Trade In Battlefield 3 And Get Modern Warfare 3 For 99p

[Bvenged]

There are people who are going to play BF3 on a console?

Hah!

Look at it this way: Console gamers don't have to go to a fucking website or download Origin to play. And they get a server list inside the game.

I was going to buy it on console, since my PC hasn't been upgraded since WoW: TBC, but now I'm just holding off since to the sheer amount of problems I encountered with the beta in-game. I do not believe all will be fixed by release so I'm going to buy it in a month or 2 after release.

Modern Warfare 3 can go fuck itself though. In the mean time I've sacrificed multiplayer, even displeasing my friends, for Skyrim. If they really want to play online with me, they can come around my house for some Gears 3 or I'll play some Reach online with them.

 

[Throwitawaynow]

You mean there is a difference between the two games? I figured they were the same old generic platformer that's been regurgitated out by lazy developers for the past [/b]three decades[/b] in shiny new packages. I suppose your average platformer fan these days isn't bright enough to notice though. Then again your average paltformer fan these days probably isn't capable of reading the advert . . .

All that being said, it sure would be swell if developers would stop tripping over themselves to be the first in line to blow the knuckle dragging unwashed masses and actually produce games of substance again. That'd just be fucking awesome.

People really need to stop making fun of nintendo, they have a loyal fan base and a rich few series.

You mean there is a difference between the two games? I figured they were the same old generic JRPG that's been regurgitated out by lazy developers for the past two and a half decades in shiny new packages. I suppose your average JRPG fan these days isn't bright enough to notice though. Then again your average JRPG fan these days probably isn't capable of reading the advert . . .

All that being said, it sure would be swell if developers would stop tripping over themselves to be the first in line to blow the knuckle dragging unwashed masses and actually produce games of substance again. That'd just be fucking awesome.

You really need to leave Squeenix alone, they make several quality games a year.

You mean there is a difference between the two games? I figured they were the same old generic football game that's been regurgitated out by lazy developers for almost the past two decades in shiny new packages. I suppose your average sports fan these days isn't bright enough to notice though. Then again your average sports fan these days probably isn't capable of reading the advert . . .

All that being said, it sure would be swell if developers would stop tripping over themselves to be the first in line to blow the knuckle dragging unwashed masses and actually produce games of substance again. That'd just be fucking awesome.

Those FIFA games provide substantial upgrades each installment, and sports fans are smarter than you think.

 

[Ariseishirou]

You mean there is a difference between the two games? I figured they were the same old generic platformer that's been regurgitated out by lazy developers for the past three decades in shiny new packages. I suppose your average platformer fan these days isn't bright enough to notice though. Then again your average paltformer fan these days probably isn't capable of reading the advert . . .

All that being said, it sure would be swell if developers would stop tripping over themselves to be the first in line to blow the knuckle dragging unwashed masses and actually produce games of substance again. That'd just be fucking awesome.

People really need to stop making fun of nintendo, they have a loyal fan base and a rich few series.

You mean there is a difference between the two games? I figured they were the same old generic JRPG that's been regurgitated out by lazy developers for the past two and a half decades in shiny new packages. I suppose your average JRPG fan these days isn't bright enough to notice though. Then again your average JRPG fan these days probably isn't capable of reading the advert . . .

All that being said, it sure would be swell if developers would stop tripping over themselves to be the first in line to blow the knuckle dragging unwashed masses and actually produce games of substance again. That'd just be fucking awesome.

You really need to leave Squeenix alone, they make several quality games a year.

You mean there is a difference between the two games? I figured they were the same old generic football game that's been regurgitated out by lazy developers for almost the past two decades in shiny new packages. I suppose your average sports fan these days isn't bright enough to notice though. Then again your average sports fan these days probably isn't capable of reading the advert . . .

All that being said, it sure would be swell if developers would stop tripping over themselves to be the first in line to blow the knuckle dragging unwashed masses and actually produce games of substance again. That'd just be fucking awesome.

Those FIFA games provide substantial upgrades each installment, and sports fans are smarter than you think.

Hahaha brilliant.

 

[Throwitawaynow]

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Their comment is actually the perfect template for pretty much any game criticism.

 

[Kathinka]

There are people who are going to play BF3 on a console?

Hah!

Look at it this way: Console gamers don't have to go to a fucking website or download Origin to play. And they get a server list inside the game.

I was going to buy it on console, since my PC hasn't been upgraded since WoW: TBC, but now I'm just holding off since to the sheer amount of problems I encountered with the beta in-game. I do not believe all will be fixed by release so I'm going to buy it in a month or 2 after release.

you are aware that for security reasons the built we saw in the beta was an almost four month old experimental built, meant to test notwork workload and some new sort of netcode (wich was tossed again because it sucked)?

 

[ZephyrFireStrom]

What is this cod modern warfare 2 you speak of?

I have only ever played good games.

 

[Bvenged]

you are aware that for security reasons the built we saw in the beta was an almost four month old experimental built, meant to test notwork workload and some new sort of netcode (wich was tossed again because it sucked)?

Yeah, I assumed something along those lines as the expo console-runs were quite good. Initially I thought the green flashing screen was down to my graphics card being outdated in my ancient 360.

I will still hold off as I need to save some money for making others Christmas'. once I know I've got enough expendable finance I will unload it into BF3. But I'm in no rush, especially since it felt like they've tried too hard to steal CoD's fanbase.

Will still be playing Skyrim first & I will be getting it on console regardless. We only lose out on server size & framerate, shaders & minuscule destruction. No biggy.

 

[NLS]

Google is failing me and saying 99p is roughly 156 USD, which is absurdly expensive for any game.

Please clarify.

.99 UK£ = 1.565091 U.S. dollars

// Ninja'd. TWICE. What is this.

Actually, am I the only one who isn't bothered by Origin? Or Battlelog?

No deep and personal hate against Origin and Battlelog, but it could have been better.

1. Origin what? You barely notice Origin at all when playing the game, the only thing Origin related is that you can import your Origin friends into Battlelog. And that's a problem enough for me, they're just splitting up the whole thing into more services instead of keeping a certain level of consistency. Why even bother with branding this whole new service Origin if it's not even being put to use?

2. Battlelog could have been done in-game instead. It worked in BFBC2, you could either access stats and such from the game, or you could look at them from a web-browser. Bringing in your own web-browser makes it a clutter, I had to change my default web-browser from Opera to Chrome, because Opera didn't support the plugin, and Battlelog always uses your default web-browser when launching the game.

3. Steam already does all this, and better. Consistent friends list, check. In-game web-browser that is accessible without alt-tabbing, check. Stats and such accessible from within the game, from steam, and from a website, check. Server browser accessible from Steam and in-game, check. The way they did Battlelog could actually have worked quite well with Steam's in-game browser instead of the external web-browser thing.

The game itself works, and once you get past the initial barrier, Battlelog and Origin aren't that bad to work with. But it feels like you are running 3-4 different programs to play 1 game, and none of those programs are working together to bring you a consistent and streamlined experience. After years of Steam improving, it's like a big setback to go the Origin/Battlelog way of doing things, hopefully they'll improve things upon/after launch.

To sum it up, I'm a Steam fan boy. And Origin just feels disappointing right now, even though I don't want to dislike it.

 

[Ariseishirou]

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I know, I tried the BF3 beta and I was surprised by how much fun it was in spite of being only passingly familiar with the series. I liked that I could still contribute in some small ways to the team victory whilst familiarizing myself with the map or refining my grasp of the controls. And moreover be rewarded with points for it. Besides, it's not as if the skills one learns as a CoD fan are wholly inapplicable in BF3 ;p Sure was shocked when I got into a proper knife fight though. Thoughts: Aw shit he's meleeing me, there's that spawn.... wait... I'm not dead?! GET HIM GET HIM!!! Or maybe a Rush map in particular appeals to CoD fans and the rest will play a lot slower, who knows, all I know is I had a lot of fun and I want to know what it will be like to get to play with the vehicles. Astonishingly my only complaint was the only thing I thought I'd be impressed by when I first downloaded it: the graphics. I don't know if it was the SD version or what, but on my PS3 it looked bad.

The truth is though both of those games are utterly different, and rich and complex in their own way with a variety of skills and tactics one has to master if one wants to be more than passingly good at them. If someone can't see that, they've never been very good at them.

 

[Delusibeta]

We have Gamestop here in the UK?

Huh... The more you know.

Gamestop is in the UK? I had no idea. Then again i havent walked into a retail game shop in years

I am almost certain there is no such thing as Gamestop here. It might be referring to Gamestation.

AFAIK this is the Republic of Ireland [http://www.gamestop.ie/] division (where they're the main games specialist chain) waking up, smelling the coffee and exporting games to the UK. The fact that the Support Office is in Dublin, Ireland is a bit of a giveaway.

 

[TG MLPDashie]

Sorry to disappoint you, Grey, but 99p is actually really cheap for an expansion pack.

i think they wouldn't get as many sales if Infinity Ward actually admitted to just giving people an Expansion pack. Thats why they trick people into thinking it's a whole new game.

 

[VulakAerr]

Yeah, I don't get the whole Origin-whining thing. The EULA thing was cheeky, but that's all fixed now so... a big "whatever" to the whiners.

I like the browser front-end really. I actually think it's quite neat. Anyway, as a few people are doing, I'll get it on both 360 and PC. 360 for social aspect (none of my friends have great PCs) and PC for graphics.

Captcha: onedmat beards

What's a onedmat and does it have a particularly impressive beard? If so, I want to see it, not read it!

 

[wooty]

There are two levels of pathetic going on here, the first being the ridiculous CoD vs BF "war" that is just bloody pointless. The second sems to be the "lolololololol console tard" vs "lololololololl PC shut ins" nonsense.

Why cant we just let people play what they want, on whatever system they want. Is it really surprising anymore why gamers are seen as aggressive and childish?

 

[CardinalPiggles]

Huh...Where's my nearest Gamestop?

Let me explain: Buy Battlefield 3 day one, complete the single player, play a whole lot of multi player to confirm I don't like it. Then trade in for Modern Warfare 3 and have a fun multi player to play with again, (also the single player too I guess).

 

[CardinalPiggles]

Gamestop's online store [http://www.gamestop.co.uk/mw3for99p]

Link doesn't work :/

And I can't find this promo advertised anywhere.

 

[Spud of Doom]

I was talking to somebody on another site and apparently this kind of deal is actually very, very common from this chain in the UK. They will often do this offer to trade in a game that came out a few weeks ago to get one that is a new release.

 

[Delusibeta]

I was talking to somebody on another site and apparently this kind of deal is actually very, very common from this chain in the UK. They will often do this offer to trade in a game that came out a few weeks ago to get one that is a new release.

It's actually quite common elsewhere. For example, I think you could have nabbed Forza 4 for a fiver if you traded in Rage, Fifa 12, Dead Island and one other game I've forgotten about at the same time at GAME. Hell, it's not exactly new, either: I remember trading in Pokemon Pearl to get Zelda Phantom Hourglass for a fiver.

 

[Spud of Doom]

Yes, exactly. Which is why I find this topic horribly misdirected as if this is somehow Activision being desperate.