I downloaded the trial for battlefield 1943 and it worked well. So I bought the game (Waste of my darn 1200 microsoft points) and played in a few servers. After that I turned off my xbox and came back a few hours later. When I went into battlefield 1943 some EA terms and conditions showed up and it asked me to enter an email and password. When I did, it just said 'Connecting' for a long long time. I tried several times but no luck.
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