Popular Post POEman553 Posted August 12, 2022 Popular Post Share Posted August 12, 2022 (edited) ...EA just announced that Command & Conquer Red Alert 3 and Mercenaries 2: World in Flames will be shutting down their servers on November 9, 2022. Both of those games use older EA accounts to connect online and have servers in terrible shape. Battlefield Bad Company was released around the same time as those two and it wouldn't be unlikely to see a shutdown announcement for Battlefield Bad Company in the near future (probably after C&C Red Alert 3 & Mercenaries 2 shut down). If you have this game on your profile and you were waiting to Platinum this, you'll want to DO THIS SOON. The online trophies are no joke ridiculous and grindy. Edited August 12, 2022 by POEman553 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wuthg21 Posted August 12, 2022 Share Posted August 12, 2022 I know this is about BC1 but, Isn't mercenaries 2 P2P? What sort of trophies are going to be unobtainable in that game? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
POEman553 Posted August 12, 2022 Author Share Posted August 12, 2022 2 minutes ago, Colin said: I know this is about BC1 but, Isn't mercenaries 2 P2P? What sort of trophies are going to be unobtainable in that game? 4 co-op trophies and 2 campaign trophies. You have to earn $1 million and $1 billion dollars while connected to EA servers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lance_87 Posted August 12, 2022 Share Posted August 12, 2022 Just now, Colin said: I know this is about BC1 but, Isn't mercenaries 2 P2P? What sort of trophies are going to be unobtainable in that game? Wheels of Steel Damage, Inc. Nothin' But a Good Time Partners in Crime 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Samurai_SNAAAKE Posted August 12, 2022 Share Posted August 12, 2022 12 minutes ago, Colin said: I know this is about BC1 but, Isn't mercenaries 2 P2P? What sort of trophies are going to be unobtainable in that game? At least 2 money ones, they require connection to EA Servers. Coop things might be doable with LAN, but who knows. And yeah, Bad Company 1 is in danger, but it's mildly popular since it's only on PS3 and 360 (Mercs 2's online is buggy, and so Red Alert's too). They might give the game more time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blazkowicz6 Posted August 12, 2022 Share Posted August 12, 2022 Bad Company has much better servers then Mercenaries 2 and much more people playing so there is hope for it. ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
woggly4 Posted August 12, 2022 Share Posted August 12, 2022 Shutting down a Battlefield, doesn't matter its age, especially now with the terrible state of the franchise would probably be the final nail in the coffin. But in the end it's EA, so who knows but they would do way better to just let it run, at least until the next BF that is actually good on release is out (whenever that happens...). In my opinion this should be a BC3 or at least a remaster/remake of BC1 and/or 2, but only if it's good. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HuntingFever Posted August 12, 2022 Share Posted August 12, 2022 2 hours ago, woggly4 said: Shutting down a Battlefield, doesn't matter its age, especially now with the terrible state of the franchise would probably be the final nail in the coffin. But in the end it's EA, so who knows but they would do way better to just let it run, at least until the next BF that is actually good on release is out (whenever that happens...). In my opinion this should be a BC3 or at least a remaster/remake of BC1 and/or 2, but only if it's good. There was a rumour doing the rounds a few years back that a BC3 was in development but nothing came of it so was presumably scrapped in favour of whatever came out instead. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
woggly4 Posted August 12, 2022 Share Posted August 12, 2022 3 hours ago, HuntingFever said: There was a rumour doing the rounds a few years back that a BC3 was in development but nothing came of it so was presumably scrapped in favour of whatever came out instead. Yeah, I think they wanted to release a new Bad Company but then realized fans would hate it and changed it to 2042. This would also explain why they remade BC maps. I'm still waiting for a proper successor and I appreciate that "someone" cancelled it to not waste the Bad Company franchise, and I have high hopes for the next story-driven Battlefield, that is also rumored, to be Bad Company. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
