March 29, 2024

1,488 thoughts on “Battlefield 2142 Demo – “contacting EA Master Server”

  1. Thanks for your comment. As an update, I managed to get in at a different time of the day. So I guess the answer of the two above was (1).

    I was planning on making a post about me experience at some point, but I don’t think the game is worth gracing with a review.

    It may be for a number of reasons, but the graphics were aweful, the maps were uninsprired, and the guns were a rehash of stuff I’ve seen before.

    EA have been pushing titan mode as the key selling point of the game. It is. Titan mode is the only original thing about this game, is it’s saving grace, and may eventually entice me to buy the game (in a few months after a few hundred patches have come out).

  2. Hey i bought the game and installed the newest patch but everytime i try to create a new person it says contacting EA main server and then it say something about timed out or some bull. Could you please help me figure this out. I spent 60 bucks on this game and all ive done so far is watch the movie at the begining my email is bryan.blum@my.browncollege.edu thanks dude

  3. Hey Beeg. Sorry but I’m not going to be much of a help. I didn’t do anything, all I did was try it at a different time of day (so that it wasn’t peak time in the US) and it worked ok. So all I can suggest is try it at a different time. Failing that, if you purchased the game, you should be able to get some sort of support out of EA. Let us know how you went.

  4. I can’t believe that a company like this has overloaded servers. I literally cannot connect, yet my game was fine at first – got past the Contacting Master Servers bit. Adore the game, but at the end of the day I don’t adore waiting to connect.

  5. could u people please watch the 2142 forums the ea master server goes down once a week for back up and u will no be abole to play for the time it is offline

  6. Thanks for that info. It’s good to be aware of that possibility. However it’s still not good enough? I work in the IT industry and backups are always taken (of much bigger systems than this) and the system is kept online.

  7. I’ve got the full game and get exactly the same problem and I am getting it now. Sometimes I can get a good solid connection to a 64 user server but the majority of the time either they I cannot connect or when I do connect it just LAGS like hell (even though the ping is about 50). I have no router and I am on a 2Mb connection. The servers are crap

  8. Erm This is to prevent any confusion (needless posts) that may arise on Tuesdays relating to the EA Master Server.

    Between:
    9am and 11am GMT
    4am and 6am East Coast USA
    1am and 3am West Coast USA
    5pm and 7pm Australia
    EVERY Tuesday

    ***** What does this mean to me: The BF2142 gamer? *****

    – Basically you can’t connect to BF2142 to play online games.
    – If you’re on a server at the time that maintenance is scheduled then you will recieve a “Connection to EA Master Server lost” message.
    – Any stats/awards gained in a round prior to the disconnect will be lost. You’ll have to go earn them again.

    Extracted from (http://forums.bf2s.com/viewtopic.php?id=52141)

  9. Thanks for the specifics Leo, but like I said before, I don’t think it’s acceptable for the servers to be down for two hours every week.

  10. Pete, I think your expectations are unrealistic and that only 2 hours of maintenance per week for the game is really not abnormal.

  11. Ok honestly, 2 hours on a tuesday morning when most of us are still sleeping or going to work/school is not wrong at all… for instance, what about all the World of Warcraft players who pay 15 dollars a month and cant play every tuesday for like 3 – 8 hours??? Its because blizzard is always updating and ppl dont complain, and EA also gives us patches that we DONT have to PAY for, so honestly look at what your complaining about, it’s irrelavent to say the least, and not being able to play for 2 hours early in the morning, just so they can maintain their systems, shouldn’t piss any of us off, and if it does you might want to reevaluate your LIFE, if you have one.

  12. Im here in Ireland its tuesday morning im out of school sick and bf2142 wont work. At first I was pretty freakin worried as ive had bad online experiences (couldn’t log on) with certain other EA games, im looking at you BATTLEFIELD 2 anyway its 10:45 and this info has realy cheared me up so I guess ill wait and see.

  13. I have not been able to connect the last 3 days. It seems like the BF2142 homepage is also down.

    3 days!!! What is going on?

  14. I can confirm that there is definitely a major problem. This page usually gets a small spike of hits each Tuesday but for several days has been receiving hundreds. I’m not currently playing 2142 so can’t comment further, but maybe someone else will have some useful information that they can mention.

  15. Same as guys been two days for me now, can’t even connect to the BF2142 homepage or related pages. Ive tried altering all my firewall protection (cause thats the obvious thing EA suggested)just in case but it seems to be just EA’s problem. Theyve really got to sort this out. Ive seen the new beta update but it states no fixes for this kind of thing so I havent tried it out yet.

  16. For past 2 days now not been able to connect at all, was on the phone 2 an ea games technical advisor he didn’t even mention to me there was a problem but couldnt connect, but while i was talking to him i was trying time after time and het presto connected listed servers told him i was connected and hang up phone, got on a conquest game and was playing well and doing well when all off a sudden problem with my connection and i was off again must have been about 20mins playing, now i cant get back on that was 13:35 today its now 21:05 and still cant get on very dissapointed with this several buddys i have who also have the same problems, what is the problem they have all our details a simple e-mail to us all would put us at ease if they are having serious problems with their servers, for a massive gaming company like EA games letting this happen im totally peed off get it sorted now ………….

