OXCGN:
"Fans of the FPS genre (and good multiplayer in general) rejoiced today when DICE officially released the teaser trailer for the long-awaited Battlefield 3. I don’t know about you, but quite frankly, all this scattered information is kind of overwhelming.
"As a result, in this piece I’ll be detailing every single thing we know so far about Battlefield 3 and what DICE is up to.
First, we’ll start with the trailer."
EA is laying off an unknown number of individuals from across its Battlefield teams, including workers at Criterion, Dice, Ripple Effect, and Motive Studios, IGN understands.
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When logic meets EA it generates anti-matter ..... so try not to apply it in any meaningful way. Entropy is what matters in there !!
cue the apologist saying that these are mostly just contractors hired for this specific project bla bla bla
The free-to-play reboot topped 15 million players in under three weeks, but EA now claims it needs to reshape the development team.
The community warned them this would happen but nope they knew better they continued with the live service push the made the art style cartoonish and this is the result
It's always so bizarre when studios announce something super early in development under the suggestion of forming the game to player feedback, and then they push against all feedback heading straight for the cliff while everyone is warning them along the way
The Congressional Labor Caucus sent a letter to the FTC warning the debt-financed, largely PIF-owned deal could be bad news for workers
lol ya think? they're sending all that work to the cheaper labor market as soon as possible. and FYI, that labor market has exploded in the last 5-10 years. They have enough people to replace every single job. But honestly, EA is over filled with useless upper management as it is. You could probably trim 25% of their staff with no real loss in production. They aren't gamers, they're business execs. Just look at how many AI related jobs they're already starting to post. Its also hilarious that PIF owns Battle field 6
Wait,
The same congress that attacked Lina Khan when she fought the Microsoft Activision purchase.
The same congress that allowed Disney to buy 90% of Fox
The same congress that allowed Liv Golf to buy the PGA
The same congress that sits back while Paramount tries a hostile takeover despite losing the bid for Warner Bros.
NOW, the suddenly cares about doing what's "right" for works? Yeah, right.
EA now owned by The Saudis and Ubisoft to inevitably be owned by China. In hindsight, once EA and Ubisoft started having their financial woes, they should have pulled a Koei Tecmo/Bandai Namco by merging their operations into one.
BF3 is most certainly already looking to be my favorite multiplayer title yet. I haven't played a multiplayer game for extended periods of time since Battlefield 2, so this should further enhance the year that is 2011!
I will be buying it instead of cod although i stopped buying cod after waw.
Oh they just HAD to put New York in there...I was just getting encouraged that finally games were leaving that environment...
Still it sounds like a lot of urban warfare over open battlefields? At least there is also a single player to it, let's just hope it isn't just tacked on.
Ah, They forgot to include this little thing I found on the net, from one of EA's Image Hosters :)
http://drh.img.digitalriver...
Zoom in to the bottom right hand corner to see what I'm talking about *cough* Karkand + 3 BF2 Maps *cough*.
this game is making me drool.