Forum Posts: 1066 | Comment #1 by Aiden 514 Wednesday, January 02, 2013 @ 11:27:40 AM | |
| At least they tell us. |
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Forum Posts: 78 | Comment #2 by Blumpenstein Wednesday, January 02, 2013 @ 11:29:13 AM | |
| "The decisions to retire older EA games are never easy" yet it happens oh so frequently |
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Forum Posts: 171 | Comment #3 by O0mix0O Wednesday, January 02, 2013 @ 11:29:17 AM | |
| I can understand the reasoning behind it but I still think that you should support your games as long as you can :) |
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Forum Posts: 5873 | Comment #4 by Opiate42 Wednesday, January 02, 2013 @ 11:29:21 AM | |
| True. |
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Forum Posts: 310 | Comment #5 by STONE DEVIL Wednesday, January 02, 2013 @ 11:29:34 AM | |
| No big loss |
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Forum Posts: 3 | Comment #6 by Nickrulz1 Wednesday, January 02, 2013 @ 11:29:38 AM | |
| At least we know now but sucks if there are any achievements online! |
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Forum Posts: 6257 | Comment #7 by Nevander Wednesday, January 02, 2013 @ 11:30:16 AM | |
| Be funny if they brought some back up. That would twist some heads. |
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Forum Posts: 138 | Comment #8 by yoda12320 Wednesday, January 02, 2013 @ 11:31:01 AM | |
| wow x360a way to be late to the party lol. |
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Forum Posts: 15 | Comment #9 by exception360 Wednesday, January 02, 2013 @ 11:33:32 AM | |
| The decisions to retire older EA games are never easy. - But when we think of the money we will earn when customers have to buy a newer version (again!) to be able to play the same game with little adjustments it's make us roflol. |
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Forum Posts: 72 | Comment #10 by Fozki Razormaid Wednesday, January 02, 2013 @ 11:34:18 AM | |
| The servers for rogue warrior are still up . But no one plays that . And older COD games |
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Forum Posts: 527 | Comment #11 by Terrin Wednesday, January 02, 2013 @ 11:38:14 AM | |
| @10 that's because there hosted by Microsoft who do not close there servers until they shut down there entire system servers for that console |
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Forum Posts: 3 | Comment #12 by StiffyScotland Wednesday, January 02, 2013 @ 11:39:22 AM | |
No big loss for me... don't play any of those games at all not even the current versions of the games.
Thing is.. those games are only 2 years old. There are games that came out 5 years ago.. some are 10 years old a least and the server for those games are still up and running.
My Girlfriends son still plays Fifa 2011 with his friends as the don't play the new games and that is the one they prefer playing... this will cause them to stop playing a game with each other just cause EA.. One of the biggest Developers and producers of games. with all that cash just don't wanna pay for servers..
I say they should keep the servers running for people that like the older games..
I have friends that have FIFA 2013 and they got rid of it after a month cause it was crap. they have went back to FIFA 2012 cause they prefer that one to the new one |
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Forum Posts: 105 | Comment #13 by hotdogenigma Wednesday, January 02, 2013 @ 11:39:30 AM | |
| Raise your hands, how many of you will be affected by this but quickly moved on to a different game? They look at peak online activity and less than 1% of you play the game. Oddly enough, gamers have the opportunity to delay server shutdowns. Stop buying their yearly releases and this might not happen so often. |
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Forum Posts: 163 | Comment #14 by DeadlySinz86 Wednesday, January 02, 2013 @ 11:40:57 AM | |
| Anyone wanna get the NBA online achieves out the way before the servers go down, if so add me! GT: DeadlySinz86 |
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Forum Posts: 445 | Comment #15 by MoldyClay87 Wednesday, January 02, 2013 @ 11:43:03 AM | |
| Doesn't affect me, but does this only affect NBA Jam and not the On Fire Edition which just went on sale apparently? |
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Forum Posts: 590 | Comment #16 by reaper527 Wednesday, January 02, 2013 @ 11:45:36 AM | |
maybe if they didn't tack the shitty online pass system into all of their games, there would be a bigger pool of people using the servers.
how about ea shutdown their exclusivity contracts that prevent anyone else from making a sports game instead of their servers? that sounds like a great idea. it sucks when shitty companies monopolize a genre. |
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Forum Posts: 89 | Comment #17 by strawberry Wednesday, January 02, 2013 @ 11:50:12 AM | |
| FUCK EA! |
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Forum Posts: 123 | Comment #18 by Space Cadet Wednesday, January 02, 2013 @ 11:52:26 AM | |
@15
It appears that the decision will only affect the retail version of the game, The On Fire Edition one is safe. |
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Forum Posts: 108 | Comment #19 by Slayinfool Wednesday, January 02, 2013 @ 11:54:17 AM | |
one more reason why paying for sport games is stupid..
