EA Sports kills ALL ‘06 Online Functionality
Do you love your copy of Fight Night Round 3? I know I do. Every once in a while I still pop her in and give her a quick run through. But, if you wanted to take on your friend in London in a good ol’ fashioned online sparring match, you’re SOL as Electronic Arts has announced plans to eliminate ALL online support for their ‘06 titles by November 1st, 2007.
A majority of these titles will have their online components shut down on September 1st (a full list after the break), with two more titles (Burnout Revenge and Need for Speed Most Wanted) following on the 11/01 deadline. While I’m sure there are a lot of people out there who feel screwed, I can kind of see the logic in this. I doubt games like “Arena Football” or “Marvel Nemesis: Rise of the Imperfects” were hugely popular online, and they want to free up the bandwidth to help support their newest crop of Madden, NCAA and NBA titles.
A full list is after the break, sorted by console and kill date.
September 1st, 2007
Xbox 360
FIFA Soccer 06
Madden NFL 06
NBA Live 06
Tiger Woods PGA Tour 06
Xbox
Arena Football
FIFA Soccer 06
FIFA World Cup 2006
Fight Night Round 3
Madden NFL 06
Marvel Nemesis: Rise of the Imperfects
MVP 07 NCAA Baseball
NASCAR 06 Total Team Control
NCAA Football 2005
NCAA Football 2006
NCAA March Madness 06
NFL Head Coach
NHL 06
Tiger Woods PGA Tour 06
November 1st
Xbox
Burnout Revenge
Need for Speed Most Wanted
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August 3rd, 2007 at 4:49 pm
So what about all of those online achievements? Do they become unattainable? If so, MS should impose a new policy or guidelines to EA for future games with online functionality. If they plan on killing the servers a year after release, they shouldn’t be allowed to implement achievements that require any online play. I friggin hate EA sometimes.
August 3rd, 2007 at 6:32 pm
At the moment, I think EA is too big in the games industry for Microsoft to even attempt to do anything to stop them from being dicks. Remember EA wasn’t even on Live a few years ago and it never looked like they would be and I think they play by their own rules.
August 3rd, 2007 at 6:39 pm
This isn’t just for Live, though. Your PS2 copies of said games are also going to be affected by this, unfortunately.
August 4th, 2007 at 6:52 am
Wat a bummer.