I understand most of you are pumped for a true battlefield sequel, I am too, but the hype is too damn much, we are setting ourselves up for disappointment. 
 

• DICE hasn't made even a PC oriented game since BF2142- Bad Company 2 was a PC port through and through, the models weren't changed in any way to accommodate different resolutions, for the first few weeks the game was out the server browser was so broken it had to be completely revamped and for many it still does not work, it didn't allow for any sort of save system in the singleplayer other than the one autosave you had and the mechanics of the shooting were simplified even beyond what Call of Duty was doing. (No leaning, no prone, simple things that simply weren't implemented.) It lacked support for Voice chat except in very rare cases (In 100 hours of play, ive heard maybe 3 people with mics in-game, and fromw hat I hear it doesn't usually work for anyone.) and the friends feature was almost non existent on PC. also the dedicated server feature was still under EA's direct control. Continually in the ad's leading up to Bad Company 2, they said they were making a push to impove the game for the PC audience, but they didn't, i guess multiple monitor support was kinda cool for the 4 people who have them.
• EA never got it's COD killer, and you can bet that they still want it- Medal of Honor was a bust, and although Bad Company did well on PC it did worse on consoles, the exact market EA needs to be able to break into with an FPS of their own. A pure Battlefield sequel on a console could work from EA's perspective to steal some of Activision's audience. DICE is the only developer they have actively working for them that could possibly counter Call of Duty. Also, its been said that DICE has "set their sights on Call of Duty"
• $60 dollar, multiplayer only games do not work- EA would be out of their mind to release a full priced cross platform game without a single player experience, if there is a singleplayer experience the multiplayer will ultimately suffer for it. I am of the belief that Bad Company 2 had the worst singleplayer campaign of the last few years. We are the only people who would pay full price for a game with just multiplayer, the average and somewhat informed consumer (The one who plays Call of Duty) will want more than just an online experience. It will either cost forty bucks and be multiplayer only or it will be full price and have both. 
• The console is where the money is- I love PC gaming, and it is by no where near dead, but there are alot of dudes with xbox's and PS3's, Bad Company 2 only did as good as it did because its been so long since a Battlefield game was on a PC and MW2 had turned away a fair number of PC players. Taking another swing at the console market after Bad Company 2 would be well worth the effort. Infinity Ward was a PC developer not too long ago...
• You people want too damn much- Seriously, this is the biggest issue with all the hype, you people are out of your minds, i've seen so many posts about what each person wants to see in this game that it doesn't seem imaginable, your unending wishlists of what should happen don't coincide with anything a large modern developer would create, it has to cater to everyone, not just PC players and without making 2 separate games all the complexity we want and all the simplicity consoles demand cannot coexist beneath the same brand name. Raising the player cap, adding unlocks, new maps as well as your favorite maps from games past, support for all your PC inputs and friends lists and a million different vehicles, lots of different guns, destructibility, multiple player classes, the ability to dig a hole with a grenade launcher: these are some of the things ive seen, including all of them would mean this game wouldn't come out for a very long time.

DICE made 2142 after BF2 and it was PC only. Not to mention awesome. But yeah, fewer expectations = less disappointment.

" DICE made 2142 after BF2 and it was PC only. Not to mention awesome. But yeah, fewer expectations = less disappointment. "

" @Mikemcn: @MrKlorox said:

" DICE made 2142 after BF2 and it was PC only. Not to mention awesome. But yeah, fewer expectations = less disappointment. "

this it always annoys me how people just completely forgot about 2142... truth is it was a really good game even if not quite as good as bf2 "

...if this game only has 32v32 for PC, we'll know if they really care about PC gamers.  Also, if they don't have jets...people will flip shit. 
 
EDIT:  We shall find out tomorrow if DICE is keeping their word when they said BF3 was built for the PC.

The only thing I disagree with is when you say people won't pay 60 bucks for a MP game. Most people online in ALL the major shooters haven't played campaign.

" @Mikemcn: It says on GameInformer that it will have a single player campaign and also, you can count the people who actually care about single player in COD. "

Medal of Honor may have been a critical bust, but it sold just fine.

