Anthem Demo Issues [Jan 25, 2019, 6:36 pm ET] – Share – Viewing Comments
VG247 reports on the issues many players are experiencing trying to access
the VIP demo for Anthem, BioWare's upcoming mech action/RPG. EA Help
offers this
tweet and
this one to explain what they're doing about it:
We're adding more server capacity to the #Anthem demo right now. Hang tight while we work to get everyone into the game.
We're looking into the infinite loading issue with the #AnthemGame demo. In the meantime, try relaunching the game and rejoining your mission to see if that helps you.
Creston wrote on Jan 26, 2019, 00:59:
Publishers...
This demo was for pre-orders and Origin Premiere members. As in, you literally knew down to the SINGLE DIGIT how many people could be logging in. And still it's the "WE HAD NO IDEA DEMAND WOULD BE THIS HIGH! WE'RE ADDING SERVERS RIGHT NOW!" bullshit.
Stop fucking lying and admit you're just cheap pieces of shit, EA.
Ideally, publishers want 50 million people to buy their game while they put up exactly one server, and then everyone just queues to play for 3000 hours, while being served ads. (Some EA shitheel just read this comment and jizzed all over himself at the mere thought.)
Actually, for every one of those people, they EACH got 3x giveaway VIP codes to give to friends. And they would have no idea how many of those would get used until the game went live. So a 300% spread on total server capacity, plus the usual headaches of everyone trying to log in at once, when normally it's spread out a bit more through the day.
Still an awful experience, and a terrible first impression. But they didn't know %100 exactly how many people would log in. Also, if you pre-ordered the game, maybe you honestly didn't give a shit about some gimped demo that wasn't using the final code of the game? I have friends that don't touch betas for that reason. If they know they wanna play it, they'll wait till it's done. Same reason they don't touch early access titles until they're finished.
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