Despite we all love the BF4 game, then all good things comes to an end.
And the end for the BF4 game on the PS3 platform is probably next in line. When it makes sense to shutting it down, is unfortunately also a financial decision. So despite you say 'many players are still playing it', then the income EA and their server hosting partners makes on it these days is limited to just the revenue coming in from those paying to rent the remaining servers and the rare purchase of a game license by a PS3/BF4 gamer... So when that is no longer a positive business case, then its bound to mean that EA will pull the plug on it. And nobody can really blame them for that, as they have since then launched multiple successors. (though we can all challenge how good they were, reason why we are many still going back these days to the great BF4 game :o))
Try and check the active number of servers and player trackers, and you see the numbers are truly dwindling fast last few years.
A proper successor in the form of a BF6 (a hybrid BF3+BF4 game on steroids) cannot come fast enough please!
