10 Times EA Screwed The Pooch

6. The Server Shutdowns

When you like at EA's best selling titles, the likes of FIFA and Madden and their various yearly instalments will eventually crop up. Having these games come out yearly usually means there's not much different or innovative about them, but this isn't exactly a bad thing: as they're just bringing fans more of what they want.

Except, if you get invested in one of these franchises, and want to keep playing multiplayer games, you're going to have to continually purchase the newest edition.

Because EA forcibly gained control of their own servers so that they could have the ability to shutdown serves for "outdated" games and force you to move on.

This was done not only to try and forcibly make you continuously upgrade, but also because EA wanted servers to be a hot commodity, since they would they go on to offer players the luxurious experience of renting a server from them for actual money.

The catch to that? That sometimes the server you were renting from them would go down, which was thought to be so EA didn't have to pay the people they were renting it from every day.