Rent-a-server = SCAM!!

Ive payed up to rent a server for 30 days, thought it could be useful as Im in a gaming-clan. The very first days; no activity. But after about 3-4 days ppl actually started to join via Quickmatch, and after about 5 days it was usually crowded thru all day, until now. All dead for the last 3 days. I called EA Support (Sweden) to ask what the problem might could be, that was a scam itself. The guy the other side of the teleline had no answers whatsoever. I asked about 6-7 questions, when he told me he had to go to another room and ask an "expert", twice!! However, when he finally returned to the phone he didn't had ANY answerso give. He asked me to turn to DICE and maybe they could help out. It was no extraordinary questions tho, just like how the fill the server-system works, and when ppl get into where regarding the timezones. Anyway.. Don't spend your cash on something you really can get included your game. I did it because Im using it with my fellas from gaming-community/clan. However.. Im not that sure anymore to continue pay for this rent-a-server business..

But I guess the responsible for this scam really don't care. They still make their money, and ppl still gonna pay their and continue to..

battlefield 3

Anonymous
13 years ago
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Well for me its a little different. My friends and myself will be in a full blown battle and we all get kicked in the middle of the game. Every one in the room.Happens around mid day all the time. Some times a couple times a day. "IS THIS NORMALE" ? I wish the service where more reliable. Its a very cool feature and i wish it worked better. I would give my money up constantly to keep a server. I got a 90 day server and its been a bit diapointing. Between the Rent a server going compleatly down last month for over 24 hours, and constantly getting kick out of my own server. Im a huge Battlefield 3 fan thats Disapointed. If its just me haveing problems Please Let Me Know. And if im Not alone Let me know too. I just want to know if its just me and a couple other isolated incidents or if the whole system is crap.
oOGreyOrphanOo
13 years ago
I wouldn't be surprised to find a shortcut: "Fill-your-server shortcut" = 1200 MSP, on Marketplace or in the in-game store.. You're talkin about that its necessary to be advertising if I want random players and activity on the server. Wouldn't that be included when I already have been paying for it? To me its just BUSINESS!! The legal owners found even another way to make money on the cost of others. However, I really don't care anymore. I just feel to have been ripped of by yet another billion dollar industry, and I can promise: Im not the only one.. XBL GT: 🤭GreyOrphanOo
Jaketylerholt
13 years ago
It helps to have 4-5 friends start up your server with you. Quick Match won't place players in entirely empty servers, but if it detects a server with 6 people playing that need more, it starts dumping them in. Works for the 5th SFG servers, everytime.
However, if you don't have at least 4 or more people to start your server with you, then renting a server may have not been a wise purchase.
Owning a server is for players who want to strongly involve themselves in the community, not just control the battlefield.

