If you want to join in and get one last taste of Anthem before the January 12 shutdown, tracking down a used physical copy is probably your best bet. Current digital owners can still redownload Anthem for the time being, but EA removed the game from digital storefronts shortly after the server shutdown was announced last summer and removed it from EA Play and Xbox Game Pass subscriptions on August 15. Though many fans have been begging EA to enable some sort of offline mode, the publisher’s announcement makes clear that “Anthem was designed to be an online-only title so once the servers go offline, the game will no longer be playable.”
The FOMO from that impending server shutdown may bring back players who haven’t given Anthem a second thought for years now. After that, maybe the gaming world at large will finally realize that we don’t know what we’ve got till it’s gone.