Gamespy shutdown May 31, 2014

[fat-randy]

I don't care about my stats. But It would be nice if spitfire can make it possible that we can take over our nicknames.  Is this realistic?

thx

[AfterDune]

...and Action man

[LuckyOne]

I don't see why that wouldn't be possible if they team up with 762. I believe 762 run a separate database for their stats and they probably have the nicknames for all people that played on their server to this day.

Only problem left to solve is how to get those nicknames back to the right people... Certainly GameSpy won't give access to their database and the passwords are encrypted in bf2 profile files last time I checked. And I doubt we know the algorithm used for encryption so running them through the launcher would also be useless...

(or would it? I guess the devs could collect the encrypted passwords with the launcher and tie them to the names in the database, and then update the launcher to communicate with the new custom master server and check that the user has the right password stored in his profile, then ask him to change it to whatever - of course that would require everyone who wants to make sure he keeps his nickname to download FH2 and run the launcher... Profiles not stored on local computers would be gone though).

[ParaTank]

Can I ask so will FH 2 be free to play?
Would i still need BF2 CD-Key?
Please reply before I waste like $15 for something that might actually be free.
I really love this mode and want to play it.   

[Ts4EVER]

We do not encourage piracy. That being said, if EA was interested in having CD keys work, they could have continued multiplayer support, but they didn't. It is not up to us to worry about their problems.

[PoliticalCorrectness]

So, will all stats be gone after May 31st?

[ParaTank]

We do not encourage piracy. That being said, if EA was interested in having CD keys work, they could have continued multiplayer support, but they didn't. It is not up to us to worry about their problems.

Well I didn't mean Piracy because the $15 version is on steam and you would never lose it unless you lose your account but there is a $5 version in Game.co.uk but it is a physical copy the you might lose the key so it doesn't really matter now, Thank you for your reply 

[Mattitatti]

I think 762 stats wont be gone after 31 May.

[Lada.Rear.Drive]

We do not encourage piracy.

Battlefield 2 essentially becomes abandonware after multiplayer stops working by the end of June. All there will be left is the single player portion (I don't even remember what it was, bots?) and local multiplayer. 90 percent of the total game experience goes away since BF2 is really multiplayer only. EA can't sell the game anymore. It wont be coming up on GOG.com any time soon if ever.
I would go as far as to say that after the June server mayhem Battlefield 2 ceases to exist and Forgotten Hope 2 and Project Reality stop being Battlefield 2 mods. Instead they become sort of standalone games running on the Refractor 2 engine.
You want to play Forgotten Hope 2? Somehow acquire a copy of Battlefield 2. Download and install FH2 files. Play. No questions asked.

[Ts4EVER]

Yes, but we do not encourage that. 

[x4fun ODIUM]

Good evening,

tonight at 18.00 UTC you will be able to download Forgotten Hope 2.47.

With this update, one important change will be made, the name servers for
your accounts will be switched from Gamespy to a joint server that has been hosted by
Project Reality and Forgotten Hope 2. The result ist that your old [762] FH2 statistics until FH2.46
will still be accessible on our www.762-ranking.de website. But they will not be continued.

You will be able to pick your nickname after you have installed FH2.47 - by using the FH2 launcher.

• After the first round of FH2.47 you will start as a private again.
  This goes for all BF2 related ranking systems, since gamespy served all BF2 game servers with account names.
  
• We will try to provide a running server for FH2.47 tonight, [762]#2.
  
• The other server, [762]#1, will be switched to FH2.47 the next days.

Feel free to discuss here or in that thread and share your ideas:
http://www.762-ranking.de/forum/showthread.php?1184-FH2-47-today-18-00-UTC-what-changes

Don't get frustrated, we'll keep FH2 up and running, even if it takes a bit of work :)


For the [762] Server Admin Team,
x4fun I<ODIUM>I

[RAnDOOm]

All the servers will be full for sure the next couple of weeks.

"Lets get the ranks and medals again quickly!"

Thats great for FH2!

[McCloskey]

wonder how the unlocks work (or don't, for that matter) in BF2 now? weren't some weapons like MG36 basically progress unlocks, tied to your acc?

[Excavus]

BF2's fucked, McCloskey. No more gamespy, no more masterserver, no more logging in without a workaround like PR and FH2.

[McCloskey]

That's what I thought. It kinda sucks not being able to play it now, even if the game rather sucked with all the nade/spot/dive spam, know what I mean? Like an end of an era