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EA shutting down Mirror’s Edge online services in JanuaryAlso shuttering Dragon Age: Origins' screenshot server
Also shuttering Dragon Age: Origins' screenshot server
A few more classics have made their way onto EA’s list of games they’re shutting down online services for, withMirror’s Edgethe most notable casualty for PC players. The shutdown will come into effect from January 19th, 2023, just overshooting the 13th anniversary of the game’s launch on PC. It’ll presumably affect the dystopian parkour game’s online leaderboards, and downloadable Ghosts of other players.
Mirror’s Edge TrailerMirror’s Edge released on PC in January 2009.Watch on YouTube
Mirror’s Edge Trailer
EA are also shutting down the multiplayer screenshot server for ageing RPGDragon Age: Originsthis Thursday, October 20th. You’ll still be able to play Mirror’s Edge and Dragon Age: Origins offline, so no worries there. It’s only online components being trimmed away. EA say this is a necessary part of the lifecycle of their older games, where player numbers can fall to as low as “fewer than 1% of all peak online players across all EA titles”. That makes keeping online services running for those games “no longer feasible”, according to the publisher.
Other publishers do this too, of course, with Ubisoft receiving some flak earlier this year fordeactivating online servicesfor some of their older games. In that case, the shutdowns would have prevented players from accessing DLC they’d bought. Ubisoft latergranted a reprieveof an extra month for the games, which included older Assassin’s Creeds, the original version ofFar Cry 3, andSplinter Cell: Blacklist. Their services ended at the beginning of this month.
