This is the case of Battlefield 2, which was shutdown in 2014.īut fear not! The Team at has revived the whole game, Multiplayer included! Basically they gave us a way to log in and play online once again, with Rankings enabled. In 2014 GameSpy was closed, and so the Multiplayer experience of many online games was terminated as well. Maybe someday EA will ease up on letting their old games come back up online, but that’s not happening anytime soon it seems.NOTE: BF2 "Revive" is no different than a regular BF2 "Vanilla" version!
Battlefield fans will just have to play the current crop of Battlefield games available now to get their fix. Should you have any questions regarding all this, please do not hesitate to contact me via e-mail at Counsel Please drop us a line to let us know you’re on board with this. Since you’re Battlefield community members, we know that you are smart and helpful, and will respect that we must protect our intellectual property rights in the franchise. Thing is, your websites may easily mislead visitors to believe that you are associated or affiliated with EA and we’re the only ones that get to wear the Official EA dog tag.
In other, more legal-styled terms, please stop distributing copies of our game clients and using our trademarks, logos, and artwork on your sites. We need a favour though: we must ask that you stop throwing down Ammo Crates. Not to brag, but we too get the nostalgia chills when booting up these classic entries in the Battlefield franchise. It’s great to see your enthusiasm for these titles. We’ve noticed that Revive Network has several projects and websites devoted to being a Medic by reviving older Battlefield games, including Battlefield Heroes, Battlefield 2, and Battlefield 2142. and its development studio DICE or, in other words, ‘those guys that make Battlefield’. I write on behalf of Electronic Arts Inc. In case you’re curious, here’s EA’s take down request, which, at the very least, was very polite and not in any way like a threat. Without you, it would not have become such a great time. Before we leave the battlefield, we would like to thank all of the developers, artists, moderators, and last but not least every single player that helped make all of this a reality. This is probably the part where we have to say good bye. The public reception for our efforts on this title were massive, and we never expected it to become as big as it was.Īt this time, file downloads will be disabled. Only a few months ago, we took on the task of bringing multiplayer services online for a fan-favorite, Battlefield Heroes. Over the past 3 and a half years, Revive Network has filled a void in nearly 1 million players’ hearts by bringing favorite titles back to life after online services were closed after the GameSpy shutdown. As diehard fans of the franchise, we will respect these stipulations. We will get right to the point: Electronic Arts Inc.’ legal team has contacted us and nicely asked us to stop distributing and using their intellectual property. Here’s the letter The Revive Network Team has issued to their supporters. Well, it seems that won’t be happening now,or ever, The Revive Network, which has spent three years to make “dead” Battlefield games playable online again after GameSpy (multiplayer server service) went down, has been asked by EA to politely not to continue with their projects. Then you have people like the “Revive Team,” a group of Battlefield fans who want to make the older Battlefield games ( 2142, Battlefield 2) playable online. One of the disadvantages of multiplayer games being long in the tooth is that sooner or later, the publisher pulls the plug on the servers thus making the game unplayable online.