EA has disabled Plants vs. Zombies 3 for what it called a “major overhaul” as it aims to improve the game again ahead of its global launch.
In blog postEA has announced that in-app purchases are no longer available and the game is no longer available for download. November 15, 2024 is the last day of the game. The servers will then be shut down and Plants vs. Zombies 3 will be unavailable in all territories.
Any coin balances you have earned or purchased as of November 15, 2024 will be saved as long as you connect your account via Google Play, Apple ID or EA Account. Power-ups, game progression (including levels and unlocked units), and narrative will be reset.
Plants vs. Zombies 3: Welcome to Zomburbia is a 2024 free-to-play tower defense mobile game developed by PopCap Games, an EA company, and published by EA for iPhone and Android in January this year. This followed a gentle launch in select regions in 2020, a remake and relaunch in April 2022, and then another gentle launch in October 2022. A global launch was then planned for later in 2024, but PopCap is apparently still running to get to the source of the game’s problems.
EA said it is now “excited to redesign the game and “soon deliver an even better PvZ3 experience.”
“We appreciated your enthusiasm and feedback during our soft launch,” EA said. “We have always loved our plants and yes, even our zombies, and it was a joy to bring Dave, his niece, Patrice, Nate and many others to life in PvZ3. It’s clear that we’re heading towards something great, and with the recent releases of Choose Your Seeds and the manual activation of Grapes of Wrath, we want to go even further to make the game truly unique.
“That’s why we’re taking the game offline for a major overhaul, and we can’t wait to share what’s taken root!”
Plants vs. series Zombies has fallen on hard times in recent years, with various spin-offs failing to replicate the phenomenal popularity of the first two games. Fans often call for EA to release a third game in the Garden Warfare series, a spin-off of the third-person shooter that has been dormant since the release of Plants vs. Zombies: Battle for Neighborville in 2019.
Work on the canceled single-player game Plants vs. Zombies ran at EA from around 2015 to 2017. Read about what happened to her in IGN’s special investigation.
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