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WingZero30 · 20 Sep 2011 at 17:07

RavenXXX2 said:
Fact is EA are using the Beta for marketing purposes to top up pre-orders, how many people on here handed over 40 notes to get 48 hour early beta access? how many people would have waited for free beta and bought elsewhere for a tenner cheaper had they known the beta map is 32 rush on choke point central metro.

Yup hence why this reminds me that my fight for 20% discount was a noble cause :cool:

McGray · 20 Sep 2011 at 17:10

Well if this is what we are stuck with, please let us re-map keys.

Colasanto · 20 Sep 2011 at 17:10

RavenXXX2 said:
Fact is EA are using the Beta for marketing purposes to top up pre-orders, how many people on here handed over 40 notes to get 48 hour early beta access? how many people would have waited for free beta and bought elsewhere for a tenner cheaper had they known the beta map is 32 rush on choke point central metro.

Indeed, but you have to hand it to them. Like many companies out there, It works... using twitter, forums and other social media to hype this up with cryptic bits of info around the web. I fell for it and brought the game for 40£ via origin. The marketing strat works, and has done since twitter went big and the interaction with other social media.

[TW]Fox · 20 Sep 2011 at 17:13

Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!

Patiently waiting for the beta for months and months like everyone else. It finally gets released... on the day I am flying to the US, and I don't return until after it ends

peterattheboro · 20 Sep 2011 at 17:14

I understand why they've done it but it's proper sly. I had no idea the beta was only up for a week or so. They've advertised beta access making people feel special when they really could have just released a demo which actually would have beena lot better for the customer.

~>Dg<~ · 20 Sep 2011 at 17:17

peterattheboro pre orders tbh

gord · 20 Sep 2011 at 17:19

RavenXXX2 said:
Fact is EA are using the Beta for marketing purposes to top up pre-orders, how many people on here handed over 40 notes to get 48 hour early beta access? how many people would have waited for free beta and bought elsewhere for a tenner cheaper had they known the beta map is 32 rush on choke point central metro.

They are completely entitled to let you make your own decision whether to spend your money on a product and get early access to a beta that was never promised as anything more than what it is. You could have waited, they did not force you to jump on the bandwagon.

[TW]Fox;20112508 said:
Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!

Patiently waiting for the beta for months and months like everyone else. It finally gets released... on the day I am flying to the US, and I don't return until after it ends

This man has a legitimate whine.

TallPaul_S · 20 Sep 2011 at 17:22

peterattheboro said:
I understand why they've done it but it's proper sly. I had no idea the beta was only up for a week or so. They've advertised beta access making people feel special when they really could have just released a demo which actually would have beena lot better for the customer.

With the 48hr early access it's 14 days, 2 weeks

barmyllama · 20 Sep 2011 at 17:22

gord said:
They are completely entitled to let you make your own decision whether to spend your money on a product and get early access to a beta that was never promised as anything more than what it is. You could have waited, they did not force you to jump on the bandwagon.

This man has a legitimate whine.

No he doesn't.

I'd much rather be going to the USA than playing the same crappy map in the same crappy game mode as the alpha.

IIDeathCubeKII · 20 Sep 2011 at 17:23

[TW]Fox;20112508 said:
Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!

Patiently waiting for the beta for months and months like everyone else. It finally gets released... on the day I am flying to the US, and I don't return until after it ends

You can stay and play the beta, all you have to do is send me your plane tickets and bank account details

B&W · 20 Sep 2011 at 17:30

[TW]Fox;20112508 said:
Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!

Patiently waiting for the beta for months and months like everyone else. It finally gets released... on the day I am flying to the US, and I don't return until after it ends

well didnt you think even yesterday, hold on im flying to america in 10 days, its coming out sometime this month, odds on i wont be able to play it for very long turns out you cant play it all

hahaha

WingZero30 · 20 Sep 2011 at 17:30

Lol even console players have started complaining

http://forums.electronicarts.co.uk/battlefield-3/1426546-ps3-footage-mp-conquest-please-dice.html

Raikiri · 20 Sep 2011 at 17:36

[TW]Fox;20112508 said:
Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!

