EA announced this week that they will be shutting down servers for a number of their older games. Perhaps not very surprising, considering it’s reasonable to assume that the player base for these games isn’t very large anymore.
However, it’s still disappointing as many of these games have significant online components that will completely disappear when the servers are shut down. On September 7th, EA will shut down the servers for Crysis 3, followed by a batch of Battlefield games in early December.
The servers for Tiger Woods PGA Tour 14 might not be mourned by many, but the ones for the Battlefield Bad Company series and FIFA 18 to 21 might sting for more players.
A list of the games whose servers will be shut down and the corresponding dates can be found below.
EA Games Shutting Down By The End Of 2023
September 7, 2023
- Crysis 3 for Playstation 3, Xbox 360, Xbox One (backwards compatibility), Steam and EA App
October 10, 2023
- Tiger Woods PGA Tour 14 for Xbox 360 and on PlayStation 3
October 30, 2023
- Restaurant DASH: Gordon Ramsay for Apple, Google, and Amazon
November 6, 2023
- FIFA 18 for PC, Xbox One and PlayStation 4
- FIFA 19 for PC, Xbox One and PlayStation 4
- FIFA 20 for Nintendo Switch, PC, Xbox One and PlayStation 4
- FIFA 21 for Nintendo Switch, PC, Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S, PlayStation 4 and PlayStation 5
December 8, 2023
- Battlefield 1943 for PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360
- Battlefield Bad Company for PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360
- Battlefield Bad Company 2 for PC, PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360
- Dead Space 2 on PC, PlayStation 3, and Xbox 360
- Dante’s Inferno on PlayStation 3, PlayStation Portable and Xbox 360
