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  1. 1. What System are you buying BF3 for?

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Red Orchestra 2 here I come. :D

 

Honestly, I'd probably still be buying it if it was going to be on Steam. But because of all the issues with the alpha (gameplay and interface) I just can't see myself moving over to Origin for a game that I'm not 100% sure I'll even like.

 

The more and more I hear about BF3 the more I think Dice is trying to do too much. Supposed thousands of unlocks? No thanks. Laser sights and flashlights existing only to blind people? Why? Thermal vision?

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http://www.destructoid.com/battlefield-3-will-ship-on-two-xbox-360-discs-211281.phtml?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Destructoid+%28Destructoid%29&utm_content=Google+Reader

 

Sweet! Now we can sell the crappy singleplayer disc when we're done and keep the multiplayer. How does this fit into the whole Project 10 dollar thing?

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There's no in-game server browser either. If you want to switch servers, you have to actually EXIT THE GAME, then go through Origin and find another server. It's a clunky and horrible system, and DICE is 100% convinced this is the best way to do it.

 

BF2 and BF2142 is the best the series is ever gonna get.

 

 

alpha is alpha for a reason. BF2142 was a good game, but nowhere near the best of the series.

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There's no in-game server browser either. If you want to switch servers, you have to actually EXIT THE GAME, then go through Origin and find another server. It's a clunky and horrible system, and DICE is 100% convinced this is the best way to do it.

 

BF2 and BF2142 is the best the series is ever gonna get.

 

 

alpha is alpha for a reason. BF2142 was a good game, but nowhere near the best of the series.

 

It doesn't matter that it's Alpha,that's the way you'll join servers in the final game as well. EA/Dice want people going through the BF website. Link

I also highly doubt it was the genuine alpha version.

 

I consider 2142 to be the best in the series too.

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Why BF3 can't have Zombie mode:

 

 

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Maybe... just maybe, if they tweak it a bit.

 

One helicopter for all the players. The helicopter only has so much gas, and they will need to repeatedly land to refuel the chopper. Their goal is to either A) kill all the zombies (which they will need to do on the move, since ammo is scarce and they will need to scavenge it) or B) escape (which must be accomplished by doing certain tasks, which should be harder than killing zombies, but takes less time).

 

Of course, for it to happen at all would require a world generation algorithm that BF3 simply cannot do, since such a map would have to be on a massive scale.

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  • 4 weeks later...

http://www.pcgamer.com/2011/10/19/ea-norway-caught-attempting-to-manipulate-bf3-review-scores-calls-it-a-mistake/

 

Right, that's it. I'm done supporting Battlefield entirely. If my pre-order weren't already in the system, I would also be cancelling my SWTOR pre-order from Origin. This is fucking despicable.

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the questionnaire, to me, doesn't scream "manipulating reviews" as much as "We want to make sure you don't automatically hate battlefield when you review it." Still, I guess that is manipulating reviews, just a different level of manipulation, and its still very un-ethical.

 

I feel really bad for Dice, they are great developers, and are only being hurt by EA's aggressive, and stupid, marketing machine. Why can't they make a good game, and a bunch of non-anti-CoD advertisements and sell it as a Battlefield game, and not a Call of Duty killer. But, if they did that, they wouldn't be able to sell as many copies as they want because there are people (and trust me, being in college I know a lot of them) who will buy the CoD game blindly and wont even look at what Battlefield has to offer, because its NOT Call of Duty.

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the questionnaire, to me, doesn't scream "manipulating reviews" as much as "We want to make sure you don't automatically hate battlefield when you review it." Still, I guess that is manipulating reviews, just a different level of manipulation, and its still very un-ethical.

 

I feel really bad for Dice, they are great developers, and are only being hurt by EA's aggressive, and stupid, marketing machine. Why can't they make a good game, and a bunch of non-anti-CoD advertisements and sell it as a Battlefield game, and not a Call of Duty killer. But, if they did that, they wouldn't be able to sell as many copies as they want because there are people (and trust me, being in college I know a lot of them) who will buy the CoD game blindly and wont even look at what Battlefield has to offer, because its NOT Call of Duty.

 

It's a shame that EA bought out DICE when they did. Had they held off, DICE may have had more success and freedom, even with EA, under the partners program. You're totally right about people not buying it because it's not Call of Duty. EA's insistence on going head-to-head with Activision is probably more of a detriment to sales as your average consumer starts seeing the two games in an "either/or" manner. They start thinking "If I get Call of Duty, there's no point in getting Battlefield, that's my multiplayer FPS for the year" but there's still a chance they'll get other FPS games throughout that year because they're not being told by marketing that you should pick any of them over any other.

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It's a shame that EA bought out DICE when they did. Had they held off, DICE may have had more success and freedom, even with EA, under the partners program. You're totally right about people not buying it because it's not Call of Duty. EA's insistence on going head-to-head with Activision is probably more of a detriment to sales as your average consumer starts seeing the two games in an "either/or" manner. They start thinking "If I get Call of Duty, there's no point in getting Battlefield, that's my multiplayer FPS for the year" but there's still a chance they'll get other FPS games throughout that year because they're not being told by marketing that you should pick any of them over any other.

 

 

Actually, EA spend a great deal of time trying to direct DICE away from the anti-CoD marketing.

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It's a shame that EA bought out DICE when they did. Had they held off, DICE may have had more success and freedom, even with EA, under the partners program. You're totally right about people not buying it because it's not Call of Duty. EA's insistence on going head-to-head with Activision is probably more of a detriment to sales as your average consumer starts seeing the two games in an "either/or" manner. They start thinking "If I get Call of Duty, there's no point in getting Battlefield, that's my multiplayer FPS for the year" but there's still a chance they'll get other FPS games throughout that year because they're not being told by marketing that you should pick any of them over any other.

 

 

Actually, EA spend a great deal of time trying to direct DICE away from the anti-CoD marketing.

 

Really? Was it not EA that started the campaign rather than DICE. When DICE were saying "BF3 is going to be a true sequel", etc, EA, or rather Riccitiello, was still on about beating Call of Duty. Is this push in the opposite direction just recently? Did EA suddenly realise it could be hurting them more than helping?

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