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@squirrelnacho said:

@Ahmad_Metallic:  Who?  I am getting the PC version.   I read the only the Conquest mode has 64 players, the rest will have fewer on the PC.

Oh, gotcha, thought you were the other guy with the hamburger avatar, the xbox guy. 
Yes, only Conquest 64 on the PC will have 64 players. your point? we're discussing conquest here right? 
 
@withateethuh said:

@Ahmad_Metallic said:

Haha, you're right, it's gonna be such a sad sight!  cars, jeeps, APCs, boats, jets, helicopters and tanks, and only 12 people a team to occupy them while still having people run on foot or snipe.. Damn that sounds eerie and boring. 
 
If it's any consolation, that map wasn't created on the PC first. It was created as a 24-player conquest map, with only 5 flags, all located in the center, and then some dead space was added around them to make the map able to absorb 40 more people for the PC..  The flashy graphics and fast action of the latest trailer was enough to rock people's socks off and dupe them.So hey, we get the big numbers, but you get the lead map design. I'd swap with you if I could!  Probably going to be the same for the rest of the maps (developed for consoles, with extra empty space for the 64 players on PC), so you're kinda winning here.

Source?

I have a perfectly good explanation based on days of conversing and analyzing, are you interested or do you only take sources?

They've already stated that their engine is placed all over server farms, so I can't imagine that it'd be easy for them to package it into a manageable tool. It comes down to "makes it easy for us" or "make it possible for everyone else to use too" and I guess they just went with the former. If anyone thinks they're entitled to mod tools, then go die. I know it's a shame that BF3 probably won't have them, but go die.

The rest of the tweet talks about more in-depth smithing and crafting, so it's not like they're throwing away repair and then being done with this aspect of the game. It's a refocus and calling this decision as "dumbing down" is, I think, a little silly.

Kane & Lynch had a really good one. 
I liked Hive. 
Same for Afterlife. 
The ones in Bloodlines are alright, but I love that game, so I'll add this too.

There is no magical line. The room should have a bomb in it with many hostages screaming your ear off to disable the bomb. I got there by taking a vent in one of the corners of the room, leading me to the ceiling, which let me bypass the patrols and allowed to save them without much of a hassle.

I'll just leave this here...
  

  This made me garner respect for Activision a TINY bit. He is right.

I just like how it went from basically calling Battlefield 3 a joke based on speculative information, incomplete builds and extreme assumptions to bowing down to DICE as if it were a god.

But they won't know that until after they buy it!