[Game] Battlefield 3

[EvilAmericanMan]

Good lawd no wonder I can't come to these forums anymore. Bout time I take another vacation from the pettyness over video games that is rampant here...

So now battlelog wants to reinstall the browser plug in that I already installed the first day I got it...and it undid all my filter settings. wtf? I wouldn't doubt if Firefox is to blame. Bloated crash prone POS browser...

 

[Colt .45 killer]

Haters gonna hate.

There was a beta open to all that ran for 7 days(?), plenty of time to decide whether to preorder or not.

I play a beta to help stress test games and find bugs and report them. As much as I disagree with lots of the things John Gibson has said, this is one place where I agree completely. Using betas as advertising is a bastardization of what they should be.

I did not feel like helping them bugtest Bf3, so I didn't bother playing the beta.

 

[Rak]

I play a beta to help stress test games and find bugs and report them. As much as I disagree with lots of the things John Gibson has said, this is one place where I agree completely. Using betas as advertising is a bastardization of what they should be.

I did not feel like helping them bugtest Bf3, so I didn't bother playing the beta.

I play betas to learn about a game and bugs aside, to decide whether it's promising or not. I leave the serious bugs testing to their dedicated testers.

You're doing it wrong.

 

[Zips]

I play betas to learn about a game and bugs aside, to decide whether it's promising or not. I leave the serious bugs testing to their dedicated testers.

You're doing it wrong.

Actually no, you are doing it wrong. You're treating beta releases as demos, which is wrong. This is the reason why so many people think that beta == demo any time they see the word, because of thinking like yours.

 

[Pagan]

you guys do like your arguements don`t you?

 

[Rak]

Actually no, you are doing it wrong. You're treating beta releases as demos, which is wrong. This is the reason why so many people think that beta == demo any time they see the word, because of thinking like yours.

I am fully aware that betas do not represent the final game. Though, I do know they give you a very good idea how they are going to be, and a feeling of the final gameplay. I'm not seeing anything wrong here.

Do not confuse me with the other people going "OMG SO MANY BUGSSS PERFORMANCE SUX, RPG OVERPOWERED, CANCELLED PREORDER".

 

[Colt .45 killer]

@ Zips: IF I wasnt out of +rep today, you would have just received one.


@ Rak: Not always mate. I was in on the Word in conflict closed Alpha, Closed beta and open beta. From the Closed alpha I thought "my goodness this game is EPIC!". That was because everyone had a mic and everyone was teamworking, the game was like crack. Also at that point all of the unit stats per side were mirrored. It was still good in the betas, but I really didnt like it as much when it hit release mainly because the player demographics had changed so much from the alpha stages where everyone was working as a team and with their mic's.

 

[Reise]

Actually no, you are doing it wrong. You're treating beta releases as demos, which is wrong. This is the reason why so many people think that beta == demo any time they see the word, because of thinking like yours.

These days it's hard not to treat them like demos though. "Betas" only last a short while and often become available to the public mere weeks before a game's release. That and any testing done on these "betas" is sparse at best.

They could make a polished no-nonsense demo for people to try out but that's just too much work for a lot of devs now I guess. Calling it a beta just absolves them of any blame if their beta (demo) happens to be a bug-ridden mess, and allows them to snag even more potential buyers before release all the same.

TBH I'd take these pre-release closed and open betas more seriously if every dev wasn't treating them like a demo. They can start by actually having a selection process rather than "Put your name in a hat and the first 10,000 we pick gets in! YAY!".

 

[Shepkoval]

No need for demos if you can trick people into preordering with so called bonuses, i.e., stuff you cut out of the game.

Spoiler!

As you can see, it worked.

 

[DraKon2k]

Yes, it's all fake, there's no seperate team working on B2K. They just thought they'd screw you over, cut that content from the main game, decided to release it 2 months later so it isn't as obvious. Wow. Paranoia par excellence.

 

[Verluste]

What language is this?

Battlefield 3 AAV + boat = winning - YouTube

At first I thought it was Scottish, than something Danish, than maybe Dutch but I gave up later on.

 

[Shepkoval]

Yes, it's all fake, there's no seperate team working on B2K. They just thought they'd screw you over, cut that content from the main game, decided to release it 2 months later so it isn't as obvious. Wow. Paranoia par excellence.

Glad we agree.

 

[Oldih]

Probably some obscure dutch dialect somewhere from Utrecht

 

[Verluste]

Probably some obscure dutch dialect somewhere from Utrecht

I iez Dutch ya knowz, I cant recognize it in a long shot.
Must be something Scandinavian. Finnish, maybe.

 

[tofupunk]

It's the ever so beautiful danish language.

 

[Grobut]

At first I thought it was Scottish, than something Danish, than maybe Dutch but I gave up later on.

It's Danish, as spoken by what sounds like a pimply faced 17 year old pothead (no really, he sounds baked).

 

[Flogger23m]

These days it's hard not to treat them like demos though. "Betas" only last a short while and often become available to the public mere weeks before a game's release. That and any testing done on these "betas" is sparse at best.

They could make a polished no-nonsense demo for people to try out but that's just too much work for a lot of devs now I guess. Calling it a beta just absolves them of any blame if their beta (demo) happens to be a bug-ridden mess, and allows them to snag even more potential buyers before release all the same.

TBH I'd take these pre-release closed and open betas more seriously if every dev wasn't treating them like a demo. They can start by actually having a selection process rather than "Put your name in a hat and the first 10,000 we pick gets in! YAY!".

The BF3 demo (and many of these other games) certainly do use it as a "demo" or marketing gimmick. TWI actually treated the beta like a beta.

 

[Colt .45 killer]

I added it for ya...

*durrr* it took me reading this yesterday and again today to realize you added the + rep, not the name of the game..
*facepalm*

 

[=GG= Mr Moe]

*durrr* it took me reading this yesterday and again today to realize you added the + rep, not the name of the game..
*facepalm*

Oh, now I get what you were saying!

 

[Dee0342]

Yesterday I was on top of the scoreboard with 20 kills en 0 deaths and with only 5 tickets to go and then got disconnected

For the rest of the games, they were really enjoyable and I really start to game more and more, even though I play the 'inferior' PS3 version.

Ps. You can get some crazy points for shooting targets over long ranges with a sniper, yesterday I shot a guy with a SVD over long range and get a marksman bonus of 221.