Dragon Age Legends shutting down

I tried this for five minutes and cried.. Oddly a rep from ea came to my house to collect my tears.

Hopefully, Failware and EleTROLLic Arts will take the hint and will start to get they act together...

Well I've never even heard of this before so I guess I can understand why this wasn't successful...

Eh I am not surprised by the announcement of this news. You see when you have an IP that was originally created to be a spiritual successor to Baldurs Gate you cannot dumb it down to attract new players. When you do that you alienate people who sticked with the old games(DA : O) and were loyal fans. Also at the same time you cannot attract new people since even the dumb downed RPG mechanics would still confuse them. DAL was a social experiment and it failed and also DA2 bioware really really tried to appeal to everyone and well you know how that ended. It will take a huge miracle for me to get even interested for the upcoming DA3.

I hope the fate of DA Legends teaches EA that socializing as many games as possible is not the way to profitability. Some games are social; others are clearly not. I wonder if the off-line version of DAL will still unlock stuff in DA2?

I refuse support EA, Blizzard, and Ubisoft companies because ruin our gaming experiences. I have some PC games from Blizzard, EA, Ubisoft and ruin my experiences. I will not buy again from worst companies. I will seek in other companies which had best support. Right now, I interest in Minecraft and RPG games like Ys Tales, Final Fantasy, Spellforce, etc. Not forget new game is Starbound look like Terraria! Terraria is stopped update. Weird things. 

Star Wars the Old Republic is a game cancellation just waiting to happen.  I warned everyone about it during the beta.  EA has a history of cancelling not only every MMO they have ever released, but all their online services that are no longer current.  Example, in the past couple of months it has become no longer possible to import a face into either Fight Night 4, or Fifa 10, or even Fifa World Cup - you can no longer play the World Cup of Fifa online even though there won't be another real World Cup for a couple of years.

"MMO's" of significance that were cancelled, include Earth & Beyond, Need For Speed Motor City and even The Sims Online!

That's why you should enjoy SWToR while you can, because it's gonna be going bye bye before Christmas.

Dragon Age Legends was a great facebook game, I never bought anything though and was content to play it to unlock the Dragon Age II stuff.

Didn't make enough for EA... But i'll bet it was making enough for a small company... Perhaps large publishers should stay out of cheap games.

I wonder why...

Now imagine if Blizzard shuts down their D3 server... And before you flame me and say "it will never happen!", you better pray for that.

As much as DA-legends was the sort of stupid experiment that should never have been tried in the first place, anyone who was foolish enough to have spent money in/on it has now basically had their money stolen by EA, its why EA can no longer be trusted with any online services including Origin I mean a few years down the line you won't be able to play mass effect 3 because they'll have shut off the validation servers. DA legends was garbage but what happens when they call time on a game you actually want to play.

Good riddance, now EA/Bioware please return to making games instead of cashing cows.

DA-legends is a lame game..I expected more from a game carrying that title...

i played this when DA2 came out then i saw how bad DA2 was and stoped playing it, 

dragon age legends what? oh...this was game? closed down? good. I`m in a good mood and news like these puts a smile on my face. here I hope this puts you in a good mood too: http://youtu.be/CpeRk1YFn8s

Played a little bit of it and I have to agree it was really boring, nothing like original DA

Good riddance, it was a horrible, boring, time-wasting game that took too long to accomplish anything, and was obviously designed to bilk you out of your money.  Even moreso than other facebook games.  Its designed screamed "EA".

too bad if anyone DOES actually play it (does anyone?)

I played this for a while... was not fun. I love dragon age but when they are concentrating on DA web series/movies, comics and apps I can't help but to think that it's slowing down the production for DA3!

Only surprised it took this long. The people playing Farmville *shakes head* don't care about good games like Dragon Age. The people that play good games like Dragon Age don't care about playing games on facebook or any of those things. 

Companies need to stop trying to ride cash cows and just make good games.

People are sick of being ripped off and the average gamer have finally figured out that MMORPG are a scam. I remember playing WoW for a couple of hours back in 2006 and I realised very quickly the genre was prostitute.

One can only pray that EA shuts down next...

shocking... *sarcasm* Next up SWTOR.

The art in Legends was really very good (I'd quite like to see BioWare do more cartoony looking games) BUT it was difficult to play this game. You played a few levels which was fine, but then you had to wait 5 hours or more to carry on playing the game. After all that waiting, well, it was hard to get THAT invested in this game. You could skip the waiting by paying to play the game straight away, but such financial tactics seem hideously cynical and frankly insulting.

I can understand that big companies need to be funded heavily to make these big games (say what you will about about how poor you think BioWare games are, there is a lot of production put into these games) and I wouldn't suggest having such big games being given out for free, but charging to be invested in a story is just plain horrendeous. It'd be like charging extra to put all the word "The" in a novel.

good. It seemed like a crappy gimmick in order to unlock additional items in the game I actually wanted to play. I'm tired of doing seven different things outside of my games in order to receive all of this additional content.

Dragon Age Legends? Never even heard of it! The best publicity it seems to have had is this article telling us it is shutting down :P

lol.

Didn't know such a thing even existed. lol

Bioware hasn't made a decent Dragon Age game since Origins.

Of course your game-to-advertise-a-game doesn't produce enough revenue!  Now DON'T DO IT AGAIN!

DAO: Success

DA2 - Failure

DAL - Failure

EA/BW - getting the picture here?

no munneh no talk

Let's be clear:  it wasn't that the game didn't earn enough to sustain itself.. it didn't earn enough to sustain EA's unabashed lust for greed and huge profit margins (before the game is shut down and the franchise dismembered).

EA shutting more games online down?What a shocker! /Sarcasm

Expect more of this from EA, as I have stated before.