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Electronic Artsis shutting downLord of the Rings: Heroes of Middle-earthand three other games later today, May 24. All ofEA’s titles that are about to be discontinued are mobile games.
The California-based publisher has been shutting down its live-service releases at an aggressive pace since the turn of the year;seven EA games have been discontinued in late March 2024, followed by another two in April. Many of those were older releases, including a handful of Codemasters’F1games, the oldest of which was pushing 13 by the time its servers were taken offline at the beginning of spring.
But the May 24 wave of shutdowns will break with that pattern, as most of the games it includes are relatively recent releases. The titles in question areF1 Mobile Racing,Lord of the Rings: Heroes of Middle-earth,MLB Tap Sports Baseball 2022, andMLB Tap Sports Baseball 2023. Aside fromF1 Mobile Racing, all of these games are at most two years old. The shutdown of theLotRcollectible RPG appears to be particularly hasty, as it’s barely been a year sinceLord of the Rings: Heroes of Middle-earthdebuted on Android and iOS devices.
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Thesefour EA game shutdowns were all confirmedby early May 2024. The discontinuations of the twoMLB Tap Sports Baseballtitles were announced in February, when the publisher also removed all in-app purchases from them, a standard practice for live-service games that find themselves on the chopping block. A 2024 installment in Glu Mobile’s popular series hasn’t yet been announced. Given how the franchise historically received new annual entries in March, some fans are now speculating thatMLB Tap Sports Baseballhas been shelved indefinitely.
At Least 4 More EA Games Are Shutting Down This Year
Whatever the case may be, what’s certain is that this won’t be the last ofEA game shutdowns in 2024. The publisher has already confirmed plans to discontinue four additional titles by year’s end, starting withSuper Mega Baseball 2on July 24. Turn-based RPGDisney Sorcerers Arenais then set to follow a week later, having already been pulled from mobile app stores, although its servers remain operational. EA then plans to discontinueNHL 20’s multiplayer functionality on September 16, whereasFIFA 22will receive the same treatment on November 4.
Assuming no additional discontinuations take place, EA will have shut down 17 games in 2024. There is currently no indication that the developers behind the newly shuttered titles are at risk of closure, with all of them currently working on new projects, in addition to supporting existing titles.
