EA to close national anthem in January
Blog Andrew Joseph 03 Jul , 2025 0
EA announces it will close BioWare National anthem January 12, 2026.
Since Anthem's only content is online, this means that the game will not be played after the game.
Premium in-game currency will be out of sale today, although the existing balance will still be available until the game is closed. The game will be removed from EA's storefront on August 15, 2025, but it can still be downloaded if it is already in your library until it is officially closed.
Anthem launched lukewarm reviews in February 2019, Including our own 6.5/10 This criticizes the ordeal, the lack of Polish and diversity, and a mismatched story. As of December 2023, the game has sold 5 million copies, and the copy’s initial months is less than EA’s 6 million goals. Although EA continues to update and improve the national anthem in the months following its February 2021 launch, EA stopped positive development in the game. The second month, Its game director left the company.
EA said in its FAQ that the company did not lay off employees due to the sunset of the national anthem. This will be a relief given that EA has experienced many large-scale layoffs over the past few years.
In May, EA closed the Cliffhanger game and canceled its developing Black Panther game, A person with unknown staff was laid off in the process. In the same month, it implemented Mandatory return of all workers.
Just one month ago, EA About 300 layoffsand EA reorganized the national anthem developer BioWare earlier this year, Move some developers to other projects and Liberate others. Just in 2025. Last year, EA underwent a large-scale restructuring, which led to 670 workers Company-wide, and the first year of 2023 50 people fired in Bioware And one Other unknown numbers are cut in Codemasters.
As for Bioware, for the moment, it is completely focused on mass effect 5 after Dragon Age (The Veilguard).
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