I got the game on DVD the day before release in the UK and had issues registering it... guess i cant blame them too much as the game was not suppose to be out until Friday.
Anyway come Friday everything worked have not really put the game down sicne and dont think i will for a long time..
Sure there are a few annoying bugs with launching the game, squad stuff outside of the game is just a mess, i do hope they fix that asap.
Other than that im having a blast and jsut as much fun as i have had with any of the other BF games
Really enjoy reading Sharptongue's pieces. Imho, easily the best writer on the site.
"Ripping through the impossibly strong cellophane that they use on physical copy DVD's, I held the glowing disks towards the skies and thanked the Gods themselves for the bounty of teabaggings I was about to receive."
Honestly, what's not to like about that?
Great article as usual Coyote, thanks for taking the time to whip it up.
I was hanging on good, then I got to the Gravatar thing and I wanted to fucking climb into my bathtub with my toaster. Ya, ya, I did the gravatar thing, but why the hell was that really necessary? I swear EA and Activision are having a contest to see who can become the Lucifer to online gamers.
Anyways if you are looking for some people to play with PM me here and I'll give my info.
*throwing down my empty m1911 and pulling out my sidearm, I begin laying down some cover for Coyote while he throws his last grenade........the pain is warm and the blood is mine.....everything is going quiet......gurgle............gasp......i'm not ....afr....*
Great article. Recently I purchased GTA4 off of Steam because it was on sale. Still haven't been able to play it. You have to go through a few log ins and apparently I have an account with one of them but forgot my password. I try to use the same one, but then some logins have special needs. I try to reset my password, but it won't accept the new password either. It's either broken or I don't know what. I emailed the company, no reply week later. Money wasted I guess.
I miss the days when you could just play a game without all the bullshit.
Open box, install cd..cant..update origin..install cd.. login to exsisting account (sw:tor) make a origin global user name... forget the crappy avatar stuff thats optional...handgun..meh not now...go to server page and press play..
took 15 min max , that is, the 2nd day since the first day the system was down/bugged :P
Great article. Recently I purchased GTA4 off of Steam because it was on sale. Still haven't been able to play it. You have to go through a few log ins and apparently I have an account with one of them but forgot my password. I try to use the same one, but then some logins have special needs. I try to reset my password, but it won't accept the new password either. It's either broken or I don't know what. I emailed the company, no reply week later. Money wasted I guess.
I miss the days when you could just play a game without all the bullshit.
Seconded, I hate using steam for games I had no intention of buying through them in the first place. Buying a game through a digital provider is one thing, picking it up at best buy or gamestop and still having to use some third party software to play that game is something else.
Just another case of the few ruining things for the many, in this case it's cheap lowlifes who can't even support the people providing them with their entertainment. Which is why I personally don't blame the publsihers who have taken to this approach. I blame the scum who self-righteously proclaim a right to steal whatever they feel like playing.
For every minute you are angry , you lose 60 seconds of happiness."-Emerson
When I first saw Battlelog I screamed in anguish thinking WTF is this tripe BUT you know what ?
I now love it i cannot imagine any FPS in the future not having the equivelant of it a single place for all my mates, stats, what threads my mates are trolling (oops mean posting on) its a absolutely awesome feature.
As for the game well 35hrs in 5 days played says it all, no game since MOHAA not even BF2 has sucked me in as much to the point I am sat here physically knackered as I think I've only had 20 hrs sleep in 5 days between work, kids and my new found BF3 obsesion.
Its not without its flaws though such as the maps being a bit congested or not large enough hopefully Karkand will bring some of the grandeur of BF2 battles back and a bit less run and gun.
Just need COD to release and the ****ing children currently on BF3 to go away then the game would be near perfect.
Gravatar is mighty handy. Yeah, you had to sign up and stuff, but only once. And now you can simply provide your gravatar account name (email) and have your avatar in arbitrary other sites that support it, without any extra work or having to upload your avatar to each site separately.
