Game sound is way too high compared to the microphone volume, please do fix that for future reference, perhaps even redo the video. The games graphics look good, and i get that the dev´s go for realism, but running around for a very long time just to get shot in the head by someone waiting for you with an auto rifle with a sniper scope on, or a sniper rifle with max amount of zoom so you never see what hit you, just to start running again and get shot the exsact same way, perhaps even after gathering a lot of good items and weapons, i dont know about you, i dont find repetition and long runs in high grass for hours on end interesting. what is the point of running around in the world except for shooting other players? , its just a mix of empty dark factory buildings/containers and fields of grass with patches of forest, currently, is there any npc animals/beasts in the world? if not, it seems pretty boring.
Boo hoo we are really crying our selfs to sleep over the thought of no press conference or news from EA what a shame #sarcasm .EA have gone too far in their greed and with their pay to play services , players is standing up for them self´s and should continue to do so, I am of the opinion and many seem to share my point of view that unless EA changes its ways 100% and stop the greedy practices its best for them to go bankrupt, so the companies they purchased have a chance to reemerge since there are so many talented artists and game developers within the companies EA have bought through time, let them rise under new names and start again, let them prove that AAA game development can be done without fleecing people for every single dime they have and manipulating them out of things they "dont have" , stay away from everything they currently are and represent untill they change their ways. (like that is ever going to happen.)
another issue that i have had after the most recent patch that i have heard others mention as well is the Audio dropout during the main story missions, and you cannot get the sound back without restarting the game, that is simply immersion breaking and bad.
@turk0047: so the cosmetics are free , right, thats why they have a shop in the game selling it for real world money, the so called updates are rehash of content, if you bothered to read through their plans you would notice that most of it is nothing but repetition of the same things, sure they might change the names of mobs but whats happening is the same deal over and over and over again, go back and read the message, its fine that you dont agree with me, but that last comment you made there is nonsense , go watch some reviews, discussions and many other things on the internet , you can start out with Angry Joes review and extended discussion on the game and you can see that many of the points im making he said as well, hes not the only one , the internet is full of people who agree, by the way, the last resort of the unintelligent is name calling, swearing and its for those who cant argue their point of view and give reasons as to why they believe the way they do hence resorting to the above mentioned things , dont like what im saying, dont read it.
i wouldnt hold my breath on their future of fixing Anthem, the thing is even their plans for future things to do is flawed, its full of repetitions the "outlaw outrage", the "Cortex Locked" "new items" without disclosing anything about what sort of item, weapons? , gear? , it does not say , in my point of view it just proves that they have not even planned what to do they are winging it, but feeding the gamers something that they think might appease them for a while for long enough untill they can figure out what they actually intend to do, the "store refresh" well thats just replacing items in the shop, the Cataclysms that people are supposed to be all riled up about is the first thing that could be any form of content, another thing is that the stronghold bosses is mostly the same thing you can run in to out in the world, just instanced, same for the mobs, its nothing but rehashed content from one end to the other, the only thing new in this game is the flight mechanics and the pretty enviroments of the world, other then that 98% of the mobs are the same. here you can see what im saying to prove my point, notice just how many repetitions there are in this roadmap. https://www.ea.com/games/anthem/acts?isLocalized=true , this is not ok, selling content to people that should have been in the game from the start, every bit of content, but is sold through the various games as a service shops that EA orchistrated, dont accept it one bit , EA and greedy developpers are never going to change, so stay away from their products untill they go broke, so we can get a new company to take its place, one that hopefully will have learned the lesson not to be greedy. Yippedidoo daa they managed to actually fix one of the many many issues the plague the game, but that doesnt help much when the future plans doesnt really do anything that makes a difference. weapons apperences are all the same, gear apperence is all the same except for perhaps a change of color, the tooltips of gear and weapons are flawed and sometimes directly broken, such as a flamethrower with 0 damage, and many other things like Audio drop out in the middle of the main story missions, it just stops playing Audio and you cannot get the sound back without restarting the game, it is just bad.
Anthem is fun for the first few hours untill you realise that at around lvl 17 the story abruptly stops and you have to grind to unlock tombs that basically contain nothing, the weapons all look the same except for a change of colors, every single thing for your javelin in terms of the gear, it is the same icons, they didnt even bother to change that, the descriptions are flawed, when you join a free play session prior to reaching max lvl and run in to a Titan, the rest of the team is faffing about everywhere else leaving you to fight the titan alone wich end up with you getting your ass handed to you , attempting to communicate with someone in freeplay end up in people being non responsive (this anti social egotisitcal disease have become quite common these days, its sad that people no longer socialise in games that are intended for socialisation, so .."stronger together" my ass. ) i like the flying in Anthem, the enviroments are great, the npc´s could use some work, the acts and the updates planned for this game is repetition of things that people already have played for the most part , and the rest is just a bunch of semi hidden things except for the cataclysm event that is sometime in July or something like that, overall i think that it is a pity since there was so much potential in Anthem, but strangely the things i mentioned above, the same weapons and gear apperences thats just bad that they dont even bother to make anything unique so people actually would want to work towards it, but instead want to sell that through various cash shops or place them in later elusive updates that will never end up happening because by then EA will be smacked so hard by former fans that they forget their own name, greed does not pay, and selling a product that is not finished and peeling off parts of the game to monetise it later on for those that wish to be a part of the game and have fun, thats just shameful, EA deserves to go broke in my opinion, and if this is what Bioware presents in the future then they too deserve the same route, so does every single developper that uses the disgusting "games as a service" EA model, and Activision/Blizzard along with them if they proceed to listen to a scummy company that does not have any consideration or response to their costumers regardless of any issues they might have , the thought process that once the product is sold they dont have to give a shit about what any gamer has to say, prove them wrong people, they dont deserve to exsist, and dont be conserned about not having games, there is and will always be new companies arising, people wanting to make proper content where you pay a one time fee to purchase it, and then everything that is made for the product is delivered for that sales price, then expansions can be made and sold just as it was in the past, anything else but that is unaccepteble, show them that we gamers have a voice, and our voice is our wallet.
