{"id":35274,"date":"2010-02-17T20:18:06","date_gmt":"2010-02-18T01:18:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/?p=35274"},"modified":"2010-02-17T20:18:06","modified_gmt":"2010-02-18T01:18:06","slug":"ea-to-drop-online-support-for-lotrconquest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2010\/02\/17\/35274-ea-to-drop-online-support-for-lotrconquest\/","title":{"rendered":"EA To Drop Online Support for LOTR:Conquest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"intro\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/02\/ea-games.jpg\" class=\"no-lazyload\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/02\/ea-games.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"EA Games\" width=\"128\" height=\"128\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-28345 no-lazyload\" \/><\/a> From <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.geek.com\/articles\/games\/12-more-ea-games-losing-online-support-in-marchapril-20100217\/\">geek.com<\/a><\/strong>: EA has posted an online status update on its website informing gamers that another twelve titles are losing online functionality. On March 16, 2010 online service will shutdown for players of <strong>&#8216;Lord of the Rings: Conquest for PC, PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360&#8217;<\/strong>. <\/p>\n<p>EA has been keen to stress it doesn\u2019t take these shutdowns lightly, and only carries them out on games that just aren\u2019t popular anymore: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;The games scheduled for shutdown in March and April 2010 represent less than 0.3% of all peak online players across all EA titles. Despite some people\u2019s perception, there is a lot of behind-the-scenes work involved with keeping these older games up and running. We would rather our hard-working engineering and IT staff focus on keeping a positive experience for the other 99.7% of customers playing our more popular games. These decisions to retire games is never easy.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.geek.com\/articles\/games\/12-more-ea-games-losing-online-support-in-marchapril-20100217\/\">More..<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From geek.com: EA has posted an online status update on its website informing gamers that another twelve titles&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[107],"tags":[501,428,500],"class_list":["post-35274","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gaming","tag-ea","tag-ea-games","tag-lord-of-the-rings-conquest"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1tLoH-9aW","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35274","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35274"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35274\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}