EA's national anthem is completely closed and will not be played next year
Blog Andrew Joseph 04 Jul , 2025 0

EA announced National anthem The server will be sunset on January 12, 2026, effectively making the game unplayable.
“Anthem is designed to be online title only, so once the server is offline, the game will no longer be playable,” he said. EA said in the update. “If you purchased the national anthem before, the game can still be downloaded from the digital library and played until January 12, 2026.”
Anthem will also be removed from the EA Play playlist on August 15, 2025, and EA said the game's sunset did not result in any layoffs from developer Bioware. The National Anthem joins more and more live service games that have been plugged into. Other high-profile games facing short shelf life include Marvel's Avengers, Battleborn and Super Bomberman R, and in an extreme case, Sony's Concord, were pulled after a disastrous two weeks.
National Anthem struggles when it launches in 2019 Andrew Wilson, CEO of EAThis is because the game tries to attract two different audiences. Despite the constant busy interest of developers BioWare, developers BioWare are still busy.
For a respected studio, the times are hard because of its last game Dragon Age: Veil, Failure to meet EA's expectations It is estimated that Less than 100 employees stayedDecline from its peak of more than 400 employees. The next game in the studio isEW entry in the Mass Effect Series,,,,, This is developed by the “core” team.