Revive multiplayer service for Battlefield games ends after EA action

EA has asked the team behind the Revive service to cease operations. The team offered multiplayer for older games like Battlefield 2 and the 2142 and Heroes variants. The team heeds the call.

The Revive team has released EA’s statement along with a statement of its own on its site. The team says it has been in business for the past 3.5 years and nearly a million players have used its service. The latest addition was Battlefield Heroes. Following the announcement from EA, the team says it has stopped offering downloads.

EA refers in its statement to its own intellectual property and states that the Revive team is misleading visitors to its site by giving the impression that it is an official EA service. The company therefore wants the team to stop distributing its game clients and use its logos and brands.

The Revive project came about after GameSpy took its servers offline in 2014. That decision affected a large number of games and some lost their online functionality. Later that year, EA announced that only Battlefield: Bad Company 2 would retain that functionality and that it would be dropped for Battlefield 2 and Battlefield 2142.