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Starting December 8 2023, Battlefield 1943 and Battlefield: Bad Company 1 & 2 will be removed from digital storefronts
64bitmodels
Reverse groomer.
yea they ded. I wish Bad Company 1 and 2 got PC ports.
Lucifers Beard
Member
Bad company 2 is already on PC.
delfrickintree
Banned
Was a good era. I wish they would focus on creating more bc2 maps in the 2042 game.
Punished Miku
Human Rights Subscription Service
Ubisoft is also delisting a ton of stuff. It's the big publishers with their own subs.
I've bought nearly every BC game digitally I can find over the last 2 years for this reason. And we are moving to all digital soon, so the people that missed the boat on that will feel it.
wvnative
Member
ThisIsMyDog
Member
Starting April 28 2023
Bumblebeetuna
Member
Even the press release says 2023 multiple times. Delisting April 2023, servers dead December 2023. Wtf 
ThisIsMyDog
Member
Because this news is from earlier this year, op is drinking too much.Even the press release says 2023 multiple times. Delisting April 2023, servers dead December 2023. Wtf
Sleepwalker
Member
Yeah I made a thread on this months ago, they were delisting mirrors edge too but back tracked that one.
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SmokedMeat
Gamer™
OP with the heads up from April 2023.
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Shifty1897
Member
Like damn EA just sell us a Bad Company 1+2 Remaster for $50.
Elysium44
Banned
I had a trial of game pass ultimate recently and they were there to download, despite being delisted back in April.
R6Rider
Gold Member
I'd love a remaster of these games. BC1 especially because it's stuck with only a console release with one of the lowest FoV I've ever seen.
mckmas8808
Mckmaster uses MasterCard to buy Slave drives
And people want a digital-only future. This is what that future will look like, but with half of all games.
NickFire
Member
Nothing against discs, but how would owning these games on disc change anything when the online components are shut down?
Tal Shiar Agent
Banned
Battlefield 1943 was amazing.
mckmas8808
Mckmaster uses MasterCard to buy Slave drives
Because Bad Company 1 & 2 have single player components.
Fahdis
Member
Can you DM me the Link? Thanks.
kiphalfton
Member
The side nobody talks about (or conveniently leave our).
KuraiShidosha
Member
This is it. This is what getting old and dying is like. Nothing lasts forever.
Lucifers Beard
Member
Probably because I can't play the PS3 disc on my PC?
I've never understood it personally. Keep the games for sale and let players sort out their own community servers.
LordCBH
Member
Pretty darn good ones too.
Zannegan
Member
So their new games no longer have to compete against their own amazing pedigree.
Bumblebeetuna
Member
Battlefield 1943 was so amazing when it launched.
Kerotan
Member
But you can't play the digital PSN version on your pc either. I don't get your point.
EverydayBeast
ChatGPT 0.1
Bad company was important for dice.
NickFire
Member
I think you can still download purchased games post removal from store.
Little Chicken
Banned
Despite having only 3 maps I managed to put over 200 hours into it back in the day. Can't believe they never remastered and re-released it.
adamsapple
Or is it just one of Phil's balls in my throat?
Bad Company 2 was a fantastic game.
EDMIX
Writes a lot, says very little
I love the maps on Bad Company 2. Not as much as BF4, but still love em nonetheless
poodaddy
Member
I actually completely believe this will happen at some point. Almost everything is getting remade or remastered these days, and Bad Company has a pretty devoted fan base amongst Battlefield fans. Some publishers pull the old versions of games off their stores when they get ready to release remasters.....just saying. I don't wanna be disappointed though so I probably shouldn't think like that. Still though, seems feasible.
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Krappadizzle
Member
M0G
Member
As this keeps happening, more and more services will pop up preserving multiplayer. The Battlefield series already has one on PC and there are services for consoles making progress etc. For example BC2 will continue after shutdown as Project Venice. It's available on PC and if you're quick, you can still migrate your stats from the original PC or console server.
Obligatory "Fuck digital" comment here
Elysium44
Banned
yes
STARSBarry
Gold Member
Honestly the reason BC2 is so well liked is because of the focus on map design, especially with the destructible environments.
See the focus of map design outside a few handful of TDM maps was Rush. Why is this important? Because it funnels players into engaments constantly, everyone is always fighting over the same thing and slowly because of map destruction is becomes harder and harder for the defenders to hold as their cover disapates leading the match to naturally move on. These where then expanded on to create CP maps.
Now modern battlefields focus is CP and maps are designed with CP in mind and then trimmed down to create rush maps. This means that the design of the map is radically different as points are designed to be defensible from all sides due to their original CP design and the limited destruction means that most of them are as easy to defend at the end of a match as they are at the start. This means CP is the primary game mode that is played and so the combat is spread out all over, this is why choke point maps like Metro & Bazaar became so popular, because they are some of the few maps that funnel players into constant engagement with the whole enemy team.
Essentially as much as battlefield is marketed on large scale open combat, what players actually crave is large quantities of people throwing themselves at each other until one of them breaks. That chaos is what BC2 perfected and every following title has moved further away from, I wish the Vietnam DLC had been a full size release.
See the focus of map design outside a few handful of TDM maps was Rush. Why is this important? Because it funnels players into engaments constantly, everyone is always fighting over the same thing and slowly because of map destruction is becomes harder and harder for the defenders to hold as their cover disapates leading the match to naturally move on. These where then expanded on to create CP maps.
Now modern battlefields focus is CP and maps are designed with CP in mind and then trimmed down to create rush maps. This means that the design of the map is radically different as points are designed to be defensible from all sides due to their original CP design and the limited destruction means that most of them are as easy to defend at the end of a match as they are at the start. This means CP is the primary game mode that is played and so the combat is spread out all over, this is why choke point maps like Metro & Bazaar became so popular, because they are some of the few maps that funnel players into constant engagement with the whole enemy team.
Essentially as much as battlefield is marketed on large scale open combat, what players actually crave is large quantities of people throwing themselves at each other until one of them breaks. That chaos is what BC2 perfected and every following title has moved further away from, I wish the Vietnam DLC had been a full size release.
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