Electronic Arts continues to shut down its online multiplayer servers for games that have little online users. This week the publisher released a new list of games that will have their servers closed on March 16. Two of them are for the PC and perhaps ironically both of them come from the already shut down Pandemic Studios.
Both the PC version of the open world action game Mercenaries 2 and the action game Lord of the Rings Conquest will be unplayable online after March 16. EA says those games and the other console titles on their shutdown list "represent less than 0.3 (percent) of all peak online players across all EA titles." Mercenaries 2 was released in August 2008 and Lord of the Rings Conquest shipped in January 2009. The latter game's online shut down comes just 14 months after it was released.

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I received this email today contacting EA Games in reference to Mercenaries 2 online gaming:
"Hi,
Thank you for contacting us.
I would like to inform you that Mercenaries 2 online services will be restored soon your patience is highly appreciated.
If you have any further questions or concerns please reply to this email or visit our extensive
knowledge base online at http://support.ea.com.
Thank you,
Louis
EA Online Support
Electronic Arts"Posted at 8:59PM on May 9th 2010 by Steve K.