Game News EA will close the servers of several legendary games!
If you practice video games regularly, you have surely already experienced the closure of the servers of one of the titles on which you have fun. But some games keep servers for a very long time, which causes several publishers to shut down in waves.
All publishers end up, one day or another, shut down their game servers the oldest, or the least practiced.
Closings scheduled for tomorrow
Maintaining servers has a certain cost, and the players or dedicated staff are no longer enough to keep them active. Ubisoft has closed the servers of several Assassin’s Creed gamesRayman Legends or Splinter Cell Blacklist , Far Cry 3 and Silent Hunter 5, Nintendo has ended or will close a number of services on its old consoles, in short, nobody cuts it, not even Electronic Arts. Holder of numerous licenses, EA has also developed many titles with a multiplayer dimension, even when it comes to secondary features implemented in single-player games.
It is the famous site TrueAchievement which spotted a list of games including servers and online features will soon no longer be supported. Several consequences are therefore to be expected. The first and most obvious is inability to access multiplayer modes games concerned. The second is the blocking of obtaining certain achievementswhether it’s trophies, successes or achievements. From October 20 Next, the servers of three titles will be shut down:
Command & Conquer retreats, and end of parkour for Mirror’s Edge
November 9th next, release date of a certain God of War : Ragnarokfour titles will bow out, including three Command & Conquer games, the famous real-time strategy silence with kitschy cutscenes. The shutdown of the servers for these games was known and announced since August, and therefore integrates with others. Fortunately, some of these games have private servers, set up by the communities to continue the fight of NOD and GDI in joy and good humor.
November 30th, it will be the turn of the much maligned Onrush to turn off the light, following which we will wait January 19, 2023 for a new wave. In it, we find the mythical Mirror’s Edge, NBA Jam : On Fire Edition, Gatling Gears et Shank 2. The end of an era for many, and an opportunity to remember that Red Alert 3 and Mirror’s Edge came out 14 years ago.