Battlefield 2 Servers Released

This Battlefield 2 Community Update announces the availability of the retail Win32 and Linux unranked servers for Battlefield 2 in preparation for the imminent availability of the shooter sequel. The downloads are mirrored on 3D Gamers, Battlefield2-News.de (Germany), FileFront, Gameguru Mania, Gamer's Hell, and Worthplaying. The update also includes word on vulgar usernames, plans to release the editor soon, details on the Battlefield 2 launch party, and the following warning for server operators:
In anticipation of next week's launch of Battlefield 2 at retail, we are releasing the Unranked server files for Win32 and Linux. Be advised that, as with the demo, servers that are caught allowing users to play with the unlock weapons using the python workaround will incur a one week ban from the server list. While we encourage mod teams to discover cool things to do with the python scripts, we reserve the right to de-list servers that find ways to undermine the core features of the game using these tools. We will be sure to update the community when we do begin punishing a tweak that falls into this category.

If you are going to tweak the Python files and you are unsure whether you might be doing something that DICE and EA would consider undermining a core game feature, please feel free to send a note to BFHQ@ea.com and ask for our feedback. We want to re-affirm that for the most part anything goes on Unranked servers.
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"That's just not how it works. You don't own the software, you own a license to use it."

Dude, you actually bought into that? Man-oh-man. A shrinkwrapped EULA which you can't see/read/agree/disagree with until you're actually installing the software has been ruled unenforcable by the courts in the US. Bnetd vs. Blizzard will probably bear that out...again.

Anyway: as soon as enough people beleive what you said to be true, it will be, facts be damned. Even though law states that any rights the law grants you cannot be signed away in a EULA (like the old chestnut of putting 'by reading this, you owe us $20.000' in a EULA).

And appart from that, common law (and common sense) tell me that I bought a disc with information on it. How I then use that information does not concern anyone, unless I start causing damage.

EA are just fucking with the one and only group which makes an multiplayer online game feasable. No public servers means that the only servers running will have to be bought by EA/DICE...and they just can't afford that.

So I predict that a few months down the line, BF2 will be marginalised with just as many players as Quake 1 has right now. Well, maybe not that bad, but you get what I mean.

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