EA has introduced it’ll shut down BioWare’s Anthem on January 12, 2026.
As a result of Anthem’s solely content material is on-line, this implies the sport might be unplayable after that date.
Premium in-game foreign money will cease being bought as we speak, July 3, although present balances will nonetheless be capable to be used till Anthem shuts down. The sport might be faraway from EA Play on August 15, 2025, however will nonetheless be out there for obtain if it is already in your library till it formally shuts down.
Anthem launched in February of 2019 to lukewarm critiques, together with our personal 6.5/10 which criticized the grindiness, lack of polish and selection, and a mismatched story. The sport had bought 5 million copies as of December of 2023, which fell in need of EA’s goal of 6 million copies within the first few months. Although EA continued to replace and enhance Anthem within the months that adopted its launch, in February of 2021, EA ceased lively improvement on the sport. The next month, its sport director departed the corporate.
In an FAQ, EA acknowledged that no layoffs occurred on the firm as the results of Anthem’s sundown. This may come as a reduction, on condition that EA has undergone numerous large staffing cuts in the previous few years which have left employees reeling.
In Might, EA shut down Cliffhanger Video games and canceled its in-development Black Panther sport, shedding an unknown variety of people within the course of. That very same month, it carried out necessary return-to-office for all staff.
Simply the month earlier than, EA laid off roughly 300 individuals, and nonetheless earlier this 12 months EA restructured Anthem developer BioWare, shifting some builders to different tasks and shedding others. That was all simply in 2025. Final 12 months, EA underwent a large restructuring that resulted in 670 staff laid off company-wide, and the 12 months earlier than that in 2023, 50 people had been laid off at BioWare and an unknown variety of others had been minimize at Codemasters.
As for BioWare, it is at present absolutely targeted on Mass Impact 5 after the gross sales failure of Dragon Age: The Veilguard.
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