Paid hosting servers
EA_David why wont EA let us rent servers and give multiple people admin access to servers? IE letting clans and teams renting servers from EA and let us control the servers. IE. I'm in my c...
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In the past, hosted servers required official hosts. And license deals. And rcon. And leaks. And pirate servers.
I'm not sure EA wants all that. I think they want total control of the servers and who get access to the code and commands. They theoretically could add what you want, but it would need to be another field in portal that you could enter as an array of authorized usernames or something.
What? You could literally buy / rent a server in BF3 / BF4 / BF Hardline / BF1 / BFV .
BF3, BF4, and Hardline had full-featured rentable servers with none of the issues you listed: no licenses, no rcon, no external hosts, no code exposure, no pirate servers. You just rented a server, configured it, and played. That whole licensed hosts, rcon, and pirate servers era only existed back in the BF1942/BF2 days, not in any modern Battlefield.
This series was dead to me after BF4, so I can't speak for BF1 or BFV, but what I said definitely applied to BF3, BF4, and Hardline. I rented servers for those games. I also contributed with thousands of lines of code over on myrcon.net (formerly procon). Those games were provided by authorized providers, had rcon control, and did have pirate servers that operated from leaked code. DICE hired the guy who created procon, and later they moved away from that model towards something they could do internally via webpage; I believe for the reasons I stated.
Giving us access via godot and giving us portal for free is amazing. Someone had vision and created something amazing. But the corporation is fumbling that amazing thing HARD, and has chosen to almost destroy it. I would give them no money for their wreckage. They could take it away tomorrow, for all I care. It is basically dead anyway for anyone who wants to do anything other than what the game already provides. And what the game already provides is nothing that you should pay extra for to provide a duplicate 'clan server' of.
Yeah, I pretty much only played on console back then didn’t do much on PC, I did play some on PC just not a lot. For us on console it was literally just rent a server → set the rules/map rotation/banner → done. Super straightforward. I always assumed the PC side worked the same way and used that same rent/configure setup, since I thought all the old BF2-era stuff ended long before BF3. Not saying it isn’t possible, I just wasn’t really aware of how different the PC side was back then.🤷♂️
