First off, I don't know if this is the appropriate place to post this or not. So if it isn't, please move it (and notify me please).

Now, I have been an active member in the I365/BF2 community for nearly two years now and I have played almost exclusively on the I365 24/7 Sharqi server the whole time. Through this, I have been involved (not a member of) with Kevin (klaude), BFROE, and ROC and have had the pleasure of getting to know a lot of new people while having fun and I feel that this is the general consensus of the BF2 community. ROC has been doing a good job of keeping the servers running and clean for the entire time they have had administrative privileges for the servers.

However, it is now known that no more support will be provided for Cortex and I do not know if you understand how much this affects people. Granted, it is not the end of the world because it's a video game, but I365 had, hands down, the best public servers for BF2 and there is hardly any supporting evidence to refute that statement. Rules of Combat has told the community that the 24/7 Wake and 24/7 Mashtuur servers crashed and will now cease to exist. The 24/7 Sharqi server (the most popular one) is now empty (0/64 players) every time I check and I attribute this to the fact that no more support is being offered for Cortex.

Contrary to popular belief, BF2 is not dead (although not as thriving as it once was) and there needs to be some good and fun servers left to play on. I understand that as The Planet grows, changes need to be made and sacrifices are sometimes included, but I have had a lot of fun over the years I've played BF2 and it has been almost entirely on I365 servers. I believe that it is safe to say this is the general thought of the public too. Therefore, I urge you, as a dedicated gamer, to not drop support for Cortex. Please keep it up and running.

Thank you for your time,

Jabomb9
Jay

My guess is that the cortex business simply didn't generate enough extra revenue filling their racks to justify the staff costs necessary to maintain it.

They probably figure they can fill the same racks with all the servers they want to sell now that they've merged the two biggest server providers into one, so then instead of a mechanism to boost server sales before, now the revenue was only the $10/month/server extra fee which probably just wasn't enough to hire sufficient staff to continually maintain everything.

You do realize those free servers were only to fill contractual obligations for them to be able to have ranked servers available for I365 server customers?
If they arent continuing to support Cortex for customers paying hundreds of dollars a month, why would they continue to run servers that cost them money?

Summary, I'm a freeloader and I want to continue to freeload. That is all.

Learn a new word today did we?

I think you need to get your facts straight.

What you really want in those servers to stay online, not Cortex to come back because I can promise you it won't based on TP recent behaviour. Cortex really left months ago, it just not that news is actually reaching the front lines.

If TP is going to drop their Ranked Server Provider status than they are no longer obliged to host servers for EA anymore as their contract dictated.

I can recommend other high quality servers for you to play on if you wish.

If you're just looking for a place to play, many clan servers are better environments to play in than the freebie servers mandated under the Ranked Hosting Agreement. Heck, join a clan - there are still a few good ones. Lots of lousy clans, but still a few good ones.

As for Cortex, that ship has sailed, and I would expect all i365 servers to go offline at any time.

If you are refering to customers servers then you better read up: http://forums.theplanet.com/index.php?showtopic=89217

If you are refering to TP's publicly hosted servers then I wouldn't hold your breath.

If ThePlanet wants to continue to sell Ranked BF2 Slots then they are under contractual obligation to have so many public ranked servers running.

There are very few Clan servers that are run better than the Insomnia365 Public servers. The Insomnia365 Public BF2 servers are some of the most cheat free servers on the net. ROC while adming these servers have taken down over 700 individual cheaters. I do not call them hackers, buying someone elses code does not a hacker make. Working with PSB and PBBans there are over 800 GUID's on their combined ban list caught on the Insomnia365 servers.

Anyone that thinks that the Insomnia365 servers are run like your average public server (Wild West) has not been on them after ROC took them over. Kevin before he left was constantly giving high praise to the job ROC has done. Zack has been doing the same thing.

Cortex is officially EOD,d the servers can be maintained through the FTP access. Cortex while useful is not the only tool to run a server.

Sorry for hijacking this thread, but remember when your Teamspeak got hacked?

This should be moved to the freebie server crap section as those of us who are paying customers here really dont give a crap about ROC patting themselves on the back or whether or not the free servers stay or go.

If you don't give a shit, then why are you posting? Touche.

Chill out guys.

I dont, just making the point to get it into the freeloaders forums.

Actually they don't sell it anymore. Also providers only had to host the free BF2 servers for one year.



Well roc told everyone to "flood" these forums to save the servers so guess we can expect more of this.

http://rulesofcombat.com/forums/showthread.php?t=17







Seems roc is afraid of losing their free bf2 servers, teamspeak and the cortex box they have at 74.52.108.50.

http://www.game-monitor.com/search.php?sea...amp;type=server

lol

Ahh, someone wants to keep their little kingdom going. Guess what, you were all freeloaders and the party is over.

I am speaking entirely as a forum user, and not as mod, or an employee of The Planet...

Correct me if i'm wrong, but this entire thread is based solely on the fact that a few people are afraid the free gaming servers might go away? You think the solution is to "flood" the forums with threads regarding the free servers? Personally... I think that is a HORRIBLE idea, if anything it would make the situation worse, you are drawing attention to something that may otherwise be left alone.

