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Freelancers,
The last week has been a busy time. Anthem hit early access, then full release, and with it, our population has surged. We feel that this is the right time to discuss what Strong Alone, Stronger Together means for the community. To us, it means that for a game of this scope, not everybody will share the same experience of it, positive, negative, barren, or flush with loot. Indeed, Anthem is probably the single most divisive launch most of us on the team have ever seen in terms of where the community falls, and that's not a bad thing.
Strong Alone, Stronger Together means that while all of us experience Anthem separately, we are joined by the desire for the game and community to be good, and in some cases, better than they are now. We do not believe that the vast majority of subscribers would be here were that not the case, and we mean to effect that change.
The Community
Anthem is not perfect. There's a reason we've got the format for bug megathreads down pat at this point, and it's not just for giggles. In some cases, we must cede that some of these bugs, design flaws, and issues can be game-defining for players, and their feedback, positive or negative, is valid. When you see a member of this sub expressing ostensibly negative feedback, take a moment to consider that just because your experience with Anthem has been good, theirs might not necessarily be the same. They are not any more inherently toxic for having had a bad experience of the game and sharing it than you are a blind fanboy or shill for praising your good experience.
To address the other side of the coin, we see a lot of comments calling anyone who shares their positive experience about the game "shills", and being similarly dismissive. We'd like to think that a lot of this can be directly attributed to a contingent of users who are visiting this community for the first time, because regulars know our rules better than to think that personal insults, attacks, and flaming are tolerated here. If you see any of the rules being violated, we ask that you report the post in question and move on. Don't feed trolls.
So while we aren't in the business of suppressing opinions, we ask that before posting, you consider how you articulate yours, because chances are that there's another player in the community with a wildly different experience from your own. All we ask is that you engage in good faith. Check yourself before assuming that someone is a troll, fanboy, or shill just because their experience with the game is not the same as your own.
The Game
Regardless of your experience with Anthem, we are all here because we want to improve the game, and the dev team has handed us the tools with which to make it happen. Not a day goes by when we don't see evidence of BioWare honoring the commitment they made before launch to keep open communications with the community, and we would be fools to forfeit the opportunity their presence affords. You may think that the game is good, or that that the game is trash, but "f*ck the haters, this game is awesome", and "f*ck this game, I'm done" posts don't add to the dialogue or help the devs improve the game. It's a credit to the community that over the last week we've seen an incredible number of constructive suggestions on how to improve the game, and in each thread, BioWare is there, listening to their playerbase. These posts are the kind we should be looking to make; the kind that will help improve the game for years to come. These posts are pro-consumer.
In conclusion, the mod team would like to invite the members of the community to think about the kind of place it wants this sub to be. One that rejects Freelancers just because they had singularly positive or negative experiences with Anthem, or one that welcomes feedback of all stripes and uses it to better the game. We would prefer the latter.
Strong Alone, Stronger Together,
The Mods.
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