Starting next month, EA will begin shutting down the servers for a number of its online-enabled games. Don't fret too much -- almost all of the affected games are either showing age or just plain aren't good. According to the company, they amount to "less than 0.3% of all peak online players across all EA titles."
Gasp! My 2:00 AM Lord of the Rings: Conquest and Madden NFL 09 (on Xbox, not 360) multiplayer sessions are soon going to be nothing more than a distant memory. Well, at least we were told a month in advance. I wonder if any of those Achievement sites will try to hook something up before the big day?
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1:00 PM on 02.17.2010 | 
My wife still plays LOTR Conquest when I'm at work: and it's not really a bad game at all if you get to know the community. This sucks.
One day the Cerberus network will be shut down and you can say bye to all that DLC you paid for
Amen. It's still another reason to get online competitive games on PC instead: years later, you'll be able to join in on dedicated/user servers.
Also, I thought you meant Lord of the rings BFME 2 at first, and I had a mini heart attack. Sucks about conquest, but at least we still have BFME 2.
Somewhat odd that Conquest is being taken down though.
;_;
I loved Burnout 3.
That's a bit fucked up.
Def Jam for PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360
Godfather for PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360
Lord of the Rings: Conquest for PC, PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360
Mercenaries 2: World in Flames for PC
Need for Speed: Carbon for PlayStation Portable
Need for Speed: ProStreet for PlayStation Portable
Simpsons for PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360
April 15, 2010 Online Service Shutdown
Burnout 3: Takedown for PlayStation 2
Army of Two for PlayStation 3 (Asia only)
Additionally, the shutdown of Xbox LIVE for Original Xbox consoles and games (scheduled for April 15, 2010) will retire online services for the following titles:
Battlefield 2: Modern Combat for Xbox
Burnout 3: Takedown for Xbox
Madden NFL 09 for Xbox[/i]
Was that really so hard that you couldn't have fit that in the article so that I wouldn't have to go to EA.com's website to find out everything that's getting shutdown. Instead of a vague...games people don't play/aren't any good statement.
There, I said it.
they should have made it long before mercs 2.
@ Fetusmilk yea, tell me about it. playing timesplitters 3 on 4-player splitscreen is probably some of the most fun i have ever had playing a videogame.
@ Cartman dosent seem like it has been out that long at all. I think everyone is bitter that they are being forced to play as Frodo wielding a pebble versus a Imperial Stormtrooper with a plasma cannon. Why they decided to make LOTR conquest instead of a new Battlefront is beyond me.
Is it really so hard to click on a link that takes you to a different website? It takes what, like maybe 5 seconds max if youve got a shitty pc. Its not like youre travelling cross country.
EA is a company, and running servers costs. What would be the point in keeping their servers running to function for a handful of people? Conquest sales were super lackluster, because the game was developed by the lowest-talent of Pandemic and handled with no QA. Overall a bug-ridden flop with generally poor reviews by both "professionals" and players.
I feel sorry for EA actually investing anything in that pile of fail.
Same thing goes for Mercs 2.
Wow. That's awesome.
The only big pile of fail here is EA.
With game sales what they are (in general) it is hard not to cut costs where you can. Hell, I rather see things like this compared to layoffs.
Unfortunately it is the consumers who get the short end of the stick here.
This!
Yeah, BF2 is still up for PS2, but from what I've learned, you can no longer sign up. It won't let you get past the Privacy Agreement in order to make a new account, so if you don't already have an account, you're S.O.L. You could still try, though.
@Xzyliac:
EXACTLY THIS.
Even console games need dedicated servers. I really hope that one day there is an XLink Kai style workaround.
The LOTR:Conquest demo put me off it, just wasn't up my alley (console-penetration lol).
Also, this: Burnout 3 > Paradise :)
because I don't want to get my news from EA's website. I want it from destructoid's site. Why should I have to go to any site than the one I'm currently reading to find out what exactly is going down and when.
Its what separates a bad blog site from a good one.
Not that I'm disagreeing with you but to play Devil's advocate it really takes so little effort for you to click a link. Just as much effort as it does for them to post it. I mean ultimately you're just as at fault as Jordan.
but I did click the link...and posted the information so that everyone could understand it. I guess my opinion is that if Kotaku can do it and I can do it, Jordan Devore most certainly can. Otherwise he doesn't need to have the article on the front page.
I have never liked it when people post stuff in forums/blogs that have a link and some vague information. If I took the time to click on the article to read about it, then I only ask that somebody post some the information instead of me having to go somewhere else for it.
When you just put together a well thought out look at Criticosm (a site I never had to visit to understand what you were writing) and Jordan couldn't even copy paste what games would be going down, it annoys me.
I don't really care about all this beyond that, but its just a bit of professionalism I'm asking for.
So really, there's no winning either way. In the future, I'll include the important info, if that makes you happy. But don't act like clicking a link is this horrible, day-ruining thing.
I didn't really care in the first place and just posted that in the hopes that a small update would happen to provide a full list. Its just a trend I've seen happen too many times on forums and blogs that it just irks me for some reason. Its like somebody has something important to say and then says go here to figure out what I'm talking about.
I had blown it off, then I was clicking through my comments saw an @manasteel88 post and had to respond. I didn't mean to come off angry (I was only trying to express my argument), but I just can't see a real defense of it.
Logically it didn't matter and I understand what you're saying about the "after the jump" stuff, but it just kinda irked me.