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Ways To Play Anthem refers to a series of jokes and memes about a tweet by Electronic Arts of a chart on their video game Anthem, which many found confusing and unnecessary.

Origin

On January 30th, 2019, the EA Help Twitter^[1] account tweeted the original chart. Within one week, the post received more than 430 retweets and 1,200 likes (shown below). However, the tweet was the subject of a Twitter Ratio, which denotes a controversial tweet due to the fact that it received more comments than like and retweets.
(shown below) regarding the Anthem betas and the way players can access them.

EA Help oHelp @EAHelp Want to know when you can play #AnthemGame? Here's a breakdown of when you can get your hands on it, and get more info on the Open Demo coming up this weekend bit.ly/AnthemPreLaunc WAYS TO PLAY ANTHEM DEMOACCESS ON FEBRUARY 1,2019 EARLY ACCESS(FuL GAME) ON FEBRUARY 15,2019 PLAY FIRST TRIAL (10 HOURS) ON FEBRUARY 15, 2019 FU FEBRUARY 22, 2019 GAME ON STANDARD PRE-ORDER (PC/PSA/XBOX ONE) LEGION OF DAWN PRE-ORDER (PC/PS4/XBOX ONE) EA ACCESS (XBOX ONE ORIGIN ACCESS BASIC (PC) ORIGIN ACCESS PREMIER (PC) ANTHEM

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Following the post, Users on Twitter began to criticize EA by using the format of the chart and photoshopping jokes onto the image. On January 31st, Twitterp^[2] user @Musclebust replied to the original image "Hey, i fixed it for you", showing an image where a column titled, in part, "50% of the game because we shit the bed again." The post received more than 200 likes in five days (Shown below, left).

Over the next few days, other users continued to mock the post with different photoshops that criticized the gaming company (examples below, center and right).

Hey, i fixed it for you. WAYS TO PLAY ANTHE 50% off on the came because we f------ s--- the bed once again on diotic marketing and bulshit pre-order March (sometime we dont f------ know buy the game you mindless stupid consamers) 2019 DEMOACCISS ON FEBRUARY 1,20าร EARLY ACCESS (FULL GAME) PLAY FIRST TRIAL (TO HOURS) FULL GAME ON ON FEBRUARY 15,2019 ON FEBRUARY 15,2019 FEERUARY 22,2019 STANDARD PRE-ORDER LEGION OF DAWN ORDER RIGIN ACCESS BASIC (PC) ORIGIN ACCESS PREMIER (PC) ANTHEM

Your chart should look more like this. WAYS TO PLAY WARFRAME FREE TO-PLAY PC/PSA/XBOX ONE NINTENDO SWITCH) 9 WARERME

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Others criticized the chart for being "convoluted." On January 31st, Twitter user @JimSterling retweeted the image with the caption, "This convoluted shit is beyond ridiculous. Just. Make. And. Sell. A. Fucking. Game." Within one week, the tweet received more than 2,000 retweets and 10,000 likes (shown below).

This convoluted s--- is beyond ridiculous. Just. Make. And. Sell. A. F------. Game. WAYS TO PLAY AN Help@EAHel Want to know when you can play #AnthemGame? Here's a breakdown of when you can get your hands on it, and get more info on the Open Demo coming up this weekend: bit.ly/AnthemPreLaunc... Show this thread

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^[1] Twitter – @EAHelp's Tweet

^[2] Twitter – @Musclebust's Tweet

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