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Battlefield 2 Ranked Game Servers

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There’s been quite a lot of discussion on the forums about this recently. Basically, Electronic Arts are refusing to allow us to sell ranked BF2 game servers (because to do so you must be a member of EA’s trusted partner scheme). Every time we try to make contact, they either ignore us (and believe me, we’ve tried everything, even leaving people voicemails and inviting them out to lunch!) or they reply with a pre-written response along the lines of “the scheme is full”.

Battlefield 2 is going down the toilet. When ET Quakewars comes out, the toilet will be well and truly flushed. The only way to restore the game to its former glory is to have more stable (and cheaper) game servers online. Cheaper game servers = more people buying game servers, therefore the game becomes more popular; simple! And we hope to charge 99p per slot for a BF2 ranked game server, just like all our other games.

Please sign our petition by adding your name in a comment below. The more signatures, the better. We will then send it to EA, as a final hope that they will allow us (UK’s Biggest GSP, without BF2 servers!) to host ranked servers of their game.

We, the undersigned, would like INX-Gaming to become an EA trusted partner for the purpose of selling Battlefield 2 Ranked game servers at 99p per slot. EA, we have had enough of this idiocy!

Posted in Game Servers | 84 Comments

84 Responses to “Battlefield 2 Ranked Game Servers”



Luke Stannard

May 25th, 2007 at 8:37 pm

Give them the god dam servers!

PsychoHippy

May 25th, 2007 at 8:38 pm

Do they not understand this makes them money buy letting INX sell the servers!?!?

David Blackie

May 25th, 2007 at 8:41 pm

We need ranked servers! It makes the gaming experience more fun and competitive, it just aint as good without the rankings! Please put them on!

Bamm

May 25th, 2007 at 8:42 pm

WE WANT SERVERS!!

sephiroth

May 25th, 2007 at 8:42 pm

We would really like some cheep decent uk servers! plz EA could you allow them to host it :)

Carl

May 25th, 2007 at 8:43 pm

I, as a staff member, agree! xD
Ranked servers please EA!

mittal99

May 25th, 2007 at 8:45 pm

Yes ranked servers plz! Don’t be a “ranker”… LOL

Cap'n Finn

May 25th, 2007 at 8:46 pm

We would love some servers please

bb@toilet

May 25th, 2007 at 8:47 pm

I don’t understand this outrage!
EA has too much money or what? Just let inx-gaming sell their ranked servers and they have a good deal also.

It’s way more fun with ranked servers then normal ones, i thought it was special made for ppl that want fun and others can see what they’re capabable of.
EA can’t stop selling ranked servers, there weren’t problems for a few years and now they’re bullshitting.

I will run naked now in AE’s office!

Simon

May 25th, 2007 at 8:48 pm

Personally I can’t understand why they would restrict INX (by far the biggest game server provider in UK at least, perhaps even Europe), from supply BF2 ranked servers. Surely they are just restricting the amount of revenue they are making through ranked servers and through people not buying the game!

Buck your ideas up EA, and step to it!

My 2 cents.

P.S. GIEV US RANKED SERVERS!

Joe

May 25th, 2007 at 8:49 pm

EA need to get their act together, why not let one of the main server companies do their games. What geks. Im a sargent blud

Rob

May 25th, 2007 at 8:51 pm

in before ranked

Wellar

May 25th, 2007 at 8:51 pm

Ranked servers ….
we need ranked servers …

Rich

May 25th, 2007 at 8:57 pm

EA have never done anything for the good of the player, only the good of the wallet.

And that’s not a good combination.

C’mon. Make a reliable server technology and let someone who will not rip off your customres sell it before you find all your casual players gone to other titles.

Matthew

May 25th, 2007 at 8:57 pm

INX-Gaming should recieve ranked server to sell at these great prices. I can’t believe that EA haven’t given the UK’s largest GSP ranked servers!

GIVE INX-RANKED SERVERS!

Gavin

May 25th, 2007 at 8:59 pm

I cannot understand EA’s position on this.

Why not let INX host ranked servers ?

Bob

May 25th, 2007 at 9:06 pm

C’mon EA…i love playing Battlefield 2 and i only play on ranked servers. I know that INX host very good and high quality servers and i would love it if they could host ranked servers.

If they did, i may think about getting a ranked server from them :)

Please let em have ranked

J Prescott

May 25th, 2007 at 9:54 pm

INX have always offered value for money in terms of quality service, and since the focus of the Battlefield series has always been online gaming, it makes a lot of sense to allow them to host ranked servers.