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Forum Posts: 1895 | Comment #20 by Rivercurse Wednesday, January 02, 2013 @ 11:54:58 AM | |
| I'd like to know honestly how much behind-the-scenes work there is on these servers if this is the reason they give for closing them. If it's a lot, then so be it, but if it isn't then I think they should support for longer. I dunno much about this kind of thing. |
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Forum Posts: 253 | Comment #21 by secretkaos187 Wednesday, January 02, 2013 @ 12:00:07 PM | |
| These games can be played w/ current roster updates right? thats why we should stop buying into sports games released every year,especially when they don't really have ground-breaking,game-changing upgrades. That's why I stopped buying them. Anybody wanna boost some NBA JAM, hit me up!!! |
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Forum Posts: 218 | Comment #22 by Cinderkin Wednesday, January 02, 2013 @ 12:08:14 PM | |
EA can suck it. I have stopped buying their games all together, I just rent them. I refuse to keep paying for an incomplete experience.
I can still play Perfect Dark Zero (2005) online if I wanted to, but not an EA game after 2 years. |
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Forum Posts: 15 | Comment #23 by exception360 Wednesday, January 02, 2013 @ 12:09:06 PM | |
@20 - Why can't those game have a host-option so you can run your own server, just like many, many other games? Because people wouldn't buy the newer version of the game. They actually force people to get a 'newer' version if you want to keep playing online.
EA - It's not about the game, it's all about the money. |
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Forum Posts: 57 | Comment #24 by queeg Wednesday, January 02, 2013 @ 12:09:32 PM | |
| And this is why i'll never buy another sports game published by EA, I wouldn't mind so much if their games didn't have online achievements, but unachievable stuff really bugs me and Essentially making part of the game unusable after 2 years is terrible, I think the prices of their games should reflect this. |
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Forum Posts: 2 | Comment #25 by fodbod Wednesday, January 02, 2013 @ 12:15:05 PM | |
FIFA 11 was the worst of all FIFA games i have ever played it freeze almost everytime you play the game or join a match i tried it on both my friends xbox and mine of course i bought a new disc and it was just the same almost instant FREEZE or lost connection to EA
FIFA 12 and FIFA 13 was a great improved version atleast. |
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Forum Posts: 82 | Comment #26 by Golden Guard Wednesday, January 02, 2013 @ 12:16:45 PM | |
@2
I agree. Just look at Bungie (prior to 343 switch) supporting Halo 2 and 3 servers. Halo 2's MP servers were up for what, 5 or 6 years? Halo 3's are still up to this day!
