We’re only one week away from Electronic Arts shutting down Anthem, BioWare’s questionable 2019 looter shooter detour that did not take off and never got the second chance the RPG studio had promised. In keeping with the preliminary announcement, followers who purchased the sport would nonetheless be capable of play it up till it lastly goes offline without end on January 12. Nevertheless, as the top date will get nearer, some gamers who’re attempting to go take their Javelins out for one final spin have found they’re not in a position to open the sport.
We first took discover of this after seeing a number of posts on X from customers with screenshots exhibiting that they had been not in a position to obtain Anthem after beforehand buying it in some unspecified time in the future over the previous seven years. The EA app as an alternative advised them they “don’t own” the sport. I requested round and a good friend who had the sport by way of the EA Play subscription tried to obtain it to his PC and was advised “this game is no longer offered in our catalog.”
Anthem is shutting down for good in per week, so I assumed I might play another time.
The EA App will not even let me obtain it though I personal it. pic.twitter.com/spVNJd9six
— DansGaming (@Dansgaming) January 5, 2026
As others have additionally reported, EA will not let me obtain Anthem, though it shuts down per week from now… No “final hurrah” I assume. Loopy that I purchased the sport and might’t even obtain it whereas it is nonetheless, allegedly, alive… pic.twitter.com/cRu0s4DU1N
— Luke Stephens (@LukeStephens) January 5, 2026
Nevertheless, this doesn’t appear to be a common concern, as Kotaku’s Ethan Gach was in a position to obtain with out concern from the EA Play app.
Regardless of the case could also be, it looks as if not less than some Anthem gamers who could have needed to provide the sport one final strive earlier than BioWare and EA needlessly send it tumbling down into a digital void aren’t in a position to now. The mech shooter hasn’t been obtainable for buy because the authentic shutdown announcement again in July, however should you had a replica of it in your library or on a disc, you had been purported to have another week to play it.
We’ve reached out to EA and BioWare for touch upon the state of affairs, and can replace this story if we hear again. This complete factor might’ve been prevented if BioWare had made Anthem accessible offline, however the studio claims it “was designed to be an online-only title.” That’s in distinction to different failed live-service gambits like Redfall and Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League, each of which acquired offline modes earlier than being despatched off to pasture.
