EA sluit nog meer servers

EA heeft aangekondigd om online servers te gaan sluiten in maart en april. De games zijn vrijgegeven, zelfs de Godfather op de 360 en PS3 en Mercenaries 2 op de PC.

Ea heeft als uitleg voor dit gedrag dat de games van de “hitlist” maar 0,3% van de actieve online spelers vertegenwoordigen van alle EA titels.

Despite some people’s perception, there is a lot of behind-the-scenes work involved with keeping these older games up and running. We would rather our hard-working engineering and IT staff focus on keeping a positive experience for the other 99.7% of customers playing our more popular games. These decisions to retire games is never easy. The EA 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.

The list, below, also reveals the final three EA Xbox survivors–Battlefield 2: Modern Combat, Burnout 3: Takedown and Madden NFL 09–who’ve dodged shutdowns so far but will finally go dark when Microsoft ends Xbox Live for the original Xbox on April 15.

March 16, 2010 Online Service Shutdown

• Def Jam for PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360
• Godfather for PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360
• Lord of the Rings: Conquest for PC, PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360
• Mercenaries 2: World in Flames for PC
• Need for Speed: Carbon for PlayStation Portable
• Need for Speed: ProStreet for PlayStation Portable
• Simpsons for PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360

April 15, 2010 Online Service Shutdown

• Burnout 3: Takedown for PlayStation 2
• Army of Two for PlayStation 3 (Asia only)

Additionally, the shutdown of Xbox LIVE for Original Xbox consoles and games (scheduled for April 15, 2010) will retire online services for the following titles:

• Battlefield 2: Modern Combat for Xbox
• Burnout 3: Takedown for Xbox
• Madden NFL 09 for Xbox