User blog comment:Nikel23/Disappearance of Exchange/@comment-26744861-20120107184128

EA have a reputation for abandoning the servers for older games, whether that be gaming or webhosting...

EA have a reputation for unreliable servers for both gaming and webhosting...

EA send out online passes for games which if you have purchased a pre-owned game, you must pay £7.99 for a pass to play online to pay server costs...

EA have a reputation for overpriced DLC, probably to pay for content hosting...

In short: EA have numerous server problems which they want the gamers to pay for. Their own internal servers are useless for everything (I use a DICE server to play Battlefield 3 because they work better). EA need to stop trying to rule the gaming world like it's a dictatorship and start listening to the gamers, who provide them with their revenue.