[bf1942] BF2 + Logging in?

[kama]

On Fri, 10 Dec 2004, David Harrison wrote:

> >From a recent IGN story on Battlefield 2:
>
> " In order to play Battlefield 2 (or any multiplayer EA game nowadays)
> players will have to log in through EA's multiplayer service. The good
> thing about this is that it will track everything you could possibly
> want to know about multiplayer. "
>
> I appreciate it might be a bit early to talk about this, but if anyone
> from Dice can expound on how (if at all) this might affect dedicated
> servers, that'd be great.
>
> Will people still be able to join with third party clients like ASE,
> etc?

This smells like something towards steam to me...

/Bjorn