EA Announces Plan To Sunset Anthem

Electronic Arts has announced its plans for sunsetting the sci-fi looter-shooter Anthem. According to the announcement, the BioWare game will go offline on January 12th, 2026, and as of today, will no longer allow purchases of in-game premium currency. Remaining balances can still be used until the servers go offline. The game will also be removed from the EA Play playlist on August 15th, 2025.
This update makes an already weird week for EA even weirder. Before this sudden announcement, EA had made headlines on July 2nd due to a report from Ars Technica. The lengthy deep dive focuses on the publisher’s next entry in the Battlefield franchise, codenamed Glacier, from their Swedish-based studio DICE. It discusses EA’s approach to the upcoming game, the franchise’s larger position in the games space, production issues, and more, alongside several firsthand accounts from former and current employees.
One of the more striking elements of the lengthy piece was the target set by EA’s executive leadership: 100 million players over a set period. To call this ambitious may be the understatement of the decade. As one EA employee is quoted in the report, “Obviously, Battlefield has never achieved those numbers before.” Another employee goes on to point out that even the most successful Battlefield entry numbers-wise, 2016’s Battlefield 1, reached “maybe 30 million plus.”