Anthem is heading to General Games in a month when it releases. There is little need to provide a Game Development Lead for a game that will be transitioning to GG shortly.
Benbrada will be providing the needed leadership for Anthem from this point forward. If there is robust guild functionality incorporated into Anthem later, then there may be an opportunity for it to transition to New Games where a chapter lead will be named.
To address some concerns, here is a brief overview of how forum post moderation works. I’m putting this HERE, because some concerns were brought to my attention about a flagged post in this thread. I hope this helps answer some questions
At the bottom of a post is a flag icon. Any member can click this flag, and should. This is YOUR community. If you see something concerning, flag the post. There are various choices to explain why you flagged the post. Pick the most appropriate. This often hides the post in question, as a temporary measure. This sends it up the chain to the mods and admin. An automated message is sent by the system to the poster. If the post is found to have nothing wrong, the flag is removed and the post returns. If the content requires discussion with leadership/mods/admin, it remains hidden until a resolution is obtained. If an action is taken, the poster will be notified with an explanation.
According to Heelvsbabyface there were tonnes of bugs and npc characters were uninspiring but even with those issues he really enjoyed his time in the game. I’ll check out the public demo as well and see if Anthem clicks for me.
After seeing Yong’s video I think this will be a damn good game if they can fix the bugs. I’m more interested in this game now then I was. I won’t be preordering it though I’ll get it after it launches. I may wait a month or two as finances allow.
After playing this weekend I am going to be cancelling my preorder. I was going to wait awhile for Division 2 but think its going to be getting my money now. I will probably wait on cancelling to see if they give us a different build for this Open Broken Beta next weekend. If as I suspect nothing is different I will be cancelling the preorder. Seriously disappointed in them trying to pass this off as a Demo.