![]() A few of the games, however, are a bit more notable like Battlefield 2 and Crysis 2 on PC as well as Bulletstorm on PS3.ĮA is investigating community-supported options to retain online functionality for some titles, but currently don’t have any plans in place. Some of the games getting the axe aren’t really all that notable - Dracula Undead Awakening for the Wii, for instance, a game so obscure you didn’t even know it existed - as well as things like FIFA Soccer ’08 on Wii/DS and Sneezies. In this case, however, all of the games were part of the GameSpy platform, which hosted online services for a number of EA games for several years, the closure of which resulted in servers being shut down. Battlefield 2 Modern Combat for PS2 servers down since Aug.27th 2010 Arrrrrrrrrrrrrgh.since 2 days now,it seems that thie game servers for that popular game are down.Let us hope,that it is a temporary issue and not a shut down forever. Typically, this happens when games drop below a certain threshold - typically under 1% of peak online players across all titles - and it’s not longer feasible for the company to main the servers. ![]() Case in point: EA today announced that they will shut down the servers for 50 of their games. Nowadays, the term literally means how long the game will last thanks to the gameplay of numerous titles being tied directly to online play, a subject we recently mused about. In the old days, lasting appeal simply meant how many times you could complete Sonic Spinball before getting bored.
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