Do Servers Still Exist For This Game?

[♡Metta♡]

as title says, EA sucks, discontinued support for the modern BF2 game, now we are left with nothing, does this game still have servers or is it dead and the current player count is just from those playing solo/modded?

Am i going to be able to live the classic BF2 experience if i play it today? Should i just wait for the Collection to release and hope it booms with players?

[Darth Alpharius]

yeah GOG added servers and store front crossplay between steam and GOG

[Lukas]

I would wait for the collection and see how that goes first, I'm also expecting it to attract more players. There aren't many people playing this one, most of us play Singleplayer anyways for nostalgia.

[Auradean]

There's still people hosting servers right now, but there's usually only one with more than 30 people on it, and a couple of 2-15 player servers as well. Can be a bit rough for EU since I tend to get like 100+ ping on the largest one when a lot of people get 20-40.

The online still works but it's a bit janky due to the netcode, but I still found it somewhat playable casually, takes some time adjusting to it. Most of the player count is either people idling on the menu or playing in singleplayer / mods, but we had a little player count spike due to the classic collection reminding people of the game and people are hopping on before the release of the collection. It's about 120 on the super low end and the 24 hour peak today was 690+.

Singleplayer is fine once you install a few mods to help with the UI and stuff, and there's a good amount of singleplayer mods to play around with. Online is a bit more shaky though.

You could wait to see if the online for the new collection coming out is an improvement to the current steam release though, I'm mainly just waiting to see the reception for it before playing for more than an hour, and I'm guessing a lot of the people who own the current steam release are probably going to do that as well.

[W_Khan]

going to wait a few days to see how stable their servers will be and if its a buggy nightmare. Now days pre-launch buying or at release is never a good idea.
Last time i played a few months ago there are games, but most were Hero matches. Hope the Classic collection, if good, will up the player numbers and match variety.
Shame they didn't implement co-op for story mode, would be nice do play with other 3 friends front start to end...

[Lukas]

Originally posted by Yhmir:

going to wait a few days to see how stable their servers will be and if its a buggy nightmare. Now days pre-launch buying or at release is never a good idea.
Last time i played a few months ago there are games, but most were Hero matches. Hope the Classic collection, if good, will up the player numbers and match variety.
Shame they didn't implement co-op for story mode, would be nice do play with other 3 friends front start to end...

Also, Coop galactic conquest is what everyone wants. Most of us have very fond memories of playing that on PS2 with friends. That's definitely a feature they should implement in this new collection.

[Comander Cody]

Originally posted by Lukasoss:

Originally posted by Yhmir:

going to wait a few days to see how stable their servers will be and if its a buggy nightmare. Now days pre-launch buying or at release is never a good idea.
Last time i played a few months ago there are games, but most were Hero matches. Hope the Classic collection, if good, will up the player numbers and match variety.
Shame they didn't implement co-op for story mode, would be nice do play with other 3 friends front start to end...

Also, Coop galactic conquest is what everyone wants. Most of us have very fond memories of playing that on PS2 with friends. That's definitely a feature they should implement in this new collection.

that what i was wondering can i play GC against one of my friends if he has it on steam?