The Revive Network team was sent a legal notice by EA’s lawyers to stop distributing game clients for Battlefield 2, Battlefield 2142, and Battlefield Heroes. This is a user-created mod that allowed Battlefield owners to play online with friends or random players after GameSpy shut down their online services in 2014. It also let anybody download the Battlefield game clients regardless of whether or not they actually purchased any of the games.



Yeah, that’s probably not a good thing to do without permission, even if the games are effectively dead and no longer being sold. From my understanding, the Revive Network launcher and its servers are still free to operate as normal. This means that they are more than welcome to keep the multiplayer for these old Battlefield games alive. They just can’t, you know, freely give out entire game clients and infringe on the IPs like they were.

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