After putting a pin on short-term updates and expansions to focus on a “longer-term redesign” of the game, EA announced today that will be canceling its planned revamp of the game Anthem NEXT. But the company plans to keep Anthem’s live service running “as it exists today.”
“In the spirit of transparency and closure we wanted to share that we’ve made the difficult decision to stop our new development work on Anthem (aka Anthem NEXT),” BioWare executive producer Christian Dailey said in a recent blog post. “We will, however, continue to keep the Anthem live service running as it exists today.”
Anthem launched nearly two years ago and was met with poor reviews, with the main criticism stemming from a lack of content, subpar story, and…