EA taking a huge amount of multiplayer games offline next month

This is retarded. EA, why are you doing this?

I wish EA would take themselves offline in addition to these said games and go out of business for good!!

I never played a single game on this list.

This is why I get nervous about mandatory online games. I'm gonna go postal if Steam pulls this crap with my Total War games.

I hate EA but this hasn't sparked off an Anti-EA rant, so it can't be very bad.

All old games for the most part, and not just old but games that have multiple better sequels / alternatives.

tbh this is kinda worrying if you ask me, when did gaming become time limited. now i know the servers would have better uses on new games and such but i don't want games to become half of what they were by removing online. the thing is if online only games become popular then your essentially buying a game that after 10 years will simply not function. titanfall would be a good example if in 2024 you can't play that game, ok 90% of people probably wont care but there will be some that do.

star wars battlefront 1 and 2? lmao. some of these games are old as freak. yall should be thanking EA for keeping the online on for old ass games. battlefield 2 has been out for almost 10 years. it has had a good run. time for me to play some bf2 on pc before uninstalling it.

No worries, Tunngle, Hamachi and Garena has us covered. C&C tho is best played in local LAN, we still do that around here.

what could be more "concerning to the player experience" than lapsed functionality? beats me :O

wow some of those games are still really popular..

That right there tells you everything you need to know about the future of triple-A gaming. Focus on online multiplayer, half assed or no single-player, games requiring patches upon release, then pull the plug on those games in the future.

My money's going to independent and trusted developers (Rockstar, Nintendo) from now on.

EA needs to die

No Not Red Alert 3 Thats it, I wish EA Falls as hard as They closed Down Westwood Studios Bastards.

If they close down Battefiled 2 that means the modding community dies :(

BF1942 oooooooh thats it EA boycott in effect

It's times like these that single player only games like Bioshock Infinite or local multiplayer games i am thankful for, it's like the good old days!

This is what happens when you buy a game which relys on an external service for multiplayer and doesn't allow you to host your own server to which prople can join directly, without the need of a externally hosted "lobby" service.

This is also the very exact same reason why you should just stay far, far away from "cloud gaming" which is proclaimed to be "the future of gaming" in the eyes of big publishers - of course, because it will render the game you bought useless (even singleplayer) whenever they decide the time is up and increment the version number to sell it as a new one again.

Thankfully inofficial community patches can save some of the games in the list above and continue to make them playable online, but this should be a given in the first place if 'AAA' publishers weren't so greedy.

lol EA, the one company you can guarantee will not let you get your moneys worth out of the games you buy from them.

Will we still be able to create custom games with friends? Or will this only be possible in LAN?

If anything, this just reminds me how much I miss GameSpy.

Bulletstorm for PS3 :-(

So the bull is starting soon...feel bad for p.c gamer's for sure though that doesn't really seam very fair...and this is why i stay away from online only games.

Just to make something clear, for PC gamers this means pretty much nothing. We've been getting around this crap for years.

Well good because I have a few of these games, and now I will be able to get refunds. I bought these games with the intent to be able to play online and now that they are taking these offline means false advertising and grounds for refunding. So I guess its a win-lose situation. They are probably doing this so they can move in the new pay-to win and pay-to-play ways, they know that servers are a luxury and we should have to pay for this also along with the game, and this is why the console gaming industry will fail and free to play games will take over

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And this ladies and gentlemen, is the biggest reason why current gaming sucks. If you don't buy their games brand new, day one, you'll have to pay for an online code just to play multiplayer before they inevitably shut it down 2 years later anyway.

2/3rds of those are PC games. Besides Bulletstorm for PS3, you don't see the console versions of those going down. Lol I'm sure the master race will have excuses.

It's funny reading comments of ppl crying why there are no Xbox games on the list. Stupid haters ;)

Some of those games aren't even that old, that sucks.