"50 EA games will have their servers shut down"

Nothing new about this, as it's certainly not the first time that EA has shut down servers for games that they arbitrarily consider to be too old to keep supporting. However, when this is combined with their asinine stance on single-player games for the future, it should come as a warning to anyone looking to buy their games with the hope of being able to play them for more than just a few years or so, until EA comes along again and decides to randomly shut those down as well. In short, I would advise anyone to take a long hard look at that EA logo on the game they are considering buying before wasting their money.