Anthem

About this episode

Adam and Austin explore the failures of BioWare's Anthem and discuss its impact on the company.

On the eve of Anthem’s shutdown, Adam and Austin dig through BioWare’s most soul-crushing failure. Is there actually a good game buried underneath that 59 on Metacritic? Did this live service bomb end BioWare as we knew it? Join them as they attempt to answer these questions, and more, about this infamous 2019 disaster. Link to The Schreier Article: https://kotaku.com/how-biowares-anthem-went-wrong-1833731964 Link to "The Darrah Files": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9_QY8F8z_4c ---------...

People in this episode

Hosts: Adam, Austin

Topics covered

• video games
• BioWare
• live service games
• game development
• Anthem
• game failures

Keywords

• Anthem
• BioWare
• game failure
• live service
• Metacritic
• 2019
• Kotaku
• The Schreier Article

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: BioWare, Kotaku

Books & works: Anthem, The Schreier Article, The Darrah Files

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