Anthem blev endelig vist frem endnu en gang ved årets E3, men selvom der endnu er lang tid til spillets endelige udgivelse d. 22 februar, så lader modtagelsen af spillet til at være en kende blandet, da det er ulig noget andet Bioware-spil.
Mange mener at spillet fremstår som værende en kende generisk, og at det er designet af komité. Nu er det blevet afsløret, at spillet faktisk er blevet valgt igennem en længere proces, hvor mange ideer blev behandlet af studiet.
I et interview med Game Informer (igennem WCCFTech) afslører Casey Hudson, at de gennemgik hele 20-30 ideer før de landede ved Anthem.
"We had people from all around BioWare and throughout the team pitching ideas. We did 20 or 30 different original [pitches] during the first pass. We'd all go off, and you're inspired by something [...] and you're, 'Hey, I think I know how everything should be" and you write that all out and you pitch it. It's really interesting, because [...] you get a value system around what you like and what feels right, but then you start to say, 'We liked this one part of [this pitch], but the rest of it didn't work, but we like this other thing and the two sit really nicely together.' That was the process we used to get off of the blank page."
