wfz said:
Hyruken said:
I have to be honest and say i did cancel my pre-order. It was £40 and that is a lot of money right now with so many games coming out.
I was a huge Battlefield fan. Played it from the start. But this time around they have sold their soul. The battlefield feel has gone. I think back to the beta for BF2 and it just makes me feel happy. I wish it was like that again.
But it isn't. EA went after COD and by doing so has annoyed the origional bf fans. It is a huge slap in the face.
Someone needs to be fired over the whole beta handling thing. People who like Battlefield like it because of it's huge open maps that give you loads of different ways to play the game. They like the vehicles and planes. The whole feeling of your in a war and war is chaos is what makes it great. But BF3 beta doesn't have that. It is the total opposite of that. Narrow corridors. Fast shooting/dying that makes it feel pointless that your fighting. Rush mode is a total joke.
I paid basically £700 to upgrade my pc to handle this game and it does so with ease. But i was hoping for the BF experience. The one that i had so many great memories from in the past. But all i got was another COD experience and that is not what i wanted. Whoever made the decision to do the beta in the way it has been done should be fired as they clearly have no idea what the BF community is like, they have no idea how previous games have been made, have no idea what the main reasons were for people playing Battlefield. And because of that they are now getting the negative press for it. They brought it on themselves.
The sad thing is that they could of saved it, they had time. They could of opened Caspian Border without the need for a password, made it conquest, 64 players and reduce things such as scope beam. But they didn't. They continued to do Metro. The map that was used in Alpha for so long. And since then has been little change.
This beta was an attempt to get the COD players. It was not about testing it, it was basically them saying "hey cod player, look at this game, your love it, come play it, come buy it!". And by the looks of things they failed.
So that is why i canceled my pre-order and got a refund because i don't think they deserve my money for it. I will wait until the game is released, see what people are saying, read the reviews, hope they have fixed things and brought it back to being a Battlefield game rather then another COD wanabe. If it has done those things then i will buy it. But right now Dice and EA owe the Battlefield community bigtime, we don't owe them anything. |
Bro.
Calm down.
It's the
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Not the final product. They didn't take the huge stages out of the final product. They just weren't in the beta, like you said.
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Mate no offence but if you believe that then your a fool.
Beta's have been around for decades now. OPEN beta is used for various things but now days it is a marketing ploy. Especially for games like this. If the server maximum is 64 players then why do they need thousands of people on servers to test them? Having 64 people is the maximum it can take, having thousands of people makes no difference at all. If it was an MMO then fine you can stress test with thousands of people.
But in this instance the point of this beta is exactly the same as the other betas i.e MW2, COD:BO, UC3, GW3 and so on. The point being it is to give people a taste of what is to come. Why do you think Dice have tv adverts showing the 99 problems trailer with the huge words at the end saying "OPEN BETA NOW AVAILABLE go to xyz to download"? Why would they need to advertise it on tv? How many other companies do that with their games?
The beta is/was nothing more then a demo. If you think they will change things in a couple of weeks then your going to be dissapointed. Especially considering as they have already said they will have to patch the game after release.
I am perfectly calm. As i said at the start there are plenty of high profile games coming out in the next few weeks. I won't be parting with my hard earned cash based simply on the fact i used to play the older games. I am a gamer not a blind fanboy.
