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EA has advised that the NBA Live 19 servers will be shutting down on January 30th, 2026. The game was de-listed from digital storefronts in late October, basically telegraphing that the end of online support was rapidly approaching.
In recent months, gamers have reported problems when trying to play LIVE Events in The One, suggesting that online support has been in the process of wrapping up for a while now. However, Ultimate Team has remained online and fully functional to this day, and I can confirm that a handful of people are still active in the Community Market on PlayStation 4. With that being said, Ultimate Team will definitely be inaccessible once the NBA Live 19 servers are shut down early next year, along with all other online modes. The final roster update will also be unavailable at that time.
With the shutdown of the NBA Live 18 servers last year, it’s no surprise that NBA Live 19 will soon follow suit. EA has been unusually generous in maintaining online support for the eighth gen NBA Live releases, especially compared to the 27 months that Take-Two guarantees for NBA 2K titles. Obviously NBA 2K has been markedly more successful with a majority of gamers moving on every year, but to that end, it’s quite surprising that the less popular NBA Live releases have retained online support for so long. Prior to support ending for NBA Live 18 last year, NBA Live 14 and NBA Live 15 were still online as of 2019, while NBA Live 16’s servers were finally shut down in 2020. As such, the eighth gen NBA Lives have ended up receiving between five and seven years of online support.
However, the time has obviously come for NBA Live 19 to be sunset. For anyone still playing the game – which includes me, thanks to a recent kick – we’ll still have three months to finish up any business with modes featuring online content. The offline modes will naturally still be available, though speaking for myself, it’ll be a shame to lose Ultimate Team. Additionally, if you don’t own the game and want to add it to your collection, at this point you’ll need to track down a physical copy. In any case, if NBA Live 19 is still in your rotation or you’d like to give it another look while it’s still relatively intact, make sure you’re ready to be done with it by January 30th next year!
A bummer. I play it (X1). In a recent fortnight, the LUT portion has stilled. I sold only one item within a week — no one buys anything. On the other side, I picked up a 99 Bird for less than 60k — this card (or Giannis 99) is offered as a cherry on top of a $100 paid set.
I’ve had a guess that an AI or so manages the assortment on the Players (Auction) market. Does anyone come with a bothersome goal of manually picking ten Throwbacks or ten SOTW cards in a row from various teams without an alphabetical surname order for sale at 57400, 39100 or other uneven prices? I face the All-Star Charlotte court for 102100 every now and then. I saw three of them for 10, 50, 100k each at the same time on sale. I’ve faced some hidden offerings by checking the market in small 30-min intervals: the clock on some high-rated items is dialed up and their price drop. For example, a 98 Beal for 980k ending in 2 hours becomes the 98 Beal for 550k ending in 20 hours or so. AN ITEM CANNOT BE RELISTED until its initially set clock ends!
Interesting! I wouldn’t have thought they’d do that, but maybe it’s a way of keeping the market artificially alive until the shutdown. I’ve seen a fairly random assortment of players, jerseys, and courts on PS4. Could be legit with people just trying to sell extras for what they can with the dwindling numbers, but either way, there’s not much on offer. I have snagged a couple of cheap Legends, though. The game and mode definitely entered the final countdown before this announcement. A shame to see, but not altogether surprising, of course.