poorly executed Andromeda.
We can be sure this Anthem is going to be a microtransactions FEST, with thousands of items to buy, where gamers will have to spend 300…900….2’000…. or even 10’000 REAL DOLLARS.
Yes… we can count on EA to use the most aggressive monetization system EVER. 2018 was too aggressive, fifa, etc etc ? Just wait for 2019, to see what this Anthem well truly be.
I hope the top websites like polygon, ign, gamespot, etc etc, won’t just blindly give Anthem a 9.5/10, without even mentioning the me monetization system in use, in their reviews.
Remember who we’re dealing with here.
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The whole development cycle of this turd was a clusterf*ck.
Is this the first time you participate in a “beta” type thing ? Servers never work during the first hours. Yes, I know they call it a demo instead of a beta, but these days every beta is just a demo.
>these days every beta is just a demo
Nah, Beta means the full release but for those who pre-ordered the whatever edition.
“Is this the first time you participate in a “beta” type thing ? Servers never work during the first hours.”
yes they do. at least the good ones do.
Fatshark with vermintide 2 do a better job than EA/BioWare.
Monster hunter worked very well, vermintide 2 was also a smooth beta, both of those companies have far less resources then EA does yet they do better….hmmmmmm.
“these days every beta…”
…works for Polygon, PC Gamer, Kotaku or Eurogamer. ?
what ?
Wait what?
Don’t worry about it. As a self-confessed Sony zealot and Destiny fanboy such things are naturally incomprehensible to you.
I’m just unfamiliar with the popular incel jokes
No jokes you make are popular though?
Lmao of course you are
IT JUST WORKS, SHUT UP IT WORKS.
It Just Works …
Laughs in boycott
Always online only game they said, it will be fun they said, better experience and service they said.
games failed on consoles where you cant pirate they said. Look at fallout 76
I am pleased to hear it. Still GOTY in Amount of Eye Cancer On Screen nomination.
is it me or DSO is a place for people to come and hate on things and swim in negativity , never seen any positive thing in comments before lol , feels like i’m in an incel thread.
We don’t come here for pozitivity.
NO, it is not. Those who up voted you are also being delusional.
My replies tend to be unbiased and often positive when it has to do with mods releasing or a new indie game but the AAA industry is in the toilet and this site tends to have a lot of users who heavily disagree with it, myself included. If they do something good ill give them credit but thats not common anymore
“incel” is a positive term used by happy, accomplished people, apparently.
Yea 99% of the users here lead pitiful lives. All they do is b**ch and gripe about everything. I have yet to see a comment section have even half positive posts. Then again, that’s many PC only gamers. They have this undeserved sense of entitlement.
Says the biggest troll himself, as evident from his posting history ! lmao.
A quick glance on your posting history further proves you are also here to b**ch and abuse/attack other forum members. Even under this topic, you are abuisng and trolling others.
It’s a shame that only this “Paul86” has upvoted your pathetic comment here, and nobody else. I guess that user Paul86 doesn’t realize what he is doing, ’cause he should scroll your profile and check it for himself.
But maybe one day he will soon realize all this.
Hmmm, hidden info. Bet you do the same.
+1. Couldn’t agree more with what you have just said.
LMFAO.
>entitlement.
Don’t show your hands this early guy. be a better NPC and run more complex codes instead of copy/pasting.
like i said, console only trolls come here attacking us.
Your comment is negative as well. it’s the DarkSide of Gaming after all, you want unicorns as well ?
He’s griping that folk here “hate on things” and yet has a username like that!
Yes unicorns damn it!
Welcome to
darkDouble side of Gaming !Why be positive about trash?
Much less, EA trash?
Does every internet forum or website have to fe**ate these awful products?
Perhaps because the AAA gaming industry has turned into sh*t for the last few years, and we don’t like it instead of praising their rubbish all the time like other sites do.
what you mean you dont like how every game is becoming always online sht stain fallout 76? Nah, shut up and buy some microtransactions, i will give you 500 atoms to fck off and stop slandering our multi billion dollar company.
