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JayWood2010 said:
kowenicki said


Its just forcing purchase of the new game.  

^  There is your reason.  Way too early to do this and if EA did this with games like Fifa and Madden  people would be going rampant.

At least its just europe though where its weak anyways


I don't think they're doing this to make people buy a new game if this is just in the EU, more likely it's cause no ones playing the damn thing so it's not worth the costs to keep it running. VGchartz have all 3 platforms at 0.00 million sold, would they really do this just to force a couple of thousand people to buy the new game, assuming those couple of thousand people still play the game online or even at all.

They probably have a policy for shutting down network features for games in a region when they drop below a certain number of players aslong as it's not a game that's been released within the past 12 months.