EA Shutting Down Anthem Servers on January 12, 2026 - No Longer Playable Afterward

They should make it available to the public now. TBH the gameplay wasnt that bad at all. The endgame was dogshit though
 
Stuart360 said:
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.
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Hopefully, someone will make a hack. Someone might have already did it.
 
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xrnzaaas said:
That'll be a great fresh example for the initiative to stop killing games.
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indeed.

what we have here is essentially a coop shooter that can also be played as a single player game. yet it has a forced online component that will render it unplayable...

this game could have easily supported an offline mode, LAN based coop, or even P2P based coop with locally hosted games. there are plenty of games of similar design that do support those
 
I don't understand why most devs don't do same as Monster Hunter games does.

You can play 99% of MH's content completely offline…..ANY game that has single player content should allow you play it offline.
 
Danjin44 said:
I don't understand why most devs don't do same as Monster Hunter games does.

You can play 99% of MH's content completely offline…..ANY game that has single player content should allow you play it offline.
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If they do that, then the company's marketing and revenue management teams will go apeshit they cant sell mtx, spam emails, and blasting a giant pop up box saying their e-store has new shit to buy this week.

Offline gamers also wont see any game's online leaderboards, friends playing online, and anything else which might entice a gamer to spend more time and money to keep up with everyone else.

In a way, it's really no different than Ikea. Just about every other store you walk into you can just beeline to the dept you want, buy stuff and leave. But Ikea makes you go through a snaky layout where you got to walk through every dept in hopes you put more stuff in your basket or cart as you walk through kitchen, bedroom, art, lamps and lightbulbs etc.... They got hidden shortcut doors to bypass depts but you cant bypass everything.
 
StreetsofBeige said:
If they do that, then the company's marketing and revenue management teams will go apeshit they cant sell mtx, spam emails, and blasting a giant pop up box saying their e-store has new shit to buy this week.

Offline gamers also wont see any game's online leaderboards, friends playing online, and anything else which might entice a gamer to spend more time and money to keep up with everyone else.

In a way, it's really no different than Ikea. Just about every other store you walk into you can just beeline to the dept you want, buy stuff and leave. But Ikea makes you go through a snaky layout where you got to walk through every dept in hopes you put more stuff in your basket or cart as you walk through kitchen, bedroom, art, lamps and lightbulbs etc.... They got hidden shortcut doors to bypass depts but you cant bypass everything.
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But the thing is MH also has leaderboards and updates, Monster Hunter in a way also live service game but it also allows play it completely offline if you want......so why other devs do what MH does?
 
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R6Rider said:
They could have used the surprisingly good flight mechanics to make something fun and well...good.

Instead we got Anthem.
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That's the most frustrating thing. The core mechanics of it were so solid and it felt AMAZING to play. Shame the game structure around it was so shit.

Kinda same story with the Avengers game
 
StreetsofBeige said:
If they do that, then the company's marketing and revenue management teams will go apeshit they cant sell mtx, spam emails, and blasting a giant pop up box saying their e-store has new shit to buy this week.

Offline gamers also wont see any game's online leaderboards, friends playing online, and anything else which might entice a gamer to spend more time and money to keep up with everyone else.

In a way, it's really no different than Ikea. Just about every other store you walk into you can just beeline to the dept you want, buy stuff and leave. But Ikea makes you go through a snaky layout where you got to walk through every dept in hopes you put more stuff in your basket or cart as you walk through kitchen, bedroom, art, lamps and lightbulbs etc.... They got hidden shortcut doors to bypass depts but you cant bypass everything.
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Wow. I did not know that Ikea pulls that shit. Yeesh. Good thing I never went to one. That would drive me nuts.
 
Krathoon said:
Wow. I did not know that Ikea pulls that shit. Yeesh. Good thing I never went to one. That would drive me nuts.
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Its actually a good store if you want cheap stuff. And they got so much of each thing it never seems they run out of stock. It's the kind of store a lot of college dormers or someone living on their own for the first time shops at. I've bought my share of stuff there, but at some point you move on to better gear later in life. Most of their furniture is build-it-yourself too. Open the box, and screw it together yourself. A lot of it is crap MDF wood put together with allen keys.

But here's a typical store layout with two floors of "showrooms". Notice how you weed your way through like it's a ratmaze.

