Last week publishing house Electronic Arts presented the debut trailer Battlefield 2042… The announcement provoked an influx of players into Battlefied 4, because of which the company had to introduce additional servers in order to cope with the load.
However, not all EA games are so lucky. Let’s say a publisher has been selling a completely broken PC version to people for several years. Titanfallturned into an unplayable piece of code by one or more hackers who found holes in the defense Respawnwhich the studio cannot close. Also under DDoS attack Titanfall 2 and Apex legends (even on consoles) – due to similar vulnerabilities, cybercriminals are able to disrupt cyber tournaments. However, the developers are rather sluggish enough to react to the situation, which causes criticism from the fan community.
Well, the shooter has become the new victim of EA’s devil-may-care attitude Fuse… The first multi-platform project from the studio Insomniac Games came out in 2013 and failed miserably. Initially, the developers presented a bright cooperative project Overstrike, after which a serious course correction took place, which is why the game eventually lost all humor and turned out to be rather average and boring.
Despite this, Fuse was still played, although the game was only released on Xbox 360 (no backward compatibility on Xbox One) and PS3. Audience interest periodically rose due to releases of other games from Insomniac Game. This also happened in June 2023, when the release took place Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart…
However, in early June 2023, the Fuse servers were permanently disabled. Now players cannot unite in groups, and passing with bots has always been torture due to the weak AI. People started complaining to Electronic Arts tech support who didn’t know about the server shutdown at all. Insomniac Games representatives forwarded all requests to the publisher that provided technical support for Fuse.
The problem is that the online functionality of the game was disabled without warning. EA did not publish any press releases to the media, and there were also warnings in Fuse itself. Only recently, one of the publisher’s community managers confirmed on the forum that support for the game has been phased out completely and irrevocably.
And it infuriated people. You see, Electronic Arts tricked the players. The Fuse back box clearly states that the publisher is obliged to notify buyers 30 days (minimum) before the servers are shut down. Moreover, Insomniac Games’ creation is still not listed in the official list of games that have lost online functionality (available on the official EA website).
Thus, the publisher went on to deceive the players who purchased the game, not knowing about the shutdown of the servers. And this is not the first time this has happened. Shooter Titanfall is out in Steam in November 2023, although even then it was completely unplayable due to the actions of hackers who discovered vulnerabilities in the matchmaking system. However, EA is still asking for money for the shooter (only the money-back function saves). Likewise, the company asked for money in AppStore for a broken iPad version of the strategy Red alert, which constantly took off at the second level.
At the end of May, the publishing house announced in advance about the shutdown of the servers of a number of games from the series Need for speed… The problem is that the ability to purchase races in digital stores became unavailable on the same day (May 31st).
Considering all of the above, it is possible that one day EA will shut down the server and other unpopular projects without warning. For example, Syndicate and Army of Two: The Devil’s Cartel…
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