A LOT of EA games losing Multiplayer June 30th.

[yourbeliefs]

Big list here. Noteworthy loses are Battlefield 2, Red Alert 3, Crysis 2, and Star Wars Battlefront 2 (although SWBF2 will be continued by another provider.)

http://www.escapistmagazine.com/new...own-Old-Game-Servers-BF2-Red-Alert-3-And-More

 

[meStevo]

I've never understood the brief hysteria around some of these shutdowns. Just feeds agenda posters for the most part I think (not referring to why you posted this)

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[yourbeliefs]

Well part of the issue is that without multiplayer, a bunch of these games are basically useless. I mean who is going to play Star Wars: Battlefront without Multiplayer? Yes at the end of the day, not a ton of people will be affected by this (including myself) but it does sort of suck that after June 30th, a whole part of the game won't work anymore. And yes, the fact that it's EA and they seem to do this a LOT more often than other publishers does inflame gamers a bit more, but as history has proven, gamers want everything to work forever, for better or worse.

 

[meStevo]

It's EA doing this, or Gamespy? http://www.ign.com/articles/2014/04/03/gamespy-multiplayer-shutting-down-hundreds-of-games-at-risk Funny how the original article seems to just focus on EA.

 

[yourbeliefs]

It's both. Gamespy shutting down has put a LOT of games from different companies in limbo. However, EA for a while had a "We'll get back to you about it" attitude, and now they're basically saying "Yeah, we're just going to shut everything down." Not surprising given the cost/benefit analysis of keeping these games up.

 

[yourbeliefs]

On a related topic, Bungie went back and patched Halo PC (an 11 year old game) to work without Gamespy servers, and even patched other stuff like allowing resolutions of 4800 X 3600.

http://www.escapistmagazine.com/new...ved-From-Gamespy-Shutdown-With-Official-Patch