The comment came after the Origin Twitter account gave Battlefield gamers hope, stating: "We're working on transitioning those games after the shut down so you'll still be able to play them." We will make an announcement when there is news to share." "We're working on finding a transition," a spokesperson told IGN, "but still have technical hurdles to overcome.
UPDATE #2 11/04 8.30AM: EA won't let GameSpy take Battlefield 2, Bad Company 2 and Battlefield 2142 down with it. "We'd like to thank everyone who has taken up arms in Crysis and Crysis 2's multiplayer modes in the last few years, and apologise to the small but dedicated community of PC players who are still actively competing against one another." "The single-player campaigns in both games are unaffected by this transition, and the multiplayer mode in the Xbox 360 and PlayStation3 versions of Crysis 2 remain playable," Crytek wrote on its official forum (thanks, CVG). The two games will lose their online multiplayer portions when GameSpy switches off its servers on 30th May, the developer has now confirmed.
UPDATE #3 14/04 11.58AM: Crytek has confirmed that Crysis 1 and 2 will both be casualties of the GameSpy server shutdown.
UPDATE #4 : 2K will be migrating the PC versions of Borderlands, Civilization 3 and Civilization 4 - along with their expansions - to Steamworks following GameSpy's multiplayer server shutdown.