Battlefield 3

[Tickle Me Emo]

i dont see anything but good coming from the launch of the origin platform. especially coming from a major competitor in the gaming industry like EA. it will breed competition. as of now steam controls the digital gaming market. granted the origin platform will only be providing ea games, but i still see a lot more steam sales coming our way in the future.

everyone felt the same way when steam went gold and then started selling games. now look at how its grown for the gamers.

I actually have faith in Valve as a company that can take on the customer service-heavy role of essentially controlling my digital game library - they've proven themselves in this role. I'm a bit skeptical of EA doing as good a job.

I don't see how Origin is going to drive Steam sales. Steam already has tons of sales, and frequently very good sales. Also, if EA is only selling EA games on Origin, where's the competition? All they're doing is removing the convenient capability to have my digital purchases integrated into Steam. Even if they branch out, how are they going to compete with Steam, other than forcing choice between one or the other? If they both sell the same third party product, the price will be the same, as chosen by the third party. The only benefit I can really see is if (key word IF) competition drives down costs for developers to put their products up for digital delivery through one of the services. That's all fine and dandy, but even then the effect on the consumer is limited.

All that aside, it's another month before BF3 comes out. FML.

[Belphegor]

well the open beta starts next week for those that either bought Metal of Honor limited edition or preordered BF3 limited edition. the official date for the open beta is Sept 29th.

[Evil]

I just fnished preordering it. Gonna be epic to play!

[maynard]

[Evil]

lol. That's funny.

[Belphegor]

early access to the beta is here and it is GOOD!

[Belphegor]

thought i'd update you guys on how the beta is going

so far so good, the game is awesome and looks beautiful even on low settings. when you launch the game you're brought to a webpage called the Battlelog where you can monitor your stats and this is also where the server browser is, yes this is all weird. gameplay wise its really awesome similar to bad company 2 though minor changes in the arrangement of classes. there are four classes now Assault (which is also the medic), Engineer (anti-tank, etc), Support (LMG, ammo resupply), and Recon (sniper with a place able spawn point). so far there are a good number of bugs (falling through map, key binding stuff) nothing that can't be fixed before launch.