Battlefield 2142 Is Back From The Dead (Again)

3 responses to “Battlefield 2142 Is Back From The Dead (Again)”

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   thatteemo

   December 16, 2017 at 1:45 pm

   I thought the reason EA told the Revive project team to ‘Cease and Desist’ was because they thought it was smart to use EA branding and start distributing Battlefield Heroes files on their website.

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      arnna

      December 16, 2017 at 4:13 pm

      EA just want to kee their options open to do a quick and shitty remaster/port themselves.
      And because they clearly hate their customers.

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   thelordofshmay

   December 16, 2017 at 10:32 pm

   I feel like issuing of the cease and desist letter is rather a symptom of EA’s current business practices.
   A good game with long lasting re-playability is not a profitable business model. The cost of supporting a game for EA past year 3 of its lifespan (assuming no DLC or additonal content) inevitably detracts from overall profits.

   This then becomes a part of their policy – prevent, limit or stop support for your IP’s so that the consumer is forced to “move on” to the next big title the publisher puts out, which is a game that intentionally has a shorter lifespan.
   They bank on the manipulated logic for the average consumer of what can be perceived as the new standard for AAA games.

   I might not necessarily be right, but I wish I was wrong.

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   camm

   December 17, 2017 at 8:32 am

   This is fine, nothings being redistributed. Its just emulating a LAN game.

   I don’t get the Revive shutdown though, could have just dropped the Heroes game and stopped distributing game files. Rest of the network would likely have been fine.

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