Anthem 2.0 “Incubation” Period Has Kicked Off, Reinventing the Game Will be a Long Process

[UPDATE]

BioWare clarified on Reddit that the Canticle two.0 incubation actually started last year rather than recently every bit the original blog mail service implied.

This is just not the case and I hold that'southward on us for not clarifying that this work has been happening for quite some time already before we even appear the news that we'd be reworking the game dorsum in February.

In reality, nosotros've been working on this since final year.

[ORIGINAL STORY] Earlier this year BioWare announced they were going dorsum to the drawing lath to completely redesign Anthem, which was welcome news, but no indication was given virtually how long this could take. Well, BioWare has released an update on their progress, and it sounds like Anthem ii.0 is notwithstanding a long way off.

According to BioWare's Christian Dailey the team tasked with revamping Anthem is just starting to incubate ideas now, and fixing the game will be a "longer process"…

The Anthem incubation team has kicked off and nosotros are starting to validate our design hypotheses. Incubation is a term we utilize internally. It means nosotros are going back and experimenting/prototyping to amend on the areas where we believe we fell short and to leverage everything that you beloved currently nigh Anthem. We are a minor team – about thirty-ish, earning our fashion forward equally we set up out to hitting our first major milestone goals. Spoiler – this is going to be a longer procedure. And yeah, the team is small just the whole bespeak of this is to take our time and become back to the drawing lath. And a small team gives us the agility a larger one can't beget.

We desire to include yous as nosotros go and be open and honest with where we are at and what the expectations are with where we are going. The reality is you volition see things that wait awesome but finish upward on the cutting room flooring or things that you might think suck that yous feel we are spending also much time on – but in the spirit of experimentation this is all OK. We actually want to provide yous all the transparency nosotros can because of your passion and involvement in Anthem. Only, with that comes seeing how the sausage is made – which is non always pretty by the way.

Sounds like Anthem 2.0 isn't coming until next year…at the earliest. At this point, you take to wonder why BioWare doesn't just throw their hands up and move on, or possibly start working on a full Anthem sequel.

Anthem is available at present on PC, Xbox One, and PS4. What do you think? Can the game exist salvaged?