EA announced it will be shutting down servers for a number of its games. It’s not uncommon for publishers to shut servers down years after it releases and the player base begins to dwindle, but what’s disturbing about this is that many of the games end with “09.” It seems a bit premature to be shutting down servers for last year’s round of sports games, doesn’t it? They’re clearly doing it not to save costs, but to get gamers to buy their new sports games.
The list of games, shown after the break, is surprisingly long. These games will be having their servers shut down on February 2nd of this year. Not exactly a very nice “happy New Year” gesture by EA, more like a big middle finger.
February 2, 2010 Online Service Shutdown
- UEFA Champions League 07 PC and x360
- Facebreaker x360 and PS3
- Fantasy Football 09 x360 and PS3
- FIFA 07 PSP, PS2, PC
- Fight Night Round 3 PS2
- Madden 08 Wii
- Madden 08 PC
- Madden 09 Xbox1
- Madden 09 Wii and PSP
- March Madness 07 x360
- NBA 07 PSP, x360
- NBA 08 PS2, PSP, Wii
- NBA 09 Wii – Europe only
- NBA Street (2007) PS3 and x360
- NCAA Football 08 PS2
- NCAA Football 09 PS2
- NASCAR 08 PS2
- NASCAR 09 PS2
- NASCAR 09 PS3 and x360 – Europe Only
- NFL Tour PS3 and x360
- NHL 07 PSP and x360
- NHL 08 PC
- Tiger Woods 07 PC
- Madden 09 x360 and PS3
- Madden 07 Xbox 360
