Friday, June 10, 2011

"Failed to connect to EA Online" BFBC2 Solution Xbox360

I've been playing Battlefield Bad Company 2 (BFBC2) a lot lately (possibly .5-1 hr a night right before bed while my wife is getting her early hours in). Wednesday and Yesterday, I was unable to play due to an 'error' I was receiving while trying to play some multiplayer. Everything would be okay until I hit Quick Play. It would bring up a screen that says "Connecting" then goto a screen that said "Failed to connect to EA Online".

I searched all over the forums for both EA Online and Xbox and really came up with nothing. There were a few posts about opening ports through your router and the such, but to make sure that wasn't the issue (as I was playing forever without issues earlier) I directly hooked up my xbox to my modem and still nothing (yes... i configured my xbox properly after connecting it to the modem).

At this point (being the engineer that I am), I knew it had to be either a corrupt download or user profile. I went to my xbox file management and deleted my 'user profile' for BFBC2. Now... this will get rid of your saved games... but as I only play multi-player, I didn't care.

After deleting the user profile, BFBC2 joined in a heartbeat!

If anyone needs more specific details (like exactly click here, and the such), let me know and I'll add them, but for most this should be enough!.

Hope this helps someone else besides me :)