This is a small story that I found interesting.

"And [EA] still has the Vietnam DLC pack due up this month, targeted specifically to go after the Call of Duty: Black Ops market."

This is a quote from the Shaknews article, as I don't have a direct quote.

That statement was in a financial call in which EA CFO talked about money they were making through digital sales. Battlefield: 1943 made $16 million, with a budget in the single-digit millions.

They also attribute money from BC2 coming from a "continuous stream" of DLC.

The Black Ops market is the MW2 Market which is the anything thats CoD market. 
 
I don't know many people who play both BF:BC2 and the CoD games. Maybe 2. I doubt Vietnam is going to entice any of the Blops market to switch.  
 
I myself however am Excited to vietnam!

I own Black Ops and will be getting Vietnam. I don't think that's really saying much though. :p

I don't think that taking a game that plays pretty differently from another game, and then making look sort of like the second game will attract as many people as they think. 

Aren't they getting tired of copying COD, I mean really COD does modern warfare, BF has to do it, now COD does Vietnam and now BF wants to do it.  Can't they come up with there own freakin ideas so we can have 2 different types of games!!!

" I don't think that taking a game that plays pretty differently from another game, and then making look sort of like the second game will attract as many people as they think.  "

" Aren't they getting tired of copying COD, I mean really COD does modern warfare, BF has to do it, now COD does Vietnam and now BF wants to do it.  Can't they come up with there own freakin ideas so we can have 2 different types of games!!! "

" Aren't they getting tired of copying COD, I mean really COD does modern warfare, BF has to do it, now COD does Vietnam and now BF wants to do it.  Can't they come up with there own freakin ideas so we can have 2 different types of games!!! "

Doesn't really annoy me. More Vietnam games are good.

" @agentboolen said:

" Aren't they getting tired of copying COD, I mean really COD does modern warfare, BF has to do it, now COD does Vietnam and now BF wants to do it.  Can't they come up with there own freakin ideas so we can have 2 different types of games!!! "

Other than the particular setting in the Vietnam add on Battlfield has done a lot of stuff prior to COD, (included the original bf vietnam back in 2004) .. COD is acutally a clon of CS which came back in 98, COD used to be a no one cares WW2 shooter after BF2 success they went "modern" with COD4.. perhaps you should know about FPS before posting dumb shit in the internet.   Anyway COD and Battlefield are two diferent animals, I don't understand why people keep comparing them, other than they "Modern Warfare" shooters, gameplay, design, and general tone are really diferent.  "

" @agentboolen said:

" Aren't they getting tired of copying COD, I mean really COD does modern warfare, BF has to do it, now COD does Vietnam and now BF wants to do it.  Can't they come up with there own freakin ideas so we can have 2 different types of games!!! "

Other than the particular setting in the Vietnam add on Battlfield has done a lot of stuff prior to COD, (included the original bf vietnam back in 2004) .. COD is acutally a clon of CS which came back in 98, COD used to be a no one cares WW2 shooter, then after BF2 success they went "modern" with COD4.. perhaps you should know about FPS before posting dumb shit in the internet.  "

I don't want to sound like an elitest jerk by saying this, but if mainstream CoD players gave BFBC2 a chance and worked out how to be a team and play the game, then they'll realise what a proper FPS is, oh, and we wouldn't have FUCKING montages on the interwebz anym0re!

As long as 'Nam games continue to have healthy doses of Deep Purple, CCR and Iron Butterfly, I am one happy hippy gamer.

" @Gizmo: You forgot the obligatory Sympathy For The Devil by Rolling Stones "

I own Black Ops and I've put that mutha up on the virtual shelf with BC2:V pre-ordered. Six days until pre-order launch, if I read things right when I hit the EA Store.
 
And I don't think this was made to go for the Blops market in the first place. BF's been WW2, Vietnam, present and future. Future was a dump, WW2 is covered by 1943, present is done, Vietnam is the only thing left.

" @DonPixel said:

" @agentboolen said:

" Aren't they getting tired of copying COD, I mean really COD does modern warfare, BF has to do it, now COD does Vietnam and now BF wants to do it.  Can't they come up with there own freakin ideas so we can have 2 different types of games!!! "

Other than the particular setting in the Vietnam add on Battlfield has done a lot of stuff prior to COD, (included the original bf vietnam back in 2004) .. COD is acutally a clon of CS which came back in 98, COD used to be a no one cares WW2 shooter after BF2 success they went "modern" with COD4.. perhaps you should know about FPS before posting dumb shit in the internet.   Anyway COD and Battlefield are two diferent animals, I don't understand why people keep comparing them, other than they "Modern Warfare" shooters, gameplay, design, and general tone are really diferent.  "

Could not have said it better myself. What I noticed that CoD player who come to BFBC2 have a hard time adjusting to the style of the game as it's so much different. The BFBC2 design completely negates the CoD design philosophy which in turn makes them to either say that the game SUXS or they just end up playing Team DM.  "

" @agentboolen said:

" Aren't they getting tired of copying COD, I mean really COD does modern warfare, BF has to do it, now COD does Vietnam and now BF wants to do it.  Can't they come up with there own freakin ideas so we can have 2 different types of games!!! "

I think you got it backwards. BF had almost all of COD's big ideas first. COD4 wouldn't have been what it was if BF2 hadn't paved the way.  It seems EA is photocopying an already photocopied idea they had to begin with. "

I hope not. BFBC2 tends to have more team oriented players, where COD has a lot more selfish bitch ass kids.

EA needs to stop saying stuff like this. They did the same thing with BFBC2 and it just comes off as some younger brother trying to live an older brothers life, but just not as good. 
 
(note that when I say not as good I mean sales wise, I play both games but prefer battlefield.)

It's just strange that, to "corporate EA", there is no difference between someone who plays Battlefield and someone who plays Call of Duty. 
 
The guy who made the comment was clearly thinking from a business perspective of things...

Well I own BLOPS and enjoy it and will get the Vietnam-expansion. It is really not saying much. I owned every current-generation console game of both series. I kind of enjoy Battlefield more, because I like more "real" objective based gameplay. Strangely CoD got the better carrot on a stick with all the prestiges and challenges. (I do not have a clan or anything.)

While during my sixth prestige on Modern Shitstain 2 I saw Bad Company 2 at my local video store, 
after seeing the war between them on the internet I decided to give it a try,  I was hooked during my first game.
 
The main difference I notice  is that in COD the multiplayer is suppose to test how YOU play, I have been in many search games where one guy kills everyone on the enemy team and I just sit there hoping I get to actually shoot someone or plant a bomb. While in Battlefield it actually feels like a (you know it) battlefield. You have mortars falling, helicopters flying over you, tanks destroying building, rockets flying over your head, and soldiers running into the enemy fighting till their last breath.   
 
So

i like battlefield so much i bought bad company 2, twice (one on xbox, then when i finally got a pc capable of running it on pc)

I used to be a big COD fan and thought BF looked clunky and boring. After getting it last week and playing it, it is probaly the second best online game Ive ever played next to Starcraft. The COD series is just ridicously boring now in my opinion. Too many gimmicks and rewarding bad play. In this game it feels like anytime you help your team your actually making a differance and get rewards for it. Also seems like the best team always wins and not some gimmicky shit like in COD.
 
Anyway is Vietnam worth picking up? Hows it differant from the normal multiplayer?