If all you visit is articles about the publishers who are currently experiencing massive declines in sales & player retention, sure. You’ll wish there was more when the inevitable 2nd industry crash hits us.
Meanwhile the footage of actual innovators like Cyberpunk 2077 & Metro Exodus, or decent remakes of classics like System Shock or Resident Evil 2, are getting endless praise on this website.
Just look at how EA have handled the Star Wars IP: it’s painfully obvious a mechanically rich RPG and/or Lightsaber Combat title would make record sales. Instead they’re too busy chasing their tails for five long years, cancelling titles left & right; not because they think we won’t enjoy them but because they don’t maximize profit margins.
The industry is sick. If we’re Incels, you’re an anti-Vaxxer.
atom heart looks great too.
Yeah i liked the look of it but i don’t know if that was the video or the framerate is garbage, 20fps in that 10min demo.
“Just look at how EA have handled the Star Wars IP”
Almost as poorly as Disney have!
Because the gaming industry is no longer about selling games based on the merits of quality and its art form – and is now inundated with $60-120+ mobile-model, social Walmart scams disguised as games to lure unknowing consumers and conditioned mobile gamers into their digital shopping malls. Armies of twitch, youtube, twitter, fb, pop gaming site community managers, sponsored “fake gamer” influencers, and their droning followers all work as ad hoc advertisers to promote and protect them social media wide with “uR all jus Hatterz DEH mAek meh teH shinneh prehshusSsss tiNGs” – just like Apple cultists – vs standing next to their fellow gaming and art lovers and to demand the highest quality for consumers’ hard earned money and push the gaming art form forward.
Prior to this gen’s win-lose, shareholder favoring, dlc chopping, overpriced a la carte asset, mobile-model craze filled with microtransaction shops, companies used to compete with one another using nothing but the best quality they could pull off and that quality alone is what propelled gaming into the mainstream while earning the respect of a top tier entertainment medium for all.
Now companies are filled with mba Gordon Gekko types that came over to a very lucrative gaming industry (again, because of quality) after the 2008 finance crash and compete for the best scheme – just like banking/finance along with the gimmicky named branding like “COD Points” – while trying to convince consumers with lies that all of it is needed.
There is plenty of data that proves these short-sighted microtransaction profits are not for game costs and AAA shareholders are in fact spending lower they ever have in history on R&D and production costs. Blizzard is one of many companies going through the worst of it before others. What is increasing is shareholder greed. The only thing profits are hitting are their pockets for everything else in their lives but games.
So yes, it is you.
“incel” look at that word that the npcs learned and now they use it against anyone who isnt a npc.
Lets see who upvoted you
Our resident troll who comes here to call everyone a pirate, a moron who reads NPCgamer and has blocked 90% of the site, a ea shill, a halo fanboy and some randos.
That being said dso audience clearly is against the long running destruction of the AAA industry by the horrible business practices of companies like ea, activision and ubisoft.
Everyone here has been warning ea not to do what they are doing, so now in a form of poetic justice we gonna see bioware joining the rest of ea studios.
yet you upvoted him
It’s you.
fack this game
“Anthem demo is a clusterf*k”
I look forward to the DSOG article once the game is released. I suspect you’ll be able to reuse that same headline sans the word ‘demo’!
Destiny 76, as I’ve previously referred to Anthem!
So…. business as usual for these awesome “GaaS” games. Nice to know.
Just installed this last night. Haven’t had a chance to launch it yet. Was going to check it out with my 16-year-old tonight, as he’s in to this kind of game. Maybe we’ll pass until it has a few patch cycles going for it.
Buy Dead or Alive for him. Tell him that another male recommended it
thats how i bought dead or alive 2 for sega dreamcast….
“hey kid, look at these girls! you can beat em up! they hardly got any clothes on and they look japanese”
still one of the best purchases i ever made. dude was like 30 and i had to be like 10-12…first gay experience i had as well back at his house a few days later.
I was pre-teen when we went to buy Gran Turismo 3, then my father saw Dead or Alive 2 and said lets buy this instead. I was like okay?
