The death of Battlefield 2

[DrunkenPirate]

And no I don't mean PoE.


‹2:35pm› <king0rism> 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.
‹2:35pm› <king0rism> 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.


This is hot news and hundreds of people in IRC are enraged.
I will have more news as I get it.

[buteonidae]

Re: The death of Battlefield 2

Maybe that's why the patch was delayed? For the log in screen function to be removed as the agreemant ends :/

[Talus]

Re: The death of Battlefield 2

Let's wait and see until we get some more 'official' info.

Me and DP go a way back though so this info has me a little worried...

UPDATE:

So far, the officially 'unofficial' word I'm hearing is that these rumours are false and that v1.4 will mostly certainly include the usual GameSpy login and stats system and that GameSpy will even be handling the stats system for BF2142...therefore indicating that the relationship between GS and EA will continue.

I'll post more if I receive more info.