EA Shutting Down 15 Game Servers in August and October 2011

EA posted an update on their website today warning gamers that the company will be shutting down servers for 15 titles within the next three months.

The update reads:

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.

If you have further questions about your account or the shut down of these services, please visit http://support.ea.com.

Thank you,
Electronic Arts

Here is the list of titles that will be left without online support in the coming months:

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

October 1, 2011 Online Service Shutdown

  • Madden NFL 10 for PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360
  • NHL® 10 for PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360

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  • http://www.boxhacker.com James

    The flaw being that its expected for gamers to get the “latest” series of the game to be able to play it on-line…

    Why should people be forced to buy them to play on-line even if their predecessors were better?
    EA has just dug another hole in the ground!

  • kola

    y ea shuting down dis game for nd y dey hell did we buy d game when we cant evev play wit our friend pplz shud stp buying sony stuff so their business shud run dwn

  • Mark

    The nascar 09 game for the xbox 360 is the best game ea has put out yet. Please leave the server on until someone comes up with something better, As I did buy the nascar 11 game, but had to take it back and get a refund due to the crap that it was, Thank you,

  • Stefan

    Keep Nascar 09 up Nascar 11 blows!!!!!!!!!

  • chris

    Skate Changed the way fo how skateboarding games were – not like how tony hawk games where you press one button and do an impossible trick – you had to work on the trick and make a career where you work! Please dont bring down the servers people play lots of old games lots of times including me and we dont want to watch how someone brings down the community!

  • kevin

    y dont u just do a add on for the game

  • kevin

    ppppppppppplllllllllllllllllllllllllllzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz leave it on

  • http://www.squidoo.com/best-bf3-server-hosts Jessy

    The last time I gamed on a PC was over 10 years ago playing CS and I had a really crappy computer, a crappy, twitchy mouse, and 56k so….. the experience was very bad.

    I only play FPS games. Basically I have a xbox360 with LIVE membership just for Call of Duty. I don’t really use the xbox for anything else, sometimes netflix but I can always get that on my computer or PC. The only 2 games I’m probably going to play the next YEAR is Modern Warfare 3 and BF3 I am wondering what the PROs and CONs are of getting it for PC rather than xbox.

    I would LIKE to get it for PC because my room is so cluttered, I have a TV, LED monitor, xbox all of which I would consider selling and using a very powerful desktop computer with a good monitor for all my multimedia purposes. I can just get a tv tuner card for tv so basically it comes down to playing MW3 and BF3.

    I know they’re different but I dont know how. I never played on PC before. I have heard it’s more fast paced. Not sure if that’s good or bad. Is there a server list? The one thing I hate about Black Ops on Xbox360 is that it disconnects like EVERY 30 minutes. It has connection problems, host issues, not to mention wager matches are IMPOSSIBLE to even play because it takes like 15 minutes to get a full lobby of people who want to play. It really makes the experience pretty crappy.

    Id like to continue to play with a controller if I get a PC cause I gotten pretty damn good at it, is that at all realistic?

    Seems kind of silly to hold onto an xbox and large lcd tv when the only thing i use it for is black ops. I could just sell it and get myself a good computer….

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    DHCP Enabled. . . . . . . . . . . : No
    Autoconfiguration Enabled . . . . : Yes

    Tunnel adapter Local Area Connection* 10:

    Media State . . . . . . . . . . . : Media disconnected
    Connection-specific DNS Suffix . :
    Description . . . . . . . . . . . : isatap.9A293409-ACA9-4BC0-9276-671778CAA
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    Physical Address. . . . . . . . . : 00-00-00-00-00-00-00-E0
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    |Im looking for a two sided discussion here not something like ” ohh cod sucks get BF3″
    And if you are comparing BF3 to the OTHER CoDs dont cause its not about that.

    Also we cannot compare realism, BF is a war simulator and Cod isnt
    Also this is about MP not campaign
    Lets begin !!

    Campyness : BF promotes camping E.g bush camping + camping at extreme choke points ( by the time the time you notice the enemy laid down you will already be dead )

    Campyness : Mw3, Robert bowling has said, the maps more flat and less cornors (kinda like BF3), also point streaks are totally different to killstreaks ( you are being rewarded for being objective not just camping for kills hence the name)

    Spawns: BF is very easy to spawn kill, I have done this my self, I flanked all the way around behind the enemy laid down where they spawned and kept on killing them, it was so easy since they spawn on a player,

    Spawns : Mw3, they have changed the system to spawns, its now not possible to spawn trap and have total map control, this is due to taking in feed back from the community

    Killcams : BF has none which makes it super hard for someone that just starting to playing to learn from their mistakes and how to improve, it also makes it easier to camp because people cant killcam watch ( all you get is looking at the face of your killer )

    Killcams : Mw3, Killcams can be good for all players, since they can learn from their mistakes, stupid campers can be killed easily

    Health regen : Bf is more realistic so it has none therefore it requires teamwork to heal and a MIC or just your self

    Health regen : can be annoying in CoD when they run away, luckily its a face paced game, the chances of that person running into someone else is high. ( however Mw3 is not a simulator )

    Vehicles: now loads of people are hyped up about vehicles because they are great in BF, Mw3 will actually have remote controlled vehicles but not on the same level as BF

    servers: BF, dedicated servers are great after it takes about 2 mins to get in one, it makes the game more fair since theres no host advantage and no lag which is great !!

    Host : Mw3, has changed its hosting system, its not possible for one person to have host more then once in that lobby, this makes it ‘fair’ and the problem with it is that if we get a crap host everyone will be lagging everywhere this is a major problem in all the CoD’s LAG!!

    Community: Generally the people on CoD are annoying but the mute button is always there. BF community is amazing no squeaky kids etc

    Modding : I’ve never seen modding on BF, but i have on the really OLD CoD’s which isnt a major problem as its possible in both games ( more likey on CoD ) but still rare

    Producers : BF3 is out there are tiny glitches but works fine IMO – Mw3 has teamed up with 3 producers, this can be really unhealthy or amazingly good

    Feedback : BF3 i havent seen much feedback gone into BF, theres still 4 classes which are very limiting

    Feedback : Mw3, they are taking in huge amounts of feedback from the community just like Blackops did ( but that game was crap because of the servers not anything else )

    Guns : in both games they kill really quick ( BF is like hardcore mode ), IMO guns will never be balanced in CoD’s

    Gamemodes – To put it simple Mw3 has more then BF3 so theres more to do ?

    Wow if you got up to here well done, feel free to leave any discussions.

    * There will be some dude just raging at me ( if you are going to get angry PRESS ALT + F4 )

    anyone that wants to have a civilized discussion feel free i will get back to you ASAP or if you want to add anything

    this was just to point out the facts not to ‘dis’ the other game
    Spread the word if you can copy and paste the whole thing i dont mind, i just want to get rid of all the hate people have for each game
    Nevuna: I can still compare it cause people have played it
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  • chicken man

    so they arent takeing mercs 2 EA server down??????????????????? cuz evry time I try to play my game just freezes!!! :[ oh by the way i have PS3