Altorin said:
lol, your letter sort of fell apart at the end when you started kissing their ass
DICE = The developer who is responsible for creating the excellent Battlefield series since forever. Receives all of my ass-kisses for making what has remained my favorite FPS series for years.
EA = The publisher who is responsible for distributing and promoting the excellent Battlefield series, recently in the stupidest ways conceivable. Can kiss my ass for completely cocking up an otherwise pristine experience.
Please do not conflate the two, as one is objectively better than the other.
Racecarlock said:
Oh my god this thread is so original! No, really! This totally isn't the 32nd thread about ea being evil this week.
You are implying that I'm jumping on a bandwagon when the subject is entirely about being
personally inconvenienced by the aforementioned publisher. If being exasperated by the problems I've encountered can be considered "unoriginal", I would consider that a testament to how many other people have decided first-hand that EA's business conduct is sorely lacking.
If it helps, though, I can ask EA to make my next poor experience with them as unique as possible.
NLS said:
Also, that means there's been a bunch of updates, patches and DLC released since October last year. Which is why you had to download all that extra stuff before you could play.
I'm afraid you misread the OP and may have assumed this was the first Battlefield game I've ever purchased. I am no stranger to the endless chain of sequential patches normally required to catch up with the game and am willing to tolerate it when it's necessary (I have to do it every time I get nostalgic and pop in one of the previous Battlefield games). What actually occurred was Origin deciding that the game DVDs I bought were worthless and made me wait five hours to download all 11gb of the
actual game, from the engine to the textures, despite my explicit attempt to obtain a physical copy (that apparently will never install without an internet connection, a shitload of bandwidth and enough time to make a potroast).
But nice to see that you enjoyed the game itself in the end. Battlelog can feel like a step backwards at times, but the game experience itself is worth it in my opinion.
Absolutely am enjoying it, since EA can't do much to bungle the gameplay itself (which as I've stated, is amazing... in multiplayer, at least). I still stand by my opinion that Battlelog is ridiculous and clumsy compared to the traditional hard-coded UI, but I will concede one thing: being able to pop into a game whenever I want without having to leave a processor-devouring program running in the background is kinda sweet.
Owyn_Merrilin said:
Honestly, OP, while I agree that this is shitty, I have to ask how you bought BF3 this far after launch day without knowing about Origin. The DRM was well documented before it was released, let alone afterwards.
I knew Origin was shit, but I had it figured for a bloated Steam with terrible prices and a touch of spyware. What I didn't expect was for it to be poorly-coded and actively hinder my ability to play the game until certain compatibility issues were resolved by the user. I realize the initial uproar came and went with the surge of purchases following its release, but I only recently had enough money in my budget to pick it up for myself and I don't believe my status as a late-adopter disqualifies me from taking issue with the same poor experience everyone else apparently had.