How many of you who posted here bought Battlefield3? Now how many of those who did buy it hate EA with a passion?

And that's kind of the rub, isn't it? Battlefield 3 actually looks like a pretty fun game, (I had a blast with Battlefield 2142) but with EA apparently taking a new level in jerkass every month, I've steered clear of it. And that kinda sucks.

Well, at least I have Skyrim to keep me busy.

We have listened to our customers

I doubt that the majority of EA customers think "forum bans = being locked out of the game" is a good idea.

Bets on where the next one takes place?

Summerset Isle and/or Valenwood, with a focus on the rise of the Second Aldmeri Dominion. I imagine it would be a rather interesting setting. You can help the Dominion or maybe play as a resistance fighter, or maybe as a covert agent of the Empire.... "Should I help or hinder the Nazi Elves?"

Also, both Summerset and Valenwood would keep with the tradition of each Elder Scrolls sequel being later, alphabetically speaking, then the previous one.

And with virtual citizenship comes virtual taxation.

"Yes, we absolutely need to take 25% of your income to provide subsidies to the space-corn farmers."

"Yep. All platforms going to 1.1 by 11/11/11"

They should have called it patch 1.1.1

Scarlett Johansson hacker suspect allegedly stalked woman.

And in other news, fire is hot.

Nice to know with all the crime in our society and all the people being victimized, law enforcement is devoting so much energy to putting the hammer down on the person who hacked Scarlett Johansson's cell phone. Meanwhile, the cops didn't even pretend to care about finding the dirtball that stole my debit card number and emptied my bank account.

Since PC gamers tend to pretty much stomp all over console gamers in FPS games, I just view this as a form of handicap to give PS3 owners a chance to get a hang of the maps before we come in and school them....

Oh, no they're quite honest. They couldn't care if 3 people or 30 million people are playing it.

Now, the number of people who are actually forking down money to buy a copy? Well, they care a great deal about that.

All hands to escape pods!

I wonder if this patch removes the obnoxious advertisements for the Blu-Ray re-release of the Star Wars series from my loading screens.

Pope sends first tweet, does so using iPad 2.

So, the conspiracy theorists were right! The Pope did sell his soul to the devilApple.

Followed up by "Arrest warrants issued for entire ebaumsworld staff."

Jerykk wrote on Jun 13, 2011, 22:58:
Female Shepard doesn't exist in cannon.

That's not a problem a little nanotech can't resolve.

Will the single player campaign be longer then seven hours this time around?

Hot damn, I remember playing the original Carrier Command on the Atari ST back in the day. I loved that game, especially once I figured out that the best strategy was to hunt down the enemy carrier at the start of the game and send it to the bottom of the sea.

Luther wrote on Jun 9, 2011, 19:14:
This is an example on an original screen

Huh, I have to agree. Those "original" screens do look more impressive. And the actor models remind me of something I would see in a start-of-the-art game... back in the 90's. But one of the original's charms was that there WERE no other people... it was you, your robotic carrier, and the opposing AI-controlled robotic carrier.

Just as a side-note, I got a giggle how they have the title ("Gaea Mission") with a big mushroom cloud underneath it. "Screw you, Mother Earth!"

And so I get yet another reason to continue my white-hot rage against Microsoft for ever manufacturing the Xbox.

Rat bastards.

Are free lobotomies a benefit for EA executives?

That's the only logical explanation I can think of to explain this.

Dammit. At first glance I thought this was for the beta of "Planetside Next". I got all excited for nothing.

Anybody playing a Cryptic game must now, according to the revised Terms of Service, house and feed a Chinese gold farmer.

The rising cost of BlizzCon tickets (the price keeps going up in this economy?!?) plus the fact that Blizzard has shown that they are determined not to show any love to anybody who doesn't live in West Coast has pretty assured that we won't be making this one.

Who am I kidding? Blizzard will still sell out in five minutes.