BioWare Flop ANTHEM Dies January 2026, Servers to Be Turned Off

These kind of games need banning if they aren't offline only modes or single player modes thwy are pointless

Say what you will about Kill the Justice League, but at least they added an offline mode when they knew the game had flopped.

This game will die and the $2 I paid for the disc (overpaid, but eh) will be forever lost to the ether.

I wonder if I could get GameStop to buy it…nope, isn’t even listed as a trade-in-able game anymore. Well, I have a nice EA/BioWare coaster!

“EA has announced it's taking the servers for BioWare flop ANTHEM offline on 12th January 2026“

Why wait, they might as well do it today or tomorrow 😂😂😂😂😂

Stop Killing Games!

And yes, even Anthem. Don’t wait for it to be a game you care about.

One of those things that I meant to check out at some point just out of morbid curiosity but now never will. Never did get to play Avengers either and I was hyped for years before release.

A shame this game didn’t turn out better. It had decent bones, but not enough meat.

@dskatter that's what I mean at least you can play that game offline all games should have offline modes

I'm more surprised that the servers are still on

At least EA kept supporting their game for several years despite poor response from the audience.

Hermen clearly isn’t that patient.

Hey! I've paid £2 few months back for this! Couldn't they just drop patch to keep offline mode? I've barely completed first mission. ...the heck...

@dskatter Didn't they do that for RedFall too?

My interest in this game flopped as soon as my XBL Gold sub (pre-Game Pass, heh) lapsed, and I realized I couldn't play the game without an online subscription. Too bad, rip bozo

I platted it and I enjoyed it especially being the Colossus javelin I had a special autocannon that basically never ran out of ammo and had the fastest firing rate it was crazy bat ***** wonderful to use.

Yes I would have liked for it to have had continued support and new content but I only paid £8 for the disc on PS4. Least that will become a coasta now because I won't play it again and it will be taken off my EA account after this date then suppose I best play it on that one last time before it goes. Again costs me like £2 for that on pc anyway

This sucks for the 5 people still playing it.

Better get cracking and finish my pkaythrough on the old Xbox. I knew this was coming at some point. This is the kick in the proverbial I needed.

Can you still get the Plat?

Just remake Dragon Age Origins exactly as it was BioWare please

I played it when I was on Xbox, it was the most fun I ever had with the flying mechanics, really. The game was full of potential, the whole cataclysm premise was interesting but yeah, the game suffered from a lack of content and repetitive tasks, in my humble opinion.

I just hope there’s going to be another game with similar flying mechanics in the future.

A game that could be fully playable offline is going to die because EA couldn't care less about it's customers.

It just highlights the importance of initiatives like Stop Killing Games.

What I found was particularly egregious was that it wasn't just always online, you also needed an active PS+ subscription to play anything! multiplayer sub needed just to play the campaign alone!

This is why SKG needs to succeed
Anyways, this game had the potential to be Helldivers 2 before Helldivers 2 was a thing, gameplay wise it was fine, but the plot and mechanics really pushed people away.

The OG Concord! Farewell thy Anthem! Shame they never got a chance to turn it around.

Man, the flying around and the combat in this game were really cool, shame that the rest was pretty bad.
But yeah, people dished 70€ for this thing and now they have a nice coaster.

Looks like the game has been taken off the PlayStation store, it's not listed in the PlayStation EA play list of games either.

I think... I think I'm going to replay this over the weekend!

I came to this a few years after it released and enjoyed it. There was a decent game in it, but the hub was crazy weird and it was riddled with bugs still. I played for a few hours and couldn’t regress. Shame as the idea was quite sound.

The next announcement will be Bioware is closing. EA would have shut down other studios faster but they thought Bioware could make a comeback. We will never see a new Mass Effect and that may be for the better.

All these games should be required to add an offline mode so they aren't loss to history at least in the console space.

This game keeps getting big sales on PS store which i almost buy it when i watched how cool the 'Iron Man' like suit and the flying around the map.

And yeah, i just don't understand why publishers didn't let players play offline or host a private server if they don't want to support this game anymore.

@Lavishturtle Well, at least Dragon Age: The Veilguard wasn't awful. It didn't meet EA's expectations but it didn't flop horribly either. I think there's still some hope for Bioware.

I just assumed this game was taken offline years ago.

I’m fine with killing this game.

I enjoyed it when I played back in 2019. Yes it wasn't the best game in the world, but it played great.

@ParboldCoder they should be banned because you and no one else played them so the devs shut it down?

So like The Crew, will be terminated, then a GT Sport/Suicide Squad offline state option reworking them. Even GT Sport cut the liveries/editor not just the community side, and the sportsmanship videos so those trophies are now inaccessible. Not surprising. But I was there with the wiki/ending hours of GT Sport anyway, so I got my wiki write up for the GT wiki community at least.

Even Gearbox let fans deal with Lawbreakers. So it's not like it's impossible for other solutions. Well if people want to dissect the game's key mechanics, now is the time to make your own flight model I guess. Big or niche games always have something in them worth looking at that people look for and make in their own games (well used to then as much so nowadays) of what is on the disk/final updates and archiving them. Sure altering them is up to those people that want to do that (regardless of what the agreements say) but most people don't care either for them so I guess why bother.

