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On October 13 2011 16:45 RaLakedaimon wrote:
After looking more into this tournament it appears its a conquest tournament, so maybe that's why its console only, so they don't have to find actual "teams" of 32 players each to participate. That also allows for each player that is on the winning team to get a nice amount of cash. Sounds so strange but there really trying to engage the CoD stuff head on. Doubt anyone could afford to do this more than once a year or maybe just once in total. lol That is a ton of money.
Considering that sometimes large companies like EA and Activision will spend up to $100 Million dollars on advertising, it really isn't THAT much to host a $1.6 million dollar tourney. It generates hype and is a great way to advertise the game and get people playing.
On October 13 2011 12:40 rebuffering wrote:
Ever heard of try before you buy? guessing you just buy any game that comes out, and just deal with it if it runs/plays like shit. id say spending 60$ on a good video game, like sc2, is obviously worth it, look at all the game time we get for 60$, but when i buy a game like black ops, or Rage, i wish id had pirated them so i could have realized how shitty they were going to run on my computer. I dont see anything wrong with trying a game before deciding if im going to give them my cash. Maybe im just old fashioned, or crazy.
As a PC gamer you should be reading reviews and looking at recommended specs and so on before you buy. You certainly don't have the right to pirate it just so you can try it. That's what demos are for. Like Day9 says, it is what it is. Pirating is pirating. There's no point trying to justify it.
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On October 13 2011 07:21 blade55555 wrote:Show nested quote +On October 13 2011 07:12 Catch]22 wrote:
Actually, its just about you justifying not wanting to pay this. Pirates will always try to make "Justifiable" reasons to why they should pirate instead of buy lol.
This is so true. However, EA made this really easy for pirates to justify. "We're going to move all of our games onto our service that when you agree to use it, you give us access to look at your computer. Oh and it's behind every other competitor." Origin is a terrible, terrible service. Not only is it terrible, but they have the ability to delete your account and remove your games. This was a threat EA released when people were playing on modded BF3 Beta Servers. This could mean the loss of a dozen or more games for people, just for clicking on the wrong server.
I will not be buying the game on PC, nor will I pirate the game. I like DICE and really enjoy their games. I will be getting it instead on console. I'd rather have lesser graphics and less people in game than have to install Origin.
There are problems with this game.
1) Hit Detection. Their netcode for the client side hit detection is pretty bad. On Metro, you had to have a low ping to make a shotgun work, as often a high ping would result this. You getting a shot off close range, getting a hit marker, then dying, and then seeing your opponent run around with 100% health. Frustrating.
2) Squads. Trying to get into a game with one friend was near impossible let alone trying to get into the same game with 2 or 3. There are more but they've said they're working on it or it's been fixed already.
3) Maps. I need to know there's alot of the and that they're going to play differently. I want big maps and small maps and everything inbetween.
TL;DR: I wont buy the game on PC because of Origin and will wait until most major bugs are fixed after opening day.
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The hit detection was an issue in bad company 2 aswell as far as I recall. I used to be really annoyed by it before I started playing more or less only hardcore mode.
Since you die very easily there, you pretty much never experience running behind cover and then dying/drawing weapon first and dying.
As soon as I hear that its there and its good, along with a good map, I will probably buy this.
Also, most of us pirate a game because we like free stuff, only people insecure with themselves try to "justify" this.
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Ok, so about this hard-drive scanning nonsense... who's to say they won't just scan your EA folders and not your entire hard-drive that you give them the ability to?
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On October 13 2011 22:43 Keitzer wrote:
Ok, so about this hard-drive scanning nonsense... who's to say they won't just scan your EA folders and not your entire hard-drive that you give them the ability to?
Here's my question: what's the problem? Do you know how much of your personal information gets scanned and sent out by spybots and malware as it is? How much data gets collected by social networking sites? Your hard drive data hasn't been safe in at least the last 5 years...
Are you afraid someone will find something you don't want them to find on your computer?
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On October 13 2011 23:10 Rob28 wrote:Show nested quote +On October 13 2011 22:43 Keitzer wrote:
Ok, so about this hard-drive scanning nonsense... who's to say they won't just scan your EA folders and not your entire hard-drive that you give them the ability to? Here's my question: what's the problem? Do you know how much of your personal information gets scanned and sent out by spybots and malware as it is? How much data gets collected by social networking sites? Your hard drive data hasn't been safe in at least the last 5 years... Are you afraid someone will find something you don't want them to find on your computer?
