Original publishers EA were forced to switch off the official servers on New Year’s Eve 2010 due to the expiration of their Lord of the Rings videogame licence, but you can still play multiplayer games of BFME 1, 2, and Rise of the Witch-King via the T3A: Online unofficial server. Can you still play Battle for Middle Earth 2? The PC version of the game was shut down on December 31, 2010. On January 9, 2011, Electronic Arts announced that the online game servers would be shut down on Janufor the Xbox 360 format of the game. The game was sent to manufacturers on November 15, 2006, and was released on November 28. What happened to Battle for Middle Earth 2? It’s not on steam, not on Origin, not on GoG, and for the physical copies (on Amazon and various sites), well…let’s say that I’m not keen on paying 45+ euros for a used copy of a decade-old game, nor paying 150+ for a brand new copy, thank you very much. Plus, since it never became available as a download service, there’s now no way to buy the game without going through a disc. As it stands, that probably means that there are no new copies of the game being printed, so the game gets more expensive as it becomes rarer.
