[STEAM] BioWare’s Anthem will soon be completely unplayable

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We'll admit that we weren't paying enough attention to the state of Anthem—BioWare's troubled 2019 jetpack-powered open-world shooter—to notice

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that it was planning to shut down the game's servers. But with that planned server shutdown now just a week away, we thought it was worth alerting you readers to your final opportunity to play one of BioWare's most ambitious failures.

Anthem was

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at

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in a demo that was

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to paper over major issues with the game's early development. Anthem’s early 2019 release was met with

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(including

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), followed about a year later by a

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that a "longer-term redesign" and "substantial reinvention" of the overall game experience were coming. Hudson

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, though, and a few months later that planned Anthem overhaul

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.

But while active development on Anthem has been dormant for years, the game's servers have remained up and running in the interim. And though the game didn't exactly explode in popularity during that ******* of benign neglect,

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suggest a few hundred to a few thousand players have been jetpacking around the game's world daily. The game also still sees

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Subreddit posts, including some

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, a la

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. And there are still

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sharing the game while they still can, including one racing to obtain all of the in-game Achievements after

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