This is getting silly.
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This is getting silly.
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http://kotaku.com/5845851/frustrated...eful-community
LOL.
Quote:
About a week before the Battlefield 3 beta began, the game's community manager had decided he'd heard enough shrill complaining about the fact that "Operation Metro" and not some other map would the only one playable. And so he went off.
Rewind: Operation Metro was revealed to be the beta map on Sept. 20. Apparently, large numbers of forum goers thought some other map would be used, like one that allowed up to 64 players. The choice of Metro did not sit well with many, and the Battlefield forums were filled with great anger and profound disappointment. This is what Daniel Matros, DICE's global community manager for Battlefield 3, had to confront at the end of the day.
"Right now, I am not in the mood to even browse in here and check out most parts of the forum," Daniel Matros began on Sept. 20. Saying that "the beta is a privilege, not a right," unless you got a key with a pre-order, Matros ripped into the whiners, still with a measured tone that suggests he had to choose his words carefully.
"The vibe I'm getting now is just that tons of ungrateful people don't understand how much work we are putting on this game how many overtime hours we are doing and also how many meetings we are in to ship a game like this."
Matros thanked those who did provide constructive feedback. "To the rest of you—grow up."
Two replies later, proving his point, someone wrote: "Why aren't you releasing Caspian Border in the beta?"
It should be noted that although this thread no longer exists even a cursory Google search of the forums turns up threads backing Matros.
As for why they went with Operation Metro, not something else, well, it's a beta. "We have already showed this map and made some big changes to it to enhance gameplay as well as get it more fluent than in the Alpha," Matros explained later. "Lots of new things have been added in closer to launch. Our rank progression system as well as customizations have made their way into the beta and itīs very important for us to test these things before we launch. That is the purpose of the Beta as well as combining it with Battlelog and all of the features there. If you feel that this isnīt the right map for you, then perhaps we donīt really agree on what maps we want to see."
It is indeed hard not to be sympathetic. These games are not made by elves. We've heard plenty about "crunch" at the end of a development cycle, I'm sure the last thing anyone wants to deal with, amidst all of that, is inconsiderate sniping and snide questions from some entitled dickbag who is unhappy that the free thing he's being given isn't optimized for his comfort.
It is, however, rare to see this kind of thing play out, probably why the thread is gone. TheBattlefield 3 beta runs until Oct. 10. I hope everyone survives.
I saw this. They put out more friendly updates today. They also turned off terrain deformation to help the falling through the world thing as well as framerate issues and server side stuff. I hopped on and noticed zero of these changes. Glitchy as ever. Battlelog did seem to update better and servers refreshed as they should. Still has the firewall issue and the crazy spikes in framerate. This game has to be delayed. Other Battlefield betas have been this bad, but there were months between beta and release. This is the worst I've ever seen.
Also, Battlelog is a REALLY shitty way to handle a server browser and launching a game. Its the most ass-backward thing I've seen.
We managed to get 7 friends on one team tonight. Total domination. It was a beautiful thing.
The beta is very old folks. Some of the main DICE devs are now on vacation - the game is basically done. Mad tweaks and changes for patches no doubt lie ahead - as with all BF games. They said they are taking the retail game to the gaming press this upcoming week. Lots of news on the other maps soon.
That server update thing I posted wasnt a beta server update like I thought - it was a list of some stuff they fixed for the final (retail) version.
Saw this elsewhere. So true, so funny:
Played the BF3 beta yesterday on PS3/360. It looks like dogshit, plays like BC2, not very exciting at all. PC or nothing IMO, and even then I would wait a few months at least. I got both BC2 and BF2 well after release and it served me well.
Rage and BF3 off my list in a matter of about 4 hours, not bad at all.
The gunplay and movement isn't even comparable. I'll wait for the final version before making my final verdict. If I were judging betas(demos), I'd pick BC2.
I've heard lots of bad things about Rage, esp. the PC version.
Eh, close enough. Even if BF3 is better, I can't say it's whole new game better.
why would they need to delay it? they have already said that any of the bugs in the beta are fixed on the retail version so it wouldnt make any sensw to delay it.
I don't give a shit what they said.
I've cancelled my order for BF3. Like diff mentioned, I'll pick it up later if it proves to be worth it. Have no problem continuing to play and enjoy Gears 3 instead.