‘Anthem’ Is the Latest Video Game Casualty. What Should End-of-Life Care Look Like for Games?

Electronic art and Bioware Online Multiplayer game will sink the sun Anthem Effectively worn out on January 12. “Anthem Servers are designed to be an online hood when the servers go offline, the game will no longer be able to be played, “Bioware write in the announcement. On August 15, the game will disappear from the EA Play playlist.

Currently, players can not get the game currency, but the servers will be able to spend what they have until they are offline. Developers in Bioware working Anthem will not happen as a result of the end of the game. The news of the game comes as an industry, it has already passed a UpheabalFaced with increasing the formation of facial players “Life end“Plans for service games.

Anthem‘s development has lasted for almost seven years, during this period Struggled with the game basic redirection. The release of his 2019, was widely panned by critics that describe it uneven in execution, find With insectsand wearisome. When Bioware and EA originally planned Take the game overhaul After the beginning – recognition of a business The next anthem-Iware Canceled the project In 2021, with reference to Covid-19 Shift focus to other games. The live service continued to work.

Online, fans in places such as EA Official Forums You want to “Offline Mode” that allows you to play Anthem Even without servers. “It wrote a player to close a game and completely deleted the people (especially without returning back) and a dangerous precedent.” “If you have received a game you should be able to play it.” Another player “allowed to be like games Anthem Go completely disappear, sends a dangerous message: These live service games are used to invest in how much time or money players are investing. “

Video games disappear for many reasonsLicensing problems, not code loss or physical media become unloaded. The decision to end the developer AnthemServer support is a problem with a problem with a consumer moving from the European Union, which supports this practice. “The number of growing video games is sold effectively as goods – is designed to be completely silent after the expiration of the expiration, but after the end of the publisher” Reads the campaign’s website. This practice claims the organizers of the action, “it protects, protects, protects, protects and impossible for customers.”

Stop killing games will not be able to do anything to stop death Anthem. The organization relys on applications and is trying to seek the measures of government intervention in January-before. Again, the founder Ross Scott, Sunsetting is the type we are trying to prevent. ” The goal “does not happen for future games to break this cycle.”

The other parties of the games that killed Scott and stop games, destroy a lot of things like destroying each copy of a book, album or film, “cultural loss for society” Tantamount. “A lessly known environment, video games are still worthwhile to protect the full and deliberate destruction of many works.” Things they want, although they should be pulled offline, they have reserve plans to reserve the games that allow you to live in a playing format.