Just because a new title comes out doesn't mean you should shut down old servers! |
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Forum Posts: 61 | Comment #27 by JDAckers Wednesday, January 02, 2013 @ 12:24:50 PM | |
| At least they are consistent, always closing sports servers after 2 years! xD That also looks like last years press release, they have just changed all the 10s to 11s. This time next year, all the 12s will close etc. |
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Forum Posts: 10 | Comment #28 by priwogic Wednesday, January 02, 2013 @ 12:38:06 PM | |
| ea are joke on these sports games way they keep closing servers to try and force people into newer versions. |
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Forum Posts: 0 | Comment #29 by XsniperXxxXGODX Wednesday, January 02, 2013 @ 12:48:57 PM | |
| I was hoping on mass effect 3 to close down |
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Forum Posts: 1353 | Comment #30 by Emfulz Wednesday, January 02, 2013 @ 01:12:57 PM | |
| I think they should just let it be hosted by us after they decide to pull the plug. They can remove leaderboard support and all that jazz but let us host the online function. |
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Forum Posts: 20 | Comment #31 by iBeTJ Wednesday, January 02, 2013 @ 01:14:01 PM | |
| Shutting down NBA JAM servers? Seriously? Damn. |
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Forum Posts: 36 | Comment #32 by Hannibal king 88 Wednesday, January 02, 2013 @ 01:24:48 PM | |
| They do the same thing with any other game . I love army of 2 i got to play woth my cousin online and i cant . Whats th point of closing servers anyway. If the game has people playing it why close em |
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Forum Posts: 387 | Comment #33 by Caramel Cardinal Wednesday, January 02, 2013 @ 01:43:13 PM | |
| now i'm no expert but surley the hard bit is setting up the severs in the first place, keeping them running is easy so long as you don't have a powercut :/ |
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Forum Posts: 2084 | Comment #34 by mjc0961 Wednesday, January 02, 2013 @ 02:07:22 PM | |
""The decisions to retire older EA games are never easy," the publisher states on its official site. "The development teams and operational staff pour their hearts into these games almost as much as the customers playing them and it is hard to see one retired. But as games get replaced with newer titles"
Maybe stop replacing them every fucking year then you idiots. The world won't end if we don't get a new Madden, FIFA, NBA, and NHL game every year. Instead of constantly pumping a new one out each year, keep the current one alive with DLC.
Or at least stop with the fucking online passes, it's bullshit to ask people to buy the damn things when the money doesn't go to keeping the game's server running. |
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Forum Posts: 31 | Comment #35 by blleiffer Wednesday, January 02, 2013 @ 02:13:04 PM | |
| Lol This shit should not happen now that we have to pay an added fee for xbox live and then another fee for the fucking online pass |
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Forum Posts: 1 | Comment #36 by aidanm70 Wednesday, January 02, 2013 @ 02:38:12 PM | |
| i know EA are the biggest company who make they fifa games, they should maybe stop making fifa 14 and put some money into the servers for a old fifa games wat people want. |
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Forum Posts: 69 | Comment #37 by superchimp99 Wednesday, January 02, 2013 @ 03:20:41 PM | |
| this means i need to get my nhl 11 boost on! hit me up if you want GT= superchimp99 |
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Forum Posts: 622 | Comment #38 by Teh Phantomz Wednesday, January 02, 2013 @ 03:59:35 PM | |
| What a joke, but oddly enough I'm not surprised. It seems sports games only have a 2 year lifecycle now, which isn't fair. |
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Forum Posts: 190 | Comment #39 by ash356 Wednesday, January 02, 2013 @ 04:18:33 PM | |
It's not as bad for me, though still sucks for those who wanted to play those still :/
I rarely play Fifa online anyway; people out there put so much time into that game, it's almost impossible to compete. I've known friends who seem to be on the game 24/7. |
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Forum Posts: 2599 | Comment #40 by Venomized Wednesday, January 02, 2013 @ 05:02:57 PM | |
| NHL 11. Sad cause it is way better than 12 and 13. |
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Forum Posts: 3 | Comment #41 by Misfit X7 Wednesday, January 02, 2013 @ 06:25:46 PM | |
Correct me if i'm wrong...but is this why i can't play DS2 online or Mercs 2 AT ALL? (obviously older servers closes are the cause but really?) i mean i understand pandemic closed it's doors a few years ago...but you couldn't set it up so i can play mercs without completely disconnecting my console...these people act like it costs them money to let us play old stuff online...five bucks says i could boot up unreal tournament '03 on the pc and find more games than i could for ANY current EA title....(Madden doesn't count)
that being said...who cares if they shut down SPORTS game servers? the fans of those games do that to themselves every year they pay 60 bucks for a retail patch. |
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Forum Posts: 5 | Comment #42 by Moon Knight 875 Wednesday, January 02, 2013 @ 06:28:06 PM | |
| Just get rid of the online achievements and problem solved. I never attempt them anyways because by the time i finish all the offline ones, and decide to go for the online ones their servers are getting ready to shutdown,, its a joke. Make one game of each sport and just have a roster update and uniform update for each team and sport and i'd be happy and save $60+ each title every year..oh but wait they'd be losing money and i'd be saving money...silly me! |
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Forum Posts: 8 | Comment #43 by TheBrute1997 Wednesday, January 02, 2013 @ 06:29:20 PM | |
| EA make Activision seem like the most generous company in the gaming industry. |
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Forum Posts: 64 | Comment #44 by Jaganboy Wednesday, January 02, 2013 @ 06:31:14 PM | |
| -.- Now this forces me to play FIFA 11 (my roommate played it on my account 2 years ago). |
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Forum Posts: 3 | Comment #45 by Misfit X7 Wednesday, January 02, 2013 @ 06:33:28 PM | |
I left out a key point...an above poster said something about 'let us host...remove leaderboard...etc..." and i agree...obviously dedicated servers cost money and take up needed space for devs/publishers...but this is no justification to allow someone to walk into a Gamestop, pay cash for a game, take it home, find out a server connection is required, and that said server has been shut down...the saddest part? Mercs 2 has NO competitive multiplayer! why can't we user host a 2 player co-op game?
