It’s been one month since Anthem released, though it feels like a lot longer. So much has happened: a lot of it bad, but also some of it good. Despite all of the game’s issues, it has a small but solid foundation for BioWare to build on. There are also a lot of frustrating things still in the game, many of which, such the loot system, the player base has spent the last month discussion ad nauseum. Here’s what’s happened since release.






Anthem ’s community director tells players that hostile replies have driven some of its developers away from commenting. “Things used to be a lot friendlier here for dev team members who normally don’t talk on social channels or forums,” Jesse Anderson writes

“Things used to be a lot friendlier here for dev team members who normally don’t talk on social channels or forums,” Jesse BioWare eventually makes some concessions on loot drop rates on March 15. An update increases rare drops for the game’s hardest activities

BioWare general manager Casey Hudson admits Anthem’s launch was “ rougher than expected ” in a blog post on March 19. “We launched a game that so many of you tell us is really fun at its core, but we also had a degree of issues that did not reveal themselves until we were operating at the scale of millions of players,” he writes. He tells players to the next stage of the game’s content is when “things really get exciting.”

in a blog post on March 19. “We launched a game that so many of you tell us is really fun at its core, but we also had a degree of issues that did not reveal themselves until we were operating at the scale of millions of players,” he writes. He tells players to the next stage of the game’s content is when “things really get exciting.” The game’s next set of changes get outlined on a March 20 livestream with the developers


And that’s where we are. Anthem’s launch has been anything but smooth. While bugs, crashes, and loading times have all been drastically improved, it still feels like there’s a lot missing. As a result, everyone is focused on the free content that will be added in the coming weeks and months. The biggest of these is currently scheduled to arrive in May in the form of a Cataclysm, a “world changing event” that will showcase a longer, more involved, and more challenging Raid-like mission.

