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[Draugoth]

The players' disinterest in Anthem is so great that the title is practically worthless nowadays, as evidenced by a recent promotion made by the American store chain GameStop. The store was selling each physical copy of the game for just 1 US cent. This is basically change money. The game was so cheap, one user even bought 37 copies of the game and paid less than 50 cents for everything.

I was visiting GameStop last Saturday and found out they were selling the game for just a penny. After including the fees, I got all of these for less than 50 cents. I don't know how long this promotion will last.

According to one who has worked at GameStop, the store's policy of selling a game for just 1 cent happens when all sales attempts have failed, with the 1 cent promotion being the last chance before games are dropped.

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[JimmyF]

They'd have to pay me to play it

 

[StateofMajora]

I mean you literally can't do anything with it without online right? They will shut servers down soon if they haven't already

 

[Danjin44]

 

[Werewolf Jones]

Wish this game got ARR'd. EA savage for this one

 

[Pejo]

They'd have to pay me to play it

Get your NFT sales pitch out of here. I'm on to you...

 

[Lupin3]

So he paid them to take out the trash for them?

 

[ManaByte]

Yes, but that would mean you have to give GameStop money.

 

[R6Rider]

Might be worth it for the extra cases actually.

 

[OmegaSupreme]

No thanks. I'm not a garbage dump

 

[Shifty]

Buy low, sell... Not at all because nobody wants them.

Man's got good business sense.

 

[MrTroubleMaker]

lol, but the poor game store

 

[Slicker than your average]

He could throw the disks off a bridge and see how far they fly. That would be more fun than playing anthem

 

[MrA]

Might be worth it for the extra cases actually.

Checked oem ps4 cases sells for about 3 to 4 dollars each so not actually that bad

 

[saintjules]

They'd have to pay me to play it

I'll pay you $0.01.

 

[Jaybe]

 

[Spaceman292]

But you still need to sign up for three different fucking things before you can actually play it. I tried starting it up recently and I'm totally locked out of my account. The game is literally worthless.

 

[Barakov]

Should've saved his pennies.

 

[CrustyBritches]

He could throw the disks off a bridge and see how far they fly. That would be more fun than playing anthem

Put them in the microwave.

 

[Fake]

Still expensive

 

[Captain Toad]

I'll wait for it to be half that price.

 

[SoloKingRobert]

Buy low, sell... Not at all because nobody wants them.

Man's got good business sense.

They're worth less than £5 when selling on eBay or Amazon. Basically he'll only make couple of dollars, including ashipping and online store fees.

 

[Antwix]

actually an incredible deal if you're into used game purchases. buy a used game with a messed up case off ebay/gamestop/etc? easy to switch the artwork to the new case.

 

[TheMan]

This one still pains me. There was potential there goddamnit. Then they cockteased us with the promise of 2.0 before squashing. Now we’ll never have our modern exosquad game

 

[AJUMP23]

A better game.

 

[nush]

Might be worth it for the extra cases actually.

A rare case of something being worth less than the sum of it's parts.

 

[iHaunter]

Does this game have VRR?

 

[worldwithpyramids]

BioWare's fall after the Mass Effect trilogy must be steepest and quickest ever in gaming. Tragic.

 

[tylrdiablos]

I honestly thought they'd already shut the servers down.

 

[ClanOfNone]

This one still pains me. There was potential there goddamnit. Then they cockteased us with the promise of 2.0 before squashing. Now we’ll never have our modern exosquad game

My thoughts as well. The bones of a great game are there, dev just couldn't close the deal.

 

[Jaybe]

Does GameStop still try to sell the unsuspecting a warranty for Anthem?

 

[Stuart360]

I was checking Origin the other day, and i have 86 hours in Anthem.
Imo its not a bad game at all, and you can have a lot of fun with it. It would be stupid not to pick this up at basically 'free'.
I'm even going to start a new playthrough soon lol.

 

[Fbh]

Well hey, the internet is full of ideas of DIY projects you can undertake with 50 cents worth of Antham...all of which are probably still more fun than playing the game

 

[Magic Carpet]

Just think of all the electricity used in downloading it. Spinning up the DVD uses some power as well.

 

[StateofMajora]

Called my local GameStop and asked, and the manager is a dick and he said if they had any they wouldn't sell them they would trash them.

When I worked for Walmart my boss was like that, the system would mark em down to 3 cents and they'd want me to pull them, but I always hid them and bought them all at self check out haha

 

[kapshin]

How much for pro members?

 

[TexMex]

How much for pro members?

A surcharge hopefully.

 

[chromhound]

Just resell the case for a profit

 

[Boneless]

The store was selling each physical copy of the game for just 1 US cent. This is basically change money. The game was so cheap, one user even bought 37 copies of the game and paid less than 50 cents for everything.

That's some quick maths innit.

 

[teezzy]

Anthem always looked fun to me tbh

Why did people hate it?

 

[Aenima]

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Put the disk and cover in the trash and thats a good amount of spare PS4 boxes for 50 cents.

 

[ANDS]

Online only game that the publisher has said development wise the game is dead is now selling for nothing because people don't play dead games. Shocking.

Anthem always looked fun to me tbh

Why did people hate it?

The endgame was pretty meh, but the actual mech combat was pretty good. It was a live-service game though and had no bones about that. The servers also weren't fantastic but you could see what they were going for with the game (basically, what if everyone was IRON MAN) and if the suits weren't getting in the way of BIOWARE I think they could have actually pulled it off.

 

[treemk]

I think EA should have put more effort into trying to salvage this, even if it meant handing it to another studio. Bioware half assed tried to fix it and then they shut it down, never trust EA or Bioware with a "live service" game again. The foundation was solid, it just needed some refinements and more content.

 

[hemo memo]

They’ll shut down servers and soon you’ll end up with a useless disc.

 

[MidGenRefresh]

Good deal if you're looking for fresh replacement cases.

 

[Portugeezer]

Is it still Christmas in Anthem?

 

[royox]

I'm one of the idiots that bought it day 1 on PC for 60 bucks. My fucking god.

 

[Fuz]

I'd buy that for a penny.

 

[Deerock71]

The players' disinterest in Anthem is so great that the title is practically worthless nowadays, as evidenced by a recent promotion made by the American store chain GameStop. The store was selling each physical copy of the game for just 1 US cent. This is basically change money. The game was so cheap, one user even bought 37 copies of the game and paid less than 50 cents for everything.



According to one who has worked at GameStop, the store's policy of selling a game for just 1 cent happens when all sales attempts have failed, with the 1 cent promotion being the last chance before games are dropped.

Anthem, BioWare's Doomed Loot Shooter, Now A Penny At GameStop

BioWare's ill-fated attempt to cash in on the loot shooter craze reaches a new low

kotaku.com

Chump wasted a perfectly good 37 cents.

 

[Rush2112]

one penny or not, game definitely had potential that EA ignored because it didnt instantly become a money maker for their casino.