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Posted: Feb 17th 2010 4:48PM Extinction said

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They need to make a universal server that runs all their games, then theyd have no reason to shut infividual games down

Posted: Feb 17th 2010 5:26PM alinos said

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No offense mate but you really dont understand servers do you

and besides theres probably only 4 titles there that shouldnt be on the list basicallyeverything else is is a sports game and sure there forcing you to move on up to the newer ones but that just means the communitys stronger instead of spread over 5 games just spread over the 2 most recent ones
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Posted: Feb 17th 2010 7:21PM Extinction said

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"No offense mate but you really dont understand servers do you "

Actually I do. They could easily make an extensible server platform that handles any game they throw at it
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Posted: Feb 17th 2010 4:53PM williamc said

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This is fine for sports games, which are updated annually, but it has me worried about the current run of EA games that rely in logging in to servers to be playable first-person games. Wasn't there an outage earlier this week where Dragon Age: Origins players were blocked from being able to load the game? I'd hate for EA's need to control their servers make the single-player games I've purchased become unplayable in a few years.

Posted: Feb 17th 2010 5:28PM alinos said

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well thats when you get the pirate version sucks if your on a console but power to you

although i doubt any game that has DRM in it will get pulled but you know those ToS that you sign most of them actually say there allowed to pull it down whenever they see fit
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Posted: Feb 17th 2010 4:57PM Vcize said

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Wtf, LoTR Conquest isn't even that old (barely a year). I was about to pick that up to play with a buddy online.

Lame.

Posted: Feb 17th 2010 5:09PM Vidikron said

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Given that it got terrible reviews and was developed by a studio that is now shut down, they probably did you a favor here.
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Posted: Feb 17th 2010 6:12PM Vcize said

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It's under $10 some places, so it's not like I was going to be making a big investment.

I played the demo, and it seemed well worth the 10 bucks if not more. Shame.
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Posted: Feb 17th 2010 5:25PM incendious said

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But wait, I thought paying for Xbox Live was supposed to prevent such things?!

Posted: Feb 17th 2010 5:39PM Acosta02 said

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incendious slowly leans back in his chair, another sick burn delivered. Truly he is the king of cool... the champion of sarcasm and witty observation. One more step forward in his master plan to eliminate that pesky Xbox 360 once and for all...


(;D don't take me *too* seriously!)
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Posted: Feb 17th 2010 5:47PM incendious said

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I pictured your narrative in a Bud Light commercial...Real Men of Genius.
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Posted: Feb 18th 2010 11:29AM (Unverified) said

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This Bud Light is for you, Mr. Snarky Console Fanboy Commenter.

*singing*Mr. Snarky Console Fanboy Commenter-errrrrr*end singing*
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Posted: Feb 17th 2010 5:40PM Maulok said

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LOTR Conquest didn't last long

Posted: Feb 17th 2010 6:36PM (Unverified) said

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RIP Burnout 3, best Burnout game ever made. :(

I find it odd that the PS2 version happens to be getting taken offline the same day Live is being discontinued for original Xbox games.

Posted: Feb 17th 2010 6:53PM SmashPapaya said

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Thank goodness Mercs 2 on PS3 will still be online I live the hell outta that game me and a buddy causing mayhem

Posted: Feb 17th 2010 7:13PM KaBob799 said

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Yet another reason to completely hate online multiplayer achievements.

Posted: Feb 17th 2010 7:23PM Extinction said

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Agreed.

No trophy/achievement should depend on other people (see killzone 2 for the worst example), 10 hours of work, random chance, etc etc.

I just give up games when I collect all the reasonable trophies. I have too many games to play rather than play for 100 hours to collect a single trophy in warhawk or some bs like that.
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Posted: Feb 17th 2010 9:08PM (Unverified) said

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This is seriously horrible. I know a lot of these games aren't my favorites, a number of them aren't even good, but it's always nice to be able to pick up a game years later and play it...fully intact.

I know Lord of the Rings: Conquest isn't great, but taking out the online completely strips the game of nearly all its value. Not to mention, for us points junkies, the online achievements will be gone forever, just sitting there, STARING AT YOU, and you'll know you'll never be able to reach them. Absolutely stupid.

All this, every single one of these games and their online shutdowns, stems from EA wanting to spam you with emails instead of swallowing their corporate pride and using Microsoft for their online supplies. In the end, yeah, they sent you a few annoying emails, but all at the price of not being able to play THEIR OWN DAMN PRODUCTS.

Posted: Feb 17th 2010 9:54PM Capgun said

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Medal of Honor Pacific Assault for PC

Little curious about this one. I never really played it online since my comp at the time could not run the game well., but I'm fairly sure this runs on dedicated servers anyway. What exactly are they shutting down here.

Posted: Feb 18th 2010 10:14AM (Unverified) said

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It's a slippery slope for them. I've amassed a backcatalog of games over the past year thanks to some pretty sweet deals and clearances of a lot of games. Facebreakers for $5, LOTR Conquest for $7, and a whole lotta NFS goodness for likely less than $10-20 total. Games like Conquest are new to me....yet to be opened.

But by the time I get to it, it will be "expired". Games with expiration dates are the scary thing. Games shouldn't have this. There needs to be a system in place which will patch games with axed servers, and allow for self-hosting your own matches. Internet speeds are getting up to par these days to allow it without fear of massive lag for all involved.

At this rate, I stand to lose about a dozen titles functionality. Lucky for me I didn't buy these at normal MSRP pricing or release price. But that's still a lot of games i'm now probably going to sell off post-haste. It's likely also going to affect future purchases from EA or any other company willing to do this too soon to a title.

Posted: Feb 18th 2010 10:29AM germdove said

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THIS is why we need to have dedicated servers and LAN play for our games.

Posted: Feb 21st 2010 1:16AM killerjuice said

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NOOOO!

Lord of the Rings Conquest online was great! That game is only a year old too!

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