Video Game Designer

EA exploded! Anthem blew up!

Sales explosion? Word of mouth explosion?

No, it simply exploded!

Countless players gave angry ratings, because this is not the same as the game and hymn they imagined.

It's just too bad!

Refunds and ratings gave low scores, and at the same time posted posts in major forums and game sections to vent their dissatisfaction with Anthem.

"It's really convincing. Did EA learn the skill of baking potatoes from Ubisoft? Can you believe that the pre-order party didn't even connect to the server after trying for an hour?"

"Garbage server, the time to play games is not as long as the time I have connected to the server."

At the beginning, the players still focused their main firepower on the server, but soon after the server gradually improved under the adjustment of EA, more and more problems appeared in front of the players.

"The hymn? This is holy loading! If you disagree, load it! You can load it when you enter the game, you can load it when you enter the main city to confirm the task, you can load it when you match the player's dungeon, and you can load the settlement reward from the furnace back to the main city." input, and then I want to see if the equipment still needs to be loaded?"

"It's basically a half-finished product! The main plot mission is too perfunctory, and I'm forced to complete the small achievement halfway through it? If I don't complete the mission, I won't do the mission. This is too good!"

"Thankfully, EA finally added a function to the game that can skip the dialogue. I really don't want to watch those NPCs bragging. I have no interest in the story at all. I just want to brush up."

"According to the performance of EA and the performance of Anthem, I feel that it will be half price soon. Friends who are interested and haven't bought it yet, please wait patiently for a while."

The original hymn's player evaluation quickly dropped from a very high 9 points to 6.5 points, which is only 0.5 points more than the passing score of 6 points.

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In the Tianhe network in Jinling, Chuhe sat in front of the computer and the host, playing hymns and writing in a small notebook next to him.

I have to say that Chuhe really didn't expect that EA would release such a quality hymn, which is a bit unimaginable.

Especially when the game was started for trial play before, Anthem has been reported by players with many problems, but the version after the launch has not been completely improved, and it can even be said to be completely a semi-finished product.

"EA's operation this time is a bit confusing." Piggle, who was also next to him, also said with a little surprise.

"The ambition is too great, and at the same time, the system design of the game must be taken over." Chu He wrote it down in his notebook and nodded.

Judging from the game content that Chuhe has experienced so far, not to mention the main content that has been criticized by players, and the content gameplay problems such as repeated dungeon tasks.

Just from the perspective of pure player experience, the design of many parts of Anthem is a bit inexplicable, especially on the PC platform.

For example, the settlement scene after the end of the dungeon was specially designed in Anthem to show the appearance and action, but a scene with low running memory was not made in advance.

At the same time, the loading problem criticized by players is actually not loading in most cases, but calling game data and covering it with loading screens.

The data in the game is not stored locally on the client, so most things need to exchange data frequently, such as entering the social armor interface and even needing to "load" is caused by this problem.

To put it simply, watching a video is the same as listening to music. At first you listen to it with a cache, and you can listen to it the second time even without the Internet.

But hymns do not have this cache, so every time you listen to a song or watch a video, you need to download it again.

Of course, Chuhe can also guess EA's thoughts by doing this, mainly to prevent data modification. After all, Anthem is a PVE game.

It's a frivolous game. For this frivolous game, the threat of hacking data modification is even greater than that of PVP.

Therefore, Anthem did not do anything at all. It only needs to read the player data once when entering the game, but changes and updates are made, and a large amount of data needs to be read at any time in the future.

However, EA's technology and other aspects did not meet the requirements, resulting in long loading time in the game, long loading time, and frequent data errors.

Even this may cause some serious problems, such as causing the host to crash, and some players even said that the host is "bricked".

Of course, this bricking is just because the player has not found the correct solution. As long as the database is rebuilt, there will be no major problems. Of course, it is certain that the machine has enough damage.

In this regard, Chuhe feels that the blame is not entirely on EA's side, whether it is Sony or Microsoft, at least half of the blame should be taken over.

Of course, this is a more objective and rational view of Chuhe, but for players, there are not so many twists and turns.

Regardless of whether you are not doing well with Sony and Microsoft, anyway, your hymn is so bad, it's still playing with what happened to you, who else to look for?

"EA is in trouble." Chu He couldn't help shaking his head slightly, what's wrong with EA?

I always feel that after getting to know myself, EA's own things will not end well.

But if Chuhe really wants to say, the hymn is actually not that bad.

The picture quality has not shrunk too much. It can be said that the combat system is very imaginative and innovative, and the exciting mech flight combat does not introduce such a real dynamic physics engine effect as at dawn, but with the modified Frost, the hymn Whether it is the picture or the physical effect, it can be regarded as the top level in the industry.

At the same time, the high-altitude integrated combat mode and the refreshment brought by the skill firepower cannot be simply explained, just like drinking a sip of Bingkuole when you are sweating profusely in summer, it is simply refreshing.

But it's a pity that with so many defects that affect the game experience, unless you are a true mech fan, few players can stick to it.

"Don't think about the initial word-of-mouth EA has already exploded, it depends on the follow-up operation, but Activision and other manufacturers probably won't give EA this opportunity." Chu He shook his head and said.

It can be said that EA has self-destructed the Great Wall. In this case, it may be possible to fix the problem as soon as possible and release the latest patch, but if it cannot be done, waiting for EA will be worse.

After all, Activision has other first- and second-tier manufacturers, but they are also preparing to release new works in the near future.

Poor EA.

Chu He sighed silently, and then followed Pig's instructions to prepare to launch the multiplayer mode at dawn.

When players are disappointed by EA's hymn, it's their turn to harvest a wave of freshly grown leeks.

Inside EA, a high-level meeting is being held.