EA to Shut Down Old Game Servers - BF2, Red Alert 3 And More

[Elijin]

Wait isnt BF2 a game where the servers are maintained by others? Way back in 2003-9 I was part of a gaming network that hosted various servers like counter strike and natural selection and BF2. So why is this dependent on EA? Or was there someone awful login server between the players are the actual servers?


Edit: Oh right, Gamespy was the regulating body for BF2.

 

[sXeth]

This is further sign that the age of always online gaming is not the right way. Seems really sad to see NWN and NWN2 go on top of so many other very amazing games.

They are shutting down the multiplayer side. not the single player. Take a 5 second search before you proclaim DRM did it. Which this isn't even tied to because these games are older than always online DRM.

NWN a rather mediocre singleplayer game, mostly worth noting for its excellent toolset and strong multiplayer community. (though the second expansion was fairly decent)

As for DRM, he isn't claiming that this is a factor here. Rather, he's pointing out that EA's willingness to toss aside even well loved games once they've aged a bit is a strong reason to be wary of modern releases that require an internet connection.

NWN actually makes me wonder what they're even shutting down in some of these cases. NWN's authentication/gamespy servers have been off for more then a few years now. With the whole community running off forums/direct connecting to servers, and most major servers running their own authentication scripts. Unless they mean the patch hosting that I think is/was still on Bioware's site.

 

[mrdude2010]

Hopefully someone will find a way to host servers so the games don't go down entirely, because a lot of these have dedicated, if not top 20 in size, fanbases. Neverwinter Nights, for example, pretty much depends on its online community to keep going.

 

[Jay Gaines]

Im probably gonna get trolled for this. I didnt see anything about bf2 bad company for ps3 being switched off. IS IT?

 

[Bill Hathaway]

So we pay for a game, that we are forced to use a server, that is going off line, leaving us with nothing. So when do we get the refund and how or do we need to all get together and do a class action law suit. If this happens to these other games and BF2, then what will happen to all the other games.

 

[Agent Smith]

I just installed C & C Generals Zero hour and I couldn't connect for the life of me. I found this forum through Google and figured I'd share this so all may not be lost.

http://www.gamespot.com/articles/command-conquer-multiplayer-saved-from-the-demise-/1100-6420950/

http://cnc-online.net/


Now I have BF2 and I just wonder if single player will still work since you still have to log in in order to play single player. I found that to be pretty stupid on EA's part.

I never played BF2142 except the demo. I wonder if the demo is down as well since that too requires log in?

Edit- Found a solution to BF2. http://forum.bf1942.sk/gamespy

 

[Carlos Ali]

I was searchig on the web and i found that for bf2 there is a revive proyect (go to battlelog.com) but I tryed it out , and is a piece of shit, is very difficult to understand how it works, and the list of servers that were in the multiplayer option of battlefield doesnt longer exist, you gotta know the server ip, in order to play in that server, and by the way you have to update the game to the latest version if you wanna play in the revive proyect server, Im really mad now with EA and gamespy -.- I used to play bf2 daily on my vacations

 

[Carlos Ali]

the webpage of the bf2 revive proyect is http://www.battlelog.co/ not .com

 

[Jerry Edwards]

Battlefield 2142 Multiplayer is up and running on a community game fix.
Goto Battlefield2142.co for all the information from start to finish. If you have any questions let me know..

AirJerr

 

[BoogieManFL]

Same thing is going to happen more and more.

Some day I'll be old and nostalgic and want to play through Mass Effect series again, only to load up and be unable to play any of the DLC I paid money for because it can't connect to the servers. Won't even be able to play the multiplayer with friends because it's brilliantly online only.

Then I'll remember back to the news article that said EA has finished sucking the life out of BioWare and has discarded the desiccated husk in to the ditch with all the others that came before it.