The EA development teams and operational staff pour their hearts into these games almost as much as the customers playing them and it is hard to see one retired. These decisions to retire games is never easy. We would rather our hard-working engineering and IT staff focus on keeping a positive experience for the other 99.7% of customers playing our more popular games. A dozen EA games are scheduled to lose online multiplayer support over March and April when their servers are shut down, the video games colossus has revealed, including The Godfather on Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 and Mercenaries 2 on PC.ĮA states that the games on the hitlist "represent less than 0.3% of all peak online players across all EA titles"-no doubt seeking to avoid a repeat of the upset following the last round of shutdowns, which hit Madden NFL 09 and Facebreaker among others.ĭespite some people's perception, there is a lot of behind-the-scenes work involved with keeping these older games up and running.
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