BF 2142
Why hasn’t this game been put on EA Play yet?
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Would love for EA to put in the effort to support the older games multiplayers. I was playing BF1942 right up until the servers were shut down.
@Noodlesocks you can still play them if you use GameRanger. A couple of times per year I still boot up BF2 and play that way. GameRanger basically replaces GameSpy.
@ragnarok013 wrote:
@Noodlesocksyou can still play them if you use GameRanger. A couple of times per year I still boot up BF2 and play that way. GameRanger basically replaces GameSpy.Yeah but I'd prefer official support and something that isn't essentially a virtual LAN.
- @Noodlesocks GameSpy was never official in that sense and GameRanger replaces the GameSpy functionality 1:1 so I don't really see the difference between the two experiences when I play. Naturally since most people don't know about GameRanger the player numbers are smaller.
Battlefield 2142 will never come to EA Play.
Some state GameSpy as the reason why, others will state the age or the mechanics or even the lack of popularity.
It's all of those reasons. 2142 received some decent reception on launch and still survives through fan-operated
client and server-side modification. The game even is connected (somewhat) to releases such as Battlefield 4 which
to some capacity acknowledge the existence of 2142 (Hangar 21: Titan Prototype & Drop-pod Cannons). The game
is a fairly old title that flies under the radar a lot more frequently than Battlefield Vietnam.
It's gimmicky and only acts as an independent pseudo-expansion of Battlefield 2's mechanics.
The demand to play isn't as large as a game like Battlefield 3, 4 or Hardline and there's a cost involved for EA to even
consider to make a one-time final patch for EA Play to receive 2142 as one of it's many titles, a cost that
financially will not be worth it for a game that will not likely see the returns of that cost for years, maybe even ever.
You might still be able to get Battlefield 2142 Deluxe Edition on Origin as a digital title legitimately.
The method itself isn't possible for everyone and will require an original (not second hand) release copy, proof of original
ownership and contacting EA Support (though this may not work nowadays).
TLDR:
- Game too old
- Financial Risk not worth it
- Demand to Play too low to expect anything more than homages.
- You ,may be able to still get it via Origin legitimately through EA Support, if EA Support does continue the physical to digital transfer
with CD Key + Proof of Physical Disk Ownership.
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