Just days after EA officially shut down Anthem’s servers on January 12th, a lone player has managed to get the game running again, sparking renewed hope for this long-forgotten shooter. Anthem, BioWare’s ambitious but ultimately troubled action RPG, never offered an offline or peer-to-peer mode, so when the servers went dark, the game was effectively consigned to digital oblivion. EA and BioWare seemed eager to move past it, quietly closing the book on a project that never quite lived up to its lofty ambitions.
But fans have refused to let Anthem die quietly. Now, thanks to some impressive technical work, at least one dedicated community member has found a way to breathe life back into the game on private servers. This grassroots effort hints at the possibility of preservation and maybe even some endurance for a game that was often criticized but clearly left a mark on its fans. The road ahead for such projects is complicated, and unauthorized servers come with their own challenges, but this development is a bright spot amid the ashes of Anthem’s untimely demise.
Source: eurogamer.net
