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.
