2013-09-08 07:26

First off this is not a petition and I won't link or ask people to go fill out a petition. What I would like to see in this topic is people voicing their opinions about Game Servers and those who provide them due to the recent events that people have heard about.



If you're out of the loop on the "recent events" it is that EA/DICE have decided to cut down who is able to provide game servers for Battlefield 4. This happened with BF3, but most people didn't notice it because all of the server providers who have been around were able to host the games. "Well that's not a big deal" some might say. Well it is when you have the people who rent servers that you all play on, who will no longer be able to host those servers for you because of a crazy decision by EA/DICE to further limit who can rent servers.



The GSP who came out and mentioned that they weren't going to be hosting BF4 was a large UK provider. And I'm certain a lot of you UK players played on multiple servers hosted by that provider. So what's going to happen when they can't host servers? The people who would rent servers from them probably won't rent anymore. Why you ask? Because people who rent from a specific GSP have normally been with them for a while. People in this case have normally been with their provider for at least 2 years now for BF3. A relationship is created with those providers and you gain a trust, friendship, whatever it might be. You support them and they support you with great service and reliable servers.



Now onto why EA/DICE probably made this choice which in my opinion is a stupid choice.



Because certain people complain about servers limiting certain weapons, and that's all they do most of the time. They go hunt for servers who have rules like no explosives, limited explosives, no other weapons, etc, etc. . .and then they hop on the forums or hop on live chat with an EA/DICE rep and start complaining. More often than not the people complaining about those things A) haven't even paid for a server at any time in their life or B) Think that their stats are going to be passed up by someone who is "stat padding" on a pistols only server, when in reality most of those players are just having fun. Who gives a flying rats but about those stats though? If you are a great player who's trying to get something out of gaming, start streaming! Get your self out there and noticed yourself. . don't sit there and rely on someone looking at your stats on Battlelog to notice you.





Now my philosophy is if you don't like a server or don't like how it's run DON'T PLAY THERE!! If it's truly that bad then people will not join it and over time the server will not populate and the person who runs the server won't want to pay for an empty server. This goes for people who cry about people who are "madmins" in servers (even servers that don't limit things). Personally on that note I would say try to talk to the leader or make a dispute regarding it to try to get it taken care of. If a common ground can't be met then say adios and go find another server that suits your needs and let those servers with people who have a bad attitude die off as well.



"But what about the stat padders?!" It's already been proven that true stat padders will be taken care of, their stats reset, banned for a short period of time, whatever it might be. SO why should we want to punish those who are providing great servers for the rest of the community to play on? And again back to the whole thing of crappy servers, if it's not a great server people won't want to play there and the server will have a falling out.



There have been many game titles out there who have servers that people can host who are able to change the game play slightly and the game is still very successful. So why NOT allow that without people crying foul here? It's made those games successful and some of those game types are still very successful to this day.



I'd say there's probably about 450 ACTIVE BF3 servers out there right now on PC that are full daily for you to choose from. That gives you more than enough to choose from, and if you don't like the choices that are out there then go rent your own server. If you don't want to do that then don't sit there and cry foul on people who pay for and run their own servers, go play co-op or single player. EA/DICE doesn't pay the server owners to run servers for them and I don't expect people who pay a decent buck to rent the servers to have to follow a strict set of guidelines of "you have to do this, and that, and can only ban obvious hackers, but can't kick people for being rude/disrespectful"





If we want to play on servers where there's no option of how things are run, we'd be playing on a console.





Now EA/DICE how come you haven't reached out to the community, and to those who own some of the most successful servers in the Battlefield community to ask their thoughts and opinions? Or to see where they host their servers at? You realize that some of those successful servers are hosted at places like the UK provider that will no longer be hosting those servers. Game Server Owners for PC have helped YOU and Battlefield 3 become as successful as it is on PC, so why are you going to turn around and stab all of them in the back? Is it greed? Is it a few players who are complaining about certain limitations that those who PAY for their servers have placed on their servers? All I'm asking for is answers to WHY you feel this is a good idea.



My opinion is that there are people who are making complaints about servers who have a larger footprint on how things are happening within the Battlefield community rather than the people running successful game servers.



If you agree with any of this, please respond. If you don't agree, I'd like you to respond as well. And if you think anything should be added I'd love to see your input. Please do not link to the petition that I know is going around the community as that is not what this topic is about.

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