EA shutting down four free-to-play games

16 Apr 2015

Steve Wright

EA today announced that it will shut down four free-to-play Windows PC games.

The four games that are affected are Battlefield Heroes, Battlefield Play4Free, FIFA World and Need for Speed World.

EA’s Patrick Söderlund admitted the games weren’t “as popular as they once were,” via a post on The Beat. Söderlund also added that Star Wars: The Old Republic “continues to have a very enthusiastic and growing player community.”

The games will operate for the next 90 days, and close up on 14 July.

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Steve's the owner and Editor-in-Chief of Stevivor.com, the country’s leading independent video games outlet. Steve arrived in Australia back in 2001 on what was meant to be a three-month working holiday before deciding to emigrate and, eventually, becoming a citizen.

Stevivor is a combination of ‘Steve’ and ‘Survivor’, which made more sense back in 2001 when Jeff Probst was up in Queensland. The site started as Steve’s travel blog before transitioning over into video games.

Aside from video games, Steve has interests in hockey and Star Trek, playing the former and helping to cover video games about the latter on TrekMovie.com. By day, Steve works as the communications manager of the peak body representing Victorians as they age.