Battlefield 3 announced

You are aware that when it comes to games that require e.a to run servers in order to play
they have a history of shutting them down the second they become unprofitable. 9 months is their record iirc...

 

who needs EA servers? I still play BF2 online... that's 6 years of online and counting thanks. Correct me if I'm wrong but I think you can still play BF1942 onine.

If you're talking of login servers... I can still log in to BF2. There is absolutely no danger of them shutting down BF logins in the time anybody will be still interested in playing it. There would be a massive stink and bad press for no reason whatsoever. Running a login server + database especially for an older game that might only have a few thousand regulars is not exactly very expensive.

 

It's sad for DICE that EA can't keep its hands clean. This is why i completly ignore reviews and rather find a demo or if lack of one play it first through some friend (or imaginary if need be ) Some of the questions are just (b,d,e)

 

Daym!

 

Nice IQ but the textures need a bit of work. Look at the ground from 0:46 onwards. Looks like those pre-stamped Rage shots. Still, they've got 6 years to polilalalala.

 

Ah, comments are always good for those "WTF?" moments. Like the following comment.

Scratching my head. You don't deserve to review games if you didn't think a game was as good as other people. What? LoL.

Regards,
SB

 

not just that, but they must be grateful

 

haha that is great, well done to them. I think they pulled off the fp view and game style fantastically there.

 

My friend got an email today saying Gamezone.no had shipped him his PS3 version. I saw the email, it was legit.

 

I think maybe I wasn't clear, and I was afraid of that. I meant the aesthetics of the gun, not how it actually acts and performs.

 

Oh.

Yea when I first saw it a few years back I said "Why does that SMG have a grenade launcher and where is it's mag?"

 

At 360/480 it's hard to tell.

 

Sure, but that all changed with BF:BC2 where you now need to rent servers to play. Before you could host your own server, be it for a lan party or online play, but now you have to use a DICE sanctioned server provider and you only get limited access to the box.

I can see some of their arguments for how they have to do this because of piracy, but still find it detrimental as it makes it much harder to host BF lan-parties and makes you dependant on EA&Partners to keep the servers up and running.

 

As long as people are renting servers from hosting providers, servers will be hosted wont they? Especially considering the high fees a BF3 server commands. EA/DICE aren't paying for them.

Having said that I'd love it if players had access to server files again.

 

Gamespy 9.5/10 here
Gameinformer 9.5/10 Ici
IGN 9.0/10 yes
Joystiq 4.5/5 hola
1UP review (A-) Beware, Here be spoilers.

And lol, a 580 hooked up to 1680x1050?

And I'll leave you with this, feast your eyes:

 

new driver..


source

 

Nvidia BF3 recommended driver 285.62 Win7/Vista
64 bit
32 bit

 

PCGH warning for DX10 users:

 

Ugh, neliz, maybe you should sponsor me with a new GPU lol

*looks at his GTX 285* you better behave!

 

I'd have thought we should have heard about such a big problem from Nvidia users playing the Beta

Hopefully Nvidia users won't have to wait too long for a driver fix