BioWare’s multiplayer shooter Anthem was terminated this week because EA no longer wanted to maintain servers for peopl…
BioWare’s multiplayer shooter Anthem was terminated this week because EA no longer wanted to maintain servers for people to play the game on, and without them, no one can play the game. But the former executive producer of Anthem has revealed that BioWare had technology working, close to the game’s release, that would enable us to host our own servers to play the game on.
Mark Darrah, who left BioWare in December 2020, revealed the information at the end of a three-and-a-half hour video discussing „The Truth About What Happened on Anthem“, which he posted on his YouTube channel. „Anthem actually had the code for local servers running in a dev environment right up until a few months up to launch“, he said. „I don’t know that they still work but the code is there to be salvaged and recovered.“
This in theory presents a possible lifeline and future for Anthem, and local server hosting is a crucial part of Darrah’s even bolder plan for what could be done with Anthem now. His idea? To re-release the game as single-player and remove the multiplayer component entirely.