Patiently waiting for the beta for months and months like everyone else. It finally gets released... on the day I am flying to the US, and I don't return until after it ends

But, you'll be in the US. You can actually rent out some real guns!

WingZero30 · 20 Sep 2011 at 17:47

http://forums.electronicarts.co.uk/battlefield-3/1426565-thank-you-feedback.html#post19909232

zh1nt0, Dice:

I would love to stick around in the forums. I actually enjoy reading the posts and also sending them around our office for feedback and sometimes for a laugh or two.
Some of the things that come out of this forum is just brilliant and I really do like the fact that we have a forum.

Right now, I am not in the mood to even browse in here and check out most parts of the forum.

The BETA is a privilege, not a right unless if you pre-ordered the game with MoH and Origin. We are not even obligated to send out a Beta yet we do because we want our players to experience the game. The vibe I´m getting now is just that tons of ungrateful people don´t understand how much work we are putting on this game, how many overtime hours we are doing and also how many meetings we are in to ship a game like this.
It´s not just a click and point type of development.

Would like to thank many of our forum users for returning with constructive and good feedback.

To the rest of you - grow up.

Gerard · 20 Sep 2011 at 17:49

WingZero30 said:
http://forums.electronicarts.co.uk/battlefield-3/1426565-thank-you-feedback.html#post19909232

LOL, what a *******, how exactly is them getting to test the game on a ton of configs and get bug reports and user feedback a privelage for us? Think that boy needs to pull his head out of his ass, as he's getting high on the smell of his own ****.

rogueblade · 20 Sep 2011 at 17:50

Good^ ****ing kids

So the 48 hour early access, does that mean at midnight on Tuesday the 27th or what?

PapaLazaru · 20 Sep 2011 at 17:51

Neil79 said:
We payed for it , can people please get through their skulls the beta isn't some freebie, bonus. Many of us payed extra to get early beta access, many purchased MOH limited just to play the beta. Perhaps it's different for the open beta members but people like me it's not free and not a bonus.

The biggest problem with this beta is the fact it's Rush again, half the time it's over so damn fast

If anyone actually bought MOH LE just for early BF3 BETA access Neil, then more fool them. It was an added offer for early access, where did they ever say it was early beta access on a 64 man jet map?

I seriously CANNOT fathom why everybody is crying over this? The are rig requirements are out and people are upset as they don't know how their PC will cope with a larger map than Metro on rush?

Some peeps seriously need to get a grip. Just wait and see how it runs on what you have? If it cannot cope order some new stuff! The fear of missing out on something whilst you spend half an hour slapping in a new GPU is total madness! It takes 4 hours to build an entire rig!

The new GPU's are out late Q4 with new Intel & AMD chips. Upgrading now is stupid anyway. Just wait.

megatron · 20 Sep 2011 at 17:52

Spook187 said:
mine is [email protected] Ghz
5870
4GB Ram

anyone want to help me get my chip up to 3.8

[email protected]
5770
4GB RAM @ 1081Mhz

I mainly disabled LLC and as a result had an unstable chip at stock; however I eventually raised the vcore sufficiently but not before finding the sweet spot on my core 1/2 & 3/4 Gref. I may have the names wrong, its been a while.

TallPaul_S · 20 Sep 2011 at 17:53

WingZero30 said:
http://forums.electronicarts.co.uk/battlefield-3/1426565-thank-you-feedback.html#post19909232

Well said IMO.

The ea forums are 10x worse than here for whining :rolleyes:

We're lucky we're getting a beta at all, a lot of games don't have public betas.

PsychoPigeon · 20 Sep 2011 at 17:55

stop calling it a beta, it's an insult to real betas which last months and lets you test the entire game.