EA closing down online services for older games

[ander01se]

"GameSpy announced earlier this month that they would be ending all hosted services for games, which impacts the online capabilities of a number of older titles, including some from EA.

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.

For the full list of titles impacted by the change, visit the EA Online Services Updates page"

 

[SuB]

wow, they're closing the doors on BF2.. there's gonna be some unhappy people for that...

Also can you add a source link please.

 

[nepas]

http://www.ea.com/1/service-updates

 

[SeekaX]

wow, they're closing the doors on BF2.. there's gonna be some unhappy people for that...

Also can you add a source link please.

Shouldn't be much of a problem, people are just going to connect via IP.

 

[SuB]

Shouldn't be much of a problem, people are just going to connect via IP.

While true, it's still a sad day for the franchise in my opinion

 

[SeekaX]

While true, it's still a sad day for the franchise in my opinion

Makes the game less accessible, which is a good thing. In my experience it makes the game a whole lot better when the BF4 mobs can't ruin it as easily anymore whenever it goes on sale.
I remember the BC2 sales, the game was unplayable for at least a month after each sale.