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Or is it just one of Phil's balls in my throat?
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EA Shutting Down Anthem Servers on January 12, 2026 - No Longer Playable Afterward
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RetroGamingUK
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Always good to see another GaaS crash and burn
Mr Moose
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7 years?
Punished Miku
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I might give it a shot. Never did.
No offline mode is why I never once bought it even when it was $3. I think it's still on GP.
No offline mode is why I never once bought it even when it was $3. I think it's still on GP.
graywolf323
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frankly there's no good reason for them to not patch in an offline mode, what does it really need online for at this point anyway?
adamsapple
Or is it just one of Phil's balls in my throat?
Yeah, the game is still a looker. The flight mechanics are also fun.
Losing it permanently would be a shame.
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Thick Thighs Save Lives
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Wish they'd patch in an offline mode... since even though it's a really flawed game, I did enjoy messing around in it.
Nydius
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Genuinely surprised they let it linger this long.
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Yeah there is. It would be a monumental waste of money to pay developers to patch the game to support single player when the game has been dead for years and regularly was on sale for under $5. They might as well take a pile of money and burn it, it would give them the same return on investment.
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Yeah there is. It would be a monumental waste of money to pay developers to patch the game to support single player when the game has been dead for years and regularly was on sale for under $5. They might as well take a pile of money and burn it, it would give them the same return on investment.
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graywolf323
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not a good reason from a consumer perspective, and not like they haven't had YEARS to plan for this, and this sorta thing is really starting to piss people off
hopefully Stop Killing Games eventually gets the EU to pass a law that makes it so companies can't pull this BS
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Magic Carpet
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I spent more time downloading the game than actually playing it.
wafflecioccy
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I remember being amazed at the graphics when it was first revealed, only to find out it was a boring game ://
Connificent
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Its a hard knock life
DonkeyPunchJr
World’s Biggest Weeb
WTF I didn't know it was still alive.
What a pile of shit, one of my great gaming disappointments.
Remember when they were going to fix/reboot it as Anthem 2.0, but they canceled it because so many important people left the company?
What a pile of shit, one of my great gaming disappointments.
Remember when they were going to fix/reboot it as Anthem 2.0, but they canceled it because so many important people left the company?
Nydius
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Consumers knew they were buying an always online game that would eventually be shut down one day. BioWare and EA were very upfront about what Anthem was.
Consumers don't get to complain now when the eventuality they knew existed comes to pass.
Hudo
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I think EA Motive are still working on that Iron Man game. So if they aren't completely retarded, they hopefully recycled that part of Anthem (if they use Frostbite as their engine)
NuclearDiarrhea
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Worst gaming news i've heard so far this week.
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Ar¢tos
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I guess...
Demon's Souls ps3 can still be played online with a private server, all you need to do is use a specific dns, so I guess the same could be done for Anthem, but I doubt anyone would go through the trouble of doing it.
StreetsofBeige
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This game got bad reviews and all, but last time I saw an article years ago it actually sold 5M copies at the time. By now with some bargain binning maybe it hit 6M.
Not a total disaster at all in terms of new IP sales. Too bad the game got grilled so chances of a sequel would be dead in the water.
But with so many sales it at least sparked gamer interest. So it shows the concept was actually pretty good. Just bad execution.
Not a total disaster at all in terms of new IP sales. Too bad the game got grilled so chances of a sequel would be dead in the water.
But with so many sales it at least sparked gamer interest. So it shows the concept was actually pretty good. Just bad execution.
bender
What time is it?
DirtInUrEye
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Best human flight mechanics in any game ever. RIP.
Fuck those scumbags at EA.
Fuck those scumbags at EA.
Kenneth Haight
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March Climber
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Looks like it's time for me to finally play it.
do you work for ea??????????????????????????????????????
Danny Dudekisser
I paid good money for this Dynex!
I'm genuinely surprised that it's still live. That's amusing, I guess.
It's kind of hard to frame this as an example of why always online games or games without some sort of private server support are stupid... I mean, the game's dead, so that sucks. But it's also shit, so... who cares? As a principle, I'm not a fan.
It's kind of hard to frame this as an example of why always online games or games without some sort of private server support are stupid... I mean, the game's dead, so that sucks. But it's also shit, so... who cares? As a principle, I'm not a fan.
Stuart360
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Funny thing is you can play through the whole campaign missions single player, so really there is no reason why they couldnt patch the game so you can play the campaign offline.
Obviously they dont want to spend the small amount of time and money it wold take to make that patch.
Fuck EA.
Obviously they dont want to spend the small amount of time and money it wold take to make that patch.
Fuck EA.
Azure Crystal Gaming
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DonkeyPunchJr
World’s Biggest Weeb
This is the most anybody has given a shit about playing Anthem in 6 years.