Well the reason we are hyping it cause WELL HAVE YOU EVER PLAYED BATTLEFIELD FUCKING 2. Still to this day i can hop on and have a grand ol fucken happy fucken meal time.

" @awesomeusername said:

" @Mikemcn: It says on GameInformer that it will have a single player campaign and also, you can count the people who actually care about single player in COD. "

Got a link? All the previous real battlefield games had a "singleplayer" option, and it was anything but a campaign. It was just bots on the smallest incarnations of the maps for the sake of training. Did it actually use the word "campaign"? "

The fact that BF3 is going to be on consoles automatically makes it worse than what it would be if it was a PC exclusive. I'm not saying it will be bad... it will just be less than what it could be. 
 
@MrKlorox said:

" @awesomeusername said:

" @Mikemcn: It says on GameInformer that it will have a single player campaign and also, you can count the people who actually care about single player in COD. "

Got a link? All the previous real battlefield games had a "singleplayer" option, and it was anything but a campaign. It was just bots on the smallest incarnations of the maps for the sake of training. Did it actually use the word "campaign"? "

  You'll have to read the magazine to get the dirt on what DICE has in store for the single-player and multiplayer modes, but check back here and visit the  official Battlefield 3 site  tomorrow to watch the premiere teaser trailer and glean a few more key details. 

You'll have to read the magazine to get the dirt on what DICE has in store for the single-player and multiplayer modes, but check back here and visit the official Battlefield 3 site tomorrow to watch the premiere teaser trailer and glean a few more key details.

Frequent the Battlefield 3 hub throughout the month of February for more exclusive features about the highly anticipated shooter coming to the PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, PC.

that just totally shat all over my soul and fucked the spirit out of it.. 
so sad yet so true.. 
 
 
so im never gonna have the BF3 ive dreamed of for years and its just a thing of the past? ok ....

Why should we calm the hype down???? If anything we should vamp it up so there's no mistake in what we want!  If there's no hype, then why would they put effort into making it the awesome sequel to BF2 that we have waited for?  If we don't give them endless lists of wishes, then why should they even bother to make BF3 in the first place since everyone apparently was satisfied enough with BF2?  I say pump the hype up instead. Show DICE and EA that the PC version is still a force to be reckoned with.
 
Also I still think EA sit on their COD contender with MOH. It wasn't as much of a bust as you claim. It has sold 5 million copies and I'm pretty sure that's enough for them to have a second go at it and sort out the problems.
Heard Danger Close is hiring people so that has to be a sign if anything. 
 
I don't know I just can't give EA the investment bash just yet until I've seen more details. They've worked with DICE for so long now and they've not thrown out bad games together. Average sure, but not bad. Bad Company 2 on the PC hasn't exactly been a bad investment either. When looking at BFBCS and the registered accounts they have there, the PC version only trails after the 360 version with 200k players while the PS3 version is a good 500k behind. Whether you personally think the game is terrible or not is up to you, but it's certainly not a game that hasn't been popular on the PC.

" I understand most of you are pumped for a true battlefield sequel, I am too, but the hype is too damn much, we are setting ourselves up for disappointment. 
 

• DICE hasn't made even a PC oriented game since BF2142- Bad Company 2 was a PC port through and through, t he models weren't changed in any way to accommodate different resolutions, for the first few weeks the game was out the server browser was so broken it had to be completely revamped and for many it still does not work, it didn't allow for any sort of save system in the singleplayer other than the one autosave you had and the mechanics of the shooting were simplified even beyond what Call of Duty was doing. (No leaning, no prone, simple things that simply weren't implemented.) It lacked support for Voice chat except in very rare cases (In 100 hours of play, ive heard maybe 3 people with mics in-game, and fromw hat I hear it doesn't usually work for anyone.) and the friends feature was almost non existent on PC. also the dedicated server feature was still under EA's direct control. Continually in the ad's leading up to Bad Company 2, they said they were making a push to impove the game for the PC audience, but they didn't, i guess multiple monitor support was kinda cool for the 4 people who have them.

Don't tell other people what to do. Just because you are really picky and demanding doesn't mean other people can't be excited for something. And you won't stop most people from ultimately enjoying the game when it comes out, regardless of how much you bitch and moan.