  17. i couldnt connect to the server last 2 days but when i be connected to the server my world is changing titan is a amazing player mode but still i cant connect to the” E A S E R V E R” the people ho working there should be taking care of this problem …..we hope

  18. This is pathetic… The EA master server seems to have been down for 3 days now – why buy a game that we cannot play? A few hours weekly isn’t acceptable in my eyes (even for backup); 3 days is flat-out useless.. 🙁

  19. i´m not able to connect to ea master server for 3 days as well!Why the hell is that?we buy the game that can be only played online for this…and they haven´t give a single explanation i´m very disapointed…

  20. How do you think I feel? I bought the damn thing on Sunday.

    Been able to play it twice so far. It wouldn’t be so bad if I could at least practice in single player mode but I can’t even get past the login screen.

    I think this about somes up what I’m feeling right now

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c4MxTUqPXHk

  21. “This about *somes* up what….” I know, I know. I’m either foriegn or dyslexic. You decide.

  22. Hi i got this game on Friday played it once. Am off college for 2 weeks and cant play at all so that sucks. Why are some UK servers still up and people in them i had a look on x fire ?

  23. Congratulations to EA, as they seem to have resolved their problems, at least for the moment. Visitors to this post have dropped straight down from in the hundred to zero, so I guess that’s a good thing. Lots of happy campers…till next time.

  24. Yup. unbelievable. Downloaded the game yesterday (april 5/2007) and it worked fine, now today…unable to connect to the master server.

    Sigh, I don’t even want to play it online, just single player, yet I still have to connect to a server.

    EA Link, is the stupidest idea I have ever seen. Having to log in to play a single player version of a game is, well just ridiculous.

  25. You can still play singleplayer, even when ea server is down. Just disconnect your internet and play away. You just wont have any of you unlocks. But the npcs have them anyway, so just pick up there kits.

  26. I don’t get this it was not working on the 7th till something like 11pm now the next day at 4pm its not working ? WTF are they doing to the server.?

  27. luv the game but like everybody else. having problems contacting ea master server 4/07/07 8:30 am

  28. I dont know if I have the same problems as all you guys, but all I get is a “you are not connected to the internet” message when I try to connect to my profile (which EA have on record). I can connect to retruieve details, but apparently I have no connection when I try to connect to play…….and, well……I FRIKKIN WELL HAVE!

  29. its 11:47am saturday here in australia, i was playing for about 10 minutes and got disconnected, tryed to reconnect and couldn’t get through to master server, so i reinstalled the game and patch v1.25 and now i cant even get to master server or retrieve my details,wdf is going on?

  30. just bought the game, installed it, downloaded and installed the latest patch from ea, and… “could not connect to ea online”. same message for the last 2 days; has anyone figured this out yet, or is it just ea not having enough room on their servers?

  31. Hi Dave. I can’t make a specific comment as I’m not playing 2142 at the moment. However I notice when there’s a master server issue by the spike in site numbers and there has been a spike over the last few days. So you’re not alone. However it’s not a huge spike, so I don’t think there are any major problems, just keep trying.

  32. I won’t to know why I can not play the game offline, I have
    no desire to play online and I also can not find in any of the
    set up where it give’s you and account name when you are
    setting up your EA account. This is really sad that you pay
    what you do for a game that will not work – this was purchased
    for my grandson and he has not been able to get in the game
    at all. Please let me know how he can play off line. I think
    if EA can not support all these games then they need to get
    a server that can, this sounds like something the Better
    Business Buerau needs to know about and publish it where
    people will not spend there money on something that does
    not work. And once you have purchased it you can not get
    your money back.

  33. got a cable modem, wont connect to battlefield 2142 servers but will connect to battlefield 2 and other EA products. not sure exactly why i’ve tried looking over sites, and even tried opening ports. still cant connect using a cable modem.

  34. i just got bf2142 nd the game itself wont access the internet , it just says contacting ea master server. why is this happening nd dus it happen 2 any1 else. my internet dus connect 2 bf2 tho…so wt da fuk

  35. Craig i am having the exact same problem i got this for my birthday of my little brother and cant play it at all since i got it. No server this is ridiculous if anyone can help plz email me at brotherofaduck@gmail.com

  36. im having the same problem.
    i load the game see the video, then asked to put my account name and password in.
    contacting ea master server…thats it for like 5 minutes before it finally says couldnt connect to ea master server
    whoop de doo.

  37. Apparently this has been an ongoing problem. I got released early from jury duty (yeah..lovely) at around 11 am. I try logging in to bf2142 and get the same rhetoric. So I have read and noted the dates of each comment/problem. According to the data EA has or had been having problems since December 10th, 2006. My question is, Its now April 29th 2008, What the devil is EA doing?

  38. So it’s May 24th, not a tuesday, and I’m not getting past the Contacting EA Master Server message. I just got the the game, now I’m regretting it, despite the fact that it was only 20 bucks. I HATE regretting game purchases. BF1942 was less shoddily-handled by EA than this game.

  39. This game ****** ****** me off, I think it is a good game, with the new 1.5 update but… i can’t log in any more, it logs in but.. it does get passed the character selection part, just sayis cannt reach master server.. fire wall off etc.. ******* ****. [Sorry, edited your comment, this is a family site].

  40. I cant play Battlefield 2142 cause when log in a message appears written on it “can’t connect to the internet” another thing how could i play offline

  41. It is June 25, 2008. I have the same problem. Message says “contacting ea master server.”
    It is not a firewall problem, and it is not Tuesday when EA does it’s maintenance (today’s Wednesday). I’m regretting that I bought the game.

  42. Yeah, same problem, cannot connect, had hardcopy version for a long time, played in abundance, downloaded patch 1.5 the other day, installed and played fine. Even this morning. Just now getting “cannot connect” message… annoying.

  43. OMG, are you guys all having the same problem too?
    I bought the game 2 days ago and have spent every hour since then trying to get it to work… nothing…

    It just can’t seem to contact the EA master server.

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