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EA Deleting Accounts Due To Piracy?

Hearing recent news from friends and forums it seems people using pirated versions of the game are not only getting banned from playing this game but EA are resetting peoples accounts.

Ben10545788d ago

so the scores are ok for people using a ps3 since there is no piracy on it

JsonHenry5788d ago

There is just as much piracy on the PS3. Just visit any torrent site and do a search.

jkoz5788d ago

Yeah, you're real informed. Tell me the last time you heard about people burning PS3 games? NEVER. It is right now IMPOSSIBLE to download and burn PS3 games. There are a few PS3 games online but you can't do jack with them. So, yeah. I'd love to see where there's any PS3 piracy.... at all.... please know what you're talking about before you comment.

Bazookajoe_835788d ago

If you can find and download a ps3 game it´s probably a virus or fake since the ps3 is not cracked...

Legion5787d ago

Little do people know. PS3 not cracked? I wonder what people are buying downtown then? I am in South Korea and to say that the PS3 is not cracked will get you a chuckle from the people that have their systems modded here.

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ShiftyLookingCow5789d ago (Edited 5789d ago )

haha hilarous, so people who download the gold edition but never bought the original and use the "backup" to go online are okay(at least as long as MS doesn't detect, if MS can't detect, EA can't either) but people who bought the original but downloaded the gold edition for weapons are screwed. Very Funny. Then there is a third class of people who are idiots: those who download and play both the gold and the normal editions.

SL1M DADDY5788d ago

Bad for the PC, good for consoles. I hear many developers now making games or have games in development for the consoles due to the tougher restrictions and less ease of pirating the copies. I have to say, I for one hate pirates and think they should all burn but I have to admit, if it brings developers to the consoles then by all means, keep it up.

ShiftyLookingCow5788d ago

piracy is only good for older consoles in developing countries. As otherwise the hardware wouldn't even be sold in those countries. For anything else its almost always bad.

fermcr5788d ago

@SL1M DADDY

Did you even read the article ???

Charmers5788d ago

@ SL1M DADDY you clearly didn't bother to read the story. If you had you would have read this "Also this is being reported for the 360 version only so far so my personal view is the piracy issue holds more ground than the borrowed issue." See where it says "ONLY FOR 360 version". Now don't you look like a silly billy for your comment.

JsonHenry5788d ago

Slim... dude, they didn't even make this game for the PC! Did you read the article at all?!

SL1M DADDY5788d ago

Had PC piracy on the brain this morning and all that before my 3 cups of coffee. My bad.

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ar5788d ago

What they should be doing is taking care of the f-cking lag! Multiplayer is unplayable on the PS3 version.

crematory5788d ago

instead of add mp3 theme, fixXX THE DAM GAME

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The Argument for Battlefield: Bad Company Remakes

With the franchise’s mainline entries failing to find their footing in recent years, now is the perfect time for a Battlefield: Bad Company remake.

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thorstein132d ago

Of course there is no counter argument. This is what fans of the franchise have wanted for years. This and/or BF Bad Company 2.

When asked why there hasn't been another Bad Company:

“There's one thing that lingers with Bad Company that we've been asking ourselves: What is it that the people really liked about Bad Company?" DICE general manager Karl Magnus Troedsson told Eurogamer.

Troedsson says that he and his team can’t put their fingers on what it is that people loved about that branch of the brand. “It's hard for people to articulate what that is, which is actually hard for us,” he says. “It would be hard to remake something like that. Can we do it? Of course. We have our theories when it comes to the multiplayer."

(Source: Game Informer, June 24, 2014)

SonyStyled132d ago (Edited 132d ago )

I always activate the Black Weapon on BFV Solomon Islands for all the BC2 fans who hear/recognize it, thus starting the events of BC2 on BF5 :)

Derrrunnn. Derrrunnn.

RNTody131d ago (Edited 131d ago )

What is so hard to understand for them?

