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BioWare and EA have discontinued Anthem Next development. BioWare says it will be fully focused on developing the upcoming Dragon Age and Mass Effect games. The current version of Anthem will remain playable online.
“In the spirit of transparency, we wanted to share that we have made the difficult decision to discontinue our new development work on Anthem,” writes producer Christian Daley in a blog post. “However, we will continue to keep Anthem running as it is today.” Daley writes, among other things, that the outbreak of the new coronavirus and working from home had an impact on the productivity of BioWare developers.
Went there earlier this month rumors that publisher Electronic Arts would decide in the short term whether the revision of Anthem will be continued. BioWare announced in 2020 that thirty people are working on revamping the game, calling it a ‘lengthy process’. Bloomberg reported early February that this team was too small to realize the plans for Anthem Next. Anonymous sources involved in the overhaul stated that the team should be “at least tripled.”
BioWare states that the studio wants to focus its efforts on the following Dragon Age and Mass Effect games, while the developer also continues to update the Star Wars: The Old Republic mmo. BioWare has several times the arrival of Dragon Age 4 geteased. On May 14, the developer also releases a remaster of the original Mass Effect trilogy from. The studio will later release a new Mass Effect game, although little details are known about it.
Anthem was released in 2019 for PC, PS4 and Xbox One. The game was released upon release largely negatively received. Developing Anthem took almost seven years, according to developers, although the production phase was only started in the last 18 months. Employees of the studio reported that the game’s development was characterized by indecision, mismanagement, and technical difficulties due to the Frostbite engine’s shortcomings.
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