<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>larrydavid</author><text>Note that most (if not all, as I only scanned the list) of these games do not depend on an online connection to play the game like Sim City V. They have an offline single-player component and it is the multiplayer functionality that has been shut down.&lt;p&gt;There are also a good amount of mobile/Facebook apps in the list.&lt;p&gt;If you are being critical of EA then the worst examples are games that were only released 2-3 years ago, such as many of the sports games like FIFA and Madden. Although these have had at least a couple of new iterations since then because of the yearly release schedule for their sports franchises. The majority of the player base tends to move over to the new version very promptly, much like the COD series.&lt;p&gt;On the whole this list looks far worse than it actually is. I don&apos;t think it is entirely unreasonable to shut down the multiplayer component of games that were released 8 years ago.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>List of Online Services EA Has Shut Down</title><url>http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:0L266uiy59kJ:www.ea.com/1/service-updates+&amp;cd=1&amp;hl=en&amp;ct=clnk&amp;gl=uk</url></story>
<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>mindstab</author><text>So there&apos;s a weird gap. I can still pay games I bought in the 90s... but apparently EA games I bought &amp;#62;5 years ago I can no longer play...</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>List of Online Services EA Has Shut Down</title><url>http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:0L266uiy59kJ:www.ea.com/1/service-updates+&amp;cd=1&amp;hl=en&amp;ct=clnk&amp;gl=uk</url></story>