{"id":34402,"date":"2012-03-19T14:53:08","date_gmt":"2012-03-19T12:53:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=34402"},"modified":"2012-03-19T15:00:14","modified_gmt":"2012-03-19T13:00:14","slug":"ea-to-shut-down-online-support-for-14-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/34402-ea-to-shut-down-online-support-for-14-games","title":{"rendered":"EA to shut down online support for 14 games"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>All good things must come to an end, including EA Sports Active NFL Training Camp for Wii. Was that ever a good thing? Probably not, actually, but maybe that&#8217;s even more reason for it to end.<\/p>\n<p>Accordingly enough then, EA has announced they&#8217;ll be shutting down the online servers for a bunch of games at the end of March and in April 2012.<\/p>\n<p>Controversially, that list includes EA Sports MMA, released only 18 months ago, and requiring an Online Pass which may have been bought separately.<\/p>\n<p>This has, predictably, started a bit of a thing over on <a href=\"http:\/\/forum.ea.com\/eaforum\/posts\/list\/8273721.page;jsessionid=EB37785F560F90763EB8712375EF9B1F#21064731\" target=\"_blank\">EA&#8217;s forums<\/a>, with one angry user asking that the company &#8220;please explain to me exactly how was the &#8216;Online Pass&#8217; not nothing more than a money grab? And exactly how are you justifying shutting these servers down again?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The complete list of games going to online heaven includes:<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">April 13, 2012 &#8212; Online Services Shutdown<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>BOOM BLOX Bash Party for Wii<\/li>\n<li>Burnout Revenge for Xbox 360<\/li>\n<li>EA Create for PC, PlayStation 3, Wii and Xbox 360<\/li>\n<li>EA Sports Active 2.0 for\u00a0PlayStation 3, Wii and Xbox 360<\/li>\n<li>EA Sports Active NFL Training Camp for Wii<\/li>\n<li>FIFA 10 for PlayStation Portable and Wii<\/li>\n<li>The Godfather II for PC, PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360<\/li>\n<li>MMA for PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360<\/li>\n<li>Need for Speed ProStreet for PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360<\/li>\n<li>The Saboteur (loss of The Midnight Club access) for PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360<\/li>\n<li>Spare Parts for PlayStation 3 Xbox 360<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">\u00a0March 31, 2012 &#8212; Online Services Shutdown<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Battlefield 3: Aftershock for iPad, iPhone, and iPod touch<\/li>\n<li>Fantasi Safari for iPad, iPhone, and iPod touch<\/li>\n<li>Ghost Harvest for iPhone<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h5>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ea.com\/1\/service-updates\" target=\"_blank\">EA<\/a><\/h5>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Related Articles<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a title=\"EA Sports MMA\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/reviews\/8985-ea-sports-mma.html\">EA Sports MMA review<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Notch thinks EA\u2019s Origin is a good thing\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/34338-notch-thinks-origin-is-a-good-thing.html\">Notch thinks EA\u2019s Origin is a good thing<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Origin covertly auto-adds Steam-purchased EA games\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/33076-origin-covertly-auto-adds-steam-purchased-ea-games.html\">Origin covertly auto-adds Steam-purchased EA games<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"EA\u2019s Origin service adds 7 new publishers to the roster\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/31998-eas-origin-service-adds-7-new-publishers-to-the-roster.html\">EA\u2019s Origin service adds 7 new publishers to the roster<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Three more publishers join EA\u2019s Origin platform\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/34203-three-more-publishers-join-eas-origin-platform.html\">Three more publishers join EA\u2019s Origin platform<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And another one down, and another one down, another one bites the dust (he-hey!)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":159,"featured_media":28585,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,6,3,4],"tags":[31,813,2782,2162],"class_list":["post-34402","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","category-nintendo","category-pc","category-xbox","tag-active","tag-electronic-arts","tag-mma","tag-online-pass"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34402","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/159"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34402"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34402\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34416,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34402\/revisions\/34416"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28585"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}