Bottom line...EA cannot convince (and should not be able to convince) anyone that a dedicated server is REQUIRED for a single player game.
EA has come a long way in their support of third party titles..but seriously...yearly sports franchise titles are creating an uncool paradigm shift in business practice. lol and take this being my second post how you will (hoping this isn't GFAQS 2.0) |
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Forum Posts: 975 | Comment #46 by Delow317 Wednesday, January 02, 2013 @ 07:11:01 PM | |
| Well this is obviously the only downside to dedicated servers... and is also the reason why I havn't bought a POS EA game since Fight Night Round 2. People say dedicated servers are so much better when they can be taken down at anytime due to cost of maintainance. |
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Forum Posts: 25 | Comment #47 by treo9 Wednesday, January 02, 2013 @ 07:11:04 PM | |
EA need some competition in the sporting genre i think, apart from the NBA 2k franchise they are just doing as they please with consumers now, if 2k or some other company could land a blow with a great Football game or Golf, Ice Hockey, etc. They would actually have to start giving a shit about the reaction of the masses, but until that happens we are all at there mercy, for they saturate the market and there is absolutely no competition any more.
Roster updates and shiny new menus are pretty much all you get these days in a EA sports title and then after a year or two they say fuck you very much for your money you can't play our games online anymore even though it says online multiplayer on the back of the game case and they include online achievements and season passes and the list goes on...turds. |
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Forum Posts: 38 | Comment #48 by wacko3.16 Wednesday, January 02, 2013 @ 08:06:23 PM | |
If EA expect to get away with this year in, year out, they need to do one of the following:
1) Stop releasing yearly titles for the same games to stop so many servers from existing or;
2) Make their DLC free for the duration of the games life as this just becomes wasted money 2 years down the line.
The reason I say this is because of FIFA and the Ultimate Team. Now I do not like FIFA games any more as I feel the titles are just the same year in, year out, but people spend shed loads of money on this stuff to get the so called UT. Make it skill based or unlockables or something, just stop with this crap. I still play Tiger Woods 12 and at this rate it seems as though I wont be able to play it next year which would be a disgrace with the amount of DLC I bought for it to play online with my friends.
Sort it out EA!!!!!
Rant over :) |
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Forum Posts: 84 | Comment #49 by tincann Wednesday, January 02, 2013 @ 08:14:53 PM | |
| EA needs to dump all their "Old" Games on a couple of old servers. You may not be able to connect, at times because the servers are full, but at the very least, we could play the games we spent our hard earned money on. |
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Forum Posts: 259 | Comment #50 by ShinobiSteve81 Wednesday, January 02, 2013 @ 08:29:09 PM | |
| I don't play sports games, but EA is greedy as hell with shutting servers down. Still pissed with all the $ I spent on Family Game Night games that I'd always play with friends. |
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Forum Posts: 1 | Comment #51 by killerofmen Wednesday, January 02, 2013 @ 08:56:31 PM | |
| madden 11 is no loss,there are no online achievements anyhow |
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Forum Posts: 1722 | Comment #52 by cheevo360 Wednesday, January 02, 2013 @ 09:01:08 PM | |
Yes because EA always done it when rare players played those games which is why EA stop it. Every years we will be seen same info for EA shutdown servers. Lol
We knew EA will do it and we knew EA is one of worst crazy publusher. :P |
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Forum Posts: 4 | Comment #53 by King_Designs Wednesday, January 02, 2013 @ 10:21:23 PM | |
| Those games are like 3 and 4 years old, it's time for people to update. |
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Forum Posts: 73 | Comment #54 by evilresidentuk Wednesday, January 02, 2013 @ 10:46:33 PM | |
@53 im sorry, 3 or 4 years old ? most of these games are 2 years old, hence the 2011 tag in the title, weve only just started 2013, its ridiculous that EA expect people to shell out for online passes then pull this crap, licensing issues (marvel, lord of the rings) is one thing but a game thats not even out for 2 years and EA will still happily sell it without any warning of no online service, absolute cunts. personally i dont like the yearly sports games so im not gonna miss out, but i know people who do.
