Thanks to Origin, EA's Digital Distribution service, the BIS solution probably isn't appealing to EA, and so different options need to be explored. At Bohemia Interactive Arma 2: Operation Arrowhead and Arma 3 will get Steam server integration - Take On Helicopters, Arma 2 and other BIS games will have a "more limited multiplayer experience" as a result of the shutdown. Significant technical hurdles remain, and at this time we don’t have anything to announce."Elsewhere, companies are using Steam to solve their woes - but the solutions aren't always comprehensive. We are still investigating community-supported options to preserve online functionality for these titles, such as multiplayer. We know some of these games are still fan favorites, including Battlefield 2, Battlefield 1942, Medal of Honor: Allied Assault and Command & Conquer games. Online services for EA games on the GameSpy platform will be closed down at the end of June. Unfortunately, due to technical challenges and concerns about the player experience, we do not have a solution at this time. They told us: "Since GameSpy’s announcement, our teams have been working to evaluate options to keep services up and running. The first thing we did was contact EA to follow up on this We're working on transitioning those games after the shut down so you'll still be able to play them.- Origin April 9, 2014
Instead of feeding into the rending of clothes and gnashing of teeth we've looked into how gamers themselves are working to preserve games history legacies. The thing gamers had always feared would happen had occurred - portions of history would be rendered permanently obsolete, and there was nothing we could do about it. The persistent concern amongst gamers as more and more videogames move into the online space, however, is a valid one - what happens when the services that keep these games alive goes down? This fear was brought to the surface last week, when EA revealed - as a result of the Gamespy Technologies shutdown - some 50 games' online portions would shut down. Torrents of sitcoms no longer on the air are just a Google Search away and ROM libraries, 1000s of games strong, allow players to revisit the titles they loved while growing up, even if the systems they played on no longer work. One that sees people collect old shows, movies and games the way others collect books and art.
There's a hoarding mentality at play with media.
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