Battlefield 3 is becomming Call Of Duty
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Join Date: 2012-03-31 Member: 149741Members
Join Date: 2012-03-31 Member: 149741Members
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I dont know if anyone else has noticed this but the more of BF3 i have played recently the more it seems to be becomming COD and not in a good way and battlfield 3 has taken the biscuit making people pay insane amounts of money to get an advantage for a game that is already bought is wrong. People with it get all the usual stuff but they also get Priotirty Queing meaning they auto skip to front of ques for servers.
ALL of the servers i usually play on (thats 17 of them in my fav) ive had to quit trying because for the past 2 days ive not been able to access them. Id see the ticker saying "you are first in que (fair enough).....*30sec later*.....you are 2nd in que (wut o.O).......*10sec later*.....you are 6th in que....###### this...* this happend for all the servers.
And to top it off to practically match it to COD.....custom gun camos for premium players only..... ¬¬ really.....
Paying £40 extra for a game you have already bought is getting a ridiculusly common and unfair practice and it is almost beccoming socially pressured for people to pay for it, they are producing artificual splinters, if a freind buys it you feel almost presssured to buy it to play with that freind.
Paying in free to plays i dont mind so much and DLC as long as its a decent size. But these DLC are almost as rip offs as the map packs for COD.
Sorry rant over its just really pissing me off. Anyone else finding the same thing?? *takes deep breath*
ALL of the servers i usually play on (thats 17 of them in my fav) ive had to quit trying because for the past 2 days ive not been able to access them. Id see the ticker saying "you are first in que (fair enough).....*30sec later*.....you are 2nd in que (wut o.O).......*10sec later*.....you are 6th in que....###### this...* this happend for all the servers.
And to top it off to practically match it to COD.....custom gun camos for premium players only..... ¬¬ really.....
Paying £40 extra for a game you have already bought is getting a ridiculusly common and unfair practice and it is almost beccoming socially pressured for people to pay for it, they are producing artificual splinters, if a freind buys it you feel almost presssured to buy it to play with that freind.
Paying in free to plays i dont mind so much and DLC as long as its a decent size. But these DLC are almost as rip offs as the map packs for COD.
Sorry rant over its just really pissing me off. Anyone else finding the same thing?? *takes deep breath*
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I think i'd more readily laugh at those suckers who paid for priority queuing lol. but wow that is one messed up example of an intrusive business model. Had no idea they were monetizing this heavily already o.0
For me, the worst part is still that whole "worst company" debacle. It's completely ridiculous that they "won" that title. They went up against companies that have engineered one of the worst recessions in human history, against companies that have killed through willful negligence, and a goddamn VIDEO GAME PUBLISHER was worse than that? Anyone who voted for them in that poll is a disappointment to mankind and needs to look the word "perspective" up.
But okay. Bunch of immature twats crash an online poll and skew the numbers. Big deal, who cares. THAT should have been EA's reaction too. But the way they decided to spin this debacle instantly lost them any sympathy they could have gained from it, and more to boot. Instead of being the bigger man, instead of taking it on the chin and shaking it off, they decide to play the victim card and blame it all on homophobes. "Yeah, we were totally victimized here. The ONLY reason people hate us is because we dare to make a stand for the civil liberties of homosexuals."
###### you, EA. ###### you for trying to spin this as bigotry. You know EXACTLY why people hate you, and it has nothing to do with homophobia. Playing the victim card was a despicable act of manipulation. Getting clueless civil liberties activists to speak out on your behalf only damages the movement, and you callously decided that the ends justifies the means. May your bankruptcy be long and cluster######y and mired in scandals and corruption.
It's really a tragedy too because the engine for that game is absolutely <b>beautiful</b>. The world destruction, sound effects, feeling of immersion was top notch. Such a shame that it's been ruined.
.....custom gun camos for premium players only..... ¬¬ really.....
Paying £40 extra for a game you have already bought is getting a ridiculusly common and unfair practice and it is almost beccoming socially pressured for people to pay for it, they are producing artificual splinters, if a freind buys it you feel almost presssured to buy it to play with that freind.
Paying in free to plays i dont mind so much and DLC as long as its a decent size. But these DLC are almost as rip offs as the map packs for COD.<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->
1. As a fellow Brit I assumed your eloquence in the English language- our natural tongue- would be like bathing in silk when in fact it turned out to be akin to swimming in razor blades. During the Queen's jubliee? For shame!
2. Is your anger against paying for skins your major grievance? I haven't played CoD properly since MW1 so - AFAIK- skins only change the apperance of a gun, not how good you are -> is it that big a deal? (correct me if I'm wrong). Unless you mean the £40 is for a map pack which I think is a fair complaint.
3. How bad is the DLC? What do you get?
I tend to roll my eyes when I see Generic Internet Person Criticising EA (lolfffffff) or Flaming Fellow Internet Gamer By Saying "Go Back To CoD". CoD hasn't changed its formula in 4-or-so years because it hit the nail on the head with MW1, and in my experience BF3 did more things right than wrong (though I haven't played it since christmas so maybe things have changed).
Aww, you learned how to condescendingly dismiss what someone else wrote. That's cute.
Because their egotistical self centered brains wont allow them to see truths?
Also, ###### is still censored. That's weird.
BF3 still has a long way to fall before it becomes 'CoD' The DLC for CoD is straight up garbage and doesn't even offer anything other than some bad maps. CoD Elite hasn't even come out on the PC so you can't really offer that comparison either.
exactly
call of duty, bf3, moh... same game different quick time events or whatever...
hey and dont worry if you didnt like this cod,bf,moh etc... just wait a year for next cod4,bf4,...
really!? 4-6 hour game play!? nice graphics that push that 7 year old..... bah
well, let me throw back my legs and pollute my britches with delight.
fu . ck consoles
Do we REALLY need to know that we where killed by a "premium player" every time we die with an obnoxious banner scrawled across the kill-cam and does the games main menu REALLY need a new "premium" tap on it in <b>giant orange letters</b>. As for the new expansion itself we now have tiny C4 camp-a-thon COD style CQB maps to make things all the worse.
Then to top it all off I'm forced to download a 2.8GB update (that undoubtedly includes one of the expansions) weather I like it or not.
Thanks Dice/EA =/
BTW GUYZ I PLAY ON XBOX KTHXBAI
I didn't buy it because I didn't want to mess about with origin, and also because I find all games where you have to grind for loot to make it at all playable to be horribly unenjoyable. Sounds like another step along the line of thinking that produced origin to be honest, which is to say 'screw user enjoyment, get as much money as possible' and is generally based on the line of thinking that people will buy and play anything with the right name on it, regardless of how rubbish it might be.
So yeah it sucks, but, it's not really surprising I don't think.
I don't see what consoles have to do with it though, people try it on any digital distribution platform, see also: the £1000 or so of train simulator reskin DLC for sale on steam. It's simply exploiting a market that you know won't seriously object to it.
Did you ever think that you'd need to download all the new textures, models, and guns for the Close Quarters content, so you can actually see and use them on your client?
Plenty of other games have added weapons and such without stupidly massive updates (the previous BF2 included).