@RayD_O1 I fully agree that the lack of a server browser and persistent servers has been detrimental to the poor receipt of BF2042 with the OG BF community.
I have no more faith that they will ever fix it in AOW for the current title. The silence from the official channels on this subject has been deafening!
All we can do now is make it really clear we won't accept another installment in this franchise where a basic feature like this is absent. And we can do that by keeping our part of the discussion alive through this topic. And then only time will tell if they chose to ignore the elephant in the room again.