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EA is prepping to pull the plug on more of its aging online titles, the publisher's announced via a service update.
Electronic Arts has published a list of 17 titles, primarily for consoles, that will be losing their online functionality next month, including Battlefield 2: Modern Combat, Army of Two, and Skate. The decision to do this is made when an extremely small number of players continue to actively play any given game.
As the Online Service Updates page puts it, "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 below a point -- fewer than 1% of all peak online players across all EA titles -- where it's feasible to continue the behind-the-scenes work involved with keeping these games up and running.
"We would rather our hard-working engineering and IT staff focus on keeping a positive experience for the other 99% of customers playing our more popular games. We hope you have gotten many hours of enjoyment out of the games and we appreciate your ongoing patronage."
It's not the first time EA has taken old games offline. The service updates page lists all of the previous games that have had their online modes killed, many of which are old sports and racing titles.
The same could be said for this batch of titles; more than half are either a racing or sports game, with the others being older shooters or demos, such as the Battlefield 2142 PC demo.
The full list of titles having their online services shut down follows below. The majority will go down on August 11, with two others following on October 1.
August 11, 2011 Online Service Shutdown
- ARMY OF TWO for PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360
- ARMY OF TWO Demo for Xbox 360
- Battlefield 2142 Demo for PC
- Battlefield 2: Modern Combat for Xbox 360
- Battlefield 2: Modern Combat Demo for Xbox 360
- Medal of Honor Airborne for PlayStation Portable
- Medal of Honor Heroes 2 for PlayStation Portable and Wii
- NASCAR 09 for PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 (North America)
- NCAA Basketball 10 for PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360
- NCAA Football 10 for PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360
- Need for Speed Most Wanted for PC and Xbox 360
- Need for Speed Undercover for PlayStation Portable;
- SKATE for PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360
- Tiger Woods PGA TOUR 10 for PlayStation Portable, PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 and Wii
- Tiger Woods PGA TOUR 11 Demo for PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360
- Madden NFL 10 for PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360
- NHL 10 for PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360
SOURCE: Just Push Start, That Video Game Blog, Inquistr, 1Up, g4tv, Gaming Union, EuroGamer.
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