Battlefield 3 is Shutting Down…

[@sternwardboss]

Who still plays this gem in 2024?

[@angelvillalta7299]

Not me

[@iwayanbagus2271]

lol I just finished a round in noshahr canals! just now

[@sternwardboss]

@@iwayanbagus2271 I Incredible map

[@BattleLev]

I still play on ps3

[@sternwardboss]

@@BattleLev Enjoy it while you can 💪🏼

[@tokyodrift1175]

BF3 IS OVER?! I cant believe it. The servers are shutdown. I had no idea servers for BF3 were getting shutdown. Last time I played was a week ago on PS3. All those years of adrenaline fun, medic support, the LMG on Metro in tight corners, C4 exploding in Metro, the LAV on Rush mode, the close quarters maps, attack helicopter spamming rockets, so many memories, all gone. This is really saddening tbh. BF3 multiplayer was fantastic and ahead of its time. So much better than all the other BF’s. I still can’t believe it. Farewell BF3.. 😰😰😰

[@sternwardboss]

Ya… end of an era:( You can still play on PC for now

[@alexj517]

Best BF to date,I doubt we will ever see another BF game as great as this. Great video 👍

[@sternwardboss]

Thanks man! And ya the old Dice is gone unfortunately. I will say the new Dice is starting to learn how to make a good BF game and I truly believe the next one will be good but I don’t think we’ll ever be back to how is was. Really exited for Delta Force though. We’ll see…

[@NYislanders53]

This may get only seen by like 23 people in a year. But if you’re reading this and you played bf3 in its prime for that day 1 to 3 years post release… best experience I’ve had in fps. Was a pleasure to share the battlefield with you… and or fight against you. And if you were a troll too believe it or not lmfao. Can’t tell you if you were one of those jet stealers I made it my mission to only defend against you. Heli campers too that float in the air way out near the edge of map and wreck havoc. Was a pleasure jet ramming you. To the legit players but yet fellow dedicated bunny hopping try hards (me too) … absolutely beauts you guys were. Loved the back and forth gun battles. The “I know you’ll pop smoke and run by my 11 other bad teammates. So I’ll stay back with my mg with bipod , claymores maxed on top of my c4 charges that made it an instant kill lol. When you countered that I would dm my squad to fall back to b and only defend b. I can ramble on… but I had a blast countering everything and everything. covering flanks on offense. Covering flanks on defense. Rushing past b with smoke to enemy spawn. Set beacon. And advance with my squad. Lmfao. Seriously. Such fun times when playing legit and not using drones to fly into people cheap kills. Thank you. And share your experiences down below please I want to have these flash backs with you! Best fps experience. Best battlefield alongside bad company 2

[@sternwardboss]

@@NYislanders53 🫡

[@TheLazyRocket]

🎖I remember Back to Karkand and every one using the recon drone to get to the roofs of skyscrapers and having insane sniper battles. I was a jet hog, couldn't stop me when I was flying🔥🚀

[@v8sholife401]

that hit man i will be missing metro from the old days truly the best gaming era

[@anrom23]

I gave up on cod when I got this game back in 2012 and I haven't been able to play it since around 2016 I was a level 50 colonel I miss this game was the best fps I ever played

[@therising87]

This is a fantastic watch and while funny keeps to the great clips too, thanks for the nostalgia; I definitely hit my finest online moments in this game. Subscribed.

[@sternwardboss]

@@therising87 Thank you 🙏🏼 I hope one day we can get a game that gives me the feeling this game did. Such an amazing game. We’ll see with the next Battlefield game…

[@Tywy1234]

I still love and miss this game I hope new bf is just as good

[@sternwardboss]

@@Tywy1234 The next game NEEDS to be good. They can’t fumble this time 🤞😕

[@ANGEL_117TM]

I love 3 and Hardline😢

[@sternwardboss]

@@ANGEL_117TM Hardline you can still play but it has to be on Xbox One or above

[@ANGEL_117TM]

@@sternwardboss Yes, I play on Xbox Series

[@Usef320]

dude this is so tragic i probably havent played in 4 years now but i was a colonel 100 with probably 2000+ hours on ps3, and to this day i still have the ps3 just sitting there in case i wanted to relive that nostalgia and load bf3 up 😢 literally had multiple dreams over the years of playing tdm in nosahr canals and would wake up thinking today should be the day i should play it, but never did 😢 got the itch again last week and found out they already shut it down 😔

