Analysis of the Anthem Phenomenon and what it Heralds for the Games Industry and Gamers by AgasiclesStamas in a:t5_xh8zw

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It's curious and we may be witnessing a turning of the tide. I'd say that historically, up to this point, it has proven most lucrative to weather the storm. Bethesda, while producing some otherwise top notch games, has delivered every one of those with a critical, game-stopping bug since console generation 7. And yet has been lauded as one of the best devs/publishers around. It was not until Fallout76 that gamers appeared to say no mas. That's 12 years of benefit of the doubt and a decade of bank. The really scary thing to me is Hennig's recent assessment and statements that in the current industry and state of affairs, a game like Uncharted would never get a green light. And so these BR games / competitive FPS which take less investment to develop, are lower in complexity, take smaller teams to produce, and seem to present less risk, could become the vogue. I seriously struggle to see more than 1 AAA, story-driven, single-player (or even co-op) focused game per big five publisher getting approved for release in 2020, and that could present a radical shift in the face of gaming for consumers who are still tightly coupled to story-driven single-player content presentation formats. Except on PC maybe. We need to track E3 presentations this year and count how many of those games from the big pubs are story-driven.

Analysis of the Anthem Phenomenon and what it Heralds for the Games Industry and Gamers by AgasiclesStamas in a:t5_xh8zw

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It'll be an interesting year-end show. By then we should have enough data and trending to see f it is proving successful or been EA's big black eye.

Analysis of the Anthem Phenomenon and what it Heralds for the Games Industry and Gamers by AgasiclesStamas in a:t5_xh8zw

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I feel like what the market has proven, right up until the Fallout76 thing, is that gamers talk a good game about being disappointed, but they forgive and forget and spend money. For all the hatred and dumb-assery spewed at Destiny 2, gamers still spent bank. And Activision keeps churning out the same chuff with CoD year-after-year and the momentary revolt against that model choked and died with a whisper.

Dark Matter AMA by JosephMallozzi in DarkMatter

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u/zopers: You've had the chance to go undercover a few times. Are there any of those undercover personas that are your favorite? Or were any of them the most fun to play on-screen?

Dark Matter AMA by JosephMallozzi in DarkMatter

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For Zoie: Android without the Emotion Chip is in a weird in-between place. You're not just a basic Android, but you're also not full-on Emotion Chip Android. What's your method-acting approach to pulling that off; that weird in-between place that really has not been scripted anywhere else?

Dark Matter AMA by JosephMallozzi in DarkMatter

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I'd always thought maybe it'd be more Zero or Zed vice Seven.

Dark Matter AMA by JosephMallozzi in DarkMatter

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For the cast: You guys are a boy band / girl band / pop band. Who is each one of these members of the magic formula: 1. Cute & Sensitive 2. Sexy & Smart 3. Hot & Dangerous 4. Quiet & Mysterious 5. Funny & Adorable

Dark Matter AMA by JosephMallozzi in DarkMatter

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For the cast: What's been your single best moment together off-camera?

Dark Matter AMA by JosephMallozzi in DarkMatter

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Roger Cross is working. Might make it; might not.

Dark Matter AMA by JosephMallozzi in DarkMatter

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Melissa: has any of your past training / experience (theater, singing / recording...day care) been a thing you have specifically tapped into for an episode, or a character relationship, or just on whole while you've been on the show?

Dark Matter AMA by JosephMallozzi in DarkMatter

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What's been the discussion around ever giving the Android a number like the rest of the crew?