On February 24, 2021, Christian Dailey, Anthem 2.0’s lead developer in terms of rebooting the game, announced it was canceled. The writing was clearly on the wall, as just two weeks prior, a report confirmed EA was meeting to decide the game’s future. The announcement came from BioWare, but both companies were involved in the decision to cancel Anthem 2.0 (or Anthem NEXT, as it was called both).