demonviper666 Posted August 12, 2022 Share Posted August 12, 2022 Don't see them shutting this down for another year or so. Unless sony force them to. Bad company is on gamepass servers are active. On there. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HuntingFever Posted August 12, 2022 Share Posted August 12, 2022 (edited) 10 minutes ago, demonviper666 said: Don't see them shutting this down for another year or so. Unless sony force them to. Bad company is on gamepass servers are active. On there. What happens with the Xbox 360 versions of games, doesn't always apply to the PS3. The servers for Ghostbusters: The Video Game were up for years on the Xbox 360 before finally shuttering but the PS3 version was terminated without warning, years earlier . Edited August 12, 2022 by HuntingFever Update. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
demonviper666 Posted August 12, 2022 Share Posted August 12, 2022 4 minutes ago, HuntingFever said: What happens with the Xbox 360 versions of games, doesn't always apply to the PS3. The servers for Ghostbusters: The Video Game were up for years on the Xbox 360 before finally shuttering but the PS3 version was terminated without warning, years earlier . But different company not own by ea. Ea shutdown on both usually Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheRetroManiac Posted August 13, 2022 Share Posted August 13, 2022 Oh, so another game I need to do before shutdown, well the only good thing with announcements like these it certainly gets your ass into gear to get shit done if you lacked the motivation this basically says do it now, or it's gone. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
POEman553 Posted August 13, 2022 Author Share Posted August 13, 2022 18 hours ago, demonviper666 said: Don't see them shutting this down for another year or so. Unless sony force them to. Bad company is on gamepass servers are active. On there. I only bring it up due to the timing of the release dates for all three games and all three using similar older methods/servers for EA Online. EA could be shutting down all games using EA Online soon. Battlefield Bad Company - June 23, 2008 Mercenaries 2: World in Flames - August 23, 2008 Command & Conquer Red Alert 3 - November 11, 2008 (Xbox 360), March 23, 2009 (PS3 version) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Deadly_Ha_Ha Posted August 13, 2022 Popular Post Share Posted August 13, 2022 I'm really FREAKING OUT HERE MAN 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
POEman553 Posted August 13, 2022 Author Share Posted August 13, 2022 3 minutes ago, Deadly_Ha_Ha said: I'm really FREAKING OUT HERE MAN You're fine as long as you don't add the game to your profile or actually want to play it. Just know that if you do, you may have less time than you realize. (Also I'm jealous of your profile so you shouldn't sully it with military shooters) 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deadly_Ha_Ha Posted August 13, 2022 Share Posted August 13, 2022 48 minutes ago, POEman553 said: (Also I'm jealous of your profile so you shouldn't sully it with military shooters) Nah man I appreciate that but my profile is nothing to be jealous of. You've done crazier shit than I have 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Samurai_SNAAAKE Posted August 13, 2022 Share Posted August 13, 2022 1 hour ago, POEman553 said: I only bring it up due to the timing of the release dates for all three games and all three using similar older methods/servers for EA Online. EA could be shutting down all games using EA Online soon. Battlefield Bad Company - June 23, 2008 Mercenaries 2: World in Flames - August 23, 2008 Command & Conquer Red Alert 3 - November 11, 2008 (Xbox 360), March 23, 2009 (PS3 version) They would announce it already if they really wanted to. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
imminent-file5 Posted December 12, 2022 Share Posted December 12, 2022 The shutdowns for Medal of Honor (2010) & Warfighter also makes the old bad company franchise look in a bad spot. Considering that both franchises were worked on by DICE and use EA as their online services. I can only assume that they will target 1943 sometime soon along with the bad company franchise, starting from oldest to newest. To be honest, this is a good time to speculate due to this common shutdown trend that has been happening within the PS3 community. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GUDGER666 Posted December 12, 2022 Share Posted December 12, 2022 10 minutes ago, imminent-file5 said: The shutdowns for Medal of Honor (2010) & Warfighter also makes the old bad company franchise look in a bad spot. Considering that both franchises were worked on by DICE and use EA as their online services. I can only assume that they will target 1943 sometime soon along with the bad company franchise, starting from oldest to newest. To be honest, this is a good time to speculate due to this common shutdown trend that has been happening within the PS3 community. Will definitely go soon I would think. But thing is with these games they still have a fairly large player base for their age unlike the others which have been dead for years other than trophy hunters. But then again with the rising cost of energy the number probably won't matter, I would think BF games will be the last to go from EA. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
