Bad Company 2 PC - whats going on?

[[RC]Hunter]

First let me post a finding from EA official website:

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Hello,

On Sunday, July 29th, 2018, we will be migrating some of our older titles over to new datacenters. This migration will be for older PC, Xbox 360, and PlayStation 3 titles, starting at 11:59 PM ET on Sunday, July 29th, 2018.

During this migration, login and online connectivity may be unavailable according to the impact schedule below:

Phase 1 [PC, PlayStation 3] - Sunday, 7/29 11:59 PM ET - Expected downtime/outage window: 1 hour
Phase 2 (PC, Xbox 360, PlayStation 3) – Monday, 7/30 – 11:59 PM ET - Expected downtime/outage window: 2 hours
Phase 3 (PC, Xbox 360, PlayStation 3) – Tuesday, 7/31 – 2PM ET - Expected downtime/outage window: 48 hours


Please note the games/platforms impacted:

Phase 1

All PC and PlayStation 3 title below, including some older titles not mentioned.


Phase 2

PC

Battlefield Bad Company 2
Dragon Age Origins
Medal of Honor Airborne
Need for Speed Most Wanted 2
Need for Speed
Need for Speed 2
Mirrors Edge


Xbox 360

Army of Three (Eng & JP)
Beach
Battlefield Bad Company
Battlefield Bad Company 2
Command & Conquer 3
Command & Conquer 3 – EP1
Command & Conquer – RA3
Dragon Age Origins
Mercenaries 2
Medal of Honor Airborne
Need for Speed
Need for Speed Most Wanted 2
Need for Speed – PS2
Skate 2
Mirrors Edge


PlayStation 3

Army of Three (Eng & JP)
Beach
Battlefield Bad Company
Battlefield Bad Company 2
Command & Conquer – RA3
Dragon Age Origins
Mercenaries 2
Medal of Honor Airborne
Need for Speed
Need for Speed Most Wanted 2
Need for Speed – PS2
Skate 2
Mirrors Edge


Phase 3

Burnout Paradise
Fight Night 2009
NFL Arcade 2010
NHL Arcade 2009


Thank you for your patience during this migration.
The Teams at EA
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Source:
EA Website

[[RC]Hunter]

And as of now, Friday Aug-3rd, 2018 at 10:00am I can find a couple of servers in the server browser, however they are all limited to one GSP only.

I hope it will not remain like this.

[novaknez]

Does it mean you can't upraise the servers?

[[RC]Hunter]

It is up to EA to bring back full functionality. It is not an issue of any individual server setup.

So yes, we cannot do much at present.

[novaknez]

ok, thanks for your answer

[[RC]Hunter]

Now 24 hours later the same situation remains.

The only servers up within the server browser are from one game server provider called "i3D.net". For those which are not aware about the things going on behind the scenes ...

Until BF3 many providers were able to host and sell game servers of battlefield to the public. With the release of BF4 this got limited to a handful selections - one of them i3D - and with the release of BF1 all game server providers worldwide - except i3D - were cut off and put out of the option to provide battlefield servers to the public.

i3D is as well the only provider for console game servers for EA and with the upcoming BF5 this will not change either.

I hope to be mistaken, but as it looks at present I would not be surprised if EA finally pulled the trigger on older titles as well and limit its hosting possibilities to i3D only.

[armithaeus]

is there a forum or something similar on EA forums where we can complain and/or ask about this situation.

[armithaeus]

nvm,
i think we can complain here:
https://forums.battlefield.com/en-us/di ... -company-2

[[RC]Hunter]

The only one I know:

https://answers.ea.com/t5/Battlefield-B ... -company-2

Although this is standard first level support, I doubt EA gives much concern about it ...

[armithaeus]

quite some "modded" servers are also back now.
server count yesterday: 19
today: 32