For one I would rather play non-ranked games on an INX server than ranked games on a non-INX server, on the basis that I get frustrated with lag, and really annoyed when characters teleport (if you think I’m exaggerating, what else do you call appearing 10 feet to the left of where they were the frame before?).

Denying INX the right to sell ranked server slots seems to be a move that can only have a negative impact on the Battlefield community, by denying them a source of cost-effective quality servers to play on.

Imatate

May 25th, 2007 at 10:10 pm

I was the one who started all this off, LOL.

I think Inx should have ranked servers as theyr’e the UK’s number one largest GSP!!

GO INX!!

LadyB

May 25th, 2007 at 10:46 pm

Just Do It!! GO INX!

Del Monte

May 25th, 2007 at 11:09 pm

Its a complete farce and a joke.

EA - Give INX ranked servers, do the right thing in the interest of the gamer for once.

Rory

May 25th, 2007 at 11:09 pm

I would like INX-Gaming to become an EA trusted partner for the purpose of selling Battlefield 2 Ranked game servers at 99p per slot. EA, we have had enough of this idiocy!

=’]

Snoopy

May 25th, 2007 at 11:11 pm

Give them the right to sell ranked servers.

memPHIS

May 25th, 2007 at 11:26 pm

I would like INX-Gaming to become an EA trusted partner for the purpose of selling Battlefield 2 Ranked game servers at 99p per slot. EA, we have had enough of this stupidity

°-»AúthøRítY«-°

May 26th, 2007 at 9:17 am

DO IT! DO IT! DO IT OR I WILL RAPE YOUR LEG! DO IT!!!!!! AIAIAIAIAIAIA!!!!

I WILL HACK YOU OTHERWISE AND DO IT MYSELF, AIAIAIAIA!

Michael Bull

May 26th, 2007 at 9:17 am

Yea…Like authority said, do it please, we want it bad!

FireFox

May 26th, 2007 at 9:18 am

YEA!

Queen B

May 26th, 2007 at 9:18 am

aiaiaiaia! Do it please!

RoboDucky

May 26th, 2007 at 9:39 am

Yeah give them the bloody right… even though I dislike bf2142 the people over at bf2 and my friends that like bf2 dont have to suffer for it!!!

and brownsauce… wtf o.0 you gone complete crazy now

Xenophon

May 26th, 2007 at 4:35 pm

lol @ EA … once again showing a prime example of ruining their own games.
FFS. weve got numerous servers with INX. and their all good. why the hell cant they host BF2 ???????

Bøøbies

May 26th, 2007 at 5:47 pm

PWEEEASE DO IT FOR ME!

Ciaran

May 26th, 2007 at 6:42 pm

Let them do it!

FirePhoenix

May 26th, 2007 at 6:55 pm

GIVE US THE SERVERS!!!!

StyleZ

May 26th, 2007 at 7:01 pm

Servers now!

MJR

May 26th, 2007 at 7:03 pm

PLEASE! We buy servers and then we get crappy un ranked ones? whats this!! Like bad said DO THEY HAVE TO MUCH MONEY!?!?

bfjunkie4life!

May 26th, 2007 at 7:06 pm

Why EA Why!?!?

Evil ass is thier new name~!

YOU MAKE MORE MONEY!!

We know your all greedy!

Become partners with INX for us, if not the money!

CatSoup

May 26th, 2007 at 7:13 pm

PLEASE! Give us the server and i will hump you all day long!

Blue_skunk

May 26th, 2007 at 7:14 pm

i whole heartedly endorse this product/service

skunk

tostrong4you

May 26th, 2007 at 7:15 pm

i want inx ranked bf2 servers

FirePhoenix

May 26th, 2007 at 7:18 pm

Paste this into your xfire status if you have it!

Please sign!! http://www.inx-gaming.co.uk/gaming-blog/game-servers/battlefield-2-ranked-game-servers

We REALLY nead these ranked servers!!

{BofB}Patton

May 26th, 2007 at 8:26 pm

The {BofB}Community fully supports INX-Gaming in getting the EA’s trusted partner ship. Although i think there hard heads after this time they spend in getting this mark.

Dont lose INX-Network as a customer, because of an old word:
The customer is your king, with it your country will fail!

All the best from the {BofB}Community!
www.bandofbrothersclan.com

=GK=Socca

May 26th, 2007 at 8:40 pm

EA you are making a big mistake!!! LET INIX sell Ranked BF2 Servers!!!
OR YOU WONT GET NO MONEY!!!!

