It is confirmed that EA will be shutting down servers for several games soon
Electronic Arts have confirmed it will be shutting down online servers for several of its games. This of course is nothing new for EA as they have shut down older servers to make way for newer games before.
The games losing their servers soon include:
- Mirrors Edge (19th of January 2023)
- Gatling Gears (19th of January 2023)
- 2010’s NBA Jam: On fire edition (19th of January 2023)
- Shank 2 (19th of January 2023)
- Army Of Two: The 40th Day (20th of October 2022)
- Army Of Two: The Devil’s Cartel (20th of October 2022)
- Command and Conquer: Red Alert 3 (9th of November 2022)
- Command & Conquer 3: Tiberium Wars (including Kane’s Wrath expansion) (9th of November 2022
- Mercenaries 2 (9th of November 2022)
- ONRUSH (30th of November 2022)
- Super Mega Baseball: Extra innings for Luna+ (15th December 2022)
- Super Mega Baseball 3 for Luna+ (15th of December)
Other companies, including Ubisoft with its older Assassin’s Creed games earlier this month, have shut down servers for outdated games in addition to EA.
In 2008, the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 versions of Mirror’s Edge, the most well-known of these games, were initially made available. 2009 saw its arrival on PC. Mirror’s Edge Catalyst, a remake of the game, was released in 2016 for PC, PlayStation 4, and Xbox One.
Unfortunately, There hasn’t been any recent news about new entries in the franchise. EA France released something regarding Mirror’s Edge last year that might have been a hint at a new game but afterward made it clear that it wasn’t.
The shutdown of the servers will have a few repercussions. There are already fan-supported workarounds for this in games like Red Alert 3, which still have a vibrant community, that allows multiplayer. Multiplayer servers for any game that supports them will, of course, be shut down.
Additionally, it will prevent you from obtaining any achievements with an online component, and once the servers go down, these achievements will be permanently locked out.
As the list of servers going down is being revealed and some going down soon, it would be prudent to get your achievements and trophies while the servers are still up.
You can check out the entire list of servers that are and will be shut down from EA here.