They don't seem to care about any other DRM-free stores either.

"Sunsetting announcement", lol.
The corporate speech in that announcement is unironically cringeworthy -first we kill off your games because [unspecified reasons], then we pretend to mourn them like fallen heroes.
You know, being the owners of the IPa you could also not remove them and avoid the funeral eulogy... or be honest and announce your plans fro their future exploitiation at worse conditions for the customers.

I'd most likely purchase both.
But there's probably not enough money in that for them. I think the last EA releases ( Dragon Age, Spore and Mirror's Edge) didn't sell enough copies to warrant more games.

I mean, I wouldn't mind having it on PC (though I already have my PS3 copy), but:
"Battlefield: Bad Company" is from 2008.

I doubt that they have any plans on porting over an almost 15 years old console game to PC.

If anything (and that's a huuuge "if" already), it would be far more likely for them to do a remake...and that won't come to GOG for years (if ever).

Yeah, there were rumors about BC1 remaster but things didn't go further than words. So it should not be expected (at least in current form), but high-end PC owners may try to use emulators that are actively developed now.

and with self-host servers, I've been playing the old MOH MPs here, they're fun still, i'd like to play BC1 even tho I didn't like BC2 campaign (maybe I just didn't get it without playing BC1 first)
1943 PC port was promised back in the day but never happened either, idk if it has system link/split screen on console either, if not it's gone for good at the end of the year.

I wouldn't be surprised at all if EA stops there. We could easily lose any or all of their DRM-free games everywhere. Wouldn't be the first time they've thought about it. We almost lost Syndicate and others here.

Well we lost Syndicate 2012. It was Origin-exclusive and they took it down. Physical copies were origin keys too.

Agreed, unfortunately. I could see them removing them from everywhere except Steam and whatever the EA store is called now.

And them claiming they won't is no indicator either. When EA acquired PopCap people were asking "Hey you know those early 2000's flash games like Bejeweled, Plants vs Zombies, etc, you just bought - I can still play them right?" To which EA responded "Of course! We have no intention of closing them down!" Shortly after, they shut down the classic activation servers rendering them all unplayable despite the fact PopCap sold literally millions of them. The 'solution' of course, was to rebuy them all again on Origin. Then as the 'cherry on top', EA then fired the creator of Plants vs Zombies for refusing to turn it into pay2win shovelware...

That the newest 3x EA games on GOG are from 2009 (Dragon Age Origins, Mirror's Edge & The Saboteur) is a good hint to buy & backup any games you want to keep now, as after 14 years it's clear the classic EA catalogue on GOG is already quietly "abandoned" to them.

It sucks to see them removed from... that place, too, but I would rather have offline installers. EA could make Bad Company and whatever else DRM-free, if they wanted to. If the multiplayer, leaderboards, and anything I forgot about still work, all the better. I think everyone should buy any they're missing now, even if they only have the slightest interest in them. That's a lot of games to lose. Don't forget to take Codemasters games into consideration. Only four stores (two DRM, and two DRM-free) carry them, right? PC versions, that is. :)

EA can afford to keep these games available for a lot longer, When big publishers pull this crap, it makes me worry that much more about the smaller ones that could do it.

Wow, that is absolutely terrible. I don't understand why anyone is still buying games from EA at all at this point - they're such slime.

Things got worse.

https://www.timeextension.com/news/2023/03/ea-is-pulling-all-of-its-games-from-the-zoom-platform-online-store


Anyone hoping for a less fretful day in the world of video game preservation should look away now, as we've just heard that EA is delisting its entire catalogue on the digital store Zoom Platform.

A haven for old games, Zoom is the storefront on which the infamously bad FPS title The Fortress Of Dr. Radiaki resides.

EA's catalogue on Zoom gets yanked on the 31st of March and includes the likes of Cannon Fodder, Overlord, Sensible Soccer 2006, Race Driver: Grid and Mega-Lo-Mania.



I really hope this does not affect GOG.

Even if it doesn't, that's still two less DRM-free games.