EA Retires 12 Servers in January

Wed, 2 Jan 2013, 9:12 am
by Jenni van der Merwe, Do Gaming Journalist
Tags: EA, Fifa Manager 11, FIFA 11, Madden NFL 11, NBA JAM, NBA LIVE 10, NCAA Football 11, NHL 11, The Sims 2, Trenches II

EA has announced it will be retiring online servers for 12 of its titles. According to CVG, these servers will be shut down from tomorrow.

The following titles will be affected:

January 3

Fifa Manager 11 for PC

January 11

January 14

The Sims 2 for PC/MAC and TheSims2.com

January 19

Trenches II for iPad, iPhone and iPod touch

EA wrote in a statement: “The decisions to retire older EA games are never easy. The development teams and operational staff pour their hearts into these games almost as much as the customers playing them and it is hard to see one retired.

“But as games get replaced with newer titles, the number of players still enjoying the older games dwindles to a level – fewer that 1% of all peak online players across all EA titles – where’s its no longer feasible to continue the behind-the-scenes work involved with keeping these games up and running.”

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DaMoose

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Wed, 2 Jan 2013, 5:28 pm

One reason I wont buy games for multiplayer. I wonder what will happen with games that have online activation, when they become too old. Hopefully companies will release patches to prevent such problems before they do so.