EA has introduced it is going to 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 will probably be unplayable after that date.
Premium in-game foreign money will cease being offered immediately, July 3, although current balances will nonetheless have the ability to be used till Anthem shuts down. The sport will probably be faraway from EA Play on August 15, 2025, however will nonetheless be accessible for obtain if it is already in your library till it formally shuts down.
Anthem launched in February of 2019 to lukewarm evaluations, together with our personal 6.5/10 which criticized the grindiness, lack of polish and selection, and a mismatched story. The sport had offered 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 said that no layoffs occurred on the firm as the results of Anthem’s sundown. This can come as a reduction, provided that EA has undergone a lot of large staffing cuts in the previous couple of years which have left employees reeling.
In Could, 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 folks, 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 an enormous 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 the moment absolutely centered on Mass Impact 5 after the gross sales failure of Dragon Age: The Veilguard.
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