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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jester David" data-source="post: 7568082" data-attributes="member: 37579">Please.... as if Metacritic user scores mean ANYTHING in instances like this.307 negative reviews and I'd bet dollars to donuts that 95% of those are by people like you who did not play the game and have no interest in the game and are entirely motivated by the delusion that if they attack Anthem it will cause EA to rethink it's behaviour. The hilariously false idea that EA will suddenly change how it operates because they have to close another studio. Or because the game isn't exactly what they want and that automatically makes it a bad game. The standard wrongbadfun B.S. we don't need.Seriously. There are over 200 reviews of 2 or lower, and all posted in LESS than 48-hours of release. Yeah... they didn't actually play the game. They're not actually reviewing the game, they're reviewing the idea of the game. The hate over Anthem is ridiculous. I'd never seen anyone say anything remotely positive about Destiny 2. Every news article was about how it was failing or not as good as the first or hemorrhaging players. And then Anthem's release neared and everyone suddenly started tripping over themselves to praise Destiny 2 and talk about how we didn't need another game like it on the market. Because apparently there's no room for more than one "loot shooter" game. Meanwhile, Apex Legends dropped and despite there being a half-dozen other online team battlefield games, everyone jumped on that bandwagon. Stuff like this isn't bringing down EA. It's bringing down Metacritic. It's making reviews aggregates less useful and reliable a platform. It isn't helping anyone. Plus, EA cares about sales, not Metacritic. So, realistically, how is Anthem doing? Well, it's #14 and #16 in Amazon's XBox chart and #4 and #14 on the PS4 chart (with #1 in both not being a real game), and the #1 on the PC game chart. Meanwhile, on Twitch, 22k viewers are watching people Stream the game, making it currently the #16 game. Anthem is doing fine. It's doing very, very well. Also... the aforementioned Apex Legends is also an EA game. It's currently the #3 game on Twitch. And that's also published by EA and is 110% about the Loot Crates. So even in the highly unlikely situation where Anthem nosedives in popularity and sales in the next week, and EA burns BioWare to the ground, EA is still going to walkout of Q1 2019 with bags and bags of money. And the lesson they'd take away is PvP shooters rather than PvE and more Loot Crates (as Anthem didn't have any). If we do lose BioWare because of so-called "fans" like you who don't really care about the games and just care about some petty vendetta against a publisher, it won't hurt EA. It will mean the loss of hundreds of jobs here in my hometown and the end of the DragonAge franchise before the forthcoming DA4 can drop.</blockquote>

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