EA shuts down servers for older online sports titles

Posted Aug 2, 2007 at 2:15PM by Karl B. Listed in: News, Titles, Games Tags: Electronic Arts, FIFA, NFL, PGA, Sony, Tiger Woods

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Electronic Arts has announced that it will be shutting down the servers for some of its older online sports titles. If you love playing any of the following titles with your friends, we recommend that you get some quality playing time now.

Please note that the following list contains only titles for PC, the Sony PlayStation Portable handheld gaming system and Microsoft's Xbox 360 video game console. For the full list, which also includes PlayStation 2 and Xbox titles, click on the Read link below the list.

EA Sports - Image 1 September 1, 2007

FIFA Soccer 06 (PC, PSP, Xbox 360)
FIFA06 (PC)
FIFA World Cup 2006 (PC, PSP)
Fight Night Round 3 (PSP)
Madden NFL 06 (PC, PSP, Xbox 360)
NBA Live 06 (PC, PSP, Xbox 360)
NFL Head Coach (PC)
NHL 06 (PC)
Tiger Woods PGA Tour 06 (Xbox 360)

November 1, 2007 Online Service Shutdown

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# wow — Guest 2007-08-02 09:28

those games aren't that old. I'm sure a lot of people still play them online. EA is a bunch of money grubbing bastards

# yep thats right... — Guest 2007-08-02 09:31

yep thats right - EA yet again shafts anyone that plays games older than 6 months. you would think people would realise there being shafted - all ea has to do to support any game and not have to create and maintain servers is include server support for each client.

they wont do this because they want you to run out and buy there 'new' (for new read: slightly updated old *****) game. theres making money then theres taking the piss. i was hit by this before when they killed one of the older need for speeds and i swore i would never play or buy another ea game - and i have yet to break that word. if they dont want to spend money on servers thats fair enough - but why the hell dont they let OTHER PEOPLE make there OWN servers????? money.

# ripoff b.as.ta,rds! — Guest 2007-08-02 11:24

u freakin idiot company! first, crappier games gets released. then this?!

# wdf — Guest 2007-08-02 11:39

WDF!

I still play madden 06

# . — Guest 2007-08-02 11:46

all 3 of you STFU and deal with it.

# THIS IS BS — Guest 2007-08-02 11:47

EA, why don't you refund us half of our money back since you are taking half of our PAID FOR games. I used to be a big Need for Speed fan until EA started shafting people. GO RIDGE RACER! I still have a grudge against them for scrapping Thrill Kill after they bought the company about to release it.

# Bad business practice — Guest 2007-08-02 11:52

I personally don't play EA's online-enabled games, but that sucks. Why can't they just have one master game and include updates on a monthly basis instead of forcing people to buy new versions of last years games? New animations, rosters, decals, cars, characters, moves, etc. can all be downloaded. Paying an extra $50-$60 for minor updates is paying too much. Then again, the average consumer doesn't know these things, and they believe that it's too much of a hassle. EA will take advantage of that and milk all it can from fans of whatever series.

# 34534 — Guest 2007-08-02 12:10

*****ing homo ea as usual, lets shutdown servers for 1 year old games, they dont even say if these games are popular, it makes sense that a good amount of people play these games (i dont i hate ea)

# yes they are! — Guest 2007-08-02 12:23

of course they are old. any sports game that isnt the latest version automatically drops in value by about 95%. go to your local game shop and see these games in the discount bin for about $2-$3.

the reason? because everyone who actually buys and plays sports games love them, and will continually buy the next latest and greatest *with of course, the latest rosters* a game soon to be 2 seasons old will have little replay value for the common sports gamer.

havent you seen the new madden commercial? all it is is people waiting in line for their dumb game. its as if a new final fantasy game came out.

im not saying this is a practice i follow, but thats how pretty much all of the people in the sports gaming community act.

