Brett's Blog

Firstly, sorry I have been away for so long, its been a busy time. So here as per request in a number of threads here is an update to where we are with 1.50.

• Yes its still coming
• We have been working on a few things to do with DRM as old versions of Battlefield 2 use an old version of SafeDisc
• We have had a number of last minute hacks appear which we have made fixes for to help stabalise the servers.
• We have a minor issue to solve with the Chinese version of the game.

While I can’t give an exact date, we are aiming to release our first Beta towards the end of April ’09 as long as everything else goes well.

Seems like patch 1.5 delays are worth it afterall. Source is here: http://forums.electronicarts.co.uk/7713107-post1.html

I just hope this wont open up a new slew of bugs, glitches and hacks for BF2 now. i’m pretty sure aim botters and so forth can still get past the new system, but the commander hacking, crash to desktop hack, and various other fixes won’t reappear.

After waiting months and months for the 1.5 patch. I’m just going to cut the March date of short. Not a single bit of community interaction from the developers on the EA UK forums. All has went silent, and no responses. There fore, I am just pondering when I should just dump playing BF2 all together. More over to the fact, never buying an EA published game ever again.

EA has made a great example of how to:

• Royally piss off the customer base.
• Ignore the community
• Inject adverts into games for further money.
• Add on Punkbuster (which doesn’t do crap) to every FPS.
• Ignore community even more. To the point of deafening amounts
• Extort the gaming community by releasing expansion packs of which have very little content to add to the game. Let alone activation system half the time malfunctioning.

Did I miss any? Let me know via a comment!