So when joining this one server noted below many people are getting "Could Not join Server ⚽" including 2 of 4 of my accounts. But the error is only generated when joining this one server link below.This issue seems related only by account and not machine. Its like the EA back end is banning certain accounts from joining this one server...Dice can you take a look?https://battlelog.battlefield.com/bf4/servers/show/pc/8529e349-cd4a-4fa1-965a-afb4e8d7431e/RC2-HARDCORE/

I can comfirm this issue.3 of my 5 servers are affected by this issue since last week...It turned out that resetting the server GUID... And by this losing your whole player base would fix this issue. At the same time kill your server forever...Anyways, it also turned out that new server GUIDs are affected by this after a few days.However, the issue dissapears sometimes for a few hours/days and comes then backI also would like to adress an additional issue:1. It is known that servers use fake player counts to populate.2. Together with this issue the following is happening since last week: The fake players do not show up for the affected servers anymore (in the in game menu). This is extremely unfair because at the moment most servers still have fake player counts and all other servers are basically done and dead now... This is not a fair competition..3. This is extremly unfair.The BF4 server market is extremely unfair atm... Please help us...

I can confirm the issues discussed in here are actually happening. While it thankfully hasn't happened to me yet, I know of friends and other players who are having this issue and cant seem to fix it since it appears to be some weird error in the Blaze Backend.And yes, fake player / seeding issue h3dius talks about needs to be addressed and fixed properly! It's absurd and preposterous to fix these fake numbers in battlelog the browser based menu and not in the ingame (.exe) menu. Seeding existed for a long time, used by server owners to help populate their servers. Now with the current bugs going on, seeding doesn't work with our servers anymore. Again, same issues h3dius described; Accounts can't join our servers, getting the error message mentioned in the title of this thread. Seeding doesn't show up in the battlelog menu anymore, for everyone. That's fine, I guess. But for some reason just like h3dius said, seeding is also not showing up in the ingame menu for our servers. Pretty weird considering other servers still visibly have seeding, you can spot that in the ingame menu easily. So we demand that seeding stops working in both menus (ingame and battlelog) altogether or to fix it so its working for everyone again. Its unfair for us server owners who are putting real money into this. Unfair...

Again I am the server owner, I personally make payment on these servers. I’m also now getting banned on my other servers.

@H3diusTbh. This issue seems like smth at the Blaze is going on. Not sure tbh.It does not affect all players. The majority is not able to join from Battlelog and gets this error. Looking at the communication between Origin and Battlelog reveals only an unknown error.Joining over the in game menu still works though. I did several tests and it turned out that the issue is linked to the server GUID. Moving to other machines/hosts with a GUID will not make the error dissapear. However, resetting a GUID does... So smth with the Blaze or any backend system is screwed up.----Same for the fake player counts. All servers should be able to use them or none... Excluding a small portion is unfair....We need a level playing field...

Our servers have been around for 6 years, but the stuff that has been happening since last week killed some of them forever...Many players cannot join anymore...The fake numbers which other servers can use and at least 3 of our 5 no longer can because it seems like the slot reservation has been lowered from 2 minutes to a few seconds on those?...This is just another death penalty for the affected servers... (not sure if all servers are affected by the same problems though)...Since this only affects a fraction of the servers.... Most servers are still here with fake numbers....How is this fair? We've spent so much time on this... built an outstanding community, and what's the reward? Death...

Error "Could not join server (1)"

25 Replies

CyberDyme
5 years ago
@jsimpson32 wrote:
So when joining this one server noted below many people are getting "Could Not join Server ( 1 )" including 2 of 4 of my accounts. But the error is only generated when joining this one server link below.
This issue seems related only by account and not machine. Its like the EA back end is banning certain accounts from joining this one server...
Dice can you take a look?
https://battlelog.battlefield.com/bf4/servers/show/pc/8529e349-cd4a-4fa1-965a-afb4e8d7431e/RC2-HARDCORE/
Hi @jsimpson32 ,
The 'error message' you get is indeed the same as when you are banned on a server.
Did you already contact the server owner to ask of your status for this?
As it is a hardcore server then it happens from time to time also for the most careful and prudent HC gamer, as unfortunate team kills are getting you kicked off from time to time. And by default, then a hardcore server will automatically ban you off, when 3-5 times of teamkill kicks have happened, all depending on its specific settings. Nothing special about that. Just a good safety-net to avoid griefers on HC servers. So if you haven't already done so, suggest you send the server owner/admins a kind message asking if you maybe have ended up on the server ban list, and if so, if they could be so kind to unban you again.
StarscreamUK
Hero (Retired)
5 years ago
is that error showin using the in game launcher or battlelog, as launching from battlelog will give a better error message (the in game one seems to be using short strings)
jsimpson32
5 years ago
@CyberDyme I am the server owner
jsimpson32
5 years ago
@StarscreamUK I'm only getting this error entering this one server. No other servers.
CyberDyme
5 years ago
OK @jsimpson32 ,
So I guess that its not your server owner account that you try and join to play with, on your own server, but a secondary account that you use then?
And it is two of those secondary accounts that are blocked from entering your HC server?
gemcandy98
5 years ago
Yeah, hasn't happened to me yet but had a bunch of friends unable to join the server and they are getting this message as well ☹️ pls fix soon so can play with friends again
Blackfish212
5 years ago
I'm having the same exact issue. I can join 2 of 3 of their servers. I am not banned on any of them. This started a few days ago.
jsimpson32
5 years ago
@CyberDyme I have one server that has banned all my accounts. No issue anywhere else.
jsimpson32
5 years ago
We need "therealroksteady" from Dice to please address the issue.
CyberDyme
5 years ago
@jsimpson32 , @Blackfish212 , @gemcandy98 ,
I am happy to try and help you guys, but I need to hear from the server owner please.
Suggest the server owner contact me through PM here on EA.