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| EA Closing Servers | |
| By: vandit73 Date: July 13, 2011, 9:28 am | |
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| As from 11th August, EA will be closing down the online servers | |
| to these games.... | |
| 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 | |
| And these online servers will be closed from 11th October.... | |
| Madden NFL 10 for PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 | |
| NHL� 10 for PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 | |
| Closing Battlefield 2 down!!!? ::) I was thinking of getting it | |
| too. | |
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| Re: EA Closing Servers | |
| By: Toby937 Date: July 13, 2011, 9:53 am | |
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| Im not surprised the PSP is taking a knock, what with the | |
| announcement of the VITA. | |
| I was thinking of getting BF2 aswell haha! It would have been | |
| good to go back in time and see how the game has improved. | |
| I can see why this happens though, its common sense really. Just | |
| glad that I dont own any of them :) | |
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| Re: EA Closing Servers | |
| By: Jay-Eff Date: July 13, 2011, 10:01 am | |
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| it broke my heart when they closed the servers for Need for | |
| Speed Underground on PS2. it was my first online game and I'd | |
| spend all evening on it | |
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| Re: EA Closing Servers | |
| By: Phitasphook Date: July 13, 2011, 11:41 am | |
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| Not happy with this at all , i always thought if you bought a | |
| game it was yours forever to play online or single player | |
| whenever you wanted to? | |
| folk buy online passes to play these games and EA decide to | |
| close the servers down so the online pass is worthless , as many | |
| of you know i picked up two copies of fifa 09 the other day | |
| online to find the servers were cut off , ok the games only cost | |
| 49p each but if you wanted to chase some extra our fkdold | |
| trophies then you cant. | |
| this happened before when i bought lord of the rings only to | |
| find the servers were took offline aswell, bought for a fiver | |
| had to trade it in and only got 3 quid on it for a useless game. | |
| I was gonna pick up nfs undercover again as i did enjoy that | |
| game but thats gonna be useless aswell soon for my psp. | |
| so fifa 11 came out last year and anyone who bought the online | |
| pass will no doubt not be able to play it in two years from now? | |
| what if you dont want fifa 12 or fifa 13 ? and you only want to | |
| play a friend on fifa 11 online ? your fkd tbh | |
| spend 39.99 on brand new game yes you get an online pass with it | |
| but if you buy preowned say 35 quid you need the online pass | |
| only to find your game is useless in a year or two. | |
| how long has army of two been out? maybe a year? its a terrible | |
| game i know but for the ones who do like it then they will soon | |
| feel short changed when the servers go offline. EA money - | |
| customer screwed always has and always will be the same. | |
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| Re: EA Closing Servers | |
| By: Super Nutsy Date: July 13, 2011, 11:44 am | |
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| Army of two came out in 2008 bud ::) | |
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| Re: EA Closing Servers | |
| By: BazTardo-UK Date: July 13, 2011, 11:49 am | |
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| None of the above have paid for online passes so I guess they | |
| can turn the servers off when they want. It will be interesting | |
| though when they turn a server off that did have a paid for | |
| online pass. Saying that though, how long are they expected to | |
| keep them open for? If people aren't using the games then they | |
| might as well make the servers available for something else. | |
| Phit, Army of Two mentioned above is the first one, which was | |
| released early 2008. | |
| #Post#: 11929-------------------------------------------------- | |
| Re: EA Closing Servers | |
| By: Toby937 Date: July 13, 2011, 11:56 am | |
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| I read somewhere that servers are shut down when less than 1% of | |
| overall online users are on the servers. | |
| Sorry guys but its business., Servers cost money to keep going. | |
| If they are only being used by 100 people over the course of a | |
| month then its pretty obvious they will face the chop sooner or | |
| later. Obviously I have no idea on figures its pure speculation. | |
| Be interesting to try and work out the math though. | |
| On the other hand I agree it will be an interesting time when | |
| they try and shut down a 'paid for' server. I can see someone | |
| somewhere trying to fight that one in court. | |
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| Re: EA Closing Servers | |
| By: Phitasphook Date: July 13, 2011, 11:59 am | |
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| @baz and nuts Cheers thought i read it as the second one . | |
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| Re: EA Closing Servers | |
| By: vandit73 Date: July 13, 2011, 12:28 pm | |
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| [quote author=Toby937 link=topic=807.msg11929#msg11929 | |
| date=1310576166] | |
| I read somewhere that servers are shut down when less than 1% of | |
| overall online users are on the servers. | |
| Sorry guys but its business., Servers cost money to keep going. | |
| [/quote] | |
| Very true. But this is EA. The company that have just bought | |
| PopCap for millions of dollars. So it's not like they're short | |
| of a bob or two ;D | |
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| Re: EA Closing Servers | |
| By: ECHO Date: July 14, 2011, 12:42 pm | |
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| I can't believe Battlefield 2: MC has become so unpopulated | |
| online that they're shutting it down. | |
| I've always thought that when they do this they should update so | |
| all achievements are available in local or system link. not just | |
| online. | |
| Here's what i can't work out though. Will Army of 2 co-op still | |
| be available online? That doesn't use their servers, does it? | |
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