Little did he know that some years later his son magically learned the art of masturbation. Dead or Alive 2 had that nice gallery with some pictures on it
Clusterfuk sounds cute.
yeah this game is gonna bomb and flop for sure
I’m pretty sure all of Origin’s (EA) serves are down right now. I haven’t been able to login in to their site for a while.
this is going to be good entertainment
I played the closed alpha it have the same issue and the performance was not good 1440p 45-65 fps gtx 1080ti i7 4790k so thing are not looking good for this game
I played the demo a few hours ago and i also have an i7 4790k with a 1080ti and i was getting 71 low but mostly around the 90s. Settings were a mix of high/ultra, since i was on 1440p i turned off AA. Performance isnt bad actually. thats the only good thing i have to say about the game though.
same was on close ”alpha”
Is Disqus f*cking with upvote counts?
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They are deleting and blocking comments that argue against their view…
YUP, something isn’t right with DISQUS today. Software issue I presume.
It is happening to me as well. I’m not getting any Notifications on my disqus profile either.
Mine isn’t updating, regardless of whether someone posts a reply, and/or up-votes me. Also, even more funny is that the recent replies which I’ve made so far, aren’t showing up on my own profile as well, LOL…..:D
Edit: Goddamn, it seems I lost all my votes as well ! *sad face*
I’ve never had an issue with losing upvotes that I know of but the notifications of replies to me sometimes come late. Up to 4 days late since I’ve had a Disqus account. I blamed it on some problem with the server at work holding them up but now others are having the issue too. By the time 4 days go by there’s little point in replying as the article is already forgotten.
One of my comments just disappeared as well, ROFL
Guess it’s fixed now, yesterday it had some problems for me too, and even john couldn’t approve some comments manually.
while my Anthem game was locked in the infinite loading screen, alt+tab to find a solution or workaround and read this article until the hardware stress part, turn on msi from the icon bar and surprise surprise 79°C Thanks for saving my hardware.
Funny how people think first day DEMO connectivity issues are going to kill a game…
I know right? It’s almost like it’s happened before with other games or something.
Crazy to think it would happen with a game from one of the most hated companies in existence. People will remain loyal and see this through, I’m sure of it. No worries.
Wait, when did this exact scenario happen to another company on a demo and it tanked their game? Crazy how people can generalize statements for arguments and not back them up huh??
It’s like people forget why other games have tanked. If this was opening day, that would be a slightly different story, but in the end this is trivial network sh*t that gets worked out. B****ers are guna b*** though…
But tens of millions of !diot gamers will buy this game and throw microtransaction money at Anthem, essentially telling publishers and devs “KEEP DOING WHAT YOU’RE DOING, GUYS! QUALITY DOESN’T MATTER!” so that’s what the market will respond to.
Publishers and devs haven’t failed gaming, gamers have,
By the way, thanks for the heads-up, @JOHN/DSOG.
Hello JOHN,
Just found an interesting OFF Topic news article. Please give this a read. It looks like DLSS Won’t Be Available in EA’s Anthem at Launch – Ray Tracing “Could be Added Later”
In a recent interview with Wccftech, Scylla Costa, one of Anthem’s producers,
stated that DLSS support would be coming to Anthem “shortly after launch”, which means that Nvidia RTX 20 series GPU owners will need to wait a little longer before they get to use Turing’s AI prowess to boost Anthem’s performance.
In the same interview, Costa also stated that “ray tracing could be added (to Anthem) later”, stating that Bioware “don’t currently have anything to announce in this space”.
https://www.overclock3d.net/news/software/dlss_won_t_be_available_in_ea_s_anthem_at_launch_-_ray_tracing_could_be_added_later/1
https://wccftech.com/anthem-interview/
Thanks for reading,
Yup, he covered this story in an article recently.
https://www.dsogaming.com/news/anthem-will-not-support-dlss-on-launch-day-may-receive-real-time-ray-tracing-rtx-support/
Anthem,eh? More like elegy. RIP
It’s a Destiny/Warframe copy, basically grind, level up, grind, loading screens for the dungeons, come out, repeat. Youtuber ‘Upper Echelon Gamers’ hasn’t been able to get into the game for like 4 hours on his Xbox.
every time i see this game play i go to sleep.
