With new releases of their most popular sports titles every year, it only makes sense that EA would shutdown the servers for its older sports titles — and that's exactly what they're doing. Among those having their online portion shut down this January are FIFA 11, NBA Jam, Madden NFL 11 and FIFA Manager 11.
EA released a statement explaining their decisions:
The decisions to retire older EA games are never easy […] But as games get replaced with newer titles, the number of players still enjoying the older games dwindles to a level — fewer than one percent of all peak online players across all EA titles — where it's no longer feasible to continue the behind-the-scenes work involved with keeping these games up and running.
The complete list of titles getting cut are:
January 3, 2013
- FIFA Manager 11 – PC
January 11, 2013
- FIFA Soccer 11 – PC, PS3, Wii, 360
- FIFA Soccer 11 Ultimate Team – PS3, 360
- Madden NFL 11 – PS3, Wii, 360
- Madden NFL 11 Ultimate Team – PS3, 360
- NBA Jam – PS3, 360
- NBA LIVE 10 – PS3, 360
- NCAA Football 11 – PS3, 360
- NHL 11 – PS3, 360
- NHL 11 Ultimate Team – PS3, 360
January 14, 2013
- The Sims 2 – PS/Mac, TheSims2.com
January 19, 2013
- Trenches II – iPad, iPhone, iPod Touch
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[Source: Develop-online.net]
