EA to drop support for BF2 ??

[gmloki]

'Later this week there wil be a rather low key announcement that EA are officially dropping support for BF2; quote: "In preparation for the earlier than expected release of BF2142". Despite the public betas and extensive, and indeed very costly testing by DICE and partners, solutions to the outstanding and most notorious issues of BF2 post 1.3 have remained elusive.
Support for the game has dropped by nearly 50% since the release of patch 1.3 and ranked server rental by over 70%. With this in mind it is no longer feasible for EA to continue to support a game that has seemingly terminal problems the pursuit of solutions for which have run into a prohibitive area of cost.

EA gave a first sign of the imminent demise of bf2 by permanently closing all UK multiplay servers backed by its UK offices earlier this week, and by sending instructions to ranked server providers to wind down the service.
If BF2 end users will be disappointed by the lack of server support, the imminent end of EA's contract for player database storage with Gamespy may well raise tempers. EA's agreement with Gamespy ends on October 1, and as EA will use their own EA membership service to log player records for BF2142, the BF2 gamespy service will terminate on this date, meaning all current BF2 ranked players will lose all playing records.

The final BF2 patch release will be a new 1.4b patch, which will remove the log in screen function but as a small bonus will allow all bf2 players to have all unlock weapons ingame, hardly much reward for the hard work put in by the legions of let down bf2 fans.

Somebdy at EA has some hard work to do over the next few days, and the success of BF2142 looks even more critical than ever for the PC gaming crowd.'

[FuzzyLogic]

But who's to say the same problems won't happen in BF2142?


Methinks EA...well, they just plain suck.

[Dreamor]

Not surprised to be honest, it was only a matter of time. Its a shame really, could have been great if not for the patches... but thats what you get for listening to all the whining forums and just patching stuff.

[throdgrain]

You mean they have been supporting BF2 previously ??

[Maljonic]

Does BF2142 have a ranked system? If it does do they think as many players will be stupid enough to waste their time playing to get ranks etc when they know it'll all get wiped off a year or so later?

[PLightstar]

Not so bad Bungie used to wipe the ranks every couple of months on the Myth Servers to insure not the same 10 ppl were at the top all the time.

[dysfunction]

This is priceless....

I won't be supporting EA anymore if they won't support me

...I wish everyone would join me in having a boycott of all their products.

[Athan]

Unfortunately to have a sizeable impact you'd have to get all the 'gaming jocks' in the states to stop buying the latest NFL/Madden/whatever games from EA.

Now, what's the latest news on Quake Wars: Enemy Territory, or whatever it's called? I ask because the Battlefield *concept* rocks, all of it, just some bits less than others. The problem is DICE/EA's *implementation* of the concept. Shoddy coding, bug reversions, total failure to fix core bugs that they've had since 2002 ....

I'm just hoping someone else picks up the baton and beats DICE at their own game, literally.

-Ath

[Athan]

Oh, btw, where is the original post FROM? I don't see any URL/cite, and couldn't find anysuch myself when I was looking to reference it the other day (and failed to remember I'd seen it here on FH).

-Ath

[Chronictank]

Originally Posted by Athan

Oh, btw, where is the original post FROM? I don't see any URL/cite, and couldn't find anysuch myself when I was looking to reference it the other day (and failed to remember I'd seen it here on FH).

-Ath

seconded, where are you sourcing this from?
how do we know its a good source :P

[Chronictank]

and its not a good source, just rumours
http://www.iguk.org/?a=post&id=84209

[Athan]

And indeed one of the mods of forums.eagames.co.uk explicitly states "Untrue article" in the original source.

Although like many posters in that thread I'd not be surprised if EA DID do some of the things the rumour describes.

-Ath

[Maljonic]

Anyway it's November now and it still works so far, so if it is true the dates are wrong at least.

Edit: and I bought 2142 anyway.

[Athan]

Originally Posted by Maljonic

Anyway it's November now and it still works so far, so if it is true the dates are wrong at least.

Indeed.

Edit: and I bought 2142 anyway.

*notes down Maljonic's name for when the revolution comes*.

-Ath