We’re only one week away from Digital Arts shutting down Anthem, BioWare’s questionable 2019 looter shooter detour that didn’t take off and by no means bought the second likelihood 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 perpetually on January 12. Nonetheless, as the tip date will get nearer, some gamers who’re attempting to go take their Javelins out for one final spin have found they’re now not capable of open the sport.
We first took discover of this after seeing a couple of posts on X from customers with screenshots displaying that they had been now not capable of obtain Anthem after beforehand buying it in some unspecified time in the future over the previous seven years. The EA app as an alternative informed them they “don’t personal” the sport. I requested round and a pal who had the sport by way of the EA Play subscription tried to obtain it to his PC and was informed “this recreation is now not supplied in our catalog.”
Anthem is shutting down for good in every week, so I believed I might play yet another time.
The EA App will not even let me obtain it although I personal it. pic.twitter.com/spVNJd9six
— DansGaming (@Dansgaming) January 5, 2026
As others have additionally reported, EA will not let me obtain Anthem, although it shuts down every week from now… No “final hurrah” I assume. Loopy that I purchased the sport and may’t even obtain it whereas it is nonetheless, allegedly, alive… pic.twitter.com/cRu0s4DU1N
— Luke Stephens (@LukeStephens) January 5, 2026
Nonetheless, this doesn’t appear to be a common problem, as Kotaku’s Ethan Gach was capable of obtain with out problem from the EA Play app.
Regardless of the case could also be, it looks like at the least some Anthem gamers which will have needed to present the sport one final attempt earlier than BioWare and EA needlessly ship it tumbling down right into a digital void aren’t capable of now. The mech shooter hasn’t been obtainable for buy because the unique shut down announcement again in July, however should you had a replica of it in your library or on a disc, you had been speculated to have yet 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 may’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 reside service gambits like Redfall and Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League, each of which acquired offline modes earlier than being despatched off to pasture.
