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Battlefield Legacy - Sunsetting Announcement

An update on the future of Battlefield 1943, Bad Company and Bad Company 2

www.ea.com

As we close in on 15 years since the release of Battlefield 1943, and Bad Company™ 1 & 2 and Mirror’s Edge, we are announcing that their journey is coming to an end.

Starting April 28 2023, Battlefield 1943, Battlefield: Bad Company 1 & 2 and Mirror’s Edge will be removed from digital storefronts and you will no longer be able to purchase them. This is in preparation for the retirement of the online services for these titles which will happen on December 8 2023. For Bad Company 1 & 2 and Mirror’s Edge, you can still continue playing them and use their respective offline features, such as the single player campaign. You can also read our FAQ and Service Updates for further information on the retirement of online services.

Edit: Mirror's Edge no longer being delisted, they've ammended the announcement.

Battlefield Legacy - Sunsetting Announcement

An update on the future of Battlefield 1943, Bad Company and Bad Company 2

www.ea.com

If any mod can edit the title that would be great, thanks!

 

[Puscifer]

WHY!?

Mirror's Edge online component and leaderboards have been dead for years, BC 1 & 2 are still active. Don't know about 1943, but I can't imagine it's totally dead.

 

[01011001]

wait... why? that makes no sense to me...

 

[VN1X]

I never understand why these things happen. Surely it can't take up any significant amount of (financial) resources to keep something like BF1943 up and running? How many people still play that anyway, a few hundred if that? In the name of game preservation and keeping the fans happy why shut it down?

 

[Kuranghi]

Fucking WHY!?

Mirror's Edge online component and leaderboards have been dead for years, BC 1 & 2 are still active. Don't know about 1943, but I can't imagine it's totally dead.

wait... why? that makes no sense to me...

"Look don't question it guys, its in the past now! Woo heres the next shiny thing, woooo woooo!"
"But I still want to play it..."
"Nah you don't you're wrong, stfu idiot!"

 

[64bitmodels]

Well I'm gonna have to buy those soon.... damn it ea

 

[Bragr]

Fuck off, what a load of nonsense, they gonna shut it down to save 30 bucks a year or some bullshit.

 

[MMaRsu]

Whut

 

[Tarin02543]

no fun allowed

 

[poodaddy]

Fuckin so dumb. This kinda shit is why EA is so goddamn hated.

My mother used to say you ain't worth loving if you don't love yourself. Well, EA, how are we supposed to respect you if you don't even respect your own IP?

Enjoy your deserved dogshit reputation, business as usual I suppose.

 

[Draugoth]

well ,time to buy the games

 

[Spyxos]

I tried to play 1943 2 years ago but it never found any players, so I can understand it.

 

[diffusionx]

BC2 is for my money one of the best multiplayer games ever. The destruction catapulted it to a whole new level and EA has never even bothered to try topping it. I don’t even think they could if they wanted to.

 

[64bitmodels]

insert obligatory comment about 'digital future' even though piracy is digital....

 

[LordCBH]

Absolutely zero fucking reason to delist Bad Company 1 and 2 and Mirrors Edge. They have solid single player campaigns. Fuck EA. Pieces of shit.

 

[Skyfox]

This is just the thin end of the wedge to normalise deactivating bigger and bigger titles.

Edit:
In reality they just devalue their brand and product offerings.

 

[adamsapple]

Time to buy Mirror's Edge before it gets delisted. The Series X BC version is 4K/60, too good to pass up.

 

[Sleepwalker]

This is just the thin end of the wedge to normalise deactivating bigger and bigger titles.

Edit:
In reality they just devalue their brand and product offerings.

Yep, but this is EA. They dont give a shit.

 

[diffusionx]

Yep, but this is EA. They dont give a shit.

The reality is nobody gives a shit as anyone going through eShop this week knows.

Hell all those games came out before the 3DS launched IIRC

 

[adamsapple]

I'm a bit confused why EA feel the need to take off Mirror's Edge just because they're sunsetting its minor online component while promising people can continue to keep playing the SP mode.

It is a *single player* game.

 

[TVexperto]

new leadership at dice really turning things around i see

 

[MiguelItUp]

Better grab 'em while you can! Gotta love the digital age.

 

[kiphalfton]

I never understand why these things happen. Surely it can't take up any significant amount of (financial) resources to keep something like BF1943 up and running? How many people still play that anyway, a few hundred if that? In the name of game preservation and keeping the fans happy why shut it down?

Because an insignificant amount is still more than zero. And EA prpbably isn't directly making barely (if any) money off it.

 

[CuteFaceJay]

Too many people keep going back to BC2 and EA want to pigeon hole them into the shit 2043 game so they can sell Micros. Legit reason!

Or they can to give them the 'remaster' treatment, Either way I'm still waiting on EA to fix the Burnout Paradise remaster as it continues to not work on PC years after release with a 140+ page thread on their support forums.

