EA has introduced that Anthem servers might be sundown on January 12, 2026, successfully making the sport unplayable.
“Anthem was designed to be an online-only title so as soon as the servers go offline, the sport will not be playable,” EA said in an update. “Should you beforehand bought Anthem, the sport can nonetheless be downloaded from a digital library and performed till January 12, 2026.”
Anthem may also be faraway from the EA Play playlist on August 15, 2025, and EA says that the sunsetting of the sport has not led to any layoffs at developer BioWare. Anthem joins a rising variety of live-service video games which have had the plug pulled on them. Different high-profile video games that confronted a brief shelf-life included Marvel’s Avengers, Battleborn, and Tremendous Bomberman R, and in an excessive instance, Sony’s Harmony, which was pulled after a disastrous two weeks.
Anthem struggled at launch again in 2019, and based on EA CEO Andrew Wilson, it was as a result of the sport tried to enchantment to 2 completely different audiences. Regardless of its middling reception and dwindling participant numbers, developer BioWare has stored busy since curiosity on Anthem died out.
Instances are powerful for the revered studio as its final recreation, Dragon Age: The Veilguard, failed to satisfy EA’s expectations and it is estimated that fewer than 100 workers members are left, down from its peak of over 400 workers. The studio’s subsequent recreation is a brand new entry within the Mass Impact collection, which is being developed by a “core” workforce.