simmy.uk
Member
+117|6707
Will there ever come a time when EA shutdown the big server that lets you login into your account? Do you think EA will ever wipe everyone's stats?
[1stSSF]=Nuka=
Banned
+23|7020|PDX Metro Area, OR, US, SOL
Every game dies...but keep in mind there are still Diablo and Diablo II servers out there...lol
(HUN)Rudebwoy
Member
+45|7025
the stats will be erased for sure, but i think this game will be played for about 5-7 more years, then it will descend into oblivion...
docnutz
Member
+39|7029|B O S T ON area
Not until a game comes along that (2142 couldn't do it) will function easily on current and future Video cards and make BF2 obsolete.
max
Vela Incident
+1,652|6837|NYC / Hamburg

i'm sure that it will never completely die because some geeks will want to play it even in a couple of decades, just like there a few who play the occasional game of pong. but i give it a mainstream life time of about 3 years. after that even the mods will be utterly boring
once upon a midnight dreary, while i pron surfed, weak and weary, over many a strange and spurious site of ' hot  xxx galore'. While i clicked my fav'rite bookmark, suddenly there came a warning, and my heart was filled with mourning, mourning for my dear amour, " 'Tis not possible!", i muttered, " give me back my free hardcore!"..... quoth the server, 404.
TodErnst
It's not a bug, it's a feature
+38|6898|Muenster, Germany

docnutz wrote:

Not until a game comes along that (2142 couldn't do it) will function easily on current and future Video cards and make BF2 obsolete.
Mitch
16 more years
+877|6795|South Florida
Well heres the thing. It might be hard to believe, but back in the day when Duke Nukem and those other very first pc games where around, you thought the graphics were amazing. I think the graphics for bf2 are amazing... hmm sounds familiar. Im sure in a few years there will be a new technology that fuckin pwnes' todays graphics. Therefore, no one would want to play.
Plus without punkbuster it wouldnt be fun
15 more years! 15 more years!
Minion
C:/DOS - C:/DOS/RUN - RUN/DOS/RUN
+54|6868|Newfoundland, Canada
I hope not... even after I reach my current goal of just General, I'm going to have more goals in the game, with other accounts or with my current account, so I'll still be playing the game for a long time to come.. Hopefully EA keeps things running for a long time to come, everybody always has some kind of goal with the ranking system, I'd still probably play the game even without the ranking system, but most probably wouldn't...

My current goals are things like

1) reaching a K/D ratio of 3 (never gonna happen 'cause I suck! )

2) be #1 in the world (never gonna happen 'cause, again, I suck! )

3) continue using my secondary account ( http://bf2s.com/player/75527316/ ) and only use the shotgun untill I reach Colonel! (probably never gonna happen either, 'cause I don't get to play as much anymore and.. I suck! )

4) Surpass my friend Mike ( http://bf2s.com/player/69590478/ ) in points someday.. (hate to say this but it's probably never gonna happen, 'cause he plays way too damn much, I'm waiting for him to go on Vacation! )

So as you can see I have a few goals that have to do with the ranking system, but I have other fun goals within the game also I want to try out. I'll probably never reach any of the goals I just posted, but it's something I can look forward to within future years.

I hope for BF2 to live on, and hopefully the gamers keep gaming, the game might have a few bugs and what-not but overall, there isn't many other games out there like it with a ranking system as unique as the one it uses.

Keep BF2 going fellow BF2'ers and EA/Dice!
https://bf3s.com/sigs/f69858a2977e77bc2fdf9f5a2ba4a4d0177f38c0.png
1927
The oldest chav in the world
+2,423|6943|Cardiff, Capital of Wales
Of course it will die, after all, nothing lasts forever.
weasel_thingo
Member
+74|6596

Dezerteagal5 wrote:

