Anthem - Now in Alpha

@TechQuila Anthem has now officially gone to Alpha.

BioWare GM Casey Hudson yesterday confirmed that BioWare’s upcoming MMORPG Anthem has passed into alpha stage. This means that the game is fully playable now and only bug-fixing and testing is left.

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Alpha 5 months before release date? LOL! I didn't have much faith on it bit I lost it all ….

Originally Posted by Reiga
Alpha 5 months before release date? LOL! I didn't have much faith on it bit I lost it all ….

That's actually better than all their other games, they usually reach alpha about 3 months before release.

An alpha at BioWare is a content complete game, what follow are basically release candidates.

By the usual definition, "alpha" is something that isn't feature-complete. If it was indeed complete, it'd be called a beta.

That said, it's certainly possible BioWare has invented its own definitions for the terms, and doesn't care about normal software development conventions.

They aren't the only ones who use it that way in the gaming world. CDProjekt does too. Last August, a dev said Cyberpunk was in pre-alpha because it wasn't content-complete, mentioning missing final art assets, despite being playable from start to finish.

Where I work we don't use pre-alpha or alpha (we make custom softwares). We just have milestones and release candidates. Beta is used for milestones or RC that were not tested that were given to clients to try early to remind them they will have bugs.

Still waiting for the next Mass Effect or Dragon Age game instead of this.

My only worry is this.

Don't worry, I'm sure they'll pull a TOR and just make it a silly MMO instead. Then defend it on twitter with something along the lines of "but guys! This is like giving you Mass Effect 5, 6, 7, and 8!"

"And this is what you wanted, but you didn't know you wanted it, but you are lucky we are here to tell you what you want."

Originally Posted by azarhal
That's actually better than all their other games, they usually reach alpha about 3 months before release.

An alpha at BioWare is a content complete game, what follow are basically release candidates.

They should have to be on beta, beta for games is when all features are in the game and you focus on bugs and only bugs, and we know games have lots of them, a several months work.

Originally Posted by azarhal
They aren't the only ones who use it that way in the gaming world. CDProjekt does too. Last August, a dev said Cyberpunk was in pre-alpha because it wasn't content-complete, mentioning missing final art assets, despite being playable from start to finish.

In gaming terms, my concept of an alpha is that it is essentially content and systems complete, but a very unpolished first draft. It does often seem to be used to describe anything from an early tech demo onwards, though.

W-eee-ll, we'll see how this turns out. Not much hype I'm reading on this, but it's hard to tell, most forums are SP oriented.
Wait they're calling it MMORPG? Is that from Bioware?

Originally Posted by BoboTheMighty
Wait they're calling it MMORPG? Is that from Bioware?

No, it's the author of the TechQuila's article that says it is a MMORPG, BioWare never called Anthem that.