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Anonymous
13 years ago
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Well for me its a little different. My friends and myself will be in a full blown battle and we all get kicked in the middle of the game. Every one in the room.Happens around mid day all the time. Some times a couple times a day. "IS THIS NORMALE" ? I wish the service where more reliable. Its a very cool feature and i wish it worked better. I would give my money up constantly to keep a server. I got a 90 day server and its been a bit diapointing. Between the Rent a server going compleatly down last month for over 24 hours, and constantly getting kick out of my own server. Im a huge Battlefield 3 fan thats Disapointed. If its just me haveing problems Please Let Me Know. And if im Not alone Let me know too. I just want to know if its just me and a couple other isolated incidents or if the whole system is crap.
Anonymous
13 years ago
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Your server is yours to sell. There are many servers out there. You need to come up with a way to make people want to join yours.
Anonymous
13 years ago
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advertise it on the battle log forums in the proper sections. Also if you have the option to invite recent players. Have good map rotations with decent ticket amounts. Also for the search funtion. Put no kick in your title. Bunch of people look for these type servers. If you put restrictions on your servers you will get less people
SirWrecksALot_2
Seasoned Hotshot
13 years ago
Yeah the best way to get people to join is advertise. Find out what types of settings and map rotations the majority of players want, The more you cater your server to what the community is looking for the more popular it will become!!
Anonymous
13 years ago
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Its not a scam , it's up to you as a server owner to build some sort of community of regular players that keep returning to your server becuase of your map rotations or becuase you're a nice admin , EA provided the server , it's up to you to do the rest.
oOGreyOrphanOo
13 years ago
I wouldn't be surprised to find a shortcut: "Fill-your-server shortcut" = 1200 MSP, on Marketplace or in the in-game store.. You're talkin about that its necessary to be advertising if I want random players and activity on the server. Wouldn't that be included when I already have been paying for it? To me its just BUSINESS!! The legal owners found even another way to make money on the cost of others. However, I really don't care anymore. I just feel to have been ripped of by yet another billion dollar industry, and I can promise: Im not the only one.. XBL GT: 🤭GreyOrphanOo
Jaketylerholt
13 years ago
It helps to have 4-5 friends start up your server with you. Quick Match won't place players in entirely empty servers, but if it detects a server with 6 people playing that need more, it starts dumping them in. Works for the 5th SFG servers, everytime.
However, if you don't have at least 4 or more people to start your server with you, then renting a server may have not been a wise purchase.
Owning a server is for players who want to strongly involve themselves in the community, not just control the battlefield.
oOGreyOrphanOo
13 years ago
Yep, I think you're right there: it wasn't very wise renting a server, in deed. But as I said in my first post, we use it for the practices within the gaming-clan. Although, you're almost right about 4-6 to start it up, it works pretty often. But u know, not many ppl want to waste their time on empty servers. Especially when its not certain if any random's gonna join.. o_O
🤭GreyOrphanOo Xbox
oOGreyOrphanOo
13 years ago
Most of the times, in fact about 15-18 days last month, I've been the only one "startin' it up", just me on the server. The very first 4-5 days it took about 10-15 min before ppl start join from Quickmatch-menu. Then, once the first 1 or 2 came, then it just took around 200 sec. till the server were full. After about a week - 10 days, 3-5 min by myself and server was full, sometimes for 12h in a row (!) This buzz lasted just for 2 weeks, then the activity started to decrease, less more less, day by day.. Then it just died. But why does EA keep pushing ppl to rent and start new servers up, when theyre not even capable to fill the already existing ones? Yes, of course: $$$ Much want more
Anonymous
13 years ago
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You can't seriously be expecting to rent a server that EA also supplies the players can you? Many servers go unpopulated due to server renters not understanding how a server needs to be run. Map rotation, all settings, location, adminning, etc. all come into play to have a sucessfull populated server. Get some friends to join you 6+ in and empty server and watch it fill up. I think your expectations are set a bit high on what you think renting a server is about.
@solopurekush wrote:
Well for me its a little different. My friends and myself will be in a full blown battle and we all get kicked in the middle of the game. Every one in the room.Happens around mid day all the time. Some times a couple times a day. "IS THIS NORMALE" ? I wish the service where more reliable. Its a very cool feature and i wish it worked better. I would give my money up constantly to keep a server. I got a 90 day server and its been a bit diapointing. Between the Rent a server going compleatly down last month for over 24 hours, and constantly getting kick out of my own server. Im a huge Battlefield 3 fan thats Disapointed. If its just me haveing problems Please Let Me Know. And if im Not alone Let me know too. I just want to know if its just me and a couple other isolated incidents or if the whole system is crap.
@ @solopurekush - you are not alone. This happens on all the PS3 servers I have rented, as well as the ones friends have rented. The servers / Origin are unstable and will crash and or restart unexpectedly. It is odd how sometimes it is a complete server crash where everyone is booted, while other times just some players lose connection. I wish they could get this figured out as it is extremely frustrating to work on getting a good server going and populated, only to have it crash and lose your player base due to no fault of your own.