EA Game Servers To Face Mass Cull [EA To Shut Down 25 Game Servers – Madden 09, Nascar 09, NBA Live 09 & NFL Tour Servers Set for the Chop]
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EA may have attempted to address the financial issues that plagued them last year by loosing over 1,500 employees in November alone but now, in a bid to reduce operating costs still further, EA have confirmed that they are to close down 25 game servers during February and April of this year seeing game servers for the likes of Madden 09, Nascar 09, NBA Live 09 and NFL Tour permanently shut down.
As one would expect, EA are being pretty sensible as to exactly what game servers to close down in an effort to reduce overheads whilst affecting as few gamers as it possibly can thus a number of titles to see their game servers cease operation are fairly aged titles. That said, there’s a few surprises here – the discontinuation of game server support for the Madden 09 probably being the one that’ll see the greatest degree of consternation from what are know to be a pretty avid fan base.
Hers the full list of EA’s game servers that are set to be culled along with the dates that the respective switches will be flipped:
February 2, 2010 Online Service Shutdown
- Facebreaker for Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3
- Fantasy Football 09 for Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3
- FIFA 07 for PlayStation Portable and PlayStation 2
- Fight Night Round 3 for PlayStation 2
- March Madness 07 for Xbox 360
- NBA LIVE 07 for PlayStation Portable and Xbox 360
- NBA LIVE 08 for PlayStation 2, PlayStation Portable and Wii
- NBA LIVE 09 for Wii (Europe only)
- NBA Street (2007) for PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360
- NCAA Football for 08 PlayStation 2
- NCAA Football for 09 PlayStation 2
- NASCAR 08 for PlayStation 2
- NASCAR 09 for PlayStation 2
- NASCAR 09 for PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 (Europe Only)
- NFL Tour for PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360
- NHL 07 for PlayStation Portable and Xbox 360
- UEFA Champions League 07 for Xbox 360
February 9, 2010 Online Service Shutdown
- FIFA 07 for PC
- Madden 07 for Xbox 360
- Madden 08 for PlayStation 2, PlayStation 3, PC, Wii and Xbox 360
- NHL 08 for PC
- Tiger Woods PGA TOUR 07 for PC
- UEFA Champions League 07 for PC
April 6, 2010 Online Service Shutdown
- Madden 09 for PlayStation 2, PlayStation 3, PlayStation Portable, Wii and Xbox 360
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