Also shuttering Dragon Age: Origins' screenshot server
EA are also shutting down the multiplayer screenshot server for ageing RPGDragon Age: Originsthis Thursday, October 20th. You’ll still be able to play Mirror’s Edge and Dragon Age: Origins offline, so no worries there. It’s only online components being trimmed away. EA say this is a necessary part of the lifecycle of their older games, where player numbers can fall to as low as “fewer than 1% of all peak online players across all EA titles”. That makes keeping online services running for those games “no longer feasible”, according to the publisher.
Other publishers do this too, of course, with Ubisoft receiving some flak earlier this year fordeactivating online servicesfor some of their older games. In that case, the shutdowns would have prevented players from accessing DLC they’d bought. Ubisoft latergranted a reprieveof an extra month for the games, which included older Assassin’s Creeds, the original version ofFar Cry 3, andSplinter Cell: Blacklist. Their services ended at the beginning of this month.
Mirror’s Edge is onSteamand theEA App for Windowsfor £18/$20/€20. You can read a full list of games published by EA that are marked for, or have already succumbed to, shutdownhere.
