At the time, it was reported that EA was attempting to find a new host service to transition its game servers, but it was unsuccessful.ĮA regularly shuts down and clears out old multiplayer servers, the reason being that supporting these games with less than 1% of their company-wide player base is not economically viable. EA shut down the Revive project’s servers in 2018.Ĭrysis 2, like BF2 and BF2142, also had its servers shut down during the death throes of GameSpy, EA’s choice for its server host. The Battlefield Revive project was an attempt to bring online a number of private servers for people to enjoy the games. Battlefield 2 and Battlefield 2142’s multiplayer servers also met with a similar fate.Įven though its a sort of legal grey area in a lot of respects, it’s very tricky to play these games in a legitimate way.
This was a prolonged date with the first GameSpy shutdowns taking place since way back in 2014.
The final Crysis 2 multiplayer server was shut down by EA back in October 2018.
