No matter what time, what day. What week or month I try to play, any multi-player sever in battlefield one is not working. I just get error 34601. I know EA and DICE have released battlefield 5 and 2042 sense but I'm really hoping they haven't just shut down battlefield one servers completely because it is by far my favorite. Battlefield was the first of the series that I played and I fell in love with it. Getting every weapon and leveling up my account. Playing it always brought me back to the endless nights as a 10 year old kid. I would hate to see it just shut down and thrown away especially after all the hours and hard battles I went through to earn my levels and cosmetics. Please EA and DICE don't let down your loyal community.
Hi @jk10rjpsjhwx I've moved your thread from the BFV board to the BF1 one.
The Battlefield 1 servers haven't been shut down. If that were happening, there would be an announcement like with Battlefield 1942 1943 and Bad Company 1/2, so no need to worry there. Error code 34601 relates to your connection to the servers so it'd be worth trying the suggestions in the guides below incase they help.
I, as an older BF 1942 player, remember differently. For Battlefield 1942 (released 2002), the problem was the shutdown of Gamespy (2014?) and support for the anti-cheat software PunkBuster in BF1942 has been discontinued.
GameSpy Industries (the entity responsible for GameSpy multiplayer services) was bought from IGN Entertainment by Glu Mobile in August 2012, and proceeded in December to raise integration costs and shut down servers for many older games, including Star Wars: Battlefront, Sniper Elite, Microsoft Flight Simulator X, Saints Row 2, and Neverwinter Nights, with no warning to developers or players, much to the outrage of communities of those games. In April 2014, Glu announced that it would shut down the GameSpy servers on May 31, 2014, so its developers could focus on work for Glu's own services. Games that still used GameSpy are no longer able to offer online functionality or multiplayer services through GameSpy. While some publishers announced plans to migrate GameSpy-equipped games to other platforms (such as Steam or in-house servers), some publishers, such as Nintendo (who used the GameSpy servers as the basis of its Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection platform for DS and Wii games) did not, particularly due to the age of the affected games. Electronic Arts, in particular, announced 24 PC games, including titles such as Battlefield 2, the Crysis series, Saints Row 2 and the Star Wars: Battlefront series, would be affected by the end of GameSpy service.
