[Battlefield 2] Battlefield Boycott - June 3rd/4th

[BFNBot]

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We've been informed on the forums about an upcoming "Battlefield Boycott Day". Upset with some of the changes in patch 1.3 and on-going bug issues, many gamers have decided to take part in this event.

With the release of patch 1.3 Electronic Arts and Dice slapped many gamers
in the face.

• the patch blocks the Alternative Battlefield Ranking (ABR) which was
  developed gamers and has been approved by DICE (more information)
• a petition of more than 10.000 active gamers which was asking for
  an introduction of "squad hopping" as a server option has
  been ignored by Electronic Arts (more information)
• many alternative game modes in Battlefield 2 modifications provided
  by the community are not working anymore or not properly. Modding teams
  have not been informed about these changes
• the current patch contains some good improvements (search for servers
  for example) but is unfortunately is as faulty as version 1.2 (ingame
  server browser, crashes)

Thus, we request the publisher and game developer:

• to contact the developers of ABR and to fulfil promises given previously
• to handle petitions of gamers more seriously
• to test patches even more correctly in future
• to inform modding teams in advance about changes via release notes
  

To form this protest more distinctly, we will stop playing Battlefield 2
for one day on Saturday June 3rd and we will make our servers inaccessible.
All servers taking part in this action will be protected with a password
and will be labelled with

With more than 200 supporters at the moment, the group hopes that DICE and EA will listen to their request. More information is on the Battlefield Boycott site.

[faker_phil]

Damn, I heard about this too late. I played a lot yesterday...

*chastises self*

[kook]

im boycotting myself for a day. HURRUMPH.

[NavalLord]

I went in to BF2 to try out some 64 bottin action, and I noticed something. EA lied to me, again. They said you could set the ammount of bots to play with, but you can't its still set to only 16. Those lying bastards. Come and take whats commin' to ya!

[kook]

Mike you should create a bots against EA or something.

Start a boycott an protest your favorite video game! its the new black.

[NavalLord]

Dude thats awsome, except there is one problem with that. BF2 isn't my favourite, The Godfather is. Corleone for life!