Granted, for me it was no problem with BF3 since I've already been using gravatar. Also I wasn't quite as anxious to play the game as Coyote. I've only installed the game yesterday.
Great article and seriously everyone still buying this game and installing this spyware (yes it is spyware) should read some of the rules. You can give back the game and its your right to get your money back.
If I'm paying for a game I want to install it, patch the MP part and be ready to go not interested in signing up for stupid spysites such as gravatar or other crap.
Also I think its stupid beyond god having to sign up at an external site instead of having the item included in your box.
In germany consumer-protectors are going wild so EA will soon have to endspy their crap.
btw. why isn't this on FPS guru this site is about MMORPGS?
We need a MMORPG Cataclysm asap, finish the dark age of MMORPGS now!
"Everything you're bitching about is wrong. People don't have the time to invest in corpse runs, impossible zones, or long winded quests. Sometimes, they just want to pop on and play." "Then maybe MMORPGs aren't for you."
Last year I bought a new PC specifically for gaming. Since my old PC was still usable but short on disk space, I uninstalled all of my games from it and reinstalled them on the new machine.
One of the games I did this with Civ IV and its expansions. Once they were installed, Civ IV automatically updated itself with the latest patch - and then started harassing me to download a variety of gaming software I'd never heard of and would probably never use. What was most surprising is that Civ IV didn't do this back when it was new (2005, I think). So all of the "Download this!" and "Sign up for that!" crap I was forced to deal with must be triggered by patching a fresh install, not by anything on the game disks themselves.
The moral of the story? Even your old games, should you have need to reinstall and update them, may now provide you with a new and annoying set of hoops to jump through. Yay!
thank god it wasn't just me. i was damn close to flipping right out trying to play this game the first time so many damn downloads/updates/sign ups. ALL I WANT IS TO JUST PLAY THE DAMN GAME ALREADY!
I know some of the main cheat sites and this game already has working cheats.I wouldn't touch it with a ten foot pole because of cheating,same reason i quit playing my fave COD series.
These developers know how to stop hacking ,cheating and remain in the role of not caring one bit.So if they don't care about you the legit gamer,why would we support them?
Omg that article made me laugh so hard, he'll I am still laughing! I agree why can't they have 1 game per website and not multiple websites. Great read.
I am playing the Single Player Campain currently on my XBOX360! Love it! And no issues! :P
No Origin crap, no punkbuster crap.
Sometimes it's nice to have a console next to a PC!
i agree..im playing on xbox360 and LOVEING it ..the only thing i hate is that i bought a 6 pack of dr.peppers and the codes dont work! >.< ! other than that and the overload of servers this game still scores a 9.5 otta 10 fer me ..i dont see myself buying the new COD i like the larger maps instead of the small arena style shooters + the COD brand has become bland with basicly the same release year upon year..and now they are asking you to pay a fee? "if you want" or buy the "elite pack" or what ever its called for like 50 bucks..so paying well around 100$ for 1 game is not what im looking forward to or nor do i support it...if people do start paying for this ..i see companys / devs going this way for more games...and no1 wants that ..times are tuff enuff
This is all true, and is much as I do not want to play Battlefield 3 because of this.. I keep on playing because the game is that good. Battlefield 3 is insane. Massive. Epic. Arghhh why EA did you have to make such a stupid move with Origin/Battlelog.
This made me LOL really hard...so true..if the beta told us anything.
The beta is the exact reason I am not playing BF3 right now. I was able to get into Caspien and was hooked. But by the end of the beta I was so fed up with battlelog I ended up not pre-ordering.
Thank goodness for being screwed by pre-orders before that I am now able to controll myself to not do it till a day or two before release. Saved me 60 bucks. I'll pick it up for the single player when it drops in price (then goes on sale for $20) in a couple years. That or I will pay $60 and try to play catchup while getting my ass handed to me if they ever drop the battle log crap. Or streamline it enough that its not that junk it is now. In the meantime I'm re downloading l4d and l4d2 to get a fps fix lol.
and this is why I'll never, ever play another FPS! back in my day we just bought games and played them! there was no signing up for all this other junk!