@GoodOldUncleSam: Oh all right :), i thought it was a general statement directed at me :) , but its cool, good to know you did´nt intend it as an offence :), about the wall of text, i have ADD, Autism,Asbergers syndrom and once i get a train of thought going if im attempting to write it down, it typically end up as a huge wall of text as you accurately pointed out , and yes i know its full of gramatical errors and all sorts of shit, but i dont take that in to account since i find it more important to get the message across about what i am thinking at that time. you have a great day GoodOldUncleSam :), and dont worry , you are far from the first person who points that out :).
@GoodOldUncleSam: I would ask you the exsact same question, can´t you really see all things i mentioned that is wrong with world of warcraft in its current form? , and about meeting peoples expectations, where is it written that anyone is supposed to meet each others expectations in any way, each have their approach to doing things, dont like that, tough shit, its a part of the real world, the right of choice.
some big problems remain that will kill world of warcraft if has not already happened, server balance , take Draenor EU as an example https://realmpop.com/eu-draenor.html. that is balanced according to Blizzard Entertainment, so they refuse to do anything about it, so current numbers are 686919 Horde (88,7%) , Alliance 87585 (11,3%) thats balanced for you, so thats going to make any pvp on that server very very "balanced" and The Alliance sure wont give up and stop fighting against those odds, they wont stop doing any other sort of faction based wars , if you believe that they must believe that my ass is santas new snowmobile, get real Blizzard, no matter how many times you pack the same merchandise in "new" "paper" then people will not remain in the game and it will die because of lack of renewal, a real pity because i have had over 11 years in world of warcraft and it is basically a good game, but there are some fundamental things lacking to keep the game interesting and fresh, the quest system is obsolete as hell, the garrison/table aspect of the game, well thats just not interesting, try something new that is not a basic carbon copy of your previous attempts in a new wrapper, and maybe, just maybe there can be hope for world of warcraft yet, but it is going to require some real effort on your part. Another issue in the game is the lack of socialisation outside of the LFR system, people no longer seem to socialise, nobody talks in the cities, nobody does anything besides their personal chores aka dayly shard/former apexis hell that you just renamed and tweaked a bit, a shit is still a shit no matter what you dress it up as, and yes there are guilds in the game, but people dont socialise, they bicker and whine about anything and anything that does not meet their expectations, well guess who, i personally am not set in this world to please your sorry ass/meet your expectations or requirements, so if you try to enforce that on me, then you can go **** your self, sorry to swear that much, but i am so fed up with that tradition among gamers, when princess buttercup does not get what she wants she and her playmates throws a temper tantrum, but the truth is the world does not revolve around you, and your expectations are not mine to adopt, i choose how to approach it, if the game says the ilvl is high enough to do it, then guess what the assesment from the developer must be that it is possible even if it will take some effort skill and teamwork, if it fails, then guess what, try try and try again, if your not well enough geared then simply by trying and failing you still gain bits and bobs of gear that improves the character wich in turn makes it so that eventually it can be completed, dont like it, tough shit, yet again, im not set in this world to meet anyone expectations/requirements. anyway, thats my thoughts on a lot of the things wrong about world of warcraft, i hope that eventually it and the player base will get to a place where it becomes fun for everyone and socialisation becomes something other then swearing and yelling at people who dont meet your requirments, name calling and what not.
Infinityward/Activision Cause of sales drop in the Call of Duty Series :
Greetings, i am of the conviction that the cause of the sales is not the jump to more space like action, but the fact that the further in to the call of duty series we have come, the less support and response have been given by Infinityward/Activision , this have cause people to become gradually more and more fed up with how little the company cares for their costumers once the sales have been made, there are no support to be had, and that ends up being the reason people get upset and feel ripped off, when you have a game you just purchased that you´ve been looking forward to playing and that have been hyped through the roof time and time again, just to discover that its so bugged /laggy and have so many issues that its either entirely unplayeble or at least somewhat unreliable, enough to cause people to contact a support department that you cant get support from, So guess what happens when you piss off your consumer base and show that you cant be trusted despite showing loads of flashy trailers and promise the world, but then dont deliver, they wont buy your future products regardess if its in the present, future, past, what ever , it means nothing , changes nothing, start showing your player base that they can trust you and your product and perhaps people might return in the future.
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