It sounds like only death animation are changing.

Where does it say the actual graphics change?

The impression I get is that they're referring to the timing and speed of animations. This is akin to using different animations for a cutscene than for in game. While its nice having long drawn out animations for dramatic effect it doesn't work as well when gameplay is contingent upon an animation cycle completing. Things like exiting tank animations, manning a gun turret etc. can look better with flair. However when there's a player on the other end waiting for his avatar to hurry the f*ck up and get the hell out of the burning tank its better for gameplays sake to hurry the cycle up.

Not sure where you buy your games but 99 percent of new PC games including EA are at least $10 cheaper at retail. I buy plenty of games. Sometimes console and PC versions of the same game.

When you factor in great online retailers like Steam, you get 50-75 percent off different games on a daily bases.

Maybe Battlefield 3 will be a different story but from my experience PC gaming is a lot cheaper when buying games.

@caperjim

What?!?!? Almost all new EA games are/where $60 when they came out!

Dragon age 2
Deap space 2
Crysis 2
Bulletstorm
Battlefield 3
etc..

Plus Many multi plats are going $60 too.

Dont know what all the disagrees are all about, its pretty obvious that most games will be $60 on pc soon.

@ caperjim

that is patently un-true. almost all new EA games come out at $60, and a lot of activision games come out at that price for pc as well.

When the new console generation started they claimed the price hike to be production expenses, and licensing fees. But both of those companies, along with others have decided pc gamers deserve a price hike as well.

On a side note. If you ask me a d/l copy of a game should be $40-$50 seeing as how they dont pay for shipping, packaging, instructions, or a physical disk.

Depends where you live, where I stay EA pc games are the same as other pc games and the console versions are more expensive.

Well, here in the US EA likes to get every bit of money for their products so they DO charge a higher price for most of their pc games, which really sucks (digital and retail). I see no reason for it since developers get more money out of digital distribution anyways.

But what I am getting at is that I know many pc games in the US are indeed going to $60. I have no clue about other regions of the world but I think the $10 raise is unnecessary.

Most of the PC games I see via Steam, assuming they aren't collector's editions or something of that nature, remain at the $50 price tag when first released.

Now, granted I tend to wait several months for the price to drop, so I can't be fully certain, but I only know of a couple of PC games released at $60. Modern Warfare 2, StarCraft II, (though not a Steam game), and Dragon Age 2.

Now, there is a bit of a difference between EA and Activision in their dealings with Digital Distributors, such as Steam. Again this is just observation. I'm not big on tactical/realistic military shooters, but I do have a very strong bias against the general greed-mongering and franchise-milking of Activision.

Keeping that in mind, I've seen numerous EA games hit the varied sales pages over the last few months with the very nice, above 50% off mark. I can't think of a single time this was true of any Activision game. The Modern Warfare's were on sale a while back, but it was to my recollection only 25%, and I still thought their list price was too high to begin with.

This seems to be more in tune with their business model.