{"id":41503,"date":"2011-01-05T16:25:41","date_gmt":"2011-01-05T21:25:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/?p=41503"},"modified":"2011-01-05T23:11:49","modified_gmt":"2011-01-06T04:11:49","slug":"ea-closing-more-online-servers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2011\/01\/05\/41503-ea-closing-more-online-servers\/","title":{"rendered":"EA Closing More Online Servers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"intro\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-28345 no-lazyload\" title=\"EA Games\" src=\"http:\/\/www-images.theonering.org\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/02\/ea-games.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"128\" height=\"128\" \/>From IGN: Electronic Arts is shutting down another slew of online game servers. Besides closing many of its now out-dated servers for its sports franchises, such as FIFA, NHL, and NCAA, EA is also doing away with its Lord of the Rings servers as well.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Our licensing deal with Middle-earth Enterprises has expired, forcing us to shutdown the online services for The Lord of the Rings games,&#8221; EA says. &#8220;We hope you have enjoyed playing these games online and appreciate your patronage.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>EA also says that while it&#8217;s difficult shutting down servers for any game, the teams would rather focus on the more popular titles. <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/wii.ign.com\/articles\/114\/1142681p1.html\">More..<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Below is the expected date for these games to go offline:<\/p>\n<p>Jan 11, 2011 Online Service Shutdown<br \/>\nThe Lord of the Rings, The Battle for Middle-earth II for Xbox 360<br \/>\nThe Lord of the Rings, The Battle for Middle-earth II, The Rise of the Witch-king for Xbox 360<\/p>\n<p>Dec 31, 2010 Online Service Shutdown<br \/>\nThe Lord of the Rings, The Battle for Middle-earth for PC<br \/>\nThe Lord of the Rings, The Battle for Middle-earth II for PC<br \/>\nThe Lord of the Rings, The Battle for Middle-earth II, The Rise of the Witch-king for PC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From IGN: Electronic Arts is shutting down another slew of online game servers. Besides closing many of its&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[107],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41503","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gaming"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1tLoH-aNp","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41503","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=41503"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41503\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}