Ultimately, “Anthem” could not find a player base. Not only did people not want to spend money on the many microtransactions, which EA relies upon and is the entire reason the company has been pushing live service, but people didn't want to buy or play the game at all [1].

We will be continuously supporting Anthem with new content, features, and quality-of-life fixes. Those will be delivered through a series of updates called “Acts”, which advance Anthem's storylines through new locations, gameplay features, character interactions, and more.

Exploring The Anthem of Creation Central to the game's story is the ancient machinery left behind by the “gods” who have forsaken this world. Those mysterious gods are known as the Shapers, and their relics are the primary force of change and even violence in Anthem's open-world environments.

Really bad development with little direction or instruction, being made by a team that specialized in single player games and being run on an engine that wasn't designed for this type of game, along with a massive over-hype prelaunch make for an incredibly buggy game with massive server issues, serious problems with ...

Sure, the game looked gorgeous, but a lack of meaningful content, an underwhelming gameplay loop and egregious microtransaction doomed the game to fail from the get-go.

A lack of content, the use of Frostbite, a specific lack of endgame content, a real lack of live-service material, a second-rate story, bad loot, general clunkiness, bad communication on content, and more all contributed to its downfall.

Anthem is an online multiplayer action role-playing video game developed by BioWare and published by Electronic Arts.

8.17M. Anthem is estimated to have 8,173,813 total players or subscribers.

Anthem is derived from the Greek ἀντίφωνα (antíphōna) via Old English antefn. Both words originally referred to antiphons, a call-and-response style of singing. The adjectival form is "anthemic".

There are many factions each with their own goals. And agendas and completing quests from their agents will only reputation. With those factions which will in turn let you access rewards.

Despite some positive sales achievements, the game failed to meet commercial expectations. Although BioWare announced in February 2020 that they would be reinventing the core gameplay of Anthem as part of a long-term plan, all future development was ceased in February 2021.

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“Anthem” holds no such sway, not with EA, BioWare, or the looter shooter playerbase it hoped to steal away from Bungie's “Destiny” games. The game failed to hit the expect 6 million sales mark by March 2019, and the company reported not making enough money from its microtransactions.

BioWare announced on February 24, 2021, that they were discontinuing any future work on Anthem, though will continue to support the live servers for the immediate future, while the developers on the game would be transitioned to Mass Effect and Dragon Age titles.

On June 28, 2022, Anthem announced a change of its corporate name to Elevance Health, Inc. and also changed its stock ticker symbol from "ANTM" to "ELV".

online multiplayer action role-playing video game Anthem is an online multiplayer action role-playing video game developed by BioWare and published by Electronic Arts.