Plus without punk buster it wouldn't be fun
yeah i was playing halo ce because my Internet was being slow and their are aimbots everywhere. the fact that i still beet some people who are using aimbots really does prove they suck.
but people still play it even though its old and bad graphics.
crimson_grunt
Shitty Disposition (apparently)
+214|6924|Teesside, UK
I thought EA would start to ignore it in favour of 2142 but it looks like they're still trying to make money on it so it should still be around a while yet.

http://www.play.com/Games/PC/RCS/3-/330 … oduct.html

Last edited by crimson_grunt (2007-03-08 07:31:44)

Minion
C:/DOS - C:/DOS/RUN - RUN/DOS/RUN
+54|6868|Newfoundland, Canada
damn when I hit reply there wasn't any posts on it yet.. I'm slow

Some people made some good points though, that in the future there probably would be a game to surpass BF2, with better graphics and a better game engine.. My clan still plays an old game called Soldier of Fortune 2 and it's still running Punkbuster, it's not wayy too old I guess, but it's fairly old... Still has a couple'a thousand players in it though, but it's being beaten down by newer games and games like CS:S...

Maybe there'll be a BF3?...
https://bf3s.com/sigs/f69858a2977e77bc2fdf9f5a2ba4a4d0177f38c0.png
Mr.H@x0r
Member
+54|6781

1927 wrote:

Of course it will die, after all, nothing lasts forever.
weamo8
Member
+50|6712|USA
2142 is superior to BF2 in every way (exept it is futuristic b.s.), and people still play BF2 in droves.  I dont think it will die anytime soon.
Cbass
Kick His Ass!
+371|6964|Howell, Mi USA
I think Bf2 will last a few more years. long as players still rent servers and EA makes money, they will keep Bf2 alive. Stats will never be reset.
https://bf3s.com/sigs/bb53a522780eff5b30ba3252d44932cc2f5b8c4f.png
ReDmAn_ThE_uNiQuE
oh hai :D
+156|6921|The Netherlands

[1stSSF]=Nuka= wrote:

Every game dies...but keep in mind there are still Diablo and Diablo II servers out there...lol
that is a negative
RDMC
Enemy Wheelbarrow Spotted..!!
+736|6835|Area 51
I believe that 1942 is still being played, so why shouldn't it be the same for BF2?
Surgeons
U shud proabbly f off u fat prik
+3,097|6759|Gogledd Cymru

it wont be ranked forever but people will still have unranked servers for the next decade or so
[AcB]KillahStyle
Member
+2|6558|Basel, Switzerland
It will die. Anyways i hope so. lol
..teddy..jimmy
Member
+1,393|6919
Hope so
Magpie
international welder....Douchebag Dude, <3 ur mom
+257|6796|Milkystania, yurop
Yes and by that time I will stop dryhumping my comp and start humping a server
{DHL}GrendeL
Member
+2|6530|Narre Warren Victoria
hopefully it will stick around for a few years at least. They could always chuck in AF and EF maps in a patch to revitalise it. I doubt theres much they can do with the existing game engine but adding new vehicles and weapons isnt too hard. The thing that will kill B2 (yes, battlefield is one word) is a better game coming along. 2142 has no real class and ive heard of people leaving that and coming back. People still play B42' and even unreal tournament fer chrissakes. Stopping the statistics logging would shit a lot of players off though so I reckon if EA try that there will be riots and cars burning in the street. Lol.
FeedUsYourFetus
Member
+89|6722
I'm a Captain, and I'd like to at least make it to Colonel and get all my expert badges before the game dies off.......shouldn't be too hard in theory, except that it seems I get to play less and less cause I'm always busier and busier.

KiL
Doctor Strangelove
Real Battlefield Veterinarian.
+1,758|6738
Will die but in a long time. The game has alot of things that make you want to come back, like hard awards and high ranks.
Nikola Bathory
Karkand T-90 0wnage
+163|7056|Bulgaria

Cbass wrote:

I think Bf2 will last a few more years. long as players still rent servers and EA makes money, they will keep Bf2 alive. Stats will never be reset.
Yeah, I hope so
I wanna be a General Bf2 is a great game with great graphics (by today's standarts, at least)

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