The real reason behind that fake info is probably this:
https://www.ea.com/service-updates/2018
EA announced that they are going to shutdown "Crysis 2 - Online Multiplayer" this year. Problem is that multiplayer of
PC version of Crysis 2 doesn't work since 2014 because it used GameSpy too. There is also
Crysis 2 for consoles that has its own multiplayer (unlike Crysis 1 for consoles that has no MP at all), and it seems this MP is (was) hosted by EA. That's all, so EA turned off multiplayer for console version of Crysis 2 and some "journalists" explained it as
Crytek are shutting the online component of Crysis down.
EA also runs MP of Crysis 3 and it's still working probably, but nobody knows for how long... :)