This has been going on since APRIL??? It just started for me late July. Given how widespread this is, I cannot believe that it is a client-side issue. I have run the repair utility in Origin which often fixes issues in TF2. I remember a similar situation in TF1, when a core group basically commandeered the game and blatantly used game hacks or kicked out players that they did not like. Is this a repeat?
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It's actually been going on sporadically since 2017 when Respawn/EA abandoned Titanfall 2. Longer for the first Titanfall.
As I stated in an earlier post - I could accept it (not be happy about it, but accept the demise of the games) if EA/Respawn wasn't still SELLING THE GAMES. I'm not a console guy, so I don't know about the console marketplaces, but I know for a fact that Titanfall and Titanfall 2 are still available to buy on Origin and Steam.
It disgusts me. This franchise could be so much more than what it is, but Respawn half-assed them (as good as they are) from the start, and now EA just doesn't give two turds about it, and Respawn is so focused on AL and ignoring those of us that can't stand battle royale games that they don't even give a crap to secure the lackadaisical server infrastructure they're using.
I don't understand it. The ONLY reason EA is still in business today is that they own most of the huge popular franchises. My favorite game franchises are Half-Life, Titanfall, Battlefield, and Need for Speed. Three of those are EA's. As much as I want BF 2042, I will not buy it. This will be literally the first PC installment in that franchise I haven't pre-ordered. I already haven't bought the most recent version of Need for Speed. The ONLY things that would bring me back are if they fixed the servers for TF & TF2, let DICE actually perfect a game before pushing them to release it, and give us more Titanfall. Other than that - at my age - I don't need it.
EA needs to take notice because I'm not some kid not wanting to spend my allowance on games. I bought Skate or Die! in 1987 when it came out. I've been buying EA games since then. I won't anymore. Not for myself, for my children, or for my grandchildren. EA games are a waste of money anymore.
@Magikf1ngers Magic! My man!! .. been a while. Couldn't find the old forum. Anyway, spot on sir. This has been going on for a long while. Typical EA. Take your money, then suddenly go deaf. Is there a decent discord for TF1/TF2 these days? Figured maybe you'd know.
@DeadEcho82 Absolutely - I'm in the same boat. I've pre-ordered every version of Battlefield for the PC starting with 1942. Even played it competitively starting with the Desert Combat mod through BF3. The only one I didn't purchase was Hardline because I played the beta and it just felt like a re-skinned version of BF4, not something new. I'm not buying 2042, as much as I may want to. Not until we Titanfall fans - again, I pre-ordered both versions and spent some on cosmetics in TF2 - get our due.
That means:
1. They're still selling both games on Steam and Origin. They need to restore and secure the servers from this jack-hole that is causing all the troubles.
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2. Stop selling them.
3. Give us Titanfall 3. When I was the moderator of the official Respawn Titanfall 2 forums, the Respawn employed Community Manager told us that TF3 was coming, under active development, all the way up until the forums shut down and these were opened. Promises were made to the community by the Respawn representative.
Titanfall and Titanfall 2 are unique games that opened up an entirely new way of movement in the game and made piloting the Titans perfect. I'm also a hard-core Mechwarrior fan, from back when it was called Battletech, and you played it with pen, paper, and dice. I've played most versions of MechWarrior. As many little issues as there were with both versions, the games were beyond awesome. It wouldn't take much to have made them absolutely perfect - and to have Respawn abandon it like that, and abandon us as fans like that is disgusting.
Apex Legends is a bad joke, like all battle royale games. I hated the version of it they put in BFV, and won't try any others. Apex Legends, right now, is nothing but a cash-cow that they're milking, and as long as they have that, they don't care about any of the other fans. Look at the *-poor installment they put out in the Star Wars game. No mutiplayer, and that was after Vince Zampalla made a lot of noise about not needing single player in games, that single player games are over.
I've created a couple of cases about Titanfall 2 with EA over the last couple weeks. Both have been closed without comment. I've contacted EA Help on Facebook and Twitter, with no response in several days.
This is THE WORST customer service of any company I've dealt with, and I've had to deal with Comcast customer service, so that means something. I can't believe the abhorrent service, the total lack of regard for their fans, and complete and total disregard for the negative press that's coming out about this.
I will never buy another EA game until these things are fixed. I bought Skate or Die! as one of my first games back in 1982 when I was 15 years old. I have been buying EA games since then, and I'm now 53 years old. I will not buy games for my children or my grandchildren from EA games anymore. Especially since they love Titanfall as well. I have talked friends out of buying EA products over this. I've spent the last eight or nine years in digital marketing - I'm even considering starting a marketing campaign about this. I mean - if they're treating Titanfall fans like this, and they did something simliar with BF:V by not delivering on the promises made and abruptly abandoning the game, how much longer can we count on the Battlefield franchise to be supported? How about Apex Legends? What happens when Respawn devs get tired of that game? How about their sports games - how long until they just put out half-done parts of that?