I have no idea why all the anger, for me it all works great, game is beyond awesome, and if you're offended by going into a web browser before you get into the game....
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I got the game on DVD the day before release in the UK and had issues registering it... guess i cant blame them too much as the game was not suppose to be out until Friday.
Anyway come Friday everything worked
have not really put the game down sicne and dont think i will for a long time..
Sure there are a few annoying bugs with launching the game, squad stuff outside of the game is just a mess, i do hope they fix that asap.
Other than that im having a blast and jsut as much fun as i have had with any of the other BF games
It's a shame when good games get weighed down by corporate bloatware.
Even though I wouldn't mind playing the game, the fact that it isn't available through steam is reason enough for me to pass.
Really enjoy reading Sharptongue's pieces. Imho, easily the best writer on the site.
"Ripping through the impossibly strong cellophane that they use on physical copy DVD's, I held the glowing disks towards the skies and thanked the Gods themselves for the bounty of teabaggings I was about to receive."
Honestly, what's not to like about that?
Great article as usual Coyote, thanks for taking the time to whip it up.
I was hanging on good, then I got to the Gravatar thing and I wanted to fucking climb into my bathtub with my toaster. Ya, ya, I did the gravatar thing, but why the hell was that really necessary? I swear EA and Activision are having a contest to see who can become the Lucifer to online gamers.
Anyways if you are looking for some people to play with PM me here and I'll give my info.
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Good read. LoL EA Made us do it!
*throwing down my empty m1911 and pulling out my sidearm, I begin laying down some cover for Coyote while he throws his last grenade........the pain is warm and the blood is mine.....everything is going quiet......gurgle............gasp......i'm not ....afr....*
Great article. Recently I purchased GTA4 off of Steam because it was on sale. Still haven't been able to play it. You have to go through a few log ins and apparently I have an account with one of them but forgot my password. I try to use the same one, but then some logins have special needs. I try to reset my password, but it won't accept the new password either. It's either broken or I don't know what. I emailed the company, no reply week later. Money wasted I guess.
I miss the days when you could just play a game without all the bullshit.
Open box, install cd..cant..update origin..install cd.. login to exsisting account (sw:tor) make a origin global user name... forget the crappy avatar stuff thats optional...handgun..meh not now...go to server page and press play..
took 15 min max , that is, the 2nd day since the first day the system was down/bugged :P
Nice read tho, coyote style..
now im off again.. 363 kills ,need moreeee..
Seconded, I hate using steam for games I had no intention of buying through them in the first place. Buying a game through a digital provider is one thing, picking it up at best buy or gamestop and still having to use some third party software to play that game is something else.
Just another case of the few ruining things for the many, in this case it's cheap lowlifes who can't even support the people providing them with their entertainment. Which is why I personally don't blame the publsihers who have taken to this approach. I blame the scum who self-righteously proclaim a right to steal whatever they feel like playing.
For every minute you are angry , you lose 60 seconds of happiness."-Emerson
When I first saw Battlelog I screamed in anguish thinking WTF is this tripe BUT you know what ?
I now love it i cannot imagine any FPS in the future not having the equivelant of it a single place for all my mates, stats, what threads my mates are trolling (oops mean posting on) its a absolutely awesome feature.
As for the game well 35hrs in 5 days played says it all, no game since MOHAA not even BF2 has sucked me in as much to the point I am sat here physically knackered as I think I've only had 20 hrs sleep in 5 days between work, kids and my new found BF3 obsesion.
Its not without its flaws though such as the maps being a bit congested or not large enough hopefully Karkand will bring some of the grandeur of BF2 battles back and a bit less run and gun.
Just need COD to release and the ****ing children currently on BF3 to go away then the game would be near perfect.
I've read quite a few articles in ym time here and this rates as one of the tops for giggles for sure.
No plans to play the game but I'm glad I stopped and read the article anyways
Gravatar is mighty handy. Yeah, you had to sign up and stuff, but only once. And now you can simply provide your gravatar account name (email) and have your avatar in arbitrary other sites that support it, without any extra work or having to upload your avatar to each site separately.
