Poll

How Long Does BF2 Have?

Maybe a year...29%29% - 73
A half a year...6%6% - 17
A month or two...2%2% - 7
It could die any day...7%7% - 18
Never! *hugs BF2 cd*53%53% - 130
Total: 245
Mint Sauce
Frighteningly average
+780|6546|eng
Add 8 months on to battlefield 3's release date, that is when it will become dead. And by dead i mean the state battlefield vietnam is now. So not really dead, just endangered. A game this good will always have people playing.
#rekt
War Man
Australians are hermaphrodites.
+564|6973|Purplicious Wisconsin
I'll give it at least half a year at the least, but will most likely die in a year or 2.
The irony of guns, is that they can save lives.
iD
Hates most server admins.
+7|6916
there will be servers and players for at least 5 years. there are still people playing 1942 and vietnam.
take a look at http://archive.gamespy.com/stats/

19. Battlefield 1942 604 servers, 1182 players
35. Battlefield: Vietnam 193 servers, 383 players
ThaReaper
Banned
+410|6899
It will live on forever. I see people playing online games that are eight years old.

Hell, people are still playing the demo. Lulz.

36. Battlefield 2 Demo

Last edited by ThaReaper (2008-02-18 17:03:58)

iD
Hates most server admins.
+7|6916
i miss vietnam, playing music in the vehicles rocked

Wallpaper
+303|6254|The pool
It wont die as long as I have a shitty computer that cant play anything newer. Possibly 5+ years
legionair
back to i-life
+336|6883|EU

*hugs*

though when its son- BF3 comes, it could go on vacation, but never die
jsnipy
...
+3,277|6782|...

People still play TFC if that tells you something.

But to answer your question: BF2 will die when the internet does.

Last edited by jsnipy (2008-02-18 17:30:31)

iNeedUrFace4Soup
fuck it
+348|6806
http://www.game-monitor.com/othergames.php?page=search

Still a pretty popular game with more players than the majority. The player count will dwindle but people will keep playing it for a very long time.
https://i.imgur.com/jM2Yp.gif
ig
This topic seems to have no actual posts
+1,199|6782
lol @ people thinking it will die soon. do you think everyone is just going to stop playing it one day? i'm sure i'll take more breaks from it, but i know i'll always play as long as there's a server.
GravyDan
Back from the Grave(y)
+768|6192|CA
I'll post my answer...after this round.
DrunkFace
Germans did 911
+427|6941|Disaster Free Zone

chittydog wrote:

Many moons. Even after BF3 comes out, people will still play BF2. I know guys who still play Quake 3 and I bet everyone here knows someone who still plays CounterStrike (just because it's "Source" now doesn't change the game).
I still play 1.6....
unnamednewbie13
Moderator
+2,053|7031|PNW

1942 has about a dozen vanilla servers.
Daggoth-UR-XXX
Member
+21|6844|NC, USA, Earth, Milky Way
Considering we have come a long way from "Microsoft Adventures," "Kings Quest," or "ET" for the Atari, I figure BF2 will last as long as people can host the game over the Internet.

Zdaemon keeps DOOM alive; such smash hits with the community don't die...often they get reborn.

Unlike many of my friends with the GameStop "play one day, return the next" attitude, I tend to play all my games when I have time.   

I loved Scorched Earth for DOS...in my mind, BF2 is the ultimate Scorched Earth.  It puts other games in perspective to have those memories.

Children of the Y generation and beyond have little respect for old titles (mostly 2d) and live with a comparative disadvantage in terms of experience when they disgrace games that seem slow to load or lack quality graphics.  If anything, the older I get the more respect I have for the software and hardware advances made.

If only you'd been there when I played SEGA master with my 3d glasses, you'd understand.  I thought that was the "shit" and it rocked my socks off.

No, I am not saying life back then was better, but we have so many more opportunties to keep games alive now with the Internet.  Sure, BF2 in a few years will not have the thousands we have now, but it will easier to support such games with a small community than say when EverQuest or WoW gets some age.  I feel sorry for those people when their MMORPG game "dies" and all their work amounts to a hill of beans.

I keep it fresh, and still honor those dusty old games on my shelf.


Daggoth.
Freezer7Pro
I don't come here a lot anymore.
+1,447|6457|Winland

robcr9 wrote:

Lynx14 wrote:

I believe BF3 = 1.5 Patch for BF2 but you're pretty much just paying for it... I'm sure bf2s will be around for a while though don't worry.
you mean Trackr?
Touché!
The idea of any hi-fi system is to reproduce the source material as faithfully as possible, and to deliberately add distortion to everything you hear (due to amplifier deficiencies) because it sounds 'nice' is simply not high fidelity. If that is what you want to hear then there is no problem with that, but by adding so much additional material (by way of harmonics and intermodulation) you have a tailored sound system, not a hi-fi. - Rod Elliot, ESP
Deadmonkiefart
Floccinaucinihilipilificator
+177|6966
BF2 will be popular as long as mods such as PR and FH2 exist.
killer21
Because f*ck you that's why.
+400|6850|Reisterstown, MD

I think the whole stat and PID exploit turned off some people.  I haven't played in nearly two months and don't really see a reason to play anymore.  The game was fun but it it time to move on.

Last edited by killer21 (2008-02-18 18:48:07)

HSG
Member
+23|6734|British Columbia, Canada

Jasonb0718 wrote:

It will never die.
As long as there are fat geeks bf2 will never die.
The_Sniper_NM
Official EVGA Fanboy
+94|6373|SC | USA |

HSG wrote:

Jasonb0718 wrote:

It will never die.
As long as there are fat geeks bf2 will never die.
As long as there are stereo typing fags, it will never die.

Last edited by The_Sniper_NM (2008-02-18 20:13:47)

Stingray24
Proud member of the vast right-wing conspiracy
+1,060|6705|The Land of Scott Walker
*hugs* ...
*notices he hasn't played in months*
*remembers he has been playing racing games instead of any fps*
*notices COD4 disc has rings from soda cans*
*notices BF2 disc is safe in it's case*
*vows to play BF2 this week like good ol times*
~FuzZz~
.yag era uoy fi siht deaR
+422|6582|Orrstrayleea
1, maybe 2 years tops.
Reciprocity
Member
+721|6840|the dank(super) side of Oregon
it won't die until DICE creates a worthy successor.
Ty
Mass Media Casualty
+2,398|7034|Noizyland

BF1942 is stil going strong-ish, and that's circa 2002.
Speaking of which I'm going to go play some BF1942 now.
[Blinking eyes thing]
Steam: http://steamcommunity.com/id/tzyon
Nikola Bathory
Karkand T-90 0wnage
+163|7046|Bulgaria

justice wrote:

This game will continue to be popular until the release of BF3.

The amount of people playing on servers whenever I look, still amazes me.

If BF3 is an improved bf2, then and only then will bf2 "die"

ie. the majority of the players will move on.
I agree!! Completely!
BF2 will not die in 2008 and the only thing that can really kill our beloved BF2 is a BF3, but a good one! Remember that BF2142 never managed to be as popular as BF2! Never!!
Hakei
Banned
+295|6255
Call of Duty 4 (cod4)    25272    336037    16234
BattleField 2 (bf2)      12147      134601   4278

If I'm reading that right, BF2 has half as many people playing compared to CoD 4?

Pretty impressive tbqh.

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