In brief: The promised major overhaul of Canticle has been officially cancelled a year later by BioWare. Nosotros may never know exactly why EA decided to pull the plug, but this will free up the developer team to work on the next Mass Effect and Dragon Historic period titles.

We had already heard that EA would before long determine the future of its overhyped and non-so-successful third-person shooter/RPG. Many Canticle fans held hopes of a No Man'south Sky-style overhaul, but while that was previously the plan, it looks like it just wasn't meant to be.

When Anthem arrived ii years ago, it was riddled with technical issues and didn't manage to alive up to the hype EA had created around it. Still, some players gave it a adventure, hoping that all of the issues would gradually be solved through continuous patches and content updates. For once, it wasn't EA's error that development on a game it published went so incorrect. While BioWare best-selling the problem, its subsequent hope that it would magically solve everything by going back to the cartoon board turned out to exist all smoke and mirrors.

The studio has now officially stopped evolution on Anthem Next, which will undoubtedly get out some fans more unsatisfied. Executive producer Christian Dailey explained that 2022 was a hard year and working from home has had an bear upon on the productivity of the squad. This made it unfeasible for the undersized team of 30 developers to work on a complete remaster of Anthem while also maintaining the current game.

BioWare volition proceed Anthem servers alive for the foreseeable future, even if it means players will have to accept information technology as-is, warts and all. Dailey says that moving forward, the studio will be "laser-focused" on delivering the next Dragon Historic period and Mass Effect titles -- including the remastered Legendary Edition -- also as pushing "quality updates" for Star Wars: The Old Commonwealth.

Overall, it looks similar BioWare is still again scrapping development on a game that it failed to launch in good shape, which is becoming a worrying trend. Let's promise the studio can redeem itself with its next release.