EA Starts New Year By Shutting Down Services for Games

Come January 11th 2013, EA will shut down the online capabilities for their entire 2011 sports line-up.

The games that are affected include: FIFA 11, Madden NFL 11, NBA Jam, NBA Live 10, and NHL 11 among others. Seeing as EA have not released an NBA game since 2011, this will mean that there is no EA Sports NBA game that is online come January 11th. This would mean that rival 2K games’ NBA 2K13 will be the only NBA game on the market, giving them a massive advantage in the basketball games market.

Another notable game included in the service shut down is The Sims 2, the long running life simulator game which was hugely popular upon release in 2004. It spawned eight expansions and many other packs with items for the game. This shut down leaves the sequel, The Sims 3, the only Sims game currently online.

This continues a long line of games that have been or are going to have their service stopped. If you want to find out more about which games are getting the cut, check out EA Service Updates here.

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