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0 pointsInsanity7y ago0 comments

It was a free beta weekend, and it seemed like an interesting thing to try.

Now, it's not that DICE is per se a bad developer, but the deadlines pushed on by EA give rise to lots of bugs on release.(But, I've not played an EA/DICE game since BF3 so I could be wrong there, things might've changed.)

The games are usually playable some time after release.

And things like this: https://gizmodo.com/congratulations-to-ea-games-for-posting-... don't exactly make me warm up to actually buying an EA game.

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chupasaurus7y ago

The first year of BF4 after release was pretty much a very long open beta.

Flow7y ago

And another thing I hate about the yearly releases of CoD and BF: The previous versions more or less die when the new ones are released.

As someone who play games on macOS, the delay before the Mac/Linux versions are released makes it so when you get to play the games, most of your friends play the next version or something else. I've stopped buying games like CoD and BF because of this.

It seems only Blizzard and Valve understand they can keep people playing the same games for decades with little investment.

chupasaurus7y ago

Name a single Blizzard game with official support of Linux. They are also had banned accounts for playing their games through Wine, but they've stopped 5 or so years ago.

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dawnerd7y ago

BF3 was pretty painful too if I remember correctly. Horrible hitboxes and lag.

InsanityOP7y ago

The horrible hitboxes are one of the main issues I remember with bf3 as well. It was bad enough to make me quit the game for some months.

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0 pointsInsanity7y ago0 comments

It was a free beta weekend, and it seemed like an interesting thing to try.

The games are usually playable some time after release.

And things like this: https://gizmodo.com/congratulations-to-ea-games-for-posting-... don't exactly make me warm up to actually buying an EA game.

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chupasaurus7y ago

The first year of BF4 after release was pretty much a very long open beta.

Flow7y ago

And another thing I hate about the yearly releases of CoD and BF: The previous versions more or less die when the new ones are released.

It seems only Blizzard and Valve understand they can keep people playing the same games for decades with little investment.

chupasaurus7y ago

Name a single Blizzard game with official support of Linux. They are also had banned accounts for playing their games through Wine, but they've stopped 5 or so years ago.

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dawnerd7y ago

BF3 was pretty painful too if I remember correctly. Horrible hitboxes and lag.

InsanityOP7y ago

The horrible hitboxes are one of the main issues I remember with bf3 as well. It was bad enough to make me quit the game for some months.

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