Some players in the console version of Battlefield 3 reported that official SAYS servers are completely disappeared from the appropriate browser in favour of privately operated server users and few remained in management to Electronic Arts. With the start of the initiative that saw the opportunity to purchase the server by the players, those operated by SAYS were still in great quantity: after a number of weeks, the latter were less and less until today to disappear completely.

Among the 17 managed servers from Electronic Arts, at the time of the test performed by the user, none of them was currently playing in Conquest mode but only match race (predominant mode with 8 servers available), Deathmatch, team Deathmatch and Team Racing Factions. Many players complain also abuses on the part of the admin which expel players or entire teams without any apparent reason while the 2000 ticket are a present practically in most servers.

The community manager SAYS, Daniel Matros, stated that " the community has asked private servers and we have data " while answering the question if the disappearance of the server was finally explained that " everything in the fantastic world of Battlefield is dynamic ". Metros finally reassured fans that everything will be reported soon to the development team, saw that the voice of the players on the subject has certainly made stronger.