Creston wrote on Oct 13, 2011, 14:55:

You do realize that ME2 basically had, for all intents and purposes, always-on DRM, right? That's what the Cerberus network was. Always sign in when you play, and if you can't sign in for whatever reason, such as EA's fucking outsourced-to-Guatamala servers being down, then "fuck you, you can't play the DLC you just bought, you FUCKING PIRATE."

Combine that with the Galaxy at War thing which ties SP and MP together, and that pretty much SCREAMS always-on DRM to me.

Creston

Creston wrote on Oct 13, 2011, 12:01:

Prez wrote on Oct 12, 2011, 22:43:
God, I hope "Online Pass" for consoles doesn't translate to "Always Online" for PC. I have a sinking feeling it will, however.

It will. Absolutely. I've already resigned myself to that fact.

Creston

. . . which he does not say was their best work, but he does call their "best console work," though we can't tell if there was any irony intended with that, as Space Marine is the first Relic game to appear on consoles.

Doombringer wrote on Oct 11, 2011, 21:05:
Less Felicia Day, please. I'm sorry, but it's getting to be too much. When I see her in something, I do not go "hey, wow, that's Felicia Day! This bit of entertainment has been immediately elevated!" I instead say "ugh, she's involved in *this* too?"

We get it, Felicia. You're pretty, and a little geeky, and you have a rabid fan base. That doesn't make you a stupendous actress who has to start "diversifying."

OldTimber wrote on Oct 11, 2011, 04:00:
Okay now I'm actually feeling old if this is being remade. What's next Battle Chess with the queen in full 3d wiggling her ass as she moves instead of just a sprite based wiggling ass?

Tumbler wrote on Oct 3, 2011, 14:13:
The entire game is an online pass for the pc so congrats, you're stuck with it. I traded my 360 copy to some other lucky fellow and I'll be getting a copy of MW3 or BF3 in return at some point.

Jerykk wrote on Oct 2, 2011, 21:22:
When you have to pre-order a game or buy a completely different game in order to gain access to a beta, the beta is obviously being used for marketing purposes. That's exactly what happened here. People who bought the Medal of Honor LE were guaranteed access to the BF3 beta.

Anywho, based on what I've seen of the "beta," BF3 will very likely be a buggy mess upon release. The game comes out in less than a month and we're still seeing major, obvious bugs. At this stage of development, the only bugs remaining should be obscure and hard to reproduce ones. It seems that EA really wants the game to come out before MW3, even if it isn't ready to.

A full list is outlined on the Battlelog forums, and here's the condensed list: