Remaster bad company 2 or new bad Comapny 3

Yes, I don't like any of the new Battlefields. Way too heavily influenced by Call of Duty, like you say. CoD led to BF's downfall, gameplay-wise, imo. (At least in terms of 'my' preferences.)

A remaster of BC2 would be nice, considering they pulled BC2 from the EA App and you can't play mutliplayer anymore. With as few of people that played BC2 the last few years, partly because EA started making it painful to connect to online a few years ago (where it would take 2, 3, or 4 attempts to successfully log in)... which they never patched/fixed... would it really be that hard or expensive to have one tiny server or cheap blade in a server to house 3 or 5 multiplayer rooms, each with different settings (especially one with 'Conquest / Hardcore' settings and 'no mini-map cheater blips or health regen,etc'?)

A Bad Company "3" would be great, too, as long as they use BC2 as their foundation of inspiration, rather than any BF game they developed the past 13 years.

I was gifted $100 version of Battlefield 2042 and ended up playing it like 5 times, then uninstalled it. I feel bad for the person wasting their money on it like that. I learned they also bought it for themselves and only played it a few times. $175-$200, wasted. I've had zero desire to re-install it in two years so far.

Bad Company 2 is where it's at for me. Every other BF game, including the Star Wars spinoffs, has paled in comparison. Even BF3 didn't do it for me. I played it a decent amount, but it was just never nearly as good as BC2, imo. And now I can't even go to a BC2 multiplayer map for nostalgic or sentimental reasons like I want to. Was having a tiny server presence for BC2 really taking away from EA's bottom line so much they couldn't bear to keep it online any longer, and so also had to pull it from the store? BC2 must have been one high-maintenance game.

BF got too flashy for its own good, and I hate the body awareness stuff they started implementing as of Battlefield 3. When is the last time you walked around in the store pushing your shopping cart around and consciously noticed/watched your legs walking and consciously noticed/watched your hands pushing the cart? You don't. But you're forced to pay be conscious of this stuff when playing BF games. Or when is the last time you tried to lie down in the grass in real life but got caught in the ground, so you vibrated and/or got stuck? <-- Just a few reasons why I hate body awareness in BF. (Yes, I realize BC2 has arms, hands, and a giant gun blocking your view, too... like it's some advertisement for the weapons... but the movement is much nicer and not subject to as many movement glitches.)