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Although they are different studios. The process and working with EA may give us some hints as to what is going wrong.
““There were a lot of plans,” said a developer, “where by the time they were implemented it was a year later and the game had evolved.” The explanation for this lag can be summed up in one word, a word that has plagued many of EA’s studios for years now, most notably BioWare and the now-defunct Visceral Games, a word that can still evoke a mocking smile or sad grimace from anyone who’s spent any time with it.
That word, of course, is Frostbite.””
Bug fixes- ““while bugs that should take a few minutes to squash might require days of back-and-forth conversations. “If it takes you a week to make a little bug fix, it discourages people from fixing bugs,””
Content creation/cosmetics - “With another engine I could do something myself, maybe with a designer. Here it’s a complicated thing.””
Manpower - “ But we’re also just complaining about lack of manpower in general.”
It often felt to the Anthem team like they were understaffed,”
EA Movement from studios - “One was that in 2016, the FIFA games had to move to Frostbite. The annual soccer franchise was EA’s most important series, bringing in a large chunk of the publisher’s revenue, and BioWare had programmers with Frostbite experience, so Electronic Arts shifted them to FIFA.”
Ofcourse DICE being the one to have created frostbite, also means they are in high demand from EA to assist other studios. I wonder where DICE is on EA’s moral reports?
As much as we all love this game, this is clearly some issues at play behind the scenes. I’d love a BioWare type article to just explain exactly what went wrong. For pure curiosity.
Why is there such a wait for everything?
Why is this a games as live service but aren’t releasing boins to fund more maps?
Why is there a ton of cosmetics in the game but not released?
Why are the Germans still in a British plane?
Why hasn’t the armoury changed in 6 months?
Criterion nailed there part, apart from some tweaks. Such as the loot system. Loving firestorm though. But I need more breakthrough.
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