Honestly, being the casual gamer that I am, I have no idea what gamespy does (or did)
afaik it plays a large part in stopping cheaters right?
Stats wipe is whatever, I stopped following when it got split into different groups anyway.
However, I do trust spit when he says he has a solution
so that's great news. And good news that PR has a solution too. Hopefully all the BF2 modders out there can work together to keep the MP portions of these mods going so people can still have fun.
Even so, I'm sure there are some hax0rs out there who have found a few work arounds to this to keep playing vanilla BF2. (afaik its still played fairly regularly)