Medal of Honor: Allied Assault for PC and Mac (including Breakthrough and Spearhead expansions) I've picked out the PC relevant ones below:īattlefield 1942 for PC and Mac (including The Road to Rome and Secret Weapons of WW2 expansions)īattlefield 2 for PC (including Special Forces expansion)īattlefield 2142 for PC and Mac (including Northern Strike expansion)Ĭommand & Conquer 3: Tiberium Wars for PC and Mac (including Kane's Wrath expansion)Ĭommand & Conquer: Generals for PC and Mac (including Zero Hour expansion)Ĭommand & Conquer: Red Alert 3 for PC and Mac
You can see the full list of games to be retired here. Currently, then, the biggest casualties appear to be Battlefield 2 and popular mods like Project Reality and the Crysis games. Significant technical hurdles remain, and at this time we don t have anything to announce."ĭespite EA's lack of a solution, the online service GameRanger already supports games like Battlefront 2, C&C 3 and Battlefield 1942 meaning players will have a third-party solution when the shutdown occurs. We are still investigating community-supported options to preserve online functionality for these titles, such as multiplayer. "We know some of these games are still fan favorites," the blog continues, "including Battlefield 2, Battlefield 1942, Medal of Honor: Allied Assault and Command & Conquer games. Online services for EA games on the GameSpy platform will be closed down at the end of June."
"Unfortunately, due to technical challenges and concerns about the player experience, we do not have a solution at this time. "Since GameSpy s announcement, our teams have been working to evaluate options to keep services up and running," explains a new post on the EA blog. What isn't yet clear is whether they're planning to re-enlist the most popular games in a list that includes Battlefield 2, Command & Conquer 3, Star Wars: Battlefront 2 and Neverwinter Nights 2. The hope is that some publishers have a backup generator, and will allow their games to flicker back to life via an alternate service.įor EA, the shutdown is an excuse to retire some older games from active duty to dramatically shift metaphors and they've now announced a list of casualties that includes 24 PC titles. Picture the GameSpy shutdown like a massive power-cut rolling out over an entire continent, plunging a significant portion of gaming's multiplayer catalogue into darkness.