To answer the questions,
There is no parent company for LowPingGameServers, the people who bought the company do own another GSP but both company is there own.
Now as for the Ranked games.
While agree it is bad for the end user there is however a plus side to it by not relasing the server file helps keep the game intact.Not sure how many here know of the small proble that has just pop up with SOF2 servers, since the game is open code there has deen a server side nightmare, where as the server gets attacked and the bandwidth goes thru the roof causing huge bandwith overages.
Where as if the server files stay protected there is less of a chance of stuff like this happing.
Starting Feb 15, 2011 we be hosting RANKED BF2 and BF2142 servers.
We look forwad to being you gameserver provider.
If you have any questions feel free to contacts us