EA to close multiple online servers
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EA has announced it will be closing servers across the board for games that don't have enough online players.
The post on EA's website states that servers for iOS games Ghost Harvest, Fantasi Safari and Battlefield 3: Aftershock will be removed from the App store and shut down on 31 March.
Servers for games Boom Blox Bash Party, Burnout Revenge, EA Create, EA Sports Active 2.0, EA Sports Active NFL Training Camp, FIFA 10 (PSP and Wii only), The Godfather II, EA Sports MMA, Need For Speed Prostreet, The Saboteur and Spare Parts will also close on 13 April.
The decision to "retire older EA games [is] never easy," says a post on the publishers website, but there aren't enough people for EA to keep the servers running.
"[G]ames get replaced with newer titles, the number of players still enjoying the older games dwindles to a level - less than one per cent of all peak online players across all EA titles - where it's no longer feasible to continue the behind-the-scenes hard work involved in keeping these games up and running.
"We would rather our hard-working engineering and IT staff focus on keeping a positive experience for the other 99 per cent of customers playing our more popular games."