Well this sounds ominous....

[MrRant 0]

Anyone else notice on Page 15 of the instruction manual:

 

"EA MAY RETIRE THE ONLINE SERVICE AT THE EARLIER OF 30-DAYS NOTICE ON www.easports.com OR 30 DAYS AFTER THE LAST DAY OF THE 2004-2005 COLLEGE FOOTBALL SEASON."

 

I will be seriously pissed off if you cannot play the game on LIVE after the football season. I wonder if the same plan is there for Madden as well to force people into buying the next year's title if they want to play online, since EA isn't charging a subscriber fee.

[El Psycho Diablo 0]

That's EA for you.

[Agent_Bond34 0]

Anyone else notice on Page 15 of the instruction manual:

 

"EA MAY RETIRE THE ONLINE SERVICE AT THE EARLIER OF 30-DAYS NOTICE ON www.easports.com OR 30 DAYS AFTER THE LAST DAY OF THE 2004-2005 COLLEGE FOOTBALL SEASON."

They do that with the PC versions of Madden, NBA Live, NHL, etc.

[MrRant 0]

Yeah but they are using MS's infastructure for LIVE.

[MarvinisaLunatic 0]

It gets you to buy next years game if you want the online play next year.

 

And doesn't EA charge to play online with PC Games?

[Mole 0]

Anyone else notice on Page 15 of the instruction manual:

 

"EA MAY RETIRE THE ONLINE SERVICE AT THE EARLIER OF 30-DAYS NOTICE ON www.easports.com OR 30 DAYS AFTER THE LAST DAY OF THE 2004-2005 COLLEGE FOOTBALL SEASON."

They do that with the PC versions of Madden, NBA Live, NHL, etc.

I was just about to install NBA Live on my new computer and play online.

 

Damn it.

[Guest Vitamin X]

Yet another reason why ESPN may be the better brand..

[Guest Dumb Fuck]

They have those warnings for every EA game... except I believe it used to be 60 or 90 days.

[Guest Ether]

I was under the impression that the whole that had been keeping the EA games from being Xbox Live compatable was that EA wanted to cutoff online play after a certain point (so you'd have to buy the new game), but Microsoft wanted to keep it on for each game indefinitely. I assumed the two sides came to some agreement, but I had no idea what the deal was.

 

I can understand cutting off NCAA Football 2005 online status right before NCAA Football 2006 comes out, but it will be real shitty if they stop it in February.

[Skywarp! 0]

They release the same games every year, so of course that's how they get you to buy the next one.

 

I'm just waiting for some whiz-kid to start making unauthorized roster update patches to eliminate the need.

[MrRant 0]

I was under the impression that the whole that had been keeping the EA games from being Xbox Live compatable was that EA wanted to cutoff online play after a certain point (so you'd have to buy the new game), but Microsoft wanted to keep it on for each game indefinitely. I assumed the two sides came to some agreement, but I had no idea what the deal was.

 

I can understand cutting off NCAA Football 2005 online status right before NCAA Football 2006 comes out, but it will be real shitty if they stop it in February.

One of the other hiccups is that to play an EA Game... EA wants MS's cust info on you.

[MarvinisaLunatic 0]

They release the same games every year, so of course that's how they get you to buy the next one. 

 

I'm just waiting for some whiz-kid to start making unauthorized roster update patches to eliminate the need.

But you still wouldn't get to play it online when they disable the online play for it.

[Karnage 0]

If there is no NHL season next year, it would be pretty lame to have a Live Enabled NHL 2005 where you couldn't go online.