woggly4 Posted December 12, 2022 Share Posted December 12, 2022 Either EA announces a remaster/remake of at least Bad Company 2 but ideally both games or they need to keep the old games alive until they release a proper Battlefield again. With its current state, even if you don't compare it to the competitor(s) (with comparison it just gets worse), it would be the final nail in the coffin for the Battlefield franchise if they shut down any BF game now. Whoever is in charge of decisions regarding BF at EA should show some common sense and do the right thing for a change, now or never. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
melodicmizery Posted December 12, 2022 Share Posted December 12, 2022 i dont think theyll shut down bad company for a while. they still had the ps2 version running a while after ps3 came out. when battlefield 3 came out they greatly reduced server space for bad company including removing the personal webpage of stats and the popular uk forums. it really killed what was left at the game at the time even for alot of the regulars. matches became more laggy and frozen. its sort of running minimal already compared to what it use tohttp://bfbc.statsverse.com/stats/ps3/melodicmizery/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PatinumNumemon Posted March 31, 2023 Share Posted March 31, 2023 Lol this topic aged like wine. A little more than a half a year later and the server closure and delisting of BC1, BC2 and BF1943 is announced. At this point what is left for PS3 besides P2P games? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KingSkovald Posted March 31, 2023 Share Posted March 31, 2023 (edited) 7 hours ago, PatinumNumemon said: At this point what is left for PS3 besides P2P games? Most populated games on PS3 are those published by EA, Activision (yes, they used to publish lots of good games on PS3 and Xbox 360) and Rockstar. EA and Activision already closed most of their online games leaving only their main franchises while Rockstar closed GTA 5 which was one of most played PS3 games. So now after BF 1943 and BC1/2 shutdown most active games should be the following: EA: BF3, BF4 and BF Hardline to some extent. EA also still has NFS Hot Pursuit, NFS Most Wanted and NFS Rivals servers up but I'm not sure people are really still playing those. Maybe Mass Effect 3. I bet their next major shutdown announcement will be related to remaining NFS games. Activision: CoD franchise, some games are in broken state due to online progress issues for new players but servers are still up for all of them. There are few more Activision games that still have servers up but online is completely dead there. With Microsoft/Activision deal approval looking more likely now I wonder how much time is left for CoD on PS3 and Xbox 360 too, most (all?) Halo games are already closed on 360 as far as I know. Rockstar: GTA IV and RDR are still quite active I also remember seeing lots of lobbies in RE5 while boosting it last time (1 year ago or so) in Mercenaries mode. And that's it I guess... Not much really. Considering what's left Sony might return to their plans to shutdown PS3 store rather sooner than later especially after recent eShop closure on Wii U and 3DS (last Monday) went almost unnoticed. It was announced 1 year ago and was on the news everywhere back then of course but I barely saw any reminders and farewell news last week, it seemed like no one really cares much except a bunch of Nintendo fans on reddit and some Nintendo-only web sites. At this point boosters and trophy hunters probably make more than a half of active playerbase on PS3. Edited March 31, 2023 by KingSkovald 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nitro Posted December 11, 2023 Share Posted December 11, 2023 On 3/31/2023 at 8:55 PM, KingSkovald said: Activision: CoD franchise, some games are in broken state due to online progress issues for new players but servers are still up for all of them. There are few more Activision games that still have servers up but online is completely dead there. With Microsoft/Activision deal approval looking more likely now I wonder how much time is left for CoD on PS3 and Xbox 360 too, most (all?) Halo games are already closed on 360 as far as I know I highly doubt CoD will be going down for a long ass time. There are still people that play the Mutliplayer portions of these games and Activision recently fixed the Backwards Compatibility for all Xbox 360 Games. So trust me, the CoD's will be around for many many years 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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