Bad Company 2 is one of the best and most memorable games in the series because:
- It was class-based (duh)
- Heavy focus on squads
- Substance over map size or gimmicks
- Fantastic and realistic gun play
- Well designed maps
- Destructible environments (why has this been minimised so hard in the series? You could demolish buildings in bad company 2 with some well placed C4
- Great progression system and variety in play
- No stupid CoD imitations or focus on the store over the game
- It was *drumroll* incredibly good fun?
- It was unmistakably BATTLEFIELD

INMATEofARKHAM131d ago

Probably should add a fun campaign to the list.

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Battlefield Legacy - Sunsetting Announcement

EA: "As we close in on 15 years since the release of Battlefield 1943, and Bad Company™ 1 & 2, we are announcing that their journey is coming to an end."

darthv72419d ago

This reminds me... I have ME on my PS3 hdd. Never really played it, but it was free.

XiNatsuDragnel419d ago

Digital future ppl is good they say nope imo

Eidolon418d ago

And it still says nothing about being able to downloaded even when it's off the storefront, that's a huge ouchie for some who somehow still have it in their backlog...

Shane Kim418d ago

Dont make it an issue when it's not. If you haven't played it in 15 years, chances are you'll never play it.

isarai419d ago

That all digital future sure looks great!

/s

zidane1341419d ago (Edited 419d ago )

Online game servers shut off eventually all the time. Doesn’t matter if you have the disc or not. Even if you have the disc, it’ll be just paperweight unless the game lets you connect directly to a friend or LAN play.

isarai419d ago (Edited 419d ago )

Read the article bro. They are delisting the games, including mirrors edge which is an offline game. Online servers i can understand, not being able to buy/download the games anymore? Completely separate issue, especially seeing as how some these games had lengthy sp campaigns and not just mp.

zidane1341419d ago

@israrai, you can still buy the disc for less then 10$. Hardly a loss.

TheEnigma313419d ago

You shouldn't have to buy the disc, that's the issue.

OhReginald418d ago (Edited 418d ago )

Some brilliant minds created servers to keep these old online games alive. A lot of ps2 and ps3 games that had there servers shut down a long time ago have been restored by fans to keep it going. Warhawk, killzone 2, socom 2/ confrontation, resident evil outbreak series, etc.

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DankSinatra418d ago

The disc still exist. I don’t understand the issue. You guys are upset about that “all digital future” yet these games are not “digital only”. Hell digital only is a minority in the gaming world and so far we haven’t moved into it, the only digital only games are games as a service or online only games, which end up failing in the end.

This is no different than a store that stops selling old games, just go and buy a copy somewhere else. So which is it, you hate all digital or you like it? Make up your mind.

isarai418d ago

Talk about missing the point entirely. I'm not going to sit here and explain it to you, figure it out.

DankSinatra418d ago

Talk about whining about something and not wanting to explain from an off handed sarcastic original comment.

I got the point just fine. You’re literally complaining about something that has an easy alternative to it.

ManMarmalade418d ago

I don't think you got the point

DankSinatra418d ago (Edited 418d ago )

@ManMarmalade

No I got it, it has to do with the push towards a future of all digital and reprocussions of losing games. Something I already stayed that hasn’t happened nor is it large enough right now to cause any issues as the games that are all digital are online only to begin with or make up the minority of games

So I’ll say it again, the disc still exists for these games that are over a decade old and can still be played easily. You guys are contradicting the whole “we don’t want a digital only future” crying when the dude I originally responded to stated:

“Read the article bro. They are delisting the games, including mirrors edge which is an offline game. Online servers i can understand, not being able to buy/download the games anymore? Completely separate issue, especially seeing as how some these games had lengthy sp campaigns and not just mp.“

So again, which is it? Do you hate all digital or do you want it?

Inverno419d ago

On PC I don't think it's much of a problem but I'm sad to see BF43 being shut down. I haven't played it in a while since it's stuck on PS3, but i preferred it way more over BF3. It was the lack of invisible barriers which made it better for me.

badz149419d ago

BFBC2 was still the best overall package offered by the franchise so far IMO

porkChop419d ago

Absolutely. BC2 was such a great game. It's a shame we never got BC3.

P_Bomb418d ago

I had a great run on Bad Company 2. Pound for pound, as solid a BF package as there’s been.