[wsat]Ripper

May 27th, 2007 at 12:09 am

EA…games are good,but atleast with bf2 being so old now why not let inx provide ranked server’s?

We at wsat support inx to the full plus we have a small group with bf2142 and getting into the partner ship should get us one step closer to achieving in that area .

Please Give INX enterance into the partner scheme

[wsat]Ripper[CL]

PhD

May 27th, 2007 at 7:59 am

Ranked Servers For The People!!!

=’(

James

May 27th, 2007 at 8:14 am

Get the servers back please

swat

May 27th, 2007 at 9:14 am

agreed ^^

=GK= Cirlam

May 27th, 2007 at 10:26 am

our clan has just bought 2 new boxes from inx, and we’re left on the multiplay servers, which although are alrite, they are more expensive than inx, and we need an entire box for a 2142 server and bf2 server….

basically, we nnnnneeeeed inx to be allowed to host bf2 ranked servers

=GK=kerani

May 27th, 2007 at 10:31 am

EA needs to get their heads out of their arses, and let inx host ranked servers, NOW!!!!!!!!

=GK=mattward3000

May 27th, 2007 at 10:47 am

EA give them the rights to host inx ranked servers!

Destro

May 27th, 2007 at 11:25 am

Do they want to loose money, or what?…

Ben Potter

May 27th, 2007 at 1:31 pm

Here here!

J Ellis

May 27th, 2007 at 1:39 pm

And in typical EA fashion, they continue to suck. It’s a pity you have to do your utmost best to kill BF2, considering BF2142 has already been well and truly slaughtered. We know you tried hard with patch 1.3, but we carried on fighting the bugs. Please stop the bloodshed.

L De Backer

May 27th, 2007 at 2:08 pm

Give INX the server, we might even buy one com’on we need cheap good decent BF2 servers, GIVE HIM !

Davren

May 27th, 2007 at 2:58 pm

As a staff member I don’t see what the harm in us having bf2 servers is. So yes BF2 server please :D

fczwoll

May 27th, 2007 at 3:02 pm

yea there is a big need of cheap ranked bf2 servers!!!

=GK= SHENTON

May 27th, 2007 at 3:25 pm

Our clan just bought 2 boxes from INX and we can’t have a ranked bf2 server, this is total bull. why can’t EA just let this company have it. Are they so worried about about losing the tiniest bit of money to someone else?
It’s not like they don’t own like 40% of the world games !

[Storm]Monty

May 27th, 2007 at 4:20 pm

EA does plain dictatorship like back in the fourties in Germany … I see no difference here. Why not at least help out some firms trying to keep the game up if EA is not bothered about brining out some new maps for us !!! You guys suck like hell when it comes down to serving peeps after buying the game…. your services suck big style and I believe I am not alone with this statement !!!

=GK=Sid45

May 27th, 2007 at 4:35 pm

Yeah sort it out EA!

Goose

May 27th, 2007 at 6:13 pm

iNX should be allowed to host them. They are a great company :D

Seymour

May 27th, 2007 at 8:44 pm

LET INIX sell Ranked BF2 Servers!!!

Danny

May 27th, 2007 at 11:38 pm

Go on, give them the partnership. Get this game back up to it’s former Glory!

Simon Gunton

May 28th, 2007 at 8:18 pm

Give them the damn ranked servers!!!

Matt

May 29th, 2007 at 3:38 am

INX are an excellent host, I fail to see why you wouldn’t allow them to sell ranked servers. Everybody would benefit from it.

You can add my name to the partition.

Jay

June 3rd, 2007 at 4:59 pm

EA! Why will you not allow INX to sell ranked servers. Ranked servers change a gameing experiance completely, not only do they make the game better for the more competetive player but they allow less experianced less competetive players the see what they are up against and what they could aspire to.

If you go through with not alowing INX to sell these ranked servers you are surely depriving yourself of a huge amount of revenue. Just give up the corperate act and give them the SERVES!

Please.

Chris

June 3rd, 2007 at 8:24 pm

Please let INX sell Ranked Game Servers. I would love to buy a Ranked server from INX!

James Hanify

June 15th, 2007 at 12:42 am

Agreed. Inx should be allowed to host BF2 servers and even BF2142 which I hope they will be looking into :P

Ste

June 19th, 2007 at 9:49 pm

Give them RANKED servers!

