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Godzilla wrote:What was Amazon originally selling it for? 50?

It's a very fast drop for a triple A title. Maybe the fastest drop for a triple A game in history.

imbusydoctorwho wrote:£35 already on Amazon, just three days after launch.
Guess it'll drop to £20 once the Division 2 is out.

Slayerx wrote:Anyone elsw get an email from Amazon offering them £5 off Anthem valid until March 1st?

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Lagamorph wrote:I just loaded Origin for the first time in a few days.

Anthem is preparing to download a 46GB patch.

twitter.com/bobvids/status/1103364875747758081

I'm sure glad my weapons in Fallout 76 actually get stronger when they say they do

OrangeRKN wrote:

twitter.com/bobvids/status/1103364875747758081

https://twitter.com/bobvids/status/1103364875747758081

Auto-scaling gone wrong? Or maybe a deliberate hidden buff to the starter gun to make new players more likely to stick with the game, similar to as happens with competitive shooters? The former sounds most likely but I'd love to hear an explanation regardless.

I'm sure glad my weapons in Fallout 76 actually get stronger when they say they do

How BioWare's Anthem Went Wrong

It wasn’t even supposed to be called Anthem. Just days before the annual E3 convention in June of 2017, when the storied studio BioWare would reveal its newest game, the plan had been to go with a different title: Beyond. They’d even printed out Beyond T-shirts for the staff.

Then, less than a week before the Los Angeles press conference held by BioWare’s parent company, Electronic Arts, word came down that securing the rights to the trademark would be too difficult. Beyond was ruled out. The leadership team quickly switched to one of their backup options, Anthem. But whereas Beyond had been indicative of what BioWare hoped the game would be—you’d go out beyond the walls of your fort and into the dangerous wilds around you—Anthem didn’t really mean much.

“Everybody was like, ‘Well, that doesn’t make any sense—what does this have to do with anything?’” said one person who worked on the game. Just days before their game’s announcement, the team at BioWare had a brand new name that nobody really understood.

One mandate from Anthem’s directors had been to make the game “unmemeable,” a reaction to Mass Effect: Andromeda‘s jittery facial animations, which became an internet joke in the days leading up to that game’s release.