No, I'm not caring, I plan on buying BF3 for PC and playing it for a while... I'm just confused why people are freaking out over this for what is probably going to be no big deal.
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People are freaking out because a website posted a story about the EULA and acted like it was the scariest, most frightening thing in the world. And typical of them, gamers were quick to lash out against a perceived attack on their rights, being led to believe it was some new form of pervasive assault on their freedoms by corporate video game publishers. It's the same way people went crazy about Sony's new "you can't sue us" clause, which is something Steam has also had for a long time now. It's never a problem until someone points it out for them, then it becomes the greatest injustice in the history of mankind
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On October 13 2011 23:47 floor exercise wrote:
People are freaking out because a website posted a story about the EULA and acted like it was the scariest, most frightening thing in the world. And typical of them, gamers were quick to lash out against a perceived attack on their rights, being led to believe it was some new form of pervasive assault on their freedoms by corporate video game publishers. It's the same way people went crazy about Sony's new "you can't sue us" clause, which is something Steam has also had for a long time now. It's never a problem until someone points it out for them, then it becomes the greatest injustice in the history of mankind
Heh.. people are silly..
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On October 12 2011 01:51 English wrote:Show nested quote +On October 12 2011 01:17 Ren91 wrote:On October 08 2011 03:46 Latham wrote:On October 08 2011 03:23 Ren91 wrote:On October 08 2011 02:59 Latham wrote:
Can anyone explain why in the name of god could this game possibly be crashing/freezing for me so often? Is it poor optimisation on their part? Drivers on my part? Server errors? It's driving me insane.
OPERATING SYSTEM:
Windows 2.6.1.7601 (Service Pack 1)
CPU TYPE:
Intel® Core™ i7-2630QM CPU @ 2.00GHz
CPU SPEED:
2.03 GHz
SYSTEM MEMORY:
5.92 GB
VIDEO CARD MODEL:
NVIDIA GeForce GT 555M
My rig. It's because its a beta, it's happening to almost everyone. So 10 out of 11 games you freeze and need to ctrl+alt+del out of the process? Soz, I didn't see this before. Yeah, it happens every 6 minutes for me with spec's that should run it easily. It's frustrating but I'm gonna wait till the game comes out before I judge it properly. I mean the actual gameplay is soo good. In terms of optimisation it's already better than black ops when it was released  (for me anyway) so I'm just happy about that tbh. Even after installing the newest nvidia beta drivers (285.38)? I know that mine froze 4/5 times until I installed that driver. Show nested quote +New in Release 285.38
Increases performance in Battlefield 3 by up to 38%i.
Improves overall stability and image quality in Battlefield 3.
Yeah driver's were up to date. It actually helped me quite alot xD I'd be on a massive death streak, dc and when I got back on I'd go on a 15 kill streak
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On October 13 2011 23:47 floor exercise wrote:
People are freaking out because a website posted a story about the EULA and acted like it was the scariest, most frightening thing in the world. And typical of them, gamers were quick to lash out against a perceived attack on their rights, being led to believe it was some new form of pervasive assault on their freedoms by corporate video game publishers. It's the same way people went crazy about Sony's new "you can't sue us" clause, which is something Steam has also had for a long time now. It's never a problem until someone points it out for them, then it becomes the greatest injustice in the history of mankind
Yeah I would agree with this .
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On October 13 2011 23:47 floor exercise wrote:
People are freaking out because a website posted a story about the EULA and acted like it was the scariest, most frightening thing in the world. And typical of them, gamers were quick to lash out against a perceived attack on their rights, being led to believe it was some new form of pervasive assault on their freedoms by corporate video game publishers. It's the same way people went crazy about Sony's new "you can't sue us" clause, which is something Steam has also had for a long time now. It's never a problem until someone points it out for them, then it becomes the greatest injustice in the history of mankind
I agree just because its EA people make a fuss like the sky is falling. I swear some actually like to complain about games more then play them.
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I have just found out that because im from the UK I have to wait 3 extra days to play than those from the US. I thought for PC it would be a global release on the 25th. But it seems not.
I would like to know if anyone here can think of a reason for doing that? It seems ludicrous to have such a big gap in release dates for a multiplayer and esports focused game.
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On October 14 2011 13:56 Westy wrote:
I have just found out that because im from the UK I have to wait 3 extra days to play than those from the US. I thought for PC it would be a global release on the 25th. But it seems not.
