Battlefield 6’s Portal mode is losing some of the community’s most recognizable recreations after EA flagged at least one Call of Duty-themed map as an unwelcome third-party reference. The takedown centers on a player-made map called Shipment 2019 edition, which was labeled in EA’s warning email as an “Inappropriate reference – Third party products” and removed from Portal listings.
The Portal creator was informed that they could continue playing, but repeating the violation might result in lost access to Battlefield and other EA services. The move follows the rules laid out in the Battlefield Community Guidelines, which require user content, names, and Portal Experiences to be appropriate and ban content that is abusive, hateful, lewd, threatening, or unlawful.
Portal, launched as part of Battlefield 6, invites players to remake rules, weapons, and maps, briefly swelling into the kind of creative chaos that recalls Halo’s Forge. Within hours of launch, there were thousands of new Experiences and a huge player spike. That momentum also produced a wave of Call of Duty remakes, which now appear to be drawing closer scrutiny from EA.
A report at Dexerto highlights the Shipment takedown and the wording of EA’s warning. The decision plays into a larger rivalry between Battlefield and Call of Duty this year, with the two shooters launching close together and Battlefield 6 enjoying strong early sales, having sold 7 million copies in three days. That competitive backdrop may explain why EA would want to avoid high-profile Portal creations that directly reference another publisher’s maps.
EA’s enforcement here is basic policy work, not a technical limitation. The Community Guidelines provide the developer with a clear guideline to remove creations referencing third-party products, and the email to the creator outlines possible account consequences for repeat violations. Whether that will cool the flood of recreations or push creators to use more generic names and layouts remains to be seen. Portal’s promise is the freedom to build and share wild stuff, but legal and policy lines always bind liberty in an online platform. Rebuilding a map with a name lifted straight from Call of Duty puts a creator squarely in that policy box, and EA chose to act.
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