Will we see private servers and breaking/altering the DRM/online servers, the way others have past games and made Starhawk or others that were online only be replayable again, who knows. Anthem many don't care for so I doubt it. But some games people do have revived.

I'm waiting for NFS 2015 to be dropped too, just been waiting for EA to do it, many youtubers have gotten onto playing those games before the servers go already, or any others with server forced systems with the games.

So many games could be offered offline states for their disks/digital licenses (will the games be removed from libraries as well?) or private servers but nope, it's all company control of ONLY THEIR SERVERS are allowed and their terms of handling the products. It's so stupid.

Well, better get your videos out on the game now or else if people already have and moved on understandable.

@DaveTheRave If only, that would be great, but there was an article a while back on this. So unlike Mass Effect being Unreal Engine 2, EA said nah, too much effort from our now abandoned EA engine that I assume they stick with Frostbite instead so they don't have to pay anyone as they have their special engine to do whatever they want so no Unreal Engine payments or any others just keep it with Frostbite and whatever projects with that (unless the Indie program I assume), and dropped all their past engines and are too lazy to get someone to do anything with it.

The fact you can get some Cobalt programmers to do highly important company stuff elsewhere I forget what it was, probably some science project I think (reminded me of the IBM 510 having a special code/encryption too for some science projects too), because it's encrypted and very few know the language other then those that are old enough that have experience with it, but you can't get any people to revive Dragon Age for a remaster/remake is just sad to me.

Even Voodoo Vince had code special for the OG Xbox making it not possible on 360, but they still got that game Remastered because many people cared about it, says a lot about some people having interest, and others not. Sure Blinx 2 is still abandoned besides 360 back compat but it's still playable at least.

Even then Dragon Age sells more then Mass Effect I think I've heard, but it is what it is of what people focus on whatever they do more per region/audience or other reasoning of preference even besides sales. Probably that Dragon Age sells better in EU or other countries may be but it's not US sales like Mass Effect so EA are just lazy and focus on the US, just an assumption, I don't know for sure but I wouldn't be surprised. Focusing on the markets they want to as key and the others not so much. Or the leaders/staff just can't be bothered to outsource it/know the costs to rework it is too much so they won't bother. It's sad, but understandable why they won't even if annoying.

I absolutely loved anthem, for about 20 hours. Then it became extremely repetitive since the content was so limited.

Great mechanics, great premise, but no end game or loop to keep you hooked.

Honestly I thought they pulled the plug years ago. Shocked its still running at all.

Sounds like we can begin hoping for a remake or a remaster in FEB ‘26 😂

Literally nobody cares, if this trash would be erased from history people would applaud.

Like some others I assumed they'd shut it down a looong time ago given that they killed off post-launch updates so quickly. It's a shame, honestly, that they left it in that state. Beyond the story, extremely barebones endgame, and the false-promised features from the infamous "gameplay" reveal, the game could be really fun when the combat and traversal were allowed to shine.

In an ideal world, it would have been developed properly from the outset, but if they'd actually gone ahead with their promised revamp and put the time and resources into fixing it ala NMS and Cyberpunk, it had the same potential to actually turn into something good. But instead, it's just ended up as one of the countless mass of 'nah, cut and run' games... and hey, at least EA didn't end support for it early and then rerelease it on a new platform in its unfinished, never-to-be-finished state, looking at you Wild Hearts.

I often think about how this game's codename was Dylan. As in Bob Dylan. As in, they thought this game would have the same impact on video games that Bob Dylan had on music.

@nessisonett At least Avengers is still playable.

Anthem was a good game, I enjoyed the world and the flying mechanics were great. and 4 player co-op was great fun

It was however short and repetitive.

Missed opportunity yes trash NO

I wasn't even aware the servers were still up. I thought this game already got shut down a long time ago.

The all digital nightmare creeps ever closer.

Lol outlived by SWTOR.

@DaveTheRave There is no more dragon age bioware. Haters made sure of that.
So, dragon age origins remaster will have to get in line with all the other EA properties.
cough C&C cough

That's a shame. I played Anthem a couple of years ago and actually liked it. The flight was fun and combat/gunplay was done very well. As someone who doesn't give a damn about endgame content I had no issue with the game. In fact I am hoping to do a replay at some point - will have to bump it up the backlog as a result.

@SuntannedDuck2 @Nem it is absolutely tragic. Traditional RPG’s always sell and this is an absolute classic. It’s a potential goldmine for them. I’m praying they do it but I’m not holding out much if any hope

I'm of two minds about this. On one hand, I hate that customers/gamers are going to lose access to a game they've either paid for or invested time into. Just because Anthem flopped doesn't mean that there aren't some that actually really enjoy it.

On the other hand, I don't think that companies should be legally obligated to make games playable offline; that seems like a serious overstep.

If someone buys a game that is online only, there should be an expectation that servers may be sunset at some point. There are no guarantees for eternal access. That said, if a game does rely on online servers, it should be explicitly stated, so customers can make an informed decision.

@ParboldCoder before i was born? as if nintendo didn’t shut down the wiis online about 10 years ago, i know what it’s like to use custom servers it ain’t some old timer thing 😂