As EA begin to wind down support for the latest Battlefront game, a surprise update has brought back online multiplayer for the original Star Wars: Battlefront, released back in 2004.
On Friday, both the Steam and GOG versions of the classic multiplayer shooterāwhich loads of people still prefer to the more modern takes on the seriesāhad online multiplayer quietly restored as part of an update.
Whatās more, both versions can play against one another via crossplay. This is unexpected and very cool, since official online multiplayer support had been missing from Battlefrontāand loads of other classic EA or EA-owned gamesāsince the 2014 closure of Gamespy
https://kotaku.com/ea-killing-online-support-for-some-of-the-best-pc-games-1574903394
