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If you've fired up Battlefield 3 recently on pretty much any platform, you may have noticed that the once plentiful bounty that were official EA/DICE game servers are going the way of the Dodo. Some users, including those noted by Venturebeat, found that there were no official servers at all on the Xbox 360 version. PS3 gamers found only a few slim pickings remaining.
So, what's the deal here? During a recent AMA (think of it as a community Q&A) on Reddit, DICE's Daniel "zh1nt0" Matros explained why these servers are disappearing. Strangely enough, though, the questions and subsequent answers were removed.
However, thanks to the power of the Internet, the answers were preserved in this lovely image.
Console gamers who are not used to this sort of thing are kind of flipping their lids over the whole "lack of official servers" thing. The community is rather up in arms because of rented server admins who kick or ban unfairly.
While some are trying to make it like EA or DICE is in the wrong here, I don't see it as such. They gave the console gamers what they requested. They provided a means for renting and running dedicated servers on a platform that really never has such an opportunity for it. EA and DICE helped to get things started and as the community has become self-sufficient, the two companies started to back off and let the community run on its own.
You know, sort of how things have been since the beginning in just about every PC game that lets you have dedicated servers?
So, what's the deal here? During a recent AMA (think of it as a community Q&A) on Reddit, DICE's Daniel "zh1nt0" Matros explained why these servers are disappearing. Strangely enough, though, the questions and subsequent answers were removed.
However, thanks to the power of the Internet, the answers were preserved in this lovely image.
Console gamers who are not used to this sort of thing are kind of flipping their lids over the whole "lack of official servers" thing. The community is rather up in arms because of rented server admins who kick or ban unfairly.
While some are trying to make it like EA or DICE is in the wrong here, I don't see it as such. They gave the console gamers what they requested. They provided a means for renting and running dedicated servers on a platform that really never has such an opportunity for it. EA and DICE helped to get things started and as the community has become self-sufficient, the two companies started to back off and let the community run on its own.
You know, sort of how things have been since the beginning in just about every PC game that lets you have dedicated servers?
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