Realistically, I doubt the servers are going anywhere if they are necessary to continue to house ranked servers. .

Quote for Truth.

Theres also an abundance of other servers out there...its not the end of the world.

Apparently you have never played BF2 because your ignorance is only exceeded by your good looks.

I do have good looks

Seriously, is "spaming the boards" the best way to go about this? lol

Go play one of the thousands of other servers out there.

I second Gorrdy's statement about moving this from "game servers" to the public servers section, as this actually has nothing to do with running a game server, or game server questions.

The term Flood may have been taken out of context here


We asked this of them also (Jay)

All that was meant by this (Flood) and I'm sure of it was to just , come over hear and let TP know how disappointed they are about losing a Great "Gaming home"
I say Home because for most of these guys/gals, the I365 Servers were where basically the only server's they played
Heck could you blame them? Great Servers "I365":wub: , Great Owners "TP" , Great Hard working Admins "ROC" = Great Fun for all "Players & Admin"

For everyone Who claims ROC was getting a Free ride Apparently knows nothing about Admining Streaming Servers snapping 1000 - 1500 Screen shots per day per server and reviewing all them to turn into PB, Updating the ban list ect ect (sure they were free of charge) but not free of the headaches involved .....Trust me this wasn't a free ride for anybody involved,
but with that said ROC Would like to Thank I365/TP The Cortex Crew (Kevin & Zack) you guys are great, and the Players for the Great opportunity.................Peace


I would like to finish with this tear jerker from someone on the Web



"Grabs a Kleenex Puff Plus"

Thanks
Your Support is Appreciated
ROC|TaurusBully

Roc volunteered to do it, they were not forced to. So saying you missed out on ranking up was your choice. I'm sure ThePlanet is thankful for your work but I assume giving you free servers to play god on isn't cost effective anymore. Nothing lasts forever, and that is the case here.

This is turning into yet another drama fest started by roc. Hope TP does turn the servers off so we won't have to deal with drama like this anymore.

Instead of wasting space here with your "flood" no matter how you define it, why dont you just go start one of those stupid online petitions. That will get TP's attention and keep your free ride running.

That's right, you paid, so your life and opinions matter way more than anyone who is a cheap f****** freeloader. People who drive cars can drive wherever and however the hell they want, because pedestrians crossing the street or driveway are mere ants in life that don't deserve a right-of-way. Homeless people are just these strang beings that look like humans, but are obviously of no worth in this world and smell like shit. Why don't you get off your high horse?

Sure they dropped Cortex, and maybe we might be losing our free (gasp!) servers, but like mentioned already, it was a home to hundreds of players where they could play without worrying about a hacker or cheater. Maybe you didn't like the word of the suggestion posted above, but you should understand (oh wait, you paid, so you don't) that this is an important matter to us that we feel needs attention brought to.

To you morons who are suggesting playing on one of the "thousands" (ha!) of servers out there, go waste $20 on BF2 and hop online. Even if it ever hits 1,000 servers before it's EOL, more than half of them are filled with glitchers, cheaters, smacktards, and lazy admins who half-ass everything. La Cantina was pulled down for who knows what, barely any good servers survive including RubberDucky. But Insomnia stands out the most. (No, I'm not on staff there) Please go rent an apartment in the ghetto before blindly making comments...

Guys I'm an admin on another server that runs 24/7 Karkand.. and I would always come over to the sharqi server to get a good break.. and the reason I would only go to that server is cause I knew there would be an admin on, and there wouldn't be any hackers floating around.. The ROC guys did a great job of controlling that server.. Insomnia was a great server.. I hope they get it back up and running soon.. (if they can) // and there are not thousands of servers out there now. if they are a majority of them are empty....

Stop being little whiners. The one time I went into your Teamspeak, all you did the whole time was whine and complain about all the hackers. Try playing the game. Enjoy it. It's a game. You ROC guys seem to spend more time trying to 'admin' the server than actually playing the game. If you want a server to 'admin', go buy one. We pay for them. Stop mooching.
Also, it was REALLY funny when your Teamspeak got hacked..I bet you guys were raged beyond belief.

http://rulesofcombat.com/forums/showthread.php?t=19



Seems they allready have more servers to admin except BF2.

And they joined something called IGA (Ingamenetwork Arena). Seems to me they are mooching off everyone they come in contact with.

http://rulesofcombat.com/forums/showthread.php?t=11

http://www.cod4arena.com/

Looks like a rip off of the total sites. Plus I don't see anything for Battlefield.

Goodness gracious, this means we are going have more freeloaders scampering around the board spamming it up with cries of mercy.

+1 for moving it to the 'Our Public Servers' section.

It really is down to TP, their contracts, and their management.

Since we have heard nothing official about this I would let it rest.

For the love of God someone lock this thread.

Ahhh no......you didnt hack us, you hacked I365/TP...also most of us are in clans and have servers along with TS...so yes if we were hacked it took maybe all of 30 seconds tops to get over your leet mind boggling skillz
now run along now mr im missing half a Chromosome, and wipe up the drool

When did Kenny ever say that he hacked your TS? Kenny just said it was funny that it was hacked.

