Portal is a complete failure. It’s built around quick, throwaway servers that people use for XP farming, not for real communities that want to run proper servers long-term.
You can’t even start a server half the time because the system says capacity is full. If you finally get one running, it disappears or resets when it’s empty for a while. There’s no way to add admins or moderators to help manage it, no option to switch teams, and the ping can be terrible depending on where the server randomly spawns.
To make it worse, your server shows up in the same list as all the grind and AI farm servers, so serious servers get buried and no one finds them.
Everything about this shows that EA completely misunderstood what Battlefield communities actually want. They clearly thought Portal would be used for casual, one-off matches — not by people trying to build real, long-term servers like in BF3, BF4, or BF1. If that’s what they expected, they never would’ve made something this limited and unsustainable.
