Kingdoms Of Amalur: Reckoning – wait, this game had online? (pic: EA)
Another batch of EA games will soon no longer be playable online and the only reason they’re not being delisted is because they already are.
The list of EA games that will be losing their online services just got a bit longer. The publisher has already been shutting down online features for several of its older games, such as Mirror’s Edge and the Command And Conquer titles.
Although EA hasn’t made any further public statements, it’s been discovered that it’s quietly added at least another four games to that list.
We’d say that the bright side is none of these games will be delisted from digital storefronts, like a certain trio of Battlefield games, except most of them aren’t available digitally anyway.
The four games in question all come from the 2010s and are scheduled to lose their online features in the coming months:
Shadows Of The Damned (Xbox 360, PlayStation 4, Xbox One) – March 28
Kingdoms Of Amalur: Reckoning (Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, PC) – May 15
Warp (Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, PC)
Syndicate (2012) (Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, PC) – June 15
These were first spotted by PureXbox over on EA’s website and fortunately all have single-player functionality. So, if you are still playing any of these games, they won’t become inoperable.
Most of them have long ago been delisted from digital storefronts, so anyone thinking of obtaining them, for preservation’s sake, has already missed the boat – unless you can pick up a physical copy.
Kingdoms Of Amalur is available across multiple platforms thanks to its Re-Reckoning remaster and Warp appears to still be available on the Xbox 360 marketplace.
We checked to see if it’s still on the PlayStation store but could only find the similarly named PlayStation 4 title W.A.R.P.
Considering how old these games are, and how unlikely it is that they have active player bases, it’s understandable why EA is removing the online features, even if the news is disappointing.
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It’s an inevitability for any game with online functionality; companies are never going to pay to keep servers up and running if not enough people are playing them to justify it.
While these games will remain playable others aren’t so lucky. Online-only games like Battlefield 1943 will be lost forever and even somewhat newer titles like Animal Crossing: New Horizons have a built in expiration date.
Shadows Of The Damned – one of the less fondly remembered Suda51 games (pic: EA)
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Another batch of EA games will soon no longer be playable online and the only reason they’re not being delisted is because they already are.