Granted, for me it was no problem with BF3 since I've already been using gravatar. Also I wasn't quite as anxious to play the game as Coyote.
I've only installed the game yesterday.
Still, good article.
Great article and seriously everyone still buying this game and installing this spyware (yes it is spyware) should read some of the rules. You can give back the game and its your right to get your money back.
If I'm paying for a game I want to install it, patch the MP part and be ready to go not interested in signing up for stupid spysites such as gravatar or other crap.
Also I think its stupid beyond god having to sign up at an external site instead of having the item included in your box.
In germany consumer-protectors are going wild so EA will soon have to endspy their crap.
btw. why isn't this on FPS guru this site is about MMORPGS?
We need a MMORPG Cataclysm asap, finish the dark age of MMORPGS now!
"Everything you're bitching about is wrong. People don't have the time to invest in corpse runs, impossible zones, or long winded quests. Sometimes, they just want to pop on and play."
"Then maybe MMORPGs aren't for you."
"The bad news is, I'm doing all of this in real life because loading the game made me f**king snap"
That was hilarious, hahahahahahhaah.
Last year I bought a new PC specifically for gaming. Since my old PC was still usable but short on disk space, I uninstalled all of my games from it and reinstalled them on the new machine.
One of the games I did this with Civ IV and its expansions. Once they were installed, Civ IV automatically updated itself with the latest patch - and then started harassing me to download a variety of gaming software I'd never heard of and would probably never use. What was most surprising is that Civ IV didn't do this back when it was new (2005, I think). So all of the "Download this!" and "Sign up for that!" crap I was forced to deal with must be triggered by patching a fresh install, not by anything on the game disks themselves.
The moral of the story? Even your old games, should you have need to reinstall and update them, may now provide you with a new and annoying set of hoops to jump through. Yay!
thank god it wasn't just me. i was damn close to flipping right out trying to play this game the first time so many damn downloads/updates/sign ups. ALL I WANT IS TO JUST PLAY THE DAMN GAME ALREADY!
friken EA.
Shameless exaggeration.
I went through similar efforts and I find that BF3 is... fair. Not bad, not great. Decent.
Not $60 worth, for sure. More like $30.
i agree..im playing on xbox360 and LOVEING it ..the only thing i hate is that i bought a 6 pack of dr.peppers and the codes dont work! >.< ! other than that and the overload of servers this game still scores a 9.5 otta 10 fer me ..i dont see myself buying the new COD i like the larger maps instead of the small arena style shooters + the COD brand has become bland with basicly the same release year upon year..and now they are asking you to pay a fee? "if you want" or buy the "elite pack" or what ever its called for like 50 bucks..so paying well around 100$ for 1 game is not what im looking forward to or nor do i support it...if people do start paying for this ..i see companys / devs going this way for more games...and no1 wants that ..times are tuff enuff
This made me LOL really hard...so true..if the beta told us anything.
This is all true, and is much as I do not want to play Battlefield 3 because of this.. I keep on playing because the game is that good. Battlefield 3 is insane. Massive. Epic. Arghhh why EA did you have to make such a stupid move with Origin/Battlelog.
The beta is the exact reason I am not playing BF3 right now. I was able to get into Caspien and was hooked. But by the end of the beta I was so fed up with battlelog I ended up not pre-ordering.
Thank goodness for being screwed by pre-orders before that I am now able to controll myself to not do it till a day or two before release. Saved me 60 bucks. I'll pick it up for the single player when it drops in price (then goes on sale for $20) in a couple years. That or I will pay $60 and try to play catchup while getting my ass handed to me if they ever drop the battle log crap. Or streamline it enough that its not that junk it is now. In the meantime I'm re downloading l4d and l4d2 to get a fps fix lol.
I have no idea why all the anger, for me it all works great, game is beyond awesome, and if you're offended by going into a web browser before you get into the game....
well then you're way too easily offended.
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