EA Unlocks Bonus Bad Company 2 Vietnam Map for Everyone

[DannibalG36]

Bah! The console-playing peasants always get everything for free! Bah! Humbug!

Always appropriate.

Exactly what I was thinking.

Witcher review, correct?

 

[Brian Hendershot]

Dangit! Here I thought somewhere out there, other people besides me and my friends played Battlefield as a team on the Xbox instead of running around as assault classes and sniping people.

 

[fix-the-spade]

So, there we have it.

Proof that even if you make it worth their while to do so, you simply cannot force console players to work together, it's better to just not try.

It would have been far funnier if EA had made them reach the target.

 

[MrJKapowey]

They must have given up on the idea that console players are capable of team play

I second that. Console players would never be able to play properly as a team and get those 69 million team actions.

I`ll probably have to put on my flameshield for that one

Yup. I can get over 100 team actions in a normal match without trying. AND I'm not that good at BFBC2. Sadly I didn't download the map so. Meh, not all of us are twats who will get in a black hawk and take off with noone else in it when two dudes are running towards it.

So, there we have it.

Proof that even if you make it worth their while to do so, you simply cannot force console players to work together, it's better to just not try.

It would have been far funnier if EA had made them reach the target.

I don't have the DLC, probs won't get it so I don't care but why would it be 'funny'. Unless you are going to go around to a console BBC2 gamers house and watch him cry in agony over not playing Operation Hastings (unlikely).

 

[Korten12]

Pfft, please. PC gamers aren't the master race. The true master race are those of us with all 3 current-gen consoles and a gaming PC.

BOW DOWN BEFORE OUR GLORY!!

Don't own all three but close!

BOW BEFORE US! HYBRIDS UNITE!

 

[SomeUnregPunk]

So, there we have it.

Proof that even if you make it worth their while to do so, you simply cannot force console players to work together, it's better to just not try.

It would have been far funnier if EA had made them reach the target.

Xbox 360 gamers have amassed roughly 36.6 million collective team actions
PlayStation 3 crew has only managed 27.7 million.

.... if console players could not work together those totals would be at the zero mark.

 

[fix-the-spade]

Xbox 360 gamers have amassed roughly 36.6 million collective team actions
PlayStation 3 crew has only managed 27.7 million.

.... if console players could not work together those totals would be at the zero mark.

But how do you know that those 'team actions' are not simply the result of coincidences during play?

According to BC2's own site, there are substantially more players on both the PS3 and 360 versions than PC, about double the number for each console. Yet the number of team actions is massively lower, despite the total players being four times plus higher. The logical conclusion is that they are not conciously working together and that most team actions recorded are coincidence.

Two guys shoot at one target, one will get an assist, that will be recorded as a team action whether they co-ordinated or not. Similarly a guy spotting for points gets teams actions regardless of his motives. Any Battlefield 2 player will tell you to spot all the time anyway, even for no points it's vital.
That less than half as many players recorded more than double the number of team actions in the same period time indicates that either console players do not communicate/co-ordinate at all or (more reasonably) to a much, much lesser extent than PC gamers.

So I stand by my first statement, console gamers don't work together, even when it's worth their while.

 

[Numachuka]

Bah! The console-playing peasants always get everything for free! Bah! Humbug!

Always appropriate.

Exactly what I was thinking.

Witcher review, correct?

Yeah, that's the one. Thanks for reminding me Just watched it again

 

[SnowGrog]

According to BC2's own site, there are substantially more players on both the PS3 and 360 versions than PC, about double the number for each console. Yet the number of team actions is massively lower, despite the total players being four times plus higher. The logical conclusion is that they are not conciously working together and that most team actions recorded are coincidence.

Two guys shoot at one target, one will get an assist, that will be recorded as a team action whether they co-ordinated or not. Similarly a guy spotting for points gets teams actions regardless of his motives. Any Battlefield 2 player will tell you to spot all the time anyway, even for no points it's vital.
That less than half as many players recorded more than double the number of team actions in the same period time indicates that either console players do not communicate/co-ordinate at all or (more reasonably) to a much, much lesser extent than PC gamers.

So I stand by my first statement, console gamers don't work together, even when it's worth their while.

On their site, I can't find the number of players by platform. I'm able to find number of sales for BF: BC2 but not for the DLC. I am able to find the total time played by platform, however this does not seem to break down the figures since the 22nd.

In other words, I'm sure you tried, but the real data is not sufficient for you to really know. If it is, please link.

 

[linkvegeta]

Bah! The console-playing peasants always get everything for free! Bah! Humbug!

Always appropriate.

I wish, i have been trying pc gaming over and over again, but i can't seem to like it, i want to but it wont let me.

 

[gmaverick019_v1legacy]

jesus..

pc elitists obvious are pc elitists.

calm down, they were going to do this anyways no matter what, no matter who won in the first place.

so instead of acting all butthurt and superior over it, just enjoy the content.

 

[No_Remainders]

I don't really care. They would have done it eventually. The important thing we all have to remember is that PC gamers have defeated both Xbox 360 and PS3 gamers in this challenge. And some people have the nerve to say that PC gaming is dead.

Yeah, but then again, you've got to look at it this way.

On PC, people hack.

On console, they don't.

See the logic?

 

[MrJKapowey]

Its typical of EA though, to buckle under pressure. We work hard to unlock something, they give it away a few days later.

Hardly work hard. It would be work hard if it required something that you had to go out of your way to do. Team actions are almost on par with getting kills: there is NO hard work involved in getting it as that's what you do normally.

 

[Estocavio]

Its typical of EA though, to buckle under pressure. We work hard to unlock something, they give it away a few days later.

Hardly work hard. It would be work hard if it required something that you had to go out of your way to do. Team actions are almost on par with getting kills: there is NO hard work involved in getting it as that's what you do normally.

And clearly thats why we got it before the console gamers, who are supposed to outnumber us these days; According to them at least.

 

[MrJKapowey]

Its typical of EA though, to buckle under pressure. We work hard to unlock something, they give it away a few days later.

Hardly work hard. It would be work hard if it required something that you had to go out of your way to do. Team actions are almost on par with getting kills: there is NO hard work involved in getting it as that's what you do normally.

And clearly thats why we got it before the console gamers, who are supposed to outnumber us these days; According to them at least.

Not 'clearly'. If I go on the evidence of what I have seen then it is quite surprising, I'll get revived once every two or three deaths. At every dug in position there is at least one ammo box and one medikit. Often when I fly my transport out it is continually repaired by the passenger in the outer facing side.

I haven't seen any of this 'incapable of working as a team' BS. Where have the PC players been seeing it? WHen they play BBC2 on their console? When they play BBC2 at a friends house?

 

[Jaythulhu]

Actually that is pretty damn fucked up. Why make people work their asses off to achieve something if you're only going to give the reward away later to those who couldn't make the grade? To make them feel better about themselves?

Pathetic descision here by EA, but what should one expect from a company that pushes out crap title after crap title year after year just to appease the rabid fanbois?

 

[UnderCoverGuest]

I'm a PC Elitist and I've replied to this thread. Alternatively:

"I'm a PC Elitist, and this is my favorite thread on the Escapist."

 

[natster43]

I am disappointed kinda. I was actually working towards getting that level. But I guess getting it for free is good too. The sad thing is that is one of the few console games where people actually work together.