EA will be pulling the plug on a very impressive amount of game servers, the company announced on their online service update. The discontinued games account for “fewer than 1% of all peak online players across EA titles”. An interesting bit of news to add is that one of the games is EA Sports MMA, which is a title requiring an Online Pass. Here are the titles that are being retired in the next couple of mo ...

An Online Pass is a redeemable code that grants a consumer of a new game access to the multiplayer mode or other online modes of that title. The system is also a way for publishers and developers to make money from the used game market, which they normally didn‘t see at all. I can understand the use of this system because it is every studio’s right to earn as much money as they can from their own intellectu ...