GET HYPE!!!

Hype is a good thing, gets investors juices flowing and gets feedback to DICE.  If you do not want hype, you are lowering the chances of BF3 being better.....
 
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" I understand most of you are pumped for a true battlefield sequel, I am too, but the hype is too damn much, we are setting ourselves up for disappointment. 
 

• DICE hasn't made even a PC oriented game since BF2142- Bad Company 2 was a PC port through and through, the models weren't changed in any way to accommodate different resolutions, for the first few weeks the game was out the server browser was so broken it had to be completely revamped and for many it still does not work, it didn't allow for any sort of save system in the singleplayer other than the one autosave you had and the mechanics of the shooting were simplified even beyond what Call of Duty was doing. (No leaning, no prone, simple things that simply weren't implemented.) It lacked support for Voice chat except in very rare cases (In 100 hours of play, ive heard maybe 3 people with mics in-game, and fromw hat I hear it doesn't usually work for anyone.) and the friends feature was almost non existent on PC. also the dedicated server feature was still under EA's direct control. Continually in the ad's leading up to Bad Company 2, they said they were making a push to impove the game for the PC audience, but they didn't, i guess multiple monitor support was kinda cool for the 4 people who have them.
• EA never got it's COD killer, and you can bet that they still want it- Medal of Honor was a bust, and although Bad Company did well on PC it did worse on consoles, the exact market EA needs to be able to break into with an FPS of their own. A pure Battlefield sequel on a console could work from EA's perspective to steal some of Activision's audience. DICE is the only developer they have actively working for them that could possibly counter Call of Duty. Also, its been said that DICE has "set their sights on Call of Duty"
• $60 dollar, multiplayer only games do not work- EA would be out of their mind to release a full priced cross platform game without a single player experience, if there is a singleplayer experience the multiplayer will ultimately suffer for it. I am of the belief that Bad Company 2 had the worst singleplayer campaign of the last few years. We are the only people who would pay full price for a game with just multiplayer, the average and somewhat informed consumer (The one who plays Call of Duty) will want more than just an online experience. It will either cost forty bucks and be multiplayer only or it will be full price and have both. 
• The console is where the money is- I love PC gaming, and it is by no where near dead, but there are alot of dudes with xbox's and PS3's, Bad Company 2 only did as good as it did because its been so long since a Battlefield game was on a PC and MW2 had turned away a fair number of PC players. Taking another swing at the console market after Bad Company 2 would be well worth the effort. Infinity Ward was a PC developer not too long ago...
• You people want too damn much- Seriously, this is the biggest issue with all the hype, you people are out of your minds, i've seen so many posts about what each person wants to see in this game that it doesn't seem imaginable, your unending wishlists of what should happen don't coincide with anything a large modern developer would create, it has to cater to everyone, not just PC players and without making 2 separate games all the complexity we want and all the simplicity consoles demand cannot coexist beneath the same brand name. Raising the player cap, adding unlocks, new maps as well as your favorite maps from games past, support for all your PC inputs and friends lists and a million different vehicles, lots of different guns, destructibility, multiple player classes, the ability to dig a hole with a grenade launcher: these are some of the things ive seen, including all of them would mean this game wouldn't come out for a very long time.

 I really hope im wrong on every single point above, but it just doesn't seem realistic for BF3 to be anywhere near what we truly want. I see 3 options, one, we are truly disappointed, two, BF3 is just BF2 HD (starcraft 2 style), or three, they pull a civ 5 and simplify the game, keeping much of the complexity for some people but clearing out most of it in favor of more approachability.   Don't fuck up DICE.  "

This better not be a lousy game. I have high hopes.....
 
:(

BFBC2 looked beautiful on the PC and played better with mouse, keyboard and dedicated lag-free servers.  I own the PS3 and the PC version.  The only thing that sucked (until they added maps from BFBC1) was the lack of open maps.  Everything was cramped.  ...the (EDIT) two broken things about the PC version were the support for 64 bit XP which they never intended to add, as well as broken gamepad support (which would be nice for vehicles and such).