DICE Threatens Bans For Playing on Modded Battlefield 3 Servers
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"but just threatening to relieve gamers of every EA-registered game they own for what is undeniably a relatively minor infraction of the rules is a terrible way to treat your fans and potential customers."
Yes, well... this IS how EA deals with any and all "infractions". They have never ever been reasonable or easy going on their customers...
Yes, well... this IS how EA deals with any and all "infractions". They have never ever been reasonable or easy going on their customers...
I know this is only Beta but it is really cunty and I have been quite relatively lenient with my flames towards EA aside from the server browser but this is a bit far. Mods have always been part of PC games and now they are basically turning slowly but surely into the Activision of yester year with what they did with MW2. I as far as I know BF has never had a particularly big mod scene compared to other games but banning people for playing on unofficial servers which are actually help to test the game and see what it can handle is mind-blowingly stupid.
I think whoever decided this and that punishment needs a smack.
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-41MwY2lzNYU/TfgWWWRD6MI/AAAAAAAAAyU/R9ByeqQcIs4/s320/spiderman-meme-generator-im-seriously-bout-to-slap-a-*****-351d13.png
Edit: Just to extend this I could understand if it was a glitched server with increased poitns or something like that but this is just a higher player cap.
I think whoever decided this and that punishment needs a smack.
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-41MwY2lzNYU/TfgWWWRD6MI/AAAAAAAAAyU/R9ByeqQcIs4/s320/spiderman-meme-generator-im-seriously-bout-to-slap-a-*****-351d13.png
Edit: Just to extend this I could understand if it was a glitched server with increased poitns or something like that but this is just a higher player cap.
Nothing except for all games you have bought using Origin?cursedseishi said:
OK, so suck it console gamers and your dedicated servers. Look at us PC gamers now, being thrown into random servers that fits our criteria with no control over it. Doesn't seem so bad now, does it?
This makes me wonder what the fuck they are thinking. There's no way of choosing where you end up, if that server has been modded how can you tell without seeing the server list? How can you get on an official server if you can't pick which one to use? First taking away ability to pick your server, then banning people for playing on the wrong server. This is probably the dumbest thing I've seen out of EA/DICE.
That's probably the biggest reason (even bigger than Origin and my lack of a console) for why I'm going to spend all my Battlefield time I ever end up spending with Bad Company 2. Or just standard BF2 if that's better.Kalezian said:
Agreed. I didn't actually think of it that way, but that's definitely another point against random server selection and PC Battlefield 3 (even though the PC is supposed to be Battlefield's core demographic...clearly DICE think that, but EA would rather go directly head-to-head with Modern Warfare and inevitably fail.)Yopaz said:
I think you just made my day. And gave me a reason to prefer all those older games, which will probably also become taboo once our new gaming overlords come into their own rather than just hiding in shadows installing DRM.internetzealot1 said:
Wait, didn't EA flat out say that they wouldn't be locking people out of their other games, even if banned from one game? Even though the TOS gave them that "right"? Well, kind of proves what I said before, if they mean it, they need to put it in writing. And if they put it in writing, assume they mean to do it.
EA's suckage continues to increase
EA's suckage continues to increase
It's hard to define, but it seems like the general consensus is that it's okay to mod as long as the things you get from modding don't carry over into other matches. For example, you can make a CoD map where everyone has jetpacks and unlimited ammo, but playing on that won't give you any advantage on a normal server. Compare that to something like WoW, where your character getting a +5 Sword of Stabbity will affect how you play in normal gameplay. (Yes, I know that you can unlock stuff faster in modded CoD maps, but it's incredibly easy to do that through normal play so it doesn't really count)ssgt splatter said:
More to the point, modding is wonderful way to extend the life of a game. Without modding games like Fallout and Left 4 Dead would dry out much faster. Some of my favorite memories of those games come from the minds of regular people messing around with the modding code. Like the complete replication of Silent Hill 1 in L4D. Yes.
Modding is a staple of PC gaming, after all.
Battlefield will help itself by allowing modding, but it's doubtful that it will happen because then players won't feel as pressured to buy their new map packs.
This is beta that most people take seriously as if it were a demo. If DICE and EA knew what was good for them they would let people play however they want and they would release Caspian Border for everyone. A lot of people already canceled their pre-order because Metro is fuckin' boring and they think beta is a demo. EA and DICE are shooting themselves in the foot with their control freak attitude.
as soon as I saw this news, I took out Sonic 06, started playing it, and said, "This is much better than Battlefield 3!"
and I don't regret that.
and I don't regret that.
But nowadays every company feels that you don't pay for a physical/digital copy, you are only renting "rights" to play the game.lordlillen said:
By installing the game you have agreed to all that EULA and ToS they want. It's a lose-lose situation.
*Insert "it's the end of PC gaming"/"The industry is falling apart"/"We need to boycott X" post here*
So, I pay $60 for a game, but I can only play it the way they want, where they want, when they want, and if I don't they steal the game back from me, and any other games using that account?
Don't get me wrong, cheaters are problems, but just PLAYING on a modded map? If I'm not mistaken, didn't they used to SUPPORT the modding community? Hell, I still enjoy both official AND modded maps in Team Fortress 2 because there are some crazy mod maps with crazy mod rules that give the game far more legs and life than if those maps and players weren't there.
This seems messed up.
Don't get me wrong, cheaters are problems, but just PLAYING on a modded map? If I'm not mistaken, didn't they used to SUPPORT the modding community? Hell, I still enjoy both official AND modded maps in Team Fortress 2 because there are some crazy mod maps with crazy mod rules that give the game far more legs and life than if those maps and players weren't there.
This seems messed up.