There's an age-old saying, "if you don't use it, you lose it," and Electronic Arts definitely subscribes to that mentality with the actions they are taking towards free-to-play PC games. EA has been looking at what free-to-play games you play and which games you don't.
Free-to-play games like Battlefield Heroes, Battlefield Play4Free, Need for Speed World and FIFA World (released last year) are not as successful as they once were and as a result are being shut down.
Recently, we’ve been looking closely at the types of PC free-to-play experiences that players are engaging with across the world…Some of our other PC free-to-play games are not as popular as they once were. So we find ourselves announcing the tough decision today that we are stopping development and winding down support for four PC free-to-play titles.
The game servers will be shut down in 90-days, that gives you until July 14, 2015.
Luckily there's a silver lining, Star Wars: The Old Republic is still popular enough to stay online and it's active enough that there is more story-driven game updates on the way.
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