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Ex-BioWare Producer Mark Darrah speaks to @InsiderGamingIG about how Anthem could have been saved🚀 ✅Game suffered from an initial refusal to fully embrace being a looter-shooter genre from the start. ✅A long, widespread beta (ideally six months or more starting in early 2019) was desperately needed to catch deep-seated issues with the economy, lack of activities, and poor storytelling. ✅BioWare leadership mistakenly believed they could coast on a few “A” elements while letting other areas slip to “B-minus” or “C-plus” failing to realize that this genre demands high baseline execution across the board. ✅Darrah compared it to Medal of Honor Warfighter, noting Anthem ended up as a merely “competently executed” shooter, which translates to a failing grade in that specific market. _________ I keep thinking about what kind of game Anthem would’ve been if it was made as a single player story driven Mass Effect spin-off. The potential in that universe was incredible, and it could’ve even been its own IP or spin-off series, like NieR was to Drakengard #SaveMassEffect