Probably a typo in my original post :/
Dunno about a Sniper Elite 2 game... however I do know that some months back/last year maybe, there was talk of the hosting servers being shut down (result being no one could play multiplayer anymore) but the SE community made lots of noise and the publishers decided to keep the servers open.
There's also a community patch that deals with certain bugs and allowing the game to see new servers (if the old ones were shut down) so peeps could still play online.
Here's a search from google:
http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en...meta=&aq=f&oq=
Have a flick through, there's some good links from gentlemenofthescope clan, tells you what it's about.
*As far as I'm aware SE still works online, but I've not played recently.