generated: '2026-09-06'
method: searched
source: >-
  https://help.ea.com/en/server-status/ (HTTP 200),
  https://www.ea.com/service-updates (HTTP 200),
  https://www.ea.com/games/ea-sports-fc/fc-26/news/pitch-notes-fc26-community-api-update (HTTP 200),
  https://help.ea.com/en/articles/ea-sports-fc/community-api/ (HTTP 200) — all fetched 2026-09-06.
provider: Electronic Arts
providerId: electronic-arts
summary: >-
  EA publishes a live service-status page and a written online-service retirement policy,
  both aimed at players rather than at integrators. There is no API version scheme, no
  deprecation header policy and no SLA for any of the surfaces an integrator would call.
status_page:
  url: https://help.ea.com/en/server-status/
  name: EA server status
  machine_readable: false
  note: >-
    Per-title server status rendered in the EA Help application. No status JSON, RSS or
    Atom feed and no Statuspage/Better Stack style component API was found.
deprecation:
  policy_url: https://www.ea.com/service-updates
  policy_name: Online Service Shutdown
  scope: EA game online services, not APIs
  stated_criteria: >-
    EA retires the online services for a title when the remaining players fall to
    "typically fewer than 1% of all peak online players across all EA titles". The policy
    also covers withdrawal of individual features and modes, and states that where online
    services end a title may still be playable offline.
  notice_channel: https://www.ea.com/service-updates
  sunset_header: not observed
  deprecation_header: not observed
  rfc8594: false
  note: >-
    This is a genuine, published retirement policy with a stated trigger — but it governs
    game online services. Nothing EA publishes states a deprecation window, a version
    support horizon, or a Sunset/Deprecation header contract for the EA Account OAuth
    endpoints or for the FC Community API.
versioning:
  scheme: none published
  api_versions_observed:
  - >-
    accounts.ea.com paths are unversioned (/connect/auth, /connect/token, /connect/userinfo).
  note: >-
    No version string appears in any endpoint EA advertises in its discovery documents, and
    no versioning policy page exists.
sla:
  published: false
  note: No uptime commitment is published for any EA online service or for the FC Community API.
milestones:
- date: '2026-07-27'
  event: >-
    EA announced the EA SPORTS FC Community API and named FUT.GG, FUTBIN and FUTWIZ as the
    only authorized partners. Partner applications are explicitly closed: "We are not
    accepting requests at this time."
  source: https://www.ea.com/games/ea-sports-fc/fc-26/news/pitch-notes-fc26-community-api-update
- date: '2026-09-02'
  event: >-
    Last-Modified on EA's OpenID Connect discovery document at accounts.ea.com, observed on
    the 2026-09-06 probe — the identity metadata is actively maintained.
  source: https://accounts.ea.com/.well-known/openid-configuration
data_retention:
  rule: >-
    Approved FC Community API partners may retain pulled account-specific data for up to 28
    days; a new data pull inside that window resets the 28 days from the time of the new request.
  source: https://www.ea.com/games/ea-sports-fc/fc-26/news/pitch-notes-fc26-community-api-update
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com