

“We would rather our hard-working engineering and IT staff focus on keeping a positive experience for the other 99 percent of customers playing our more popular games,” the statement continued. The company said the number of customers wanting to play older games online dwindles as newer titles are released, and it is not financially feasible to operate servers for games played by fewer than one percent of online players. “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.” “The decisions to retire older EA games are never easy,” EA said in a statement. The “Madden NFL 10” and “NHL 10” servers will be shut down on Oct. 11, along with several older sports titles, including entries in EA’s “NCAA Football,” “NCAA Basketball” and “Tiger Woods PGA Tour” franchises.
BATTLEFIELD 2 SERVERS DOWN PORTABLE
Servers for “Army of Two,” “Skate,” the Xbox 360 version of “Battlefield 2: Modern Combat” and the PlayStation Portable version of “Need for Speed Undercover” will be shut down on Aug. Ironstarmovement writes: 'EAs servers for most of their games have been experiencing problems today, this includes the multiplayer servers for Battlefield Bad Company 2 which are down. Video game publisher Electronic Arts (EA) said Tuesday that it plans to turn off server operations for several of its titles, ending players’ ability to play the games online with other people. Continued abuse of our services will cause your IP address to be blocked indefinitely.REDWOOD CITY, Calif. Please fill out the CAPTCHA below and then click the button to indicate that you agree to these terms. If you wish to be unblocked, you must agree that you will take immediate steps to rectify this issue. If you do not understand what is causing this behavior, please contact us here. If you promise to stop (by clicking the Agree button below), we'll unblock your connection for now, but we will immediately re-block it if we detect additional bad behavior.


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