I would like to know if anyone here can think of a reason for doing that? It seems ludicrous to have such a big gap in release dates for a multiplayer and esports focused game.
Even pre-order through origin?
edit: you know what? they probably want optimal play servers for when each goes up, that way the US (or whatever server it happen to be) isn't being bombarded by other countries while natives are trying to log in
Happens in other games like WoW (realm hopping when your main server is offline), LoL (go to EU when NA is down for maint), etc.....
They probably want to make sure the US servers are stable the US people before setting up the EU servers (which may or may not crash, causing what I just explained above)
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On October 14 2011 14:05 Keitzer wrote:Show nested quote +On October 14 2011 13:56 Westy wrote:
I have just found out that because im from the UK I have to wait 3 extra days to play than those from the US. I thought for PC it would be a global release on the 25th. But it seems not.
I would like to know if anyone here can think of a reason for doing that? It seems ludicrous to have such a big gap in release dates for a multiplayer and esports focused game. Even pre-order through origin? edit: you know what? they probably want optimal play servers for when each goes up, that way the US (or whatever server it happen to be) isn't being bombarded by other countries while natives are trying to log in Happens in other games like WoW (realm hopping when your main server is offline), LoL (go to EU when NA is down for maint), etc..... They probably want to make sure the US servers are stable the US people before setting up the EU servers (which may or may not crash, causing what I just explained above)
That... just doesn't make any sense? If they release it everywhere at the same time, people would just play on their own servers. However, the fact that US gets the game at least 2 days before means people will be using VPN's and stuff to play on the US servers. So it will actually be achieving the opposite of what you stated.
Also, It gets released for most of Europe on the 27th, but then for the UK on the 28th. So that means when I play I will be a day behind on unlocks and thus at a big disadvantage, especially regarding jets and other vehicles.
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I think I'm not going to buy this. MW3 doesn't look that interesting and I've never been good at BF games and don't really like the gameplay of it, so I guess no FPS this year for me. Perhaps I will pick Crysis 2, it is in Turkish language after all and doesn't look too bad.
Jets and stuff look awesome though.
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On October 14 2011 14:21 Westy wrote:Show nested quote +On October 14 2011 14:05 Keitzer wrote:On October 14 2011 13:56 Westy wrote:
I have just found out that because im from the UK I have to wait 3 extra days to play than those from the US. I thought for PC it would be a global release on the 25th. But it seems not.
I would like to know if anyone here can think of a reason for doing that? It seems ludicrous to have such a big gap in release dates for a multiplayer and esports focused game. Even pre-order through origin? edit: you know what? they probably want optimal play servers for when each goes up, that way the US (or whatever server it happen to be) isn't being bombarded by other countries while natives are trying to log in Happens in other games like WoW (realm hopping when your main server is offline), LoL (go to EU when NA is down for maint), etc..... They probably want to make sure the US servers are stable the US people before setting up the EU servers (which may or may not crash, causing what I just explained above) That... just doesn't make any sense? If they release it everywhere at the same time, people would just play on their own servers. However, the fact that US gets the game at least 2 days before means people will be using VPN's and stuff to play on the US servers. So it will actually be achieving the opposite of what you stated. Also, It gets released for most of Europe on the 27th, but then for the UK on the 28th. So that means when I play I will be a day behind on unlocks and thus at a big disadvantage, especially regarding jets and other vehicles.
Ah come on it's not like it's a tournament! Sure you'll be one day behind. People will play more or less. Battlefield has always been open to new players. You'll technically be a disadvantage and things will suck for a little bit but it's not like it's going to be imbalanced or impossible. Just a little harder.
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On October 14 2011 17:05 Probe1 wrote:Show nested quote +On October 14 2011 14:21 Westy wrote:On October 14 2011 14:05 Keitzer wrote:On October 14 2011 13:56 Westy wrote:
I have just found out that because im from the UK I have to wait 3 extra days to play than those from the US. I thought for PC it would be a global release on the 25th. But it seems not.