EA should just stop this, i mean theyve got enough money to end world hunger so whats a couple of fucking servers ?! greedy fucks, in an ideal world THQ or silicon knights would inherit there money and EA can go bust, dont think anyone would care if 2K were still making sports games |
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Forum Posts: 1098 | Comment #55 by xMidget_Furyx Thursday, January 03, 2013 @ 01:37:52 AM | |
| Can't be to much behind the scenes going on HUT playoff contender has been glitches since June 2011 and no fix for that they were made aware of the issue and did nothing. Then give some line about we'll look into it but we're focused on NHL 13. Give @EASPORTSNHL a message on twitter. Ask them about it. |
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Forum Posts: 1098 | Comment #56 by xMidget_Furyx Thursday, January 03, 2013 @ 01:40:04 AM | |
| @51 you need to be connected to the EA servers to play madden ultimate team which has 2 achievements tied to it. Not sure about madden moments either but with madden 13 you need to be connected to the ea servers to play those as well |
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Forum Posts: 238 | Comment #57 by SuperWoody64 Thursday, January 03, 2013 @ 01:51:05 AM | |
| Here, pay ten bucks to play online. Now make sure a bunch of people play online too so we keep the server going. |
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Forum Posts: 439 | Comment #58 by Daniel55645 Thursday, January 03, 2013 @ 02:27:00 AM | |
| What the fuck. Leave your servers up. there are still launch titles with their servers still up. just fucking keep them up |
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Forum Posts: 33 | Comment #59 by lethargicj Thursday, January 03, 2013 @ 02:47:48 AM | |
| I'd be willing to bet money that 99% of the people whining about this don't play any of the games listed. |
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Forum Posts: 7 | Comment #60 by muaddib 01 Thursday, January 03, 2013 @ 05:12:15 AM | |
| that,s EA for you . take your money and run with it . i bet you that they are still making you pay of the pass for the games |
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Forum Posts: 72 | Comment #61 by PonySl4ystation Thursday, January 03, 2013 @ 06:11:04 AM | |
Hate's a strong word...
But it's not strong enough when it comes to my feelings about EA. There morals are that of petty thiefs.
Cunts is the only word that comes to mind... |
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Forum Posts: 4 | Comment #62 by King_Designs Thursday, January 03, 2013 @ 07:50:19 AM | |
| @54 i thought in 2010 they release the 2011 game, in 2011 they release 2012, 2012 they release 2013 ect ect, they always stay 1 ahead!! |
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Forum Posts: 2982 | Comment #63 by Akuza Thursday, January 03, 2013 @ 10:11:41 AM | |
FIFA 11 is 3 years old now anyway... So that doesn't suprise me.
If they where shutting off FIFA 12 servers I could understand people being pissed off, but if it's an on going series that uses the same server system, why slow things down for the newer ones?
Also nobody can say that it's a similar thing with halo or cod, as these are NOT server based, they are created as a peer to peer bases, the only thing needed from Microsoft or activision for the games, is the matchmaking setup which is extremely minimal, meaning they can leave them running forever without it ever effecting the newer stuff.
EA still have shit servers even when they do these shut downs.. FIFA 13 still signs out of its EA servers like FIFA 12 has done from day 1 and still will till it's dying day. |
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Forum Posts: 320 | Comment #64 by ScottHarris Thursday, January 03, 2013 @ 10:35:56 AM | |
| @60, yep we still need to pay for the stupid pass on FIFA 11, even though the servers close on the 11th. People who paid for an online pass should get refunded. |
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