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!
Here here!
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.
Give INX the server, we might even buy one com’on we need cheap good decent BF2 servers, GIVE HIM !
As a staff member I don’t see what the harm in us having bf2 servers is. So yes BF2 server please
yea there is a big need of cheap ranked bf2 servers!!!
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 !
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 !!!
Yeah sort it out EA!
iNX should be allowed to host them. They are a great company
LET INIX sell Ranked BF2 Servers!!!
Go on, give them the partnership. Get this game back up to it’s former Glory!
Give them the damn ranked servers!!!
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.
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.
Please let INX sell Ranked Game Servers. I would love to buy a Ranked server from INX!
Agreed. Inx should be allowed to host BF2 servers and even BF2142 which I hope they will be looking into
Give them RANKED servers!
We want gd bf2 Servers !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! nice site
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
Yes, that would be great to have some more BF2 servers. Now can we get this done already!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Cheaper servers = more servers ea do the right thing
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!!!
Cheaper server means more buying
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
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.
Another ranked server provider in the UK would be much appreciated, I’m sure it will help EA increase there profits aswell.
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!
Why the sudden change?????????????? Come on EA. It’s just a game!
Please let this company rent battlefield 2 ranked servers. As all other companys are very exspenive and reqiure 3 – 6 month contract.
i find it sad that there are no ranked servers,
shame on them, for players around the globe
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.
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.
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/
Please prohibit them to open servers. Without theese servers Battlefield 2 nobody will play.
Let me buy a server pleaseeeee:]
EA, Stop messing people around – give the server out to other hosts who deserve the rights to BFBC2 servers.
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