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MMORPG: Is your freelancer going to be customizable? There’s something else that will be announced at a later date that will be higher and seasons-based raid content. MMORPG: What are the plans for end-game content? So, when you’re on a mission together you should feel like the hero of what’s going on. We want you to always feel like the story going on is about you. Sometimes you’re playing someone else’s story. MMORPG: Which lessons from MMOs are you trying emulate and avoid?įF14 does a pretty good job at telling story but it does this hilarious and effective thing where you are the warrior of light but you have to gather friends even though you are the chosen one but it will choose different chosen ones. You’ll pick up a little just by learning about your history with members of your crew but it’s more about developing the story then jumping into a pre-existing one. You have a bit of a backstory, but you don’t have a background or origin like in dragon age. MMORPG: How does your own character feel? Are you just a generic freelancer? We have the ability to but we have chosen not to at this point. MMORPG: Will relationships with characters effect gear acquisition? No PvP at launch, with no plans for it right now. We found that players didn’t like when the group decided on choices that didn’t work with how they were trying to play their character. The ability to have voting on what choice you make - we wanted to move away from that. MMORPG: Any lessons learned from SWTOR that helped with ANTHEM? We talked about allowing that but it’s hard to keep the cohesion of My Story together so it’s not allowed at the moment. Friends can’t come forward in level and play with you, however. Damage to enemies and their damage to you scales individually for each person so grouping up with a higher-level person for your lower level content doesn’t suddenly make it completely trivial. If you finish a mission you can play the mission again with friends. MMORPG: How do you deal with playing with friends that aren’t in the same spot in the game? We don’t want to present you with false choices that eventually lead to the two decisions we wanted anyways. We are talking to a different audience with a multiplayer game. MMORPG: Are there more than two decisions in conversations? MMORPG: Will the demo be restricted to specific platform? MMORPG: What do you mean by VIP demo? (in regards to the Feb 1st demo announcement)ĮA subscribers and pre orders.