EA Shutting Down Video Game Servers Prematurely

Spacezilla writes "EA is dropping the bomb on a number of their video game servers, shutting down the online fun for many of their Xbox 360, PC and PlayStation 3 games. Not only is the inclusion of PS3 and Xbox 360 titles odd, the date the games were released is even more surprising. Yes, Madden 07 and 08 are included in the shutdown... but Madden 09 on all consoles as well?"

Comments

The only people who have anything to whine about..

[Anonymous Coward]

...are the idiots who bought the terrible EA games in the first place. I, for one, have no pity.

And this is why...

[Serilleous]

the option for customers to run dedicated servers are better. ... but seriously, who plays Madden anyway?

Re:The only people who have anything to whine abou

[Anonymous Coward]

I, for one, have a whole bunch of schadenfreude. EA is well known for shafting its customers. If you buy their games you deserve nothing less.

Re:Blizzard didn't cooperate

[lena_10326]

Blizzard could have provided a simple TCP/IP-based API for them to call to verify a key. Then Blizzard could keep all the details secret, and the bnetd folks could still build in key verification.

And.. what would Blizzard have gotten out that equation? Other than willingly bending over to the next random Joe off the street and giving up piece of control to a software base they spent millions on development.

Asking for something with nothing in exchange gets you no where. It's indicative of a whiny, self-centered mindset that expects (more accurately demands) items, access to other items, attention, and respect for nothing.

Re:The only people who have anything to whine abou

[Demonspawn]

Never said it was right. What I did say is that they deserve that which resulted from their lack of foresight/planning.

Just because it isn't right doesn't mean that they didn't deserve it. You get what you deserve and you deserve what you get. Why? Because you made the choices that put you in that situation.

Re:Multiplayer != online multiplayer

[tepples]

The roster of 4-player / console games seems to be getting thin. I guess they don't drive console sales enough...

The advantage of a console used to be that consoles are typically connected to a bigger monitor than PCs, so that you could invite friends over without having to dismantle multiple PCs. But without party games like Smash Bros., what is the big advantage of a console over a PC?

Re:Blizzard didn't cooperate

[TheSpoom]

If you're using an algorithm, rather than discrete, non-sequential random numbers stored in a database, for your CD keys, you deserve to have them cracked.