When does online play expire for NCAA 12?

[guillermotricia]

I hope that isn't true

[NEOPARADIGM]

Well NCAA 10 was shut down on August 11, 2011 if that's any indication.

"... as games get replaced with newer titles, the number of players still enjoying the older games dwindles below a point—fewer than 1% of all peak online players across all EA titles—where it’s feasible to continue the behind-the-scenes work involved with keeping these games up and running."

http://www.gamertagradio.com/new/201...of-honor-more/

[ps3veron]

I would the life cycle for EA's online modes would be 2 years from release. I remember sticking with NCAA 10 all the way to the release of 12 ( I had skipped 11).

So for 12 (since it came out in 2011), I would expect the servers to be online until August 2013 (right after the release NCAA 14).

But this is the perfect world formula, there's no contract as such and if there aren't enough people playing (according to EA), they'll just pull the plug for the sake of "bandwidth".

[speedtrucker]

EA usually makes announcements when game servers are going offline, they usually give popular titles longer.

the last batch was shut down on April 13th of this year and it included, for an example: (games release date in parenthesis)

Boom Blox Bash Party for Wii (Mary 2009)
Burnout Revenge for Xbox 360 (March 2006)
EA Create for PC, PlayStation 3, Wii, and Xbox 360 (November 2010)
EA Sports Active 2.0 for PlayStation 3, Wii, and Xbox 360 (November 2010)
EA Sports Active NFL Training Camp for Wii (November 2010)
FIFA 10 for PlayStation Portable and Wii (October 2009)
The Godfather II for PC, PlayStation 3, and Xbox 360 (April 2009)
EA Sports MMA for PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 (October 2010)
Need for Speed ProStreet for PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 (November 2007)
The Saboteur (loss of The Midnight Club access) for PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 (December 2009)
Spare Parts for PlayStation 3 Xbox 360 (January 2011)