Originally Posted by Diceman

I'm totally lost! Please, WhiskeySix Kenobi, you're my only hope.

It's actually not too tough to understand. It just gets really confusing when people have multiple bf2 names.... Hopefully this helps:

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Originally Posted by WhiskeySix

First, be sure to understand what's going on here, it's not that difficult at face value:

• You have an account with EA/Gamespy. This is your "Account Name". This is the name you use in EA Downloader and is also called your "Gamespy Nickname".
• Each Account name has exactly ONE BF2 name and ONE email associated with it.
• If you've used multiple BF2 names, you have multiple Account Names each under a different email address!

For example, I have two Accounts

Account 1:

Account Name: WhiskeySixTG
Account Email: -----@yahoo.com
Password: --------
BF2 Name: |TG-12th|WhiskeySix

Account 2:

Account Name: whiskeysix
Account Email: ------@gmail.com
Password: --------
BF2 Name: WhiskeySix

For each account you have, I suggest writing down each of these 4 entries!


To get your Account information, all you need to know is your email address(es), and you can find the other three things:

1) reset your password using your email address:
https://login.gamespyid.com/lostpassword.aspx

2) Login to IGN/gamespy using that email address and new password:
https://login.gamespyid.com/login.as...index.aspx&sl=
This will tell you your Account Name (aka, your EA Downloader name, aka, your Gamespy Nickname)

3) In BF2, under Manage Accounts->Retreive Account enter the email and password (from step 1). This will give you your BF2 name

(If this step returns a BF2 name that you're not currently using, then you have multiple accounts - just like mine, above. Repeat steps 1-3 using your other email addresses until step three returns the BF2 name you are using.)

Now you have everything you need to reserve your 2142 account.


In the veteran registration page, be careful to not mix up entries from different accounts. For example, I first tried using Account Name:WhiskeySixTG and BF2 name:WhiskeySix.... As you can see above, those are from different accounts, so it didn't work... it told me "BF2 Soldier Name already used by another player"

So for you dice, everything was good up until step4. According to your results from step one, you have this account:

Account name: Diceman
email: email#1(@)diceman.com
pass: -----
BF2 Name: Diceman_01

now then if you're playing with a BF2 name "Diceman", you must have a second account.... I suspect it's this based on what you said about EA Downloader working:

Account name: Diceman0001
email: email#2(@)diceman.com
pass: -----
BF2 Name: Diceman

Use steps 1-3, to verify that "Diceman" is the BF2 name associated with Account name "Diceman0001".