EA Asks Fans To Stop Supporting And Shut Down The Servers Of The Older BATTLEFIELD Games

EA Asks Fans To Stop Supporting And Shut Down The Servers Of The Older BATTLEFIELD Games

If you ever wanted to play Battlefield 2, 2142 or Heroes again, Electronic Arts has bad news for you, as the company asked fans who kept their older games alive to shut down the servers...

By someguy - Oct 27, 2017 12:10 PM EST
Filed Under: Battlefield 1
Source: Kotaku
Active community is a great thing, especially if it keeps your older games alive, but it looks like EA is done with Revive Network, the group of fans that managed to set up the servers with the community's help and revived 2005's Battlefield 2, 2006's Battlefield 2142 and just recently 2009's Battlefield Heroes, projects abandoned by the publisher or impossible to play after the closure of Gamespy.
 
Today, the team shared the information that EA;s legal team asked them to shut down the servers immediately. In the list sent to Revive's moderators, the company's representative implied that the running servers are not a problem, but EA can't allow them to use modified versions of the original games' clients. A strange complaint, considering that the same company supported and greenlighted the project back in 2014 shortly after Gamespy's closure. 

You can read Revive's answer to EA's requests HERE.

It's a sad day for gamers, but we hope that it's not the last time we hear from Revive Network.
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