EA has taken the servers offline for several of its football games amid the launch of a major update for EA Sports FC 25, the latest instalment in the long-running series formerly known as FIFA.
That game — and its predecessors EA Sports FC 24 and FIFA 23 — began undergoing maintenance at 5am on Wednesday.
Although EA said the disruption would last for six hours, the servers were still down at the time of writing — according to the company’s website.
During the downtime, players won’t be able to play online on the affected EA games, though the single-player campaigns should work normally. Unfortunately, the popular EA FC Ultimate Team mode will be down while the planned works are carried out.
“We’ll be running maintenance on EA SPORTS FC 25, EA SPORTS FC 24, and FIFA 23 on December 4th at 05:00 AM UTC for about 6 hours,” the official EA customer support account announced on the social media platform X (formerly Twitter).
“While we’re working you won't be able to play online, but we’ll get you back in the game as soon as we can.”
We have a maintenance today, December 4, from 5:00 UTC, which is still ongoing.
— EA SPORTS FC Direct Communication (@EASFCDirect) December 4, 2024
We will update this thread once it is complete.
Title impacted: EA SPORTS FC 25 on all platforms.
The EA Sports account later posted that maintenance was ongoing and it would update users once it was complete.
Unsurprisingly, X is flooded with posts from disgruntled players who can’t get online to complete their daily challenges because of the extended downtime.
Me waking up to see EA servers have been down all morning smh pic.twitter.com/bOVvZypVOT
— 🇵🇸 Sherman Hemsley 🇯🇲 🇧🇧 (@Weso3K) December 4, 2024
EA FIX FHE SERVERS. WE WANT TO PLAY RIVALS. https://t.co/Qc0ctq59no
— Firminator🌙 (@LFCFirminator) December 4, 2024
“Everybody playing ea fc 25 waiting 2 hours for the servers to go up (me including) just for us to get angry and rage quit in 15 minutes. we are down bad xd,” another user said.
The latest update to EA FC 25 includes new player roles and focuses; shorter Rush matches and player items in Ultimate team; new additions to Career Mode and Clubs; and a winter menu theme.
You can read the full list of updates in the EA FC 25 patch notes here.