RiZZa

June 21st, 2007 at 3:02 am

We want gd bf2 Servers !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! nice site :D

Mike

July 8th, 2007 at 2:00 am

Bunch of us guys get together an play a while online we all have family’s an job’s but we all play when we can how bout giving the working class guy’s a break

Gomer

July 8th, 2007 at 4:04 am

Yes, that would be great to have some more BF2 servers. Now can we get this done already!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

keith

July 14th, 2007 at 12:48 pm

Cheaper servers = more servers ea do the right thing

Peter Carey

August 3rd, 2007 at 9:26 pm

EA I have been a fan of all your games since you first came out!
I can say though that you are going down the toilet now!!!
If you use commen sence you will know that cheaper servers=More members more members+more servers=MORE MONEY…COME ON EA!!!

Ady

August 15th, 2007 at 5:13 pm

Cheaper server means more buying

JohnBoy

August 31st, 2007 at 6:41 pm

Give them the servers for christ sake, it earns a) you money b)your games a reputation c)better communities d) A BIG FUCKIN WAR

Holback

September 11th, 2007 at 7:06 pm

Good luck, I have been a private GSP for 5 years. I don’t charge anyone to use or play any of my six servers hosted on my own equipment….
I have been trying to get an ok for rank usage for quite a while. They tell me the same thing, the program is full, we are not accepting anymore GSP’s.
I knew when I saw the way BF2 is laid out from the player verification to the way the ranking is done this would be trouble. With you being the biggest provider it is just stupid you can’t offer ranked servers.
EA is beginning to look like IW with the holier than thou attitude. Look at the hoops you have to jump through just to get Euro Force and Armored Fury to work.

wes

September 28th, 2007 at 6:16 am

Another ranked server provider in the UK would be much appreciated, I’m sure it will help EA increase there profits aswell.

Trevor Grossman

January 4th, 2008 at 11:02 pm

EA make the banks look like they have good customer service. They are the video game nazis. Once a title has sold through its lifespan (BF2 for ex.) they basically stop supporting or even caring about it.

I no longer buy EA games because of this. I their sports franchise says it all.

2k starts making sports games that are better than EAs at half the price. What does EA do? They buy the rights exclusive rights to sell MLB, NBA and NFL titles. 2k now has to call their game Professional Football and can’t use any of the team names. Lame.

Down with EA!

Dev

June 3rd, 2008 at 12:40 pm

Why the sudden change?????????????? Come on EA. It’s just a game!

Polo

August 7th, 2008 at 8:48 pm

Please let this company rent battlefield 2 ranked servers. As all other companys are very exspenive and reqiure 3 - 6 month contract.

Rastafer

October 8th, 2008 at 1:12 am

i find it sad that there are no ranked servers,
shame on them, for players around the globe

Dealman

November 2nd, 2008 at 1:36 pm

EA Games is just being ridicilous. Why don’t they want you to host ranked servers? Possible “cheating” to rank up easy? Well, look at all already-exisitng Stat Paddings servers. Nothin’ wrong with ‘em.

Even with stat paddings servers it takes a _long_ time to get the highest rank or the weapons you’d like to reach. So what? It takes years of non-stats-padding otherwise.

Also, I doubt players play for stats, Battlefield 2 have gone relativley old in the current generation of games. So I doubt those “I-wanna-be-the-number-one”-enthusiasts no longer plays BF2 for the stats. Most plays for the sake of fun and team tactics needed to win.

Also those unlockable weapons brings an extreme overpowerness to some players in the game.

Phil White

February 12th, 2009 at 11:26 am

Wise up guys, EA don’t give a s*** about us. We Buy thier product, then they tell us how to use it. We don’t own the game we buy, we just rent it on their terms. For example,,how many of you know that punkbuster is a trojan that has access to “ALL” of your system, it is a trojan. All your files are open to them. This is a violation of the privacy act, but you can’t play EA games without agreeing to this violation. 180,000 accounts have been re set!, work out the math guys, how many more BF2 games have been sold because of theses re sets. Forget getting more ranked providers, it aint gonna happen. EA own your ass if you play BF2.

John

February 13th, 2009 at 12:42 am

Is it actually a *trojan*? Does it deliver a payload or replicate?

Phil, consumer pressure is the only thing that forces companies to actually change their business practices. If there’s enough of an outcry, if enough people email EA telling them how they feel then yeah, a change will happen eventually.

See my post on Gamers Marching To War! http://www.inx-gaming.com/gaming-blog/random/on-your-feet-gamers-we-march-to-war/

Arman

June 12th, 2009 at 2:13 pm

Please prohibit them to open servers. Without theese servers Battlefield 2 nobody will play.


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