EA will soon discontinue various Battlefield titles as of December 2018.
Electronic Arts will be closing servers for 12 of their games by the end of 2023, including several classic Battlefield titles.
Live service games inevitably close down their servers; sometimes, we see this turnaround, such as when classic Call of Duty servers were reinstated alongside Titanfall 2 servers, but such instances remain rare. Fans of such titles should hope their shutdown coincides with its natural declining popularity – something seen recently with Marvel’s Avengers, where this happened due to a lack of players. EA recently announced 12 games will close down over three months, another heartbreaker indeed!
EA explained to Gamerficial that shuttering these games will allow them to focus their resources on more active titles; EA claims these 12 games make up less than one percent of its live service users.
One game, Crysis 3, was already shut down last month in September; Tiger Woods PGA Tour 14 will join it starting October 10, followed by Restaurant DASH: Gordon Ramsay on October 30 and many FIFA titles such as 18, 19, 20, 21 being pulled on November 6 and 8, with Battlefield 1943, Battlefield Bad Company 2, Dead Space 2, Dante’s Inferno being shut down as servers go dark on December 8.
For nostalgic purposes, if you wish to revisit any of these online components now before it becomes impossible.
