

If you have further questions about your account or the shut down of these services, please visit. We hope you have gotten many hours of enjoyment out of the games and we appreciate that you’re choosing to play with EA.

We’re constantly working to keep our games and services available for as long as possible. But as games get replaced with newer titles, the number of players still enjoying the older games dwindles to a level - typically fewer than 1% of all peak online players across all EA titles - where it’s no longer feasible to continue the behind-the-scenes work involved with keeping these games up and running. The development teams and operational staff pour their hearts into these games almost as much as the customers playing them and it is hard to see one retired. Thanks to Pavel for the heads up on the impending shutdown of the NBA Live 16 servers! Once again, be sure to complete any unfinished business ASAP, as October is only a couple of months away.The decisions to retire older EA games are never easy. The cancellation of NBA Live 20 and NBA Live 21 may indeed result in the extension of their online support. This is far longer than usual, and it remains to be seen if NBA Live 18 and NBA Live 19 will receive similar service. As it stands, NBA Live 14, NBA Live 15, and now NBA Live 16 will have all had online support for over five years by the time their servers are shutdown. This includes acquiring Trophies/Achievements that require online connectivity, LUT challenges, and if you’re a content creator, getting video and screenshots of features that will soon be unavailable.ĮA Sports has been shutting down the servers for older NBA Live games over the past twelve months, as the number of gamers still playing them has continued to dwindle.

Upon the shutdown, all online content such as Ultimate Team, Head 2 Head, and LIVE Pro-Am will no longer be available.Īs usual, my advice would be to wrap up any unfinished business between now and the shutdown. The NBA Live 16 servers will be shutting down on October 19th 2020 at 11 AM EST, as per a new in-game notification.
