EA is shutting down it’s online support for Mercenaries 2: World In Flame and Lord of the Rings: Conquest; both barely a year old. This means that for those few customers that are still enjoying the game online with friends will most likely not be able to so again in the very near future. The server shut-down is schedule on 16th March 2010.

“As background information, 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’s 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. The EA development teams and operational staff pour their hearts into these games almost as much as the customers playing them and it is hard to see one retired. We hope you have gotten many hours of enjoyment out of the games and we appreciate your ongoing patronage.” Service Update

I guess Mercenaries 2 and LoTR: C are very unsuccessful. Therefore it’s no longer deem viable by EA to maintain this servers. So what are you guys still waiting for? Enjoy your Mercenaries 2 and LotR: C as much as possible before it closes in 16th March 2010! You can read more about it at RockPaperShotgun.

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