Comments on: EA Closing Mercs 2, LOTR Conquest Servers

By: Gith

Gith — Wed, 03 Nov 2010 13:19:33 +0000

The whole “we dont support LAN play due to piracy concerns is a non-starter argument.

They don’t support LAN anymore as a mechanism to control what you can and cant play and to entice you to purchase new content, it’s that simple. Want to play that old game with your friends? Well you can’t, you need to spend more money on a new game =P

As a recent buyer of a PS3, to find out I can’t use LOTRC in multiplayer, all I can say is: FUCK OFF YOU EA CUNTRAGS x x x

As a sidenote, hilariously enough, i’m pretty sure you can still get add-on multiplayer only content for LOTRC from the playstation store? /facepalm

By: Stealthcat

Stealthcat — Tue, 02 Nov 2010 17:36:14 +0000

Man, was going for some nostalgia today playing Mercs 2, couldn’t connect, checked the news and bam, servers shut down on March 16. Seriously? What is this insane bullshit? It’s Syphon Filter: Omega Strain all over again, except more ludicrous as the game is young. I love Mercs 2 (I don’t get why there’s so much hate on it, I find it extremely entertaining), and now the online is doomed to hell. God damn EA and their money-seeking bullshit. Is there any way to play this online again? Hacked servers or whatever?

By: blahbwee

blahbwee — Mon, 04 Oct 2010 04:12:13 +0000

I just bought LOTRC yesterday and im enjoying instant action very much. But fuck! I wanna play online! If a game is made for multiplayer gaming, then why shut down the server? it doesnt make any sense whatsoever. Im thinking about starting my own server for LOTR and Mercs 2 as well. WHO’S WITH ME?!?!?!?!

By: Apnea

Apnea — Sat, 25 Sep 2010 13:26:38 +0000

Ahhhrrrg. Just bought Mercs2 for teh online. Should have read about it before.

I’ll have to find that server emulator thing, it seems. To anybody else in the same predicament : google TeknoGods.

By: l DeMoN l

l DeMoN l — Mon, 06 Sep 2010 08:05:32 +0000

I just want to share my experience and add some more salt to the wound. I just purchased LOTRC and the idea of going against other players armies with my army sounded magical. Unfortunately didn’t research enough and purchased the game from Xbox Live, only to find out the online interaction is gone. I feel so disappointed. I purchased this game in less of an hour of playing it I’m already depressed about it… I didn’t know servers could get shut down so quickly. I just had to learn the hard way of course…

By: MrLogic

MrLogic — Sat, 14 Aug 2010 11:25:14 +0000

I would just like to explain something, so that everyone may come to realize the ‘logic’.

So, I DO NOT believe in intellectual copyright laws for one simple reason:

imagine that you are playing a game of chess, then you suddenly decide to make up your very own opening, then you decide that you like this opening so much you go along a put a copyright law on it, now in the world of chess, (2nd most popular game on the planet, after football) that would bring outcry’s, and even if someelse used that very same opening, you lot say that they should be fined???

That is really pathetic in my opinion.

Thus in one paragraph i have made copyright look greedy/ridiculous :/

By: zane

zane — Mon, 31 May 2010 02:02:10 +0000

i need help! whenever i try to play mercs 2 it says at the top of the screen connecting to ea servers when i just want to play it solo. but it just keeps freezing. can someone please help?

By: TBJ559

TBJ559 — Fri, 23 Apr 2010 09:48:04 +0000

ea r sum bitch made motherfuckers doing dat bullshit. shit fucking ps2 games still fucking go online and da bitch ass ea cant even keep fucking games online dat trophies r 4 online and they r trying 2 get u 2 spend ur money cuz those [ussy ass motherfuckers are going 2 shut down every fucking game after a year itz been out and i m pretty dam sure by da fucking time they shut da game down da game will most likey still cost a pretty fucking penny even if its new and u cant even play da peice of shit online

By: ashish

ashish — Fri, 23 Apr 2010 04:08:29 +0000

hi…………………..dear sir dis is the tragedy of EA- GAMES so dat i can fulfill this needs………….

By: Winston

Winston — Sun, 18 Apr 2010 12:33:36 +0000

Lotor Conquest is like battlefront no multi player no fun and the same goes for Mercs 2 that I would play with a different friend on xfire Id play it with every now and then but aside from that I never played offline with either because it just got boring. So now I might as well uninstall both games and free up some room for non EA games because Im tired of EAs bullcrap.

By: The Wacko Man

The Wacko Man — Tue, 30 Mar 2010 14:07:48 +0000

Totally agree with you, notHappy.
Although the game wasn’t really perfect, the online mode of LOTR Conquest was great.
Without this online mode, this game is quite a lot worse.

So you’ll probably understand that I feel quite disappointed. And that is putting it mildly.

Man, I feel just fed up! C’mon EA, stop having your own servers!

By: notHappy

notHappy — Sun, 28 Mar 2010 16:25:28 +0000

When I got Lord of the Rings Conquest , I failed to notice that EA was the publisher. After being burned once on a multiplayer sports game, I would not have purchased it had I seen that.

Having said that, Pandemic is a great developer and that game had a great online mode.