Find it totally amazing when an ALWAYS-ONLINE Title, can’t sustain or go online. If this isn’t irony, I don’t know what is. “I have an automobile that’s missing have 4 wheels” <—- what you have here is an Auto and NO Mobile. What you have here is garage.
Destiny forever.
This sh*t, plus forcing to pay to try it, on top of everything, is a total bull***t.
Best headline I’ve ever seen.
I don’t know if there’s any talent left at BioWare or EA is rushing them to complete the game but either way people should wait a month to see what gets fixed.
Played it with 3 other friends. Had fun. Game is beautiful but it feels very heavy control wise. Also, had 1 bug over a 4hours game session where we did everything in the demo. The bug was the infinite loading. Everybody had to leave and then reconnect to find a new session. It needs more polishing but i can see myself like this for the gameplay and the content if there is.
Typical EA and Bioware !
Their lame servers are even causing issues with BFV servers… 120fps / 8ms yet having lag makes me feel like I am playing at 23 fps
bye bioware…i’d feel sorry for you, but after mass effect A…asshole. YOU can rot in a rat infested sh*t filled hellhole…go f*k yourselves.
aaaaaaaaaahahahahahaaaaaaaaaaaa
good
“wait a month (yes, a month) until all of the game’s connection issues have been resolved (or until there aren’t a lot of gamers playing it)”
So a month either way. Love the headline.
Its EA…nothing surprise me here,John..
Just had to formate my drive and reinstall Windows because the Anthem Demo froze my computer (which has NEVER happened in five years), and somehow managed to corrupt the Windows installation or something. What an absolute freaking disaster of a game.
Man people desperately want this game to fail.
Typical.
Can’t wait for this train wreck to be released so I stop hearing about it.
Sigh it sucks but if this game ends up failing and Bioware being shut down … well, c’mon. Would anyone be surprised at this point?
I hope Bioware shuts down, that will be awesome,
i am not interested in bioware’s new direction. id much rather jade empire 2, kotor 2, me4…
i tried the demo, couldn’t load into a map so after 5 attempts i deleted it. i am not inclined to give it another look.
first impressions.
It’s from the corpse of former great developer Bioware. No surprise.
“A demo that should represent the experience that players would be getting at launch and not an open beta.”
That, right there. People have been arguing that, “Oh, but that’s because it’s testing…” No. No, demo is NOT for testing, it’s to give people a taste of the game.
Off topic: SK Hynix Fellow Says PC5 DDR5 by 2020, DDR6 Development Underway.
The PC5 DDR5 main memory standard could enter the market by 2020, according to SK Hynix research fellow Kim Dong-Kyun. The first such memory standard will be DDR5-5200, which offers nearly double the bandwidth of DDR4-2666
https://www.techpowerup.com/251968/sk-hynix-fellow-says-pc5-ddr5-by-2020-ddr6-development-underway
Hello JOHN,
Sorry to bother you, but I just found another off topic TECH related news. I think this quite interesting, so that’s why I’m sharing this with you and others as well.
Anyways, Intel today launched a free Open Image Denoise (OIDN) library for ray-tracing.
Governed by the Apache 2.0 license, OIDN is part of Intel Rendering framework. From the looks of it, the library is CPU-based, and leverages 64-bit x86 CPU (scaling with multi-core and exotic instruction-sets), to de-noise images. Intel says OIDN works on any device with a 64-bit x86 processor (with at least SSE4.2 instruction-set), although it can take advantage of AVX2 and AVX-512 to speed things up by an order of magnitude. The closest (and closed) alternative to OIDN would be NVIDIA’s AI De-noiser.
More info can be found here:
https://openimagedenoise.github.io/
https://www.techpowerup.com/251984/intel-launches-free-open-image-denoise-library-for-ray-tracing
Thanks.
So it’s official, EA is done.