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The full article can be found at http://www.cracked.com/blog/the-6-most-ominous-trends-in-video-games/

http://blogs.battlefield.ea.com/battlefield_bad_company/archive/2011/06/13/physical-warfare-pack-and-back-to-karkand-questions-answered.aspx

That used to be the primary reason. Now it's all about getting sales before seeing the game so the player doesn't have the option to get their money back once released. How many people would not have bought various games over the years if they played them first or waited for reviews from their friends. The smart gamer who waits for games to be released to see if it's a dud or not are the ones being punished. One thing Activision did right was the limited editions. They gave physical items instead of selling exclusive unlocks. It's funny that some players say the exclusive unlocks don't give much of an advance if any yet when you talk about cheaters they pull the unfair advantage card. If they added aim assist people would be in an uproar (Crysis 2 players were). Man I miss the old days before BF2. I've been saying for years that paid map packs splits the community again and again. BF2 / BF2142 boosters, MoH hotzone and Crysis 2 Retaliation all had low player counts (Can't speak for MW2 and Black Ops as there is no player data to compare). It's 2011, the technology behind games have advanced so much but the marketing departments are stuck in the past.

http://www.reddit.com/r/gaming/comments/hy24b/battlefield_3_preorder_dlc_boycott_coordination/ http://forums.electronicarts.co.uk/battlefield-3/1405158-appeal-gaming-media.html

http://twitter.com/#!/Demize99/status/79578019227901952 That's awesome news to me.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Mgao249jNg http://www.arma2.com/free

http://www.gamestar.de/spiele/battlefield-3/artikel/battlefield_3,45612,2323505.html http://twitter.com/#!/zh1nt0/status/78867423528361984 Guess it's wait and see

http://forums.electronicarts.co.uk/battlefield-3-pc/1404239-no-64-players-rush.html http://www.fz.se/filmer/20110608/battlefield-3-intervju-med-lars-gustavsson/

As I posted on twitter I gave up on getting excited for new games from EA and Activision years ago. Too many let downs. I do hope BF3 is the BF game that makes it enjoyable for me but after MW2, BC2 and MoH, I'm waiting to actually play BF3 on my PC before I really give it a thumbs up or down. An update from both sides that was posted on the EAUK forums. http://forums.electronicarts.co.uk/battlefield-3/1404091-gamer-not-allowed-play-bf3-e3-because-he-wore-activision-badge.html

If the game is as ground breaking as they claim, negative comments from the competition won't hurt it. http://forums.electronicarts.co.uk/19385635-post44.html The demo was open to anyone that could get near it. If they don't want to show their competitors their product then what the hell are they doing at E3. It's not like the guy went to the DICE studios and refused entry for wearing the Activision badge.

Man this is just sad. http://twitter.com/#!/H4WKE/status/78234890839142400 http://twitter.com/#!/OneOfSwords/status/78273417719197698

I think it should be a step further and that you can only be revived X amount of times before you have to respawn. That and a key you hold down to opt out of being revived.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9UwOrl036_A

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yS5qN6f6-uM http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jgxtyDvINoA

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pfRggK3CYbU

Been reading that BF3 will only be on Origin and will not be on Steam and other digital services. http://investor.ea.com/releasedetail.cfm?ReleaseID=582630 Take it with a grain of salt as it may apply to some unannounced special edition.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jJasUZ2ZtWY

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ui6j35YDbU

Which is why I don't pre-order or buy on release day. I saved money by avoiding Homefront and Brink so far. They ended up being games that looked good but the release wasn't what I expected.

I'm more concerned about the network code itself than the release day outages. Before I stopped playing BC2 I seen a lot of server warping and horrible hit detection. It seemed better on 24 slot servers and in MoH. Now they are increasing the max players to 64 so it will be interesting to see if the servers can actually handle it.

http://blogs.battlefield.ea.com/battlefield_bad_company/archive/2011/06/03/bf3-goes-to-e3.aspx o.0 TDM, now BF3 is starting to look interesting.

http://www.industrygamers.com/news/ea-to-launch-origin-digital-distribution-service-with-150-titles/ http://img15.imageshack.us/img15/3272/originmain.png http://img580.imageshack.us/img580/6139/origingames.png http://img146.imageshack.us/img146/1939/bfbc2game20110603084730.png Beta version that was posted on EAUK http://static.cdn.ea.com/ebisu/u/f/OriginSetup.exe