As background information, the games scheduled for shutdown in March and April 2010 represent less than 0.3% of all peak online players across all EA titles. Despite some people's perception, there is a lot of behind-the-scenes work involved with keeping these older games up and running. We would rather our hard-working engineering and IT staff focus on keeping a positive experience for the other 99.7% of customers playing our more popular games. These decisions to retire games is never easy. The EA development teams and operational staff pour their hearts into these games almost as much as the customers playing them and it is hard to see one retired. We hope you have gotten many hours of enjoyment out of the games and we appreciate your ongoing patronage.

Once again, EA stops with online services for a few games. here is a list:

March 16, 2010 Online Service Shutdown

• Def Jam for PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360
  
• Godfather for PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360
  
• Lord of the Rings: Conquest for PC, PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360
  
• Mercenaries 2: World in Flames for PC
  
• Need for Speed: Carbon for PlayStation Portable
  
• Need for Speed: ProStreet for PlayStation Portable
  
• Simpsons for PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360
  

April 15, 2010 Online Service Shutdown

• Burnout 3: Takedown for PlayStation 2
  
• Army of Two for PlayStation 3 (Asia only)
  

Additionally, the shutdown of Xbox LIVE for Original Xbox consoles and games (scheduled for April 15, 2010) will retire online services for the following titles:

• Battlefield 2: Modern Combat for Xbox
  
• Burnout 3: Takedown for Xbox
  
• Madden NFL 09 for Xbox
  

Source: EA

-Oc