It sucks. Can't they just enjoy that people are still enjoying the game that they no longer have the time to support? I guess they worry if people play this good battlefield, they won't play they crappy modern ones
They could have easy kept the game running as proven by the dedicated team over at revive . What they want is everyone to move over to the newer rubbish battlefield games so they can milk us with add ons and dlc etc . The servers are still running now but the downloads for revive and the games have been removed from the site , A few servers have issued statments on how to continue playing if revive goes down.