Fight Night Round 4 Shutters online support after 10 years

The online user base of Fight Night Round 4 has shrunk enough for EA Sports to shut down its servers in March, the company said via e-mail to players last night.

Although all offline modes of the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 games are still available, Fight Night Round 4 will effectively end after more than a decade of running, one of the longest for an EA Sports game with online features.

Fight Night Round 4 was released in 2009; It was the first boxing title released by EA Vancouver, which later became the 2011 Fight Night Champion. The Xbox 360 game was backward-compatible with Xbox One in May 2018, and then joined the EA Access service the following October.

NCAA Basketball 10 and NBA Live 10, the last EA Sports basketball games released for Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3, have completed their live services before 2013. Grand Slam Tennis 2, which was released in 2012, lasted until October 2017.

Tiger Woods PGA Tour 14 and NCAA Football 14, both released in 2013, will continue to be fully supported online. The NCAA 14 Auction House for the Ultimate Team is still open and there is even a recent ESPN lobby for Game of the Week for Ranked Multiplayer. But Teambuilder, the customization, web-site creation and sharing web tool, has been offline for more than a year, and the URL is now redirected to Madden NFL’s official website.

Since the fourth round and the champion, EA Vancouver’s martial arts developers have focused entirely on mixed martial arts, starting with EA Sports UFC five years ago. (The predecessor EA Sports MMA was developed in 2010 by EA Tiburon.)

Speaking to Investors at the End of October, Andrew Wilson, CEO of Electronic Arts, promised “a complete overview of EA Sports’ new experiences during the company’s upcoming fiscal year.” These include “new titles we include in our EA Sports portfolio”. The speculation about martial arts has dropped, as the UFC series has published in even numbers since 2014.

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