EA/Gamespy shutdown - R.I.P. Battlefield 2...?

[ZJbrandon]

http://mp1st.com/2014/05/11/ea-shut-battlefield-1942-battlefield-2-battlefield-2142-online-services-june-30/#.U3FgpPldUWY

[irviding]

lol what fucking scumbag executives selling their shares 2 days before this announcement

http://online.barrons.com/news/articles/SB50001424053111903301904579557820755631950?mod=googlenews_barrons

[SEVERE-RECTAL-TRAUMA]

Martha Stewart move

[Q-IC_H2O]

fuck this shit ive heard it that they were planning to do it to c&c to just after they brought a complete edition
cant we do anything about it?

[modern_man]

fuck this shit ive heard it that they were planning to do it to c&c to just after they brought a complete edition
cant we do anything about it?

yeah we can call The

[Tankbuster]

everyone should check this site out http://www.revivebf2.com/

[ZJbrandon]

very interesting!
could be just what we need!
confusing part is they state that EA is working on a fix, it sounds like they are referring to the gamespy portion, since EA announced ending online support, how would we expect they are "working on a fix".

cool to see that they are working on some new maps, too!
 

[Puffytron]

Email response from  Ricardo Casco  from http://www.revivebf2.com/

Thanks man! We are too. All is well so far! BF2 House Remix? Never heard of it, but it sounds pretty sweet haha



On Wed, May 14, 2014 at 8:23 PM, Kevin Weare <kevin@rhinobee.com> wrote:

Ricky,
 
Your site looks promising.  I have read over the site and hope that your teams efforts to make a usable bf2 game once ea drops goes well.   I mostly play with the titsandtaps.com  group.  We have a loyal group of players whom are also intrested in your success.
 
We will be following your progress!  Like the remix!  Here is another from youtube.... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0cEpVa47-o0
 
 
a.k.a.   Kaptkevlar





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[irviding]

LOL he has the area code of my county... i should visit him and lick him to make the game go up faster

[Asaultmaster]

Ya I just bought the complete version in January. Those inside trading teabaggers should be prosecuted.

[Ryland]

I saw this after the "We're looking into it" tweet regarding Battlefield 2.  It sounds like all is not lost...

2014-05-09:
http://www.ea.com/news/update-on-ea-titles-hosted-on-gamespy

For the lazy:

Since GameSpy’s announcement, our teams have been working to evaluate options to keep services up and running.  Unfortunately, due to technical challenges and concerns about the player experience, we do not have a solution at this time. Online services for EA games on the GameSpy platform will be closed down at the end of June.

 We know some of these games are still fan favorites, including Battlefield 2, Battlefield 1942, Medal of Honor: Allied Assault and Command & Conquer games. We are still investigating community-supported options to preserve online functionality for these titles, such as multiplayer. Significant technical hurdles remain, and at this time we don’t have anything to announce.

Community-supported options?   Gee, I hope ReviveBF2 is one of their contacts on this.

On their official "Service Update" list:
http://www.ea.com/1/service-updates

They have BF2 (among others) set to terminate service on June 30th.  I assume they're referring to the stat tracking database and possibly the login service.

My questions right now are:

• 1) Does BF2 use GameSpy for logging in?  When GameSpy shuts down, are we #%@^ outta luck for a while?
• 2) (if 1 is not true) Will we still be able to use the "Connect to IP" feature after the Gamespy shutdown? (I don't see why not, since its not through GameSpy!)
• 3) (if 1 is not true) After June 30th, will the game simply not work because we can't log in?  (Provided they haven't transitioned the login service to a "community" site)

(also, first post w00t).

[ZJbrandon]

great post, Ryland. Thanks!

I'm right there with you, same exact questions floating around my head.
All i can think is, "hope for the best, prepare for the worst".
 

[ZJbrandon]

PC Gamer article from yesterday, May 15th.
http://www.pcgamer.com/2014/05/16/player-community-working-on-keeping-battlefield-2-battlefield-1942-online/

in a nutshell, same situation.

[irviding]

Looks grim... honestly the hard truth is even if there is a "community supported option" it's still sort of the end of the game. Fact is when we see maybe 3-5 people trying to connect at peak hours and getting kicked for PB issues, then never coming back because they won't download the PB fix... we think that people are gonna go to the even greater lengths to connect to the game with community supported options?? Doubtful... Unless EA is able to fix it in its current state probably need to say goodbye.

Sucks... wish I bought some EA shares at the beginning of April and then unloaded them like these executives   LOL

[Exumify]

I wonder how many that will get banned from the very few servers that will exist and never be able to play *cough cough*