EA Breaks BF2142…AGAIN!

October 31, 2006 | General, sado's playhouse |

Earlier today EA released a patch to the EA Downloader which effectively uninstalled EA Downloader and then installed the new “EA Downloader” which is called EA Link. Due to the uninstall it deleted all of the information associated with the cdkey of the game you purchased making the BF2142 that you had installed useless. By useless I mean whenever ANYONE connects to a server they are greeted with the message “Invalid CDKey”. If you are one of the lucky ones to manage to be able to connect to a server eventually 2-3 minutes down the line you will be kicked from the server by Punkbuster telling you that you have a “duplicate key”.

If you did not know of this situation by now it is most likely because you do not own BF2142, which I would have to say at this point, good for you and do not get it. There remains no solution to the problem at this moment as EA has yet to respond 10+ hours later but you can at least join in the fun on the EA message boards and tell them how much you hate them here.

In the end I would like to thank EA for proving to everyone why no one should buy your games…yet again.

- Justin Lowe

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so a solution has been found out but it is still a pain in the ass and involves redownloaded the entire 2 gig file, manually removing bf2142 (not through uninstalling), and then reinstalling 2142…fun stuff no one should ever have to do.

Comment by sado — November 1, 2006 #
This does not effect everyone at all. I have no problems on either of my PCs and neither do any of my friends. Yes it’s a problem and yes it needs to be fixed but hysterical EA bashing and woeful exaggeration is not the answer.

Also there is a fix on the 2142 support pages if you’d bothered to check but then you wouldn’t be able to look smug at your little dig at EA would you.

I am a sad little man.

Comment by 2142 Player — November 1, 2006 #
If you consider “restoring to the point before you installed ea link” a solution, fine.

Comment by sado — November 1, 2006 #
yah, would have been better with speedtree too

Comment by Davi — November 1, 2006 #
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I installed the new app and all of my points were gone.

The game crashes to the desktop every 3 to 4 maps.

The server browser does not trully refresh. So, You see a server that says 46 of 48 and you try to play and the server is full. You refresh and or update the server browser and it still says 46 of 48 and it will have a full server when you connect.

Many times when trying to connect you get an error.

There are many other problems that I have had including the installation of the game and not letting users know that you need a new directx9. I found that info on fileplanet. EA eventually updated their app to let Users know but I dug around everywhere to figure out the problem on EA’s site and it was not there.

EA seems like they just have to release a game rather then release a game when it is 99% bug free.

In the first two hours of playing I had nothing but problems. Why ship the game?

I like the game play of 2142 but I will probably never buy a PC EA game again because of the poor quality and support.

GG EA - you lost another customer who really likes your games.

Comment by devious — November 1, 2006 #
Sorry but I agree with most in this world. EA are shite… Why make the mistake in the first place. I spoke to EA UK Support and they even stated that EA UK was not even made aware of EA Link until the shit hit the fan.

Plus the fix for both problems can be found

Comment by StevenBullen — November 1, 2006 #
we made the mistake because sadly dice makes such a good game… blizzard needs to buy dice

Comment by Davi — November 2, 2006 #
battlefield starcraft

Comment by Davi — November 2, 2006 #
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