Battlefield: A Disappearing Legacy

Bad news: Battlefield 3, 4 and Hardline for 360/PS3 will be shut down on November 7, 2024. End of an era. This makes sense given that the 360 store will be shutting down and thus rent-a-server will no longer function, so the little money these titles were still generating will be gone. Hopefully we'll see some sort of revival happen one day, though it'll probably be PS3 only if it does.

I feel like the worst part about the slow decay and death of Battlefield servers is that not every game will recieve the fan support that even some lesser remembered CoD titles, like Ghosts or AW did. Or, that EA, like Activision before them, will shut down any chance of it, salting the digital earth.

At some point, it stops being piracy and starts being game preservation. It’s a shame companies refuse to see it this way, especially for “dead” games and games they no longer have official servers for

1943 is still one of the prettiest games especially for the time. It was so colorful for a military shooter.

Important to note that bf4 only got an ingame server browser after a long time post release in order to "unify" it with the other newer titles. Hardline also got this treatment

God, i remember the day Battlefield 3 went online, I got up early before class to play an hour of it cause I was so hyped. Its so weird to think it's going to be gone within the next couple years.

Battlefield 1 will always be my favorite multiplayer game. Never cared if i did good or bad. I was just fully immersed

Your BF3 mini experience is basically how mine was. Three people I didn't know in my squad, on 360, sweating it out, a lot more shit talking, but I am not good at shooters and was much worse holding a controller so we just owned. Even with its quirks and having way fewer unlocks I prefer (PC) BF4 to BF3 but I've a lot of nostalgia for BF3. Edit: That's not a date I ever wanted to hear announced.

I've never been a massive shooter person, but I remember playing a few Battlefield titles from time-to-time like Bad Company 2 and Battlefield 3, and found it to usually be a pretty decent experience. It always pains to see fan favourites essentially become heavily forgotten to time with no plans for their legacies to remain, because to the massive studios, "they're old, why should we keep these up? We want them to play our newer titles." ... Despite how much these older games hold such resonance and fond memories with players, and how the newer titles just fail to deliver the same amount of entertainment. God bless the longtime fans who will likely reverse engineer these titles so they will have a way to keep resonating with longtime players, and potentially even future players who never got the chance to experience it first-time around. Hopefully it will be something that actually catches on over time... Great video as always, Kacey. :)

No matter how many videos jack frags does saying its all ok now and they fixed it. RIP BF

This is why every single game should have dedicated servers (user hostable).

Seeing people still keeping Warfighter's multiplayer alive made me audibly gasp. I loved its multiplayer, despite all the jank and it not being very good. Oh and that PGA Tour battlefield map is fantastic. Never knew about this.

wait what? @1:50 there are projects to revive BC1 on the ps3 like some other projects? Can someone link me to this, im really interested. good vid btw :)

That last part of the video, about doing our part to save the games we love. I feel that. I've been playing a lot of old games lately, mostly maintained and expanded upon by their passionate communities. Unreal Tournament (literally buried by Epic), Doom, Quake, Stalker, WH40K:Dawn of War, SW:Galaxy at War... I am increasingly feeling like I need to do something to give back to the community of some game, in some way. I will try to find some community project, or mod, that I can contribute to.

1943 was by far my favorite BF multiplayer experience with BC2 coming in a close second.

The simple reason EA shuts down old game servers is that they're stopping you from buying their new games, loot boxes etc. But Battlefield has really lost its identity, even more so when Medal of Honor also went modern. So EA had two franchises pretty much aping Call of Duty. Bad Company 1 and BF3 were really the pinnacle for me, loved the gallows humour of bad company, and EA really had a thing with destructible environments, but it's just so watered down now. EA really should consider a remake/remaster of an earlier title.

15:12 I believe the bf3 one even requires it. You have to link your origin account to play in the first place which is also probably how they haven't gotten into trouble.

Warsaw reveamped is coming soon to BF4! Just like VU, but much more ambitious! Honestly, I wish DICE never abandoned AI bots or dedicated offline mode for multiplayer mode, just so these games are not tied to PVP multiplayer -- being to experience toxic players, server admins, and other harmful shenanigan

23:05 If Battlefield Hardline were released in our time, it would be a popular game with many players playing

I dont want battlefield to go the way of medal of honor