The restart of the multiplayer shooter Anthem will not take place. Electronic Arts has abandoned the project that BioWare studio has been working on since 2019. Now the developers will focus on the new Dragon Age and Mass Effect, as well as updates for Star Wars: The Old Republic.

Last week, two leading producers — old-timers of the studio – left BioWare at once. One of them was working on Anthem, the other was working on the future Dragon Age 4.

The troubles with Anthem don’t end there. While BioWare is trying to fix the systems in the game, user interest in it is steadily declining. Because of this, Anthem started having problems with the selection of teams to play together.

Several new vacancies for BioWare have appeared on the Electronic Arts website. The studio needs four system designers who will debug Anthem.

BioWare CEO Casey Hudson has called the studio staff for a general meeting at which he will share his thoughts on the Kotaku investigation. Recall that on April 2, the publication published a material by Jason Schreier, dedicated to the development of Anthem. BioWare’s response to this material caused a strong reaction on the web.

The investigation of Jason Schreier about the development of Anthem has not gone unanswered by BioWare. He appeared in the studio blog 16 minutes after the publication of the material on Kotaku. BioWare’s response does not contain any theses challenging Schreier’s information. The comment was clearly prepared in advance, and the studio did not read the material itself.

Released at the end of February, Anthem became the lowest-rated game in the history of BioWare. It was raw, not ready for release and managed to annoy the players even at the demo stage. Kotaku portal spoke with 19 anonymous BioWare employees who worked directly on the game or were related to it. And they told me why it happened.

The controversial MMO shooter Anthem from BioWare in its debut month turned out to be more commercially successful than Apex Legends from Respawn Entertainment.

NPD Group analysts estimated the revenues of the American gaming market for the past February. Revenue from games in the country is growing again, despite a noticeable drop in January. But the turnover of the console segment continues to decline.

This week, Electronic Arts seems to be sitting on two chairs. Apex Legends has another victory, and Anthem has found itself in the center of a new scandal.

In the release week, Anthem soared to the very top of the UK chart, despite low sales and a barrage of criticism from players and the media. In the second week, Anthem sales fell by 71% — but even after that, the game retains its leadership in the top.

Anthem’s release sales in the UK were compared with the starting results of other famous titles. The figures clearly demonstrate how small the success of the new game from BioWare is.

On February 22, the MMO shooter Anthem went on sale. The project developed by BioWare is one of the most discussed and controversial games of February. We talk about how he was met by the press, players, and also evaluate possible sales of Anthem.

At the same time, the new BioWare game became number one in the UK chart over the past week.

During the first hour, more than 100 thousand people watched the video.

An advertising move, not devoid of originality.

Electronic Arts has committed an act that is difficult to predict from the outside. Two weeks before the launch of Anthem sales, which was supposed to be her main spring release, she released Apex Legends. Also a shooter, also about the future. We are trying to figure out why the releases of both games were so close to each other.

And he scored 1 million downloads in just one night.

Electronic Arts has published a schedule of access to Anthem, a BioWare game service. Judging by it, EA expects to accustom users to subscribe to its services.