[@sternwardboss]

Gone but not forgotten…

[@SolidSnake4Ever2003]

Man, the stories I could tell. I lived and breathed this game in its heyday on the 360. So many great memories joining losing teams and helping them come back and win in heart pumping chaotic adrenaline filled action. I remember getting booted by some butthurt admins for killing them/their whole squad just because I was lvl 100, there weren't many back then. AEK 971 ftw too :P ...I was sad I didn't get to screenshot and save my stats from the bf3stats site, they abruptly went out of business back in 2018...even years later I was top % medic, MVP, winning percentage, and among the top in some other categories and weapons. Nothing else in gaming has ever measured up to me like late 2011 did with BF3 coming out, then Skyrim shortly after...was truly a magical time. I remember using a sucky old school single core laptop for a bridged wifi connection since I had the old fat 360 and couldn't justify buying the expensive MS brand wifi adapter lol. Really sad to see the servers going down...surely they don't cost THAT much to run, especially considering many people were still renting servers all these years later. I agree with you at the end, I'm meh on the pc version, in my mid 30s now, my hands/joints/nerves aren't what they used to be, and I really start to cramp up and hurt using keyboard/mouse. Always found controller 1 million times more comfy. 2042 on pc actually has good controller support though, according to reddit it actually has more aim assist using controller on pc than on the actual consoles themselves, I may do some 2042 here and there on controller for my battlefield fix. IDK why, but none of the other battlefields on pc had aim assist for controller, it felt SO weird and wonky trying to play them with an xbox controller lol.

[@sternwardboss]

I read all of this. Golden age of gaming will never return :(

[@omarhernandez9657]

Battlefield 3 was amazing so many great memories. Not enough people are playing the online. Battlefield 3 I'll miss it and they'll never be another game like it.

[@sternwardboss]

@@omarhernandez9657 There really won’t be…

[@NinjaSniper6045]

I was soooo upset when I found out because I LITERALLY had just redownloaded the game a couple weeks ago and a few days into my rush of nostalgia playing conquest I learned it was gonna be shut down, almost like I was meant to download it again without even knowing

[@sternwardboss]

Your inner spirit knew to download it one last time lol

[@RashidiSimba-e8u]

"I think I'm dead here-" love the cut

[@DatsiKxModz]

This is truly sad bro. I would invest thousands just to keep bf3 up and going. Will it still playable on PlayStation or Steam servers?

[@sternwardboss]

Only on PC for now…

[@TheRealCaptainFreedom]

@@sternwardbossLike Steam or through the Xbox app for Windows PC?

[@sternwardboss]

@@TheRealCaptainFreedom Steam and EA app

[@quann06]

The only Battlefield game I enjoyed.

[@sternwardboss]

Not the only one I enjoyed but definitely my favorite

[@BigDawg-y7v]

Im literally pucnhing my wall right now didnt even know just popped my 360 disk in excited and now im mad and sad man😢😢😢 the campaign alone is just insane i justr cant belive i didnt play the campaign when i was a kid take note i was 11 13 back then goshhh😢😢😢😢

[@sternwardboss]

End of an era

[@armandowar88]

God I miss this game!!

[@sternwardboss]

Best Battlefield ever

[@cs512tr]

this is typical disgusting behavior with all these live games.

[@buttergolem8584]

To be honest, BF3 was not the best on Xbox 360 and BF4 and Hardline were borderline ugly.

[@sternwardboss]

@@buttergolem8584 On Xbox 360 it’s EXTREMELY rough but at that time it was incredible

[@MrStoner312]

❤🎉 yooo good ish brotha the best one was hands down bad company 2 and they need to b remake it And stop trying new ideas cus the new one I pays 100$ for digitally and umm so upset we can’t even call airstrikes on a sniper or squad inside a house or building and collapsing the building.. the newest battlefield has not much destruction compared to bf bad company 2 and they either bring it to life with a frame boost some polishing and making these shooters we love are all being taken from us when we bought these for socializing and having so much fun but these companies don’t care lmao

[@BigDawg-y7v]

Sucks so much to i legit remember playing like couple montha ago an had decent amount of fun i was prob playing dead hours but i some good sessions i legit just thought of it an was excited sucks man😢

[@sternwardboss]

Ya RIP…

[@BigDawg-y7v]

@sternwardboss old cods still poppin tho I was playing 1 2 and ghost online yesterday let's keep those alive man 💯❣️

[@TrapToise]

Is there any news of the servers on pc? Are those getting shutdown too or is this just for consoles?

