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On Xbox One , 2019’sAnthemhas a downhearted actor tally than 2016’sBattlefield 1 , and this statistic alone might as well beAnthem ’s expiry certificate . PublisherEAtook an fabulously expensive risk while chasing gaming style and mismanagingAnthemdeveloper Bioware — now , they ’re pay the piper .
Anthem ’s wretched state of matter is n’t incisively a secret , and players havehad an increasingly hard time with matchmakingas the plot ’s playerbase dwindled after a changeless drawing string of controversies and disappointments . examine the penning on the rampart and understanding it could intend close at hand stoppage of host - side support by Bioware , manyAnthemplayers decided to get ahead of the unsound news andpronounced the game ’s deathbefore abandoning it in droves . Anthem ’s sales were less than what EA bear , but its performance in terms of post - release revenue has been so dingy that the publisher is entirely rethinking its launch strategy for future titles .
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While it ’s not entirely unsurprising , Anthem ’s unfitness to maintain an Xbox One playerbase orotund enough to compete with a three - yr - old plot likeBattlefield 1(also published by EA ) is wholly unprecedented . Reddit user_Robbiepointed outAnthem ’s inability to compete with a game that got a continuation inBattlefield Vlast year , having acknowledge thatAnthemsuddenly lose its stone - bottom spot onMicrosoft ’s list of the Xbox One 49 most - play games to the WWI shooter . When taking into account thatBattlefield 1has daily elevation counts of about 7,000 instrumentalist , it becomes clear just how grim thing are looking for EA’sDestinyclone .
Anthemwas pushed off a list that include other live - service model games , includingFortnite , Apex Legends , and evenFallout 76 , the latter of which has remained the diligence ’s go - to laugh stock afterAnthem ’s freeing . If Bethesda ’s fail game as a servicing modeling is drawing more player than a plot that took seven years and an untold amount of money to bring forth , it might make signified for EA to retreat from its new venture and go back to what it knows .
Unfortunately , all that EA seems to love is how to continually chase trends as they come while pressing talented studio apartment like Bioware into a hunky-dory powder . Dragon Age 4will in all probability be Bioware ’s last chanceat survival of the fittest under it ’s publisher ’s thumb , and if it fails to impress the developer may go the means ofAnthemin the approximate futurity .
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Source:_Robbie / Reddit , Microsoft