I would like to know if anyone here can think of a reason for doing that? It seems ludicrous to have such a big gap in release dates for a multiplayer and esports focused game. Even pre-order through origin? edit: you know what? they probably want optimal play servers for when each goes up, that way the US (or whatever server it happen to be) isn't being bombarded by other countries while natives are trying to log in Happens in other games like WoW (realm hopping when your main server is offline), LoL (go to EU when NA is down for maint), etc..... They probably want to make sure the US servers are stable the US people before setting up the EU servers (which may or may not crash, causing what I just explained above) That... just doesn't make any sense? If they release it everywhere at the same time, people would just play on their own servers. However, the fact that US gets the game at least 2 days before means people will be using VPN's and stuff to play on the US servers. So it will actually be achieving the opposite of what you stated. Also, It gets released for most of Europe on the 27th, but then for the UK on the 28th. So that means when I play I will be a day behind on unlocks and thus at a big disadvantage, especially regarding jets and other vehicles. Ah come on it's not like it's a tournament! Sure you'll be one day behind. People will play more or less. Battlefield has always been open to new players. You'll technically be a disadvantage and things will suck for a little bit but it's not like it's going to be imbalanced or impossible. Just a little harder.
Don't you know that bushes are the great equalizer in this game? No number of hi-tech gadgets and hardware can stand up to the ruthless cunning of a man hiding in a bush.
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On October 14 2011 14:21 Westy wrote:Show nested quote +On October 14 2011 14:05 Keitzer wrote:On October 14 2011 13:56 Westy wrote:
I have just found out that because im from the UK I have to wait 3 extra days to play than those from the US. I thought for PC it would be a global release on the 25th. But it seems not.
I would like to know if anyone here can think of a reason for doing that? It seems ludicrous to have such a big gap in release dates for a multiplayer and esports focused game. Even pre-order through origin? edit: you know what? they probably want optimal play servers for when each goes up, that way the US (or whatever server it happen to be) isn't being bombarded by other countries while natives are trying to log in Happens in other games like WoW (realm hopping when your main server is offline), LoL (go to EU when NA is down for maint), etc..... They probably want to make sure the US servers are stable the US people before setting up the EU servers (which may or may not crash, causing what I just explained above) That... just doesn't make any sense? If they release it everywhere at the same time, people would just play on their own servers. However, the fact that US gets the game at least 2 days before means people will be using VPN's and stuff to play on the US servers. So it will actually be achieving the opposite of what you stated. Also, It gets released for most of Europe on the 27th, but then for the UK on the 28th. So that means when I play I will be a day behind on unlocks and thus at a big disadvantage, especially regarding jets and other vehicles.
No my order from Amazon Germany will arrive between 28. and 29. So maybe i am a day disaadvantage to you, OMG
Then I have to play 24hours for the next days to get to diamond ah level 40.
Don't be silly it's not that you can't beat players without super cool equipment. Just aim and kill.
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On October 14 2011 17:14 procyonlotor wrote:Show nested quote +On October 14 2011 17:05 Probe1 wrote:On October 14 2011 14:21 Westy wrote:On October 14 2011 14:05 Keitzer wrote:On October 14 2011 13:56 Westy wrote:
I have just found out that because im from the UK I have to wait 3 extra days to play than those from the US. I thought for PC it would be a global release on the 25th. But it seems not.
I would like to know if anyone here can think of a reason for doing that? It seems ludicrous to have such a big gap in release dates for a multiplayer and esports focused game. Even pre-order through origin? edit: you know what? they probably want optimal play servers for when each goes up, that way the US (or whatever server it happen to be) isn't being bombarded by other countries while natives are trying to log in Happens in other games like WoW (realm hopping when your main server is offline), LoL (go to EU when NA is down for maint), etc..... They probably want to make sure the US servers are stable the US people before setting up the EU servers (which may or may not crash, causing what I just explained above) That... just doesn't make any sense? If they release it everywhere at the same time, people would just play on their own servers. However, the fact that US gets the game at least 2 days before means people will be using VPN's and stuff to play on the US servers. So it will actually be achieving the opposite of what you stated. Also, It gets released for most of Europe on the 27th, but then for the UK on the 28th. So that means when I play I will be a day behind on unlocks and thus at a big disadvantage, especially regarding jets and other vehicles. Ah come on it's not like it's a tournament! Sure you'll be one day behind. People will play more or less. Battlefield has always been open to new players. You'll technically be a disadvantage and things will suck for a little bit but it's not like it's going to be imbalanced or impossible. Just a little harder. Don't you know that bushes are the great equalizer in this game? No number of hi-tech gadgets and hardware can stand up to the ruthless cunning of a man hiding in a bush.
For the love of god let explosives kill bushes...
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