![]() "Your websites may easily mislead visitors to believe that you are associated or affiliated with EA-we're the only ones that get to wear the 'Official EA' dog tag. Now Battlefield 2042 has been up and running for a few years DICE has announced that starting April 28 2023, Battlefield 1943 and Bad Company 1 and 2 will no longer be purchasable in online. I have made three different posts about this issue. I talked to ea support about my issue and this is what they said. Private servers may exist but the private owners would be utilizing their own servers/database and it wouldnt retain the player data from the official servers. It isnt just simply closing the official servers in the browser. "Please stop distributing copies of our game clients and using our trademarks, logos, and artwork on your sites," EA's counsel writes in a note republished on the Revive website. Fifty EA titles across numerous franchises and platforms including Battlefield 2 and Crysis 2 for PC affected by the upcoming termination of GameSpys hosting services will go offline on. EA support has told me they shut down multiplayer servers. The entire multiplayer experience is shut down because they will no longer maintain the player data databases for them. ![]() It's the distribution of modified copies of these now-defunct games that seems to have drawn the ire of EA's legal department. Kind of feel like when EA stops hosting official servers, then the games server files should be shared out to hosting providers / the community. The process started with Battlefield 2 in 2014 and expanded to Battlefield 2142 last year, and Battlefield Heroes a few month ago. To get around that, Revive was distributing modified versions of the older Battlefield titles along with a launcher that allowed access to its own, rewritten server infrastructure. Further Reading The day the Mario Kart died: Nintendo’s kill switch and the future of online consolesEA's older Battlefield titles were a victim of the 2014 GameSpy shutdown, which disabled the online infrastructure for plenty of classic PC and console games.
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