EU PS Blog writes:
"Hi All,
I'm Gordon Van Dyke and I'm the Associate Producer for Battlefield: Battlefield Bad Company 2 here at EA's DICE studio in Stockholm.
Today we're excited to announce that our forthcoming multiplayer beta is coming exclusively to PS3, so you'll have a chance to experience all the action, destruction and vehicular warfare ahead of our full release on the March 2010."
Cultured Vultures: In the spirit of preserving some kind of history of this industry, we’ve decided to list some of the best games that you just simply can’t get hold of digitally at the minute.
I just started playing Spec op. I've had it for years on steam and forgot about it. Such a good game.
Honorable mention to the excellent Driveclub, one of the best racing games of all-time and one of my favourite games ever.
Outrun Online Arcade, Sega Rally Online Arcade, After Burner Climax... all good stuff. I keep my 360 hooked up to play these as well as the TMNT games that were also delisted.
wow...I have all of them except the Nintendo ones either in physical or digital version.
Also..Deadpool the Game is missing on that list.
Battlefield Bad Company 2, Dead Space 2, Crysis 3, and a handful other EA games have finally had their online services shut down.
I had no idea that Bad Company 2 was still running, and only now that I know, I want to jump on! 😥
BF1943 is the only online MP game that I was genuinely interested in. Been playing since launch 14 years ago. Hate that I couldn't put in as much time to play as I'd hoped for during the final week.
Dead Space 2...... I wasn't even aware that had multiplayer. Nevermind that it was apparently one of their best multiplayers!
Dead Space 2 multiplayer had been hanging on for years - I'd boot my PS3 up to see some familiar names in lobbies. This will definitely be missed!
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."
This reminds me... I have ME on my PS3 hdd. Never really played it, but it was free.
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.
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
w0000t! i hope i get in!
Wonder why ps3 exclusive because everyone on xbox live will be playing Modern Warfare 2 and psn players won't because as ps3 fanboys they will rather play games like demon soul's or uncharted 2.
I guess Sony's looking to profit big off Dice the same way MS is looking to profit huge off IW!!! i've only seen MS with exclsuives Beta's from 3rd arty devs who make muliplats... COD and LP comes to mind when i think about that. we've mostly seen betas for first party exclsuives on Sony's Console but this is a first, as MGS4 was an exclsuive to begin with.
Looks Like Sony's back to buisness, they are spending money again, exclsuive marketing with UBi, and with EA's Dice Last year for Mirror's Edge, Now it's probably a sure thing when they market Bad Company 2 for the PS3 exclsuively. It looks like thats gonna be the case. keep it up Sony you are doing it big.
Finally. Infinity Ward and Treyarch always made exclusive betas for 360 and PC but never released a beta for PS3. And now, probably the biggest online shooter of all time and the biggest block in front of the MW 2, is getting a beta only for PS3. Now that's what I call as sucker punch to the nuts...