Act Fast! - EA to shut down even more online games (Busy Gamer News)

Act Fast! - EA to shut down even more online games

It seems like just a matter of days since EA shut down online support for a bunch of its games. Oh wait, it was.

Now EA is back at it with the next wave of games to lose online play on March 16 (less than a month away) and April 15:

March 16:

PC: Lord of the Rings: Conquest and Mercenaries 2
PS3: Def Jam: Icon, The Godfather, Lord of the Rings: Conquest and The Simpsons
PSP: Need for Speed: Carbon and Need for Speed: ProStreet
Xbox 360: Def Jam: Icon, The Godfather, Lord of the Rings: Conquest and The Simpsons

April 15

PS2: Burnout 3

In addition, the April 15 shutdown of Xbox Live for original Xbox consoles will take out some additional titles. Well, all original Xbox games will be offline only at that point, but you might want to squeeze in some more sessions of Battlefield 2: Modern Combat, Burnout 3 and Madden NFL '09 while you can…

Posted by Gamewatcher on February 17, 2010 7:07 PM | Permalink

Comments (3)

1. OnyxPrimal:

I was actually thinking of getting LOTR:Conquest. It only came out last Christmas and in a game like that online is everything. Since Battlefront II for the original Xbox is ALSO being discontinued it was the only game in that vein available. So much for that.

Posted by OnyxPrimal | February 17, 2010 8:58 PM

Posted on February 17, 2010 20:58

2. Wolfkin:

yep this is the problem with letting EA run their own servers. I've never been the biggest fan of putting everything in digital-only cloud-like formats, but at least if it was the consoles controlling the servers you can count on the big three to maintain them for the life of the console. Of course then you look at XBL for XBOX going down and maybe we should all just game on PCs where we can make our own servers.

Posted by Wolfkin | February 18, 2010 7:31 AM

Posted on February 18, 2010 07:31

3. JT:

Can they get away with stuff like this if there are still new, retail copies selling on store shelves and advertising online multiplayer?

http://www.bestbuy.com/site/The+Lord+of+the+Rings%3A+Conquest+-+Xbox+360/9166671.p?id=1218041151404&skuId=9166671&st=lord%20rings%20conquest&lp=1&cp=1
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001AZFSDS
http://www.target.com/Lord-Rings-Conquest-Xbox-360/dp/B001AZFSDS/ref=sc_qi_detailbutton
http://www.walmart.com/ip/Lord-of-the-Rings-Conquest-Xbox-360-Xbox-360/10190893

Posted by JT | February 18, 2010 9:42 AM

Posted on February 18, 2010 09:42