Dog shit company, Nuf said!

 

[Dr.Morris79]

Boo, rubbish, pish, utter nonsense, how could they do this, oh the humanity, fuck EA, they're evil, et etc

'Oh look, a new Star Wars game. EA da best'

 

[R6Rider]

Gotta remember to buy BC1 and 2 on my Series X tonight. Have had them on my wishlist for awhile waiting for a sale.

I think I have BC2 on PC already, but need to check. Mirror's Edge I have like four copies of so I'm good.

 

[kicker]

If I recall, someone at DICE said they had no time for "Mirror's edge-type projects".

Poor ea is trying to reduce expenses. Wouldn't be surprised to hear them announce layoffs soon along with the rest of the tech industry

 

[Punished Miku]

Time to buy Mirror's Edge before it gets delisted. The Series X BC version is 4K/60, too good to pass up.

Yep.

 

[darrylgorn]

Thank you for saving my wallet from purchasing 2042.

 

[R6Rider]

Thank you for saving my wallet from purchasing 2042.

Are you going to buy 2042 instead?

Ninja edit lol
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I really wish they would remaster the Bad Company games, especially 1. Had an awesome story and is limited to PS3 or 360. It's playable on Series X, but with no enhancements if I remember correctly.

 

[darrylgorn]

Are you going to buy 2042 instead?

Ninja edit lol
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I really wish they would remaster the Bad Company games, especially 1. Had an awesome story and is limited to PS3 or 360. It's playable on Series X, but with no enhances if I remember correctly.

Yeah, I meant 2042, oopsie.

Anyway, certainly have no problem staying away from any multiplayer related EA games.

 

[Fredrik]

This is the only thing that makes me nervous about the digital future. What will happen with retro gaming?

 

[Tams]

Never change EA.

 

[Kagoshima_Luke]

RIP Battlefield Vietnam. We hardly knew you.

 

[Saiyan-Rox]

Quick get rid of better battlefield games

 

[GHound]

Electronic Assholes continues to be one of the worst companies in gaming.

 

[danklord]

In the near future publishers will catch on to the profitable idea of re-releasing games in their original state with online play restored, and the cycle of violence will continue again.

 

[Fake]

Digital vs physical strikes again.

 

[Drizzlehell]

Surprise, surprise, EA fucking sucks. What a shock.

Luckily the communities for those games will keep them alive. They nuked Battlefield 2142 a long time ago but people still be playing that game with 3rd party tools.

 

[stn]

PSA: Mirror's Edge is backwards compatible and excellent! It also has DLC, which I'm planning to get tonight.

 

[RAIDEN1]

Soon enough the last great battlefield game B.C 3, will be gone as well, best snap that up while you can! (It's one of those titles on my bucket-list)

 

[DeepEnigma]

Gamers have ourselves to blame for giving up complete control to the publishers.

The days of dedicated server clients were the online gaming golden years.

 

[SALMORE]

Re-sellers Assemble !!

 

[Beer Baelly]

Remasters confirmed

 

[Dr. Claus]

Fucking WHY!?

Mirror's Edge online component and leaderboards have been dead for years, BC 1 & 2 are still active. Don't know about 1943, but I can't imagine it's totally dead.

Why would they want you to play their better older games instead of their newer shittier ones? Kill the servers and if you want to play BF, you are forced to play the newer ones full of MTX and trash.

 

[EDMIX]

That fact that they were even online for as long as they were is a great thing.

Gamers move on. Last time I even checked BFBC2, the shit was a damn near ghost town. So stopping support for a game generations after release isn't the end of the world.

I'd worry more about Overwatch 1 being closed to push Overwatch 2 lol

Fredrik Sure but, thats always been the case with online games. There has never been any time in gaming where we had some game on disk or digital where its online continued for life or something.

So I also worry about a digital future, but this wouldn't be one of those worries. This would happen regardless of how those games were delivered as its not like they are digital only titles. So hopefully in the future we see something where gamers can just use their own computers as servers or something to allow them to live on or something.

 

[64bitmodels]

Gamers move on.

that'd be easy to do if BFV and BF2042 weren't hogwash. you think we don't want newer better stuff? ofc we do but when the battlefield franchise has been mediocre or 5 years we gotta go back to the more fun entries

 

[Aaron Olive]

I'm a bit confused why EA feel the need to take off Mirror's Edge just because they're sunsetting its minor online component while promising people can continue to keep playing the SP mode.

It is a *single player* game.

It might be in the pipeline for a remake à la Deadspace 2023.

 

[Drizzlehell]

This thread made me nostalgic and I reinstalled BF 1943 which I haven't played since my PS3 days. I didn't even realize that it's available on Xbox in backwards compatibility, what a blast from the past. I remember playing this soo much in like 2009 on PS3.

EA are fucking cunts.

 

[Phase]

Gamers have ourselves to blame for giving up complete control to the publishers.

The days of dedicated server clients were the online gaming golden years.