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see crabtoes's post....it's a week, but the big news is that nobody will get to host ranked servers as part of this fallout. EA and trusted partners only.YeOldeStonecat wrote:Whaddya say we alternate playing on each others BF2 servers with the ZB guys. We can do even days on one server, odd days on anothers server. Seems we each have a half dozen at the most on our servers during evenings...kinda slow. Combining, we'd have a dozen or so-ish...a bit more fun.
Just a thought to make the next 4 weeks more fun.
Illini25 wrote:Interested in seeing EA's list of trusted partners.
zooner wrote:i often play bf2 in the nude.
that's all.
YARDofSTUF wrote:GameSPY, FilePlanet, File Shack.
Sava700 wrote:Ok 30 day detention???? WTH is up with this? all because we lifted the time limit on the demo? Thats really piss poor! I say we find zooner while he's playing bf2 in the buff and toss him in the middle of all them EA guys for punishment!
As for switching servers to boost our group as we play that sounds like a great idea.. perhaps we can make it 3?? the D guys , ZB guys and us can switch out each week?? If we go with just ZB and us then thats fine too.
Did I mention that EA can kiss my butt??
Yeah, would be worth looking into if there's an application process. I saw a few over on planetbattlefields forums, a few places are getting signed up. Seems to mostly be game server hosting companies that have a bunch of servers.Illini25 wrote:
Maybe some of the bigger hosting companies will have clan servers that will have "ranked" servers..dunno. Interested in seeing EA's list of trusted partners.
Illini25 wrote:just too many smacktards!
YeOldeStonecat wrote:Good thread to follow
http://forum.eagames.co.uk/viewtopic.php?p=6398#6398
from yosc on the ea forumI would like to voice our displeasure over at Speedguide.Net, of this stance EA has taken.
For a few years now, we built a gaming community with our own money/servers/bandwidth, to run the Battlefield series of games. Starting out with Battlefield 1942, continuing with Battlefield Vietnam, and now on the verge of Battlefield 2.
A handful of us at Speedguide.Net were into the game, we got together to get the game server project going...and brought on board many other members from our technical and broadband forums. Our project drove many sales of bf'42 and bf:v. These are people who would not have bought the game, but because of the gaming community we built within our forums...they went out and purchased those games. I'm not talking just 2-3 copies here...I'm talking dozens and dozens of copies. Purchased by people who would not have purchased the game unless our game server was running it...because our goal is to play something together, as a gaming community, regardless of what the game is.
We've always tried to run a tight game server, no foul language, no racist comments allowed, no smacktard behavior allowed, and have tried to promote the game at its best. And no cheating or use of exploits. Just about every single morning before work, I play on ea.jolt.uk's BF:V Irving 24/7 server. I can't say the same about how that ship is run, it's often smacktard and foul mouthed kiddie central.
We can't believe how strict the stance is on how "hacks" is being interpreted. Unlocking the weapons...I can kinda see that as being a hack. But simply taking off the time limit...that does not promote cheating, that does not promote smacktard behavior, matter of fact...all I can thing of that it promotes...is a more in depth appreciation and enjoyment of the game, you really get your appetite going for the game. More of a taste of the game and what it allows...it does nothing but build the craving for the game.
Raising the time limit should not be seen as something going against what the game is about. It's simply getting people even more hooked on the game.
I'm shocked at this move. There are some long time loyal game server admins here who got smacked the face for our loyalty to EA over the years. Our friends over at ZombieBattalion.com...they've been HUGE promoters of EA games, they've been running servers for MOHAA/SH/COD/UT2K3/4, and every flavor imaginable of those games. A lot of us have run some pretty tight ships before, and did this with intentions of bringing even more draw to the game, even more players who would run out and purchase the game. This wasn't done in a move to enable cheats, exploits, or take any $ away from EA...this was done with good intentions....to draw even more people, period!
Couldn't agree more!!! 