[@sternwardboss]

@@TrapToise So far no word on PC servers. It’s gunna be at least 5+ years till they shut them down In my opinion

[@TrapToise]

@@sternwardbosswell that’s good at least, I will dearly miss them on console especially BF3 cause that’s where it all began for me, but at the very least there is still time on pc. I never got nearly as far in the ranking system on 3 as I did on 4 so hopefully I can get pc and complete the system fully this time around. Thank you so much for the info cause I couldn’t find anything about it online.

[@BorelessAirsoft]

Time to download.. on PC!!😂😂

[@sternwardboss]

@@BorelessAirsoft It’s way better lol

[@BorelessAirsoft]

@@sternwardboss I still remember the good times back on PS3 🥲

[@markokinnunen7820]

I still play sometimes Bf3

[@KhunShawn]

My heart

[@sternwardboss]

💔

[@Dmyster_92]

Should never have stopped playing this game 😂, gonna have to get it on pc or something

[@sternwardboss]

It’s incredible on PC. It’s the full experience

[@rockfeller22056]

Any news for the pc servers ?

[@sternwardboss]

@@rockfeller22056 nothing yet. I’m sure they won’t touch en for awhile

[@elfletcha]

What is your reliable source that said it wouldn't be playable online come November? 🤔

[@sternwardboss]

@@elfletcha Directly from Electronic Arts

[@elfletcha]

@@sternwardboss Awesome, thank you for the reply! I will be renewing my XBOX LIVE now before it gets the axe! 🎮🪖

[@gio2vanni86]

Maybe they should hand over the game to the devs out in the world. They'll keep it alive forever. EA is as good as dead when it comes to making games that are good. They just announced bf6. I'd be amped but 2042 was a big let down so im sure this will be up their in disappointment. Their best shot is to sell the IP to a indie dev team its the only way this game ever gets good again. Big triple A studios don't know how to make great games anymore, it's all money now and not about fun.

[@BattleLev]

I do 💪

[@sternwardboss]

@@BattleLev 🫡

[@BattleLev]

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[@JD-gt7il]

BEST GAME EVER!!!!!!!!

[@psychospartan3007]

I hope they never shutdown bf4 their still a ton of servers

[@sternwardboss]

@@psychospartan3007 I know… eventually they will though unfortunately. I would imagine it’s not going to be for at least 8 more years

[@psychospartan3007]

@@sternwardboss honestly bf4 is better than any fps right now 2042 is good but nothings better than siege of Shanghai.

[@sternwardboss]

@@psychospartan3007 Siege is a great map.

[@TheLazyRocket]

So its dead on XB1 as well?😢

[@sternwardboss]

Yep:( starting In November

[@TheLazyRocket]

@@sternwardboss ok thx gonna try and hop on before then🔥🚀

[@gabrielshenoy8099]

Has anyone tried BF3 on x360 very ecently? I've bought Xbox game pass to play for a month or so (currently September) and I can't seem to connect to the BF3 Xbox 360 servers, just get 'the connection with EA online has been lost' in the menu. Thanks

[@michaelflores6303]

BF3 on PS3

[@DarkSquall3000]

What about PC?

[@sternwardboss]

Still fine on PC

[@LordZark69]

Good Xbox 360 is a fossil

[@sternwardboss]

@@LordZark69 You could still play it on current gen. Keeping servers up hurts no one

[@codyjackson1875]

Clickbait. Only on old gen.

[@sternwardboss]

@@codyjackson1875 Did you not watch the video? 😂

[@semperer]

so just for consoles... aka nobody cares and its just clickbait

[@sternwardboss]

You do realize there’s more people playing this game on console right? Also my thumbnail CLEARY shows an X through consoles so it’s not clickbait. Do better

[@thekieranholland]

Of course the older gen consoles are nowhere near as popular as they once were, you'll find that there is still a big fan base playing on them still. I've gone back to the 360 myself last year as I got fed up with all the buggy unfinished games coming out...

[@sternwardboss]

@@thekieranholland BF3 actually runs better on a Xbox 360 compared to the new Xbox. It’s weird lol