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Electronic Arts Responds To Protest With Epic List Of Win

Posted on Thursday, February 23 @ 17:00:30 Eastern by

Consider me stunned. Yesterday, I reported on the online community Battlefieldo preparing a 24-hour blackout of Battlefield 3 due to getting the silent treatment from EA about patches and updates of their favorite game. As you will hear on the podcast to be posted tomorrow, we were dubious that this would get big corp EA to do anything about it. Well, we were wrong.

Electronic Arts, on the official Battlelog blog, has just responded with a confirmed list of fixes and tweaks, a list so thorough that it should halt the protest altogether. Though the poster zh1nt0 notes that the updates in the list are not final, he promises additional information as time goes forward "for all of our dear community members".

Pending changes include reducing the black screen fade on spawn, quickening the stand-up animation from prone, improving suppression of multiple weapons, having crouch and prone properly interrupt a sprint, making parachutes more responsive, and a bevy of changes to all the vehicles in the game. That's only the tip of the iceberg, as the list cites at least 200 adjustments.

Electronic Arts made a good calculated move here. They have apparently been working hard on a whole litany of issues, and there's hardly anything wrong with communicating all that work to fans who want them fixed. All it took is one post to make everyone happy. 2335 comments and counting.

A little bit of humanity has been restored to my soul.
Related Games:   Battlefield 3
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  • Imnickson
    Imnickson
    Joined: Jul 2006
    Posted: Feb 23rd, 2012 at 6:08 pm
    They are patching out the ability to ride the MAV. I'm boycotting this patch! Who wants to join me?
    0 1
  • dirty_f
    dirty_f
    Joined: Nov 2010
    Posted: Feb 23rd, 2012 at 6:14 pm
    finally got the MAV, had some fun doing this. however i wont be too sad to see it go.
    0 0
  • NecroWolf
    NecroWolf
    Joined: Oct 2005
    Posted: Feb 23rd, 2012 at 6:10 pm
    Big companies and publishers aren't evil, they're completely amoral. Make enough noise, and they change things... usually, except for Ubisoft, they're the devil.
    0 1
  • dirty_f
    dirty_f
    Joined: Nov 2010
    Posted: Feb 23rd, 2012 at 6:17 pm
    this list pleases me. however i'm not pleased with not being able to detonate C4 after death. how am i meant to get my revenge after planting c4 on a tank and then being killed by the tank before detonation? its the most gratifying feeling... Also flanking the enemies who have captured the alleyway in Grand Bazaar, laying a whole bunch of c4 before they notice i'm there, get shot, respawn, detonate, quadruple kill. **** yeah.
    0 0
  • Icepick
    Icepick
    Joined: Dec 2002
    Posted: Feb 23rd, 2012 at 9:42 pm
    that's a retarded idea,

    try not dying?
    0 0
  • dirty_f
    dirty_f
    Joined: Nov 2010
    Posted: Feb 24th, 2012 at 2:52 am
    sometimes, when you plant c4 on a tank, you get killed before reaching a safe detonation distance. crazy, i know!
    but maybe yer right, i should try not dying...
    0 0
  • Rinnon
    Rinnon
    Joined: Nov 2005
    Posted: Feb 24th, 2012 at 2:48 pm
    Have you considered forgoing the "safe detonation distance" plan?
    0 0
  • dirty_f
    dirty_f
    Joined: Nov 2010
    Posted: Feb 24th, 2012 at 4:08 pm
    sometimes yes, if it means the death of the tank i will go down with it.
    0 0
  • sliverstorm
    sliverstorm
    Joined: Jun 2007
    Posted: Feb 23rd, 2012 at 6:19 pm
    Damn... I'll take my crow boiled, please.
    0 1
  • tinymhg
    tinymhg
    Joined: Jun 2011
    Posted: Feb 24th, 2012 at 6:54 am
    If there was a The People Speak any more this would be nominated.
    0 2
  • Bras
    Bras
    Joined: Jul 2008
    Posted: Feb 24th, 2012 at 9:22 am
    Did I miss something, why was TPS removed?
    0 0
  • usaglory
    usaglory
    Joined: Mar 2009
    Posted: Feb 24th, 2012 at 12:24 pm
    I nominate tinymhg for his comment on there not being a TPS anymore. Then again why am I nominating him if there isn't one anymore? The world is a complicated place.
    0 0
  • Bretimus_v2
    Bretimus_v2
    Joined: Jan 2009
    Posted: Feb 23rd, 2012 at 6:32 pm
    I still think it was dumb.


    They were working on it. And now we know what but when. It's like knowing about your Christmas presents and not being able to play with them.
    0 0
  • Ananymous
    Ananymous
    Joined: Apr 2011
    Posted: Feb 23rd, 2012 at 6:38 pm
    Hey at least DICE/EA is trying to fix the issues with Battlefield 3. I find the game enjoyable even with the bugs it has and fixing it and making it play better makes it all the better for me.
    0 0
  • LawnGnome
    LawnGnome
    Joined: Apr 2007
    Posted: Feb 23rd, 2012 at 8:32