Old Battlefield video games re-killed after EA’s authorized warning

All good issues should finish, and all that we love will flip to ash some day. The fan-run Revive Network, a group venture to assist and restore on-line play to a number of defunct EA video games (together with Battlefield 2, Battlefield 2142, and most just lately Battlefield Heroes) is closing its doorways after receiving a warning letter from the monolithic writer.

They had a superb run of three years in whole, with practically 1,000,000 whole sign-ups to their different grasp server service, however nothing can final without end. You can see Revive’s ultimate message to their followers, in addition to the textual content of the shutdown request on their Heroes revival site here.

“Electronic Arts Inc.’ legal team has contacted us and nicely asked us to stop distributing and using their intellectual property,” says the ultimate message. “As diehard fans of the franchise, we will respect these stipulations.”

While not an official cease-and-desist order – the tone of the letter requesting the shutdown was couched in gaming-themed language. [Perhaps they’ve realized from the chummy-but-not-really letter Netflix despatched to the Stranger Things pop-up cafe – Ed]. EA’s calls for have been clear: Remove all official logos, logos and art work (one thing that may theoretically be labored round), but additionally to take away all shopper downloads for the video games – even the defunct free-to-play Battlefield Heroes.

EA’s argument for the shutdown is that folks might really feel misled by the location, and may erroneously suppose that it’s an official EA endeavour. Given that the Revive community have been offering assist for video games that had been shut down, I’d think about that anybody confused sufficient to not realise that Revive is an unofficial effort would have a larger opinion of EA than they may in any other case, however that’s simply my conjecture.

I’m simply hoping this doesn’t harm group plans to revive CCG/RTS hybrid Battleforge to life. I favored that sport, particularly in co-op, and should admit some frustration to today that EA shut it down. On high of all that, I can’t assist however really feel a brand new pang of remorse at not simply lacking out on Battlefield 2142 the primary time spherical, but additionally overlooking it the second. Here’s hoping it will get a 3rd wind some day, eh?