InUrFoxHole419d ago

Does anyone play the last BF anymore? I searched crossplay servers and it was 20 people the most on all the servers? Can never find a game

SonyStyled419d ago

The last BC you mean? I was still able to find 10v10 on ps3 2 years ago on NA servers during the evenings. I have all the free and paid dlc installed, but there want any matches in the Vietnam dlc.

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Battlefield 2042 Is More Than Enough To Prove We Need Bad Company 3

With this multiplayer experiment going every way but right, it's time for Battlefield to return to what made it so great - a fun single player mode coupled with classic multiplayer.

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DaCajun899d ago

Yes, because there is no way they could screw up a BFBC 3 like they just did the last 2 Battlefield games, right?. /s

They're not the same DICE devs they used to be they're just EA puppets. You will just keep getting COD/APEX/SEIGE BF games now, because idiots keep throwing money at EA for this garbage.

seanpitt23899d ago (Edited 899d ago )

BF is dead especially after this abysmal release.. what have EA done to this beloved franchise.. it’s really upsetting they are so far disconnected from what the actual fans want from this series.. such a same

If they would of made BC3 and stuck to the same formula as BC2 but gave it the next gen treatment it would of been a massive hit

LucasRuinedChildhood899d ago (Edited 899d ago )

Tbh, I think BF 2042 was a battle royale, and then they changed direction mid-development and didn't have enough time to finish it properly before EA's deadline. Specialists make more sense in a br, for example.

Like Halo Infinite before its delay, it needed at least an extra year of development. When you think about it, Infinite had 6 years and BF 2042 had just 3 years. It seems that's just not enough time to make a high quality AAA game anymore.

LucasRuinedChildhood899d ago (Edited 899d ago )

Here's evidence for BF 2042 originally being a battle royale game, heavily influenced by Apex Legends:
https://gamerant.com/battle...

ChubbyBlade899d ago

It did start as a battle royale. It’s pretty obvious. All the pieces are there.

isarai899d ago

Thing is i dont think they're capable of capturing what made those fun/different anymore.

Fluke_Skywalker899d ago

They actually admitted that in an interview a while back. They quite openly said they had no idea what made those games so popular and how to recapture it.
Maybe if they actually went and played BC2 they would find out.

RetroCaptainSteve899d ago

I mean, if they can bring back fun Star Wars single player games, anything's possible, yeah?

Gardenia899d ago (Edited 899d ago )

I think that says more about the people working on games nowadays. They have no idea what they are doing and aren't true gamers themselves. Because gaming is a billion money industry they follow the orders of the business men and investors who only look at making maximum profit of games.

Look at the beta and the launch of Battlefield 2042 alone; how can you not see the negative reactions of the community coming? That alone tells us enough of the people involved in making the game.

Yppupdam899d ago (Edited 899d ago )

Really? They don't understand what made the Bad Company games popular, or they just don't want to admit what made them popular...That is most likely what the creatively bankrupt writers of the Disney made Star Wars films say about The original trilogy. They don't want to admit that the people before them were just better and that ALL the things that make the Bad company games great are the same things that they probably deem "problematic". Just think how they would destroy Haggard if they made a new game? Everything about his character makes modern game developers sob and run for the first safe space filled with teddys and the soothing voice if Anita Sarkeesian piped in from a speaker in the ceiling.

Sheppard7t3899d ago

Like Ubisoft and the recent Splinter Cell rumors, I don’t trust EA/DICE in its current form anymore. They’d find a way to ruin Bad Company 3.

Azurite899d ago

Bad Company 2 was amazing but I'm afraid they'd mess it up with a new game.

Ninver899d ago

Better yet remake with new engine and new coat of paint. Plus all the bells and whistles of next gen

badz149898d ago

BFBC + BFBC2 remasters for next gen. skip last gen altogether. lower chance for them to screw it up rather than trusting them to make a new BFBC3

annoyedgamer899d ago

EA knows players want BC3 the same way Activision knows players want MW2 back. They will not make it because the goal is to make games built around MTX and Battle Royale.

Ninver899d ago

Very strong point. I see the light

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