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Electronic Arts has announced that Battlefield Hardline–the 2015 FPS entry in the series focused on police and heists, not traditional military warfare–will shut down on console this June.
The game will be removed from the PS4 and Xbox One storefronts on May 22, and that’s also when people won’t be able to buy any more in-game content. The game’s servers, meanwhile, will close on June 22.
Hardline’s single-player campaign will remain playable after the server shutdown date for anyone who owns the game currently or buys it before it’s removed in May. Physical copies of the game will also remain playable offline.
The PC version of Hardline is not being removed from sale, nor is its online functionality going down. EA, and other companies, are know to delist games and turn off online support as games grow older, so the announcement about Hardline is not a total shock.
EA said the decision to retire online services and delist games is “never easy” for any game. However, EA said it becomes “no longer feasible” to dedicate time and resources to older games when player levels dwindle. This is a blanket statement, and EA did not provide any specifics as to how many people are still
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