# i know better — Guest 2007-08-02 12:27

i know better than to buy EA. they've ruiined many great game series and now this...when i was a kid renting genesis games i used to think high of EA. good thing i stay clear of EA games. where i work part time at walmart in the electronics department, ill recommend customers to buy the non-EA version of a sports game. not only because i hate EA, but because i think the customer will actually get a better game that way. ill say get the sony version, etc whatever just not EA.

# well... — Guest 2007-08-02 13:43

online nfs games are boring anyway.

# kl; — Guest 2007-08-02 14:35

coughpspiso.comcough

# dedicated servers — Guest 2007-08-02 15:18

release the server files so we can run our own and problem solved

# F**K EA — Guest 2007-08-02 15:44

Don't buy EA games. The easiest solution.

# wtf — Guest 2007-08-02 16:02

need 4 speed most wanted is not boring mabye 4 u cuz u suck DJ lol but wtf is wrong with EA most wanted i bought it like a year ago and i play it to race with my friend's wtf as wipe's why cant they just buy more SERVER's i mean there freekin Rich as hel arent they they have been out as long as i can rember probly older than me

# nfs games are good, — Guest 2007-08-02 17:36

online is just boring. read (ONLINE). nfs carbon at least. its too easy for people to cheat so it sucks.

# ummm — Guest 2007-08-02 17:53

arent those 06 sports games 2 years old?

they release these games like just before the end of the year

well i know they do for the AFL titles

AFL Live 2006 was released in 05

and AFL Live Premiership Edition 2007 was released 06

i dont think asking you to buy the new versions for online play isnt really asking that much

# TP — Guest 2007-08-02 19:09

OK, so maybe the sports games have about as much replay value as a roll of toilet paper. But the driving games? Thats just wrong. They should keep the servers running until they release the server code/binaries and a patch for the game to let it use alternate servers.

# fifa sucks — Guest 2007-08-02 20:22

fifa sucks anyway, pro evo is much better on the internet

# sdf — Guest 2007-08-03 00:21

pro evo sucks, winning eleven is where its at, ea suck too, they are like the nazi germany of game companies and we are the french just rolling over and taking whatever they throw at us

yeah the french suck at life deal with it

# . — Guest 2007-08-03 00:32

@fsf

pro evo & winning eleven r the the same game u retard. They just renamed it for different regions.

# I hatEA — Guest 2007-08-03 01:47

With all the money they make off of Madden and all their other sh*tty games they can't afford to run a few more servers. ESPN 2K5 is still running and that game is 3 years old.

# ecule watt — Guest 2007-08-03 02:41

these games are mostly from '06 and '05. And what, ea couldn't afford the servers?

# fdsa — Guest 2007-08-03 05:32

As mentioned in one of the first few posts, I'm one of those people who plays only the latest sports games for the roster updates. Also, no one even plays on the '06 servers for most of these (NBA Live 06 barely had anyone even before '07 game out) so I don't mind. However, I don't actually buy these games, I'm a PSP user, if ya know what I mean..

# nooooo — Guest 2007-08-03 08:39

Time to throw out my Madden 06 collectors edition. The only reason I still play it is for online.

***** move EA :(

# sdfg — Guest 2007-08-03 11:38

In any sport but baseball, the year is the year the season ends. (Madden 07 is the 06-07 season, etc.).

# /too lazy to log in — Guest 2007-08-03 11:41

I just buy the EA games (2K Sports are *****) every 3 years or so and manually update my teams roster.

# gfdgdfg — Guest 2007-08-03 13:36

ugh that fight night round 3 is like my favorite online game ever >.>

# FNR3 — Guest 2007-08-03 13:39

Well if they are gonna shut down Fight Night Round 3 for PSP, they better come out with a new one then

# thats my point — Guest 2007-08-05 00:07

madden 06 was released 05

making it 2 years old

read what i said properly

# LUIS — Guest 2007-08-05 05:52

you put out the words from my mouth.

# ....Don't buy EA games. — Guest 2007-08-17 12:33

Hiya guys,welll they closed the NFS Porsche servers =( i was really mad about so I stopped buying games from them..anywya the point is if u want well supported games try BLIZZARD ENTERTAINMENT

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