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We shouldn't be buying and supporting games like this that are online only.. People complaining about games not being on physical discs, this type of thing is much worse. So I purchase a game that at some point I can't play again? And they want to charge us more for games but I can't pay to own and play forever.. Gaming industry is cooked.
 
Justin9mm said:
We shouldn't be buying and supporting games like this that are online only.. People complaining about games not being on physical discs, this type of thing is much worse. So I purchase a game that at some point I can't play again? And they want to charge us more for games but I can't pay to own and play forever.. Gaming industry is cooked.
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This is what I'm saying. I still play anthem here and there this news got me heated because I was one of the fuckin idiots who bought it at launch. This is why I'm on pc if modern gaming is cooked atleast I have an option to go back to retro.
 
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I played it for a while back at launch. I didn't get into it. I'm not surprised but it's weird they couldn't do QoL updates and made it offline.
 
SNG32 said:
This is what I'm saying. I still play anthem here and there this news got me heated because I was one of the fuckin idiots who bought it at launch. This is why I'm on pc if modern gaming is cooked atleast I have an option to go back to retro.
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also on PC there might be a chance of a mod that makes it offline playabe... maybe if someone is especially motivated, even with local server hosting.

Apex Legends, another always online EA game, for example has a whole modded version on PC called R5 Reloaded that allows fully private server hosting, modding etc. and it's fully open source.
so even if EA ever shuts down Apex Legends, R5 Reloaded will be there to keep it alive for as long as people want.
 
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kevboard said:
also on PC there might be a chance of a mod that makes it offline playabe... maybe if someone is especially motivated, even with local server hosting.

Apex Legends, another always online EA game, for example has a whole modded version on PC called R5 Reloaded that allows fully private server hosting, modding etc. and it's fully open source.
so even if EA ever shuts down Apex Legends, R5 Reloaded will be there to keep it alive for as long as people want.
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Shit I didn't even know that. But you're right someone might mod anthem. There's been quite a bit of games that shutdown and someone in the pc game preserved it. I know Matrix online and City of heroes on PC are back up and those got shut down years ago.
 
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I'd take a piss on the servers after they're shut. What a pathetic attempt of a live service. Only Suicide Squad could compete with such a shitshow.
 
Core game mechanics and flight were good enough foundations, but everything else was bad with like 4 hours of content.

Bioware has been sucking for a while now though, and I'm past the point of caring if they survive anymore either.
 
Durin said:
Core game mechanics and flight were good enough foundations, but everything else was bad with like 4 hours of content.

Bioware has been sucking for a while now though, and I'm past the point of caring if they survive anymore either.
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Yeah. That was what I was thinking. It may be a quick game to run through.
 
People see a Reddit thread of relevant news posted 9 hours ago and don't think "...this must have a thread on NeoGAF already, right?"
 
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This is bullshit ....games being permanently shut down is my biggest fear even if I never loved Anthem, there should still be SOME kind of offline mode for players when servers get shut down!
 
Even if a game is getting its servers shut down, there should always be an offline mode that exists for paying customers and people who actually cared about the game to be able to preserve and play it for years to come.

This happened to me with Destiny 2 as well as a couple other games that I wouldve loved to have gone back to some day to play here and there, if for nothing else but for nostalgia

Whats that game that competed against Overwatch by the Borderlands devs? That game was a ton of fun even when playing solo versus the CPU, it had good gameplay and fun abilities and was challenging but it can't be played anymore even if you own the disc.

Anthem has fun core gameplay and nice visuals even if overall it was disappointing. These games getting permanently shuttered is a crushing blow to gaming. If it happens to these two games it can and will happen to more beloved games.

Will Hitman 1-3, Forza Motorsport, and GT7 be shut down sometime in the next generation? Most definitely. $70 games that are great games too will be permanently removed from our libraries and only available to PC players via molding.

This is more proof that console gamers continue to be treated like shit. I think this is disgraceful when these devs COULD offer some kind of limited offline campaign if they wanted to!
 
EA : Let's have our single player rpg studio make a multi-player live service game, what could possibly go wrong! 🫠
 
This dev and publisher are so dumb. In 2012 they made a little mode for Mass Effect 3 called Galaxy At War, the multiplayer portion. Shit was amazing, and had the bones needed to expand, and make an mmo or a live service out of it. And these dumbasses did nothing with it. Instead, they gave us Anthem, one of the shittiest third person shooters i've played in recent memory. Oh wow i can fly like Ironman, such gameplay. Fucking cringe.
 
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