Yeah... What the fuck?My big concern with this is that it doesn't sound like they spent the past year working on "2.0", but rather focused on the seasonal events which didn't seem to add much actual content to the game.
If they're just starting work on it now...ooph. Sure, 4-5 months is doable, but at the rate they've been working I think things are quite a ways off...and wonder if anyone will care by then.
Maybe they shouldn't have wasted 5+ years fucking about and stressing staff out, but that's the past.
At this point I don't have much confidence left in their ability to turn things around. I was expecting the announcement to come this year with some big info/asset drops showing off the changes they've been working on over the past 6+ months, but this is just a vague, generic blog post. They needed to come out swinging, hard, and IMO instead they came out with a limp wristed slap.
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This is actually a bit more reasonable - the under the hood work for Anthem is being done in-part so that they can use that foundation for DA4.
And it's not necessarily "Anthem with dragons", but it sounds like it'll have more online components than DA:I. It's more just that they're not throwing out all the work they've done in Frostbyte to make it work for a RPG and starting from scratch for a third time like they did with ME:A (work from DA:I abandoned) and Anthem (work from DA:I and ME:A abandoned).
It sounds like they're going to start work on Anthem 2.0 now. Like, now.
What the fuck have they been doing for 12 months?