And I agree with Doc. This discussion is most likely going to go nowhere and will end in a flame fest.

Creed is correct, I never said I hacked their Teamspeak.
Although, I did find a major flaw in Cortex at one point and root a box that ThePlanet owns as a proof of concept. It was their public I365 demo server. I went to Kevin right after I found the exploit and showed him what I did and we worked on fixing it.

http://roccrysis.com

Freeload and make money at the same time. Shame.

I agree lock this before they send more people over to "flood" the forums. Seems everywhere roc posts drama and flamewars are sure to follow. And the sad part is it's because they only read what they want to read then comment.

You asked for drama ^ sure doesn't look like a post from ROC to me

It has been made apparent that you guys are completely incompetent at comprehension and therefore have failed miserably to grasp my point. If you're hung up on the fact that this is in the wrong section or that I use some wrong terminology because I don't scour this forum with a fine-tooth comb...then just don't click on this thread anymore. Honestly, is that too much to ask? You make a point that there is so much 'drama', when in reality is is caused entirely by you guys and your snide-ass remarks. I'm not going to lie; I have had my fair-share of troubles with ROC over the years, but truth be told, they do a good job with the servers. I don't know all of the 'contractual' difficulties surrounding this, but if it is simply because The Planet feels that it is not necessary anymore, I just wanted to point out how many feel otherwise.

And for those of you who are thoroughly convinced that this is 'freeloading' - life isn't fair.

Regardless, management decides what is going to happen, whether it makes people angry or happy(preferrably happy... but it happens). It's about what they feel is best for the company as a whole... It's their job...

No matter how I try to look at it, that ROC thread that stated they should flood TP forums, it still looks the same. It looks like a childish attempt at getting attention from management. You need to take a more grown up approach to this, such as(someone suggested it earlier) using a digital petition, and getting everyone to sign it with their full names, and a phone number.

Sure we understand it, we just dont give a crap. So why not just scurry back over to ROC land or wherever you fellas live at and make up some pretty petitions for everyone there to sign and leave the big boys to their business over here.

Maybe this child acting crap is one of the reasons management made the decision they made by running a professional company.
(Now, note I said "one of the reasons." I did not say was "THE" reason. So, no need for those who act like adults/professionals should get upset.)
Was probably written on a white board, underlined and then boxed in.
Although, this does provide a great laugh!

If you read the Public Servers section http://forums.theplanet.com/index.php?showforum=143 (Don't forget to show all at the bottom) you can see the true "professionalism" of roc / bfroe / bfroc.

I'm amazed it lasted as long as it did with the posts I read there.

I am amazed this post is lasting this long, but I'm having fun.

But you don't care, right? If you shut your mouth for ten seconds (maybe more in your case) you'd realize that you're making yourself look even more stupid than you really are. Really, I'm giving you the benefit of the doubt here, but still...

I'm stupid? Whos the moron who posted on a Datacenters forums crying boo hoo hoo, please dont shut down a GAME. The planet is a datacenter and server provider, not a GSP, so get a life, go outside and realize theirs more in the world than your little bang bang battlefield.

Arent you supposed to be off making your pretty little petition to give to someone?

Wow...where to begin!

I stated up front that I didn't know if this was the right place or not and gave permission to move it if it was in the wrong place. Next, I'm not begging for TP to not shut down a game that they don't even have ANY control of whatsoever. I was simply saying that it is unfortunate for them to drop a few servers RUNNING it. And I have a very nice life thank you for your concern. Making ignorant and out-of-your-ass comments about people and their personal lives supports my claim even further.

So, yes, pal, you are stupid.

PS. I never mentioned a petition. Please refer to my previous post saying how you are unable to comprehend any written text.

Flood = Voice your opinions on why TP should keep the public servers up and running. A lot of these public servers provided by TP ( BF2 ) have been ranked in the top 100 worldwide for years. A few even hit the top 20 list. Why kill a good thing is all we're referring to. Nothing more.

Some people actually do like and want a cheat / hack free & clean environment to play in ! Is that such a bad thing ?

Hey jabomb9. I can guarantee you that you coming over to these forums and calling us stupid isn't going to help your cause. You're just making an ass of yourself. Acting like a 12 year old isn't going to help you keep your(theplanet's) servers. You should probably leave now before it gets any worse.

Keyword "have", they are dropping daily and in the past they had players 24/7, now you're lucky to get them populated at night.

http://www.game-monitor.com/search.php?sea...er&game=bf2

Also correct me if i'm wrong but roc only took over in march/april 2007, and before that it was bfroe (dec 2006 - march 2007). From what I see roc has very few bfroe members left.

As quoted before ThePlanet isn't a GSP they are a major data center. Just shut these servers down so we can go back to the way things were. Yes it's sad to see cortex die off but that's business.

I'm not the one making blatant remarks about people's personal lives like a 12 year old though.

I didn't make any remarks about your personal life. I said you're ACTING like a 12 year old.

It's fine to voice how you feel. That is the exact reason this thread has been left open. But keep it civil... there is no need to call each other names.