It's now been a week since Anthem's demise, but it suddenly seems a whole lot more likely that fans might be able to get BioWare's looter shooter up and running again themselves, even if EA pulled the plug on its servers. Previously, Anthem executive producer and Dragon Age veteran Mark Darrah explained that "Anthem actually had the code for local servers running in a dev environment right up until a few months before launch," and while he's not sure if they'd still work, "the code is there to be salvaged and recovered." As he explained at the time, this would mean the game wouldn't have to rely on dedicated servers, but rather "let the server run on one of the machines that's playing the game." In combination with that, had BioWare been able to add AI party members, Anthem could have feasibly been playable in a single-player format, but alas, that was never to be. Stop Killing Games says Anthem's scrapped plans for local servers is what the initiative is all about A week before BioWare's worst game meets its final end, Anthem players gather to mourn what might have been Dragon Age veteran says scrapped Anthem Next "could have been" up there with No Man's Sky's legendary turnaround Don't expect the return of Anthem to come from And799 specifically, though, or any time soon, as they note in the video description that "this is just a POC from my research and experiment and does NOT represent the current progress of the private server/revival project that is currently in progress." They also note: "Seems like the majority of the player data are handled through bioware's server instead of blaze and it is required for the game to be able to load offline." They don't explain exactly what revival project they're referring to here, but looking around online, there's been chatter within the remaining Anthem fanbase across Reddit and Discord from folks hoping to bring the game back, including from one server (known as The Fort's Forge) which they're part of. While it doesn't look like enormous progress has been made at the time of writing, it's obviously very early days, and fingers crossed And799's findings are indicative of the fact that there's real hope of folks actually pulling this off. Dragon Age veteran defends studio's attempt to make something different with Anthem: "BioWare's always been changing."