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I'll have to look, but one of their community guys on the EA forums all but laughed at the suggestion that they include EF/AF in the patch. Even after we explained that they can't possibly lose money by doing it at this point.
Hell, I paid for it all that time ago. It would have been nice to have been able to play it a little before it turned to crap. At least if they made them free ranked custom maps, just like Highway Tampa, someone would play them. Don't even bother adding them to the patch, just make the individual maps like Highway Tampa.
in the real world people don't get a months vacation time for Christmas....do you people not realize Christmas was 20 days ago?
i was using to show a example of their work effort and organization....or lack of it....anyone wanting new content can just go download one of the fantastic user made mods who's maps and models make the stuff dice created look like childs play....
sorry but im sick of this PR bandwagon that dice expects us all to jump on every time they decide to stroll into town with meaningless information......i never dreamed id be saying this but dice caters to console fanboys now, there's much more money in it.....the loyal pc gamers have been left in the rear view "mirror" fighting over 3 1/2 year old scraps and kissing as*.
Well these mods have to have a basis... and that basis is the engine that Dice created. I'm positive that modders didn't do half the work that Dice did when they made this game.
Oh and in case no one has noticed, the world economy is going to ****. That might have a little something to do any delays.
most people in Europe celebrate Christmas on jan 7th
and in Europe u don't only get one day off for a big holiday like here
You mean in eastern europe.. all western europe countries are celebrating it from 24-26 december... and sweden is actually western europe.
So how long does it take to release a patch, that was announced about six months ago? Why don´t they post a changelog? I still love the game and still would buy addons for it - but i dislike the information policy of Dice. They should stay in close contact with their community..
Well these mods have to have a basis... and that basis is the engine that Dice created. I'm positive that modders didn't do half the work that Dice did when they made this game.
Oh and in case no one has noticed, the world economy is going to ****. That might have a little something to do any delays.
Mods are a good thing.. and companies who make engines moddable are doing themselves a huge service along with the community. They provide themselves with more cash since people who hear about mods who havent bought the game may go out and do so just to play new content thats made for free. Plus the community gets more bang for their buck as well.. Free content thats new.
I feel like I really still have to rip DiCE/EA over the whole BF2 thing, even though I have moved on from the game. There lack of support was horrible. I know that I am not playing a monthly fee like WoW players, but they were still making money beyond the initial cost of the title. Their ranked server program and later advertising in game should have netted them money that could have allowed for some retro development on past titles.
And in my book, there was on single thing that DiCE could have done to make BF2 live longer...they could have certified community made maps for their ranked servers. How hard would that be? Hell they had a whole operation in Canada or was it France that did side projects for them? People complained about the J10 issues, how hard is it to re-render the damn model? I guess it is more important to change sound effects.
Maybe there is more that we don't know about, politics with EA Corp, DiCE Canada/Sweden communications, or serious flaws in the scalablity of BF2 itself...but the gaming market is a tough place. With other titles out there that can rank in money and keep market share, you would think they would try to been over backwards to keep up with the precedence that ID and Valve have set for community support. Hell, Blizzard is still support Starcraft, 10 years later!
When you compare the beauty of BF2 to other titles, it still holds up somewhat well. Considering that a PC does not exist that can max out Crysis, BF2 continues to look sharp (at least in my eyes). And that takes me to another thing, BF2 was built for a system that was still several months out of peoples hands when it came out. What was the biggest card you could get at the time, a Geforce 6800 or ATi 9800? With the magical 2GB number, people were at a disadvantage for a little while. It cost consumers more then the software house that made the title in the end to make the game work.
And to add on to what FMJ Powers stated, there are a lot of amazing mods out there for BF. And instead of embracing the community or working to better the base product to get more revenue from ranked servers, what did DiCE do? Move on to modify the engine for a new game, 2142. And did the go back and tweak it so it could fit BF2, BF2-SF or consolidate all four titles under one ranked umbrella? No the moved on to consoles.
I am bitter with EA and Dice. With how many problems Bf1942 had when it first came out, then all the weaknesses of BF VietNam, then the soap opera of problems surrounding BF2...why is DiCE relevant? I have Mirror's Edge advertisements popping up on my Steam window now and I think the game looks incredible. But...I am going to wait. It is a single-player game and it is not going to hurt me if I wait till all the hype has passed and I can get it for $9.99 via Steam next Christmas.
"Well, what new goodies do we have to share with them?"
"Hmm. We can't talk about BF3 because it doesn't really exist. We can't talk about BF Heroes because we had to pull back because of the ____. We can't talk about BF2 because we still don't have the network and accounts secure... So what do we say?"
"Well, I hear you. Just give them a little more of the same. They'll be excited once we can release some news about ____."
We have one thing left to do on the update and thats to compile and build the installer for the update. So now we are very close to having something. Once we make the installer we'll do some internal testing then open it up to you all.
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