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EAhas confirmed yet another one of its games being shut down in 2025, asEA Sports UFC 3will be shuttered on February 17.EAshut down a wide variety of its games in 2024, and as the 2025 calendar continues to take shape, it’s clear that the same will be true for next year.
So far,EA has confirmed 10 games that it will be shutting down in 2025, nine of which are on the chopping block for January. The first EA game shutting down in 2025 isRory McIlroy PGA Touron January 16, followed byThe Simpsons: Tapped Outon January 24. Then, on January 29, seven EA mobiles games are shutting down, withBlood & Glory: Immortals,Contract Killer: Sniper,Deer Hunter Classic,Dino Hunter: Deadly Shores,Eternity Warriors 4,Frontline Commando 2, andFrontline Commando: D-Dayall scheduled to cease operations on January 29.
Now it’s been confirmed thatEA Sports UFC 3will be shutting down on July 29, 2025, a little over seven years after it first hit store shelves. Developed by EA Canada and released in 2018 on PS4 and Xbox One,EA Sports UFC 3earned mostly positive reviews at the time of its release, though itsmicrotransactions were controversial. Like other EA games, it features extensive online functionality, and so when it’s shut down on February 17, all of those features will cease to exist.
List of EA Games Shutting Down in 2025
While it’s definitely disappointing thatUFC 3is shutting down, the good news is that there are newer UFC games that are still fully playable. 2020’sUFC 4still has online functionality, as does 2023’sUFC 5. In fact,UFC 5is still getting substantial updates. EA has not announced any plans to shut down the online services for those particular games, though it will happen eventually. It’s become clear that it’s just a matter of time before games like these lose their online features, and so consumers have to take that into consideration whenever they buy them.
Luckily, the vast majority of EA’s newer games can be played without actually buying them. If one issigned up for an EA Play subscription, or Xbox Game Pass Ultimate, they get access to new EA games usually within six months after they launch. This way, gamers can play EA titles that they’re interested in without buying the games outright. It’s not a perfect solution by any means, but it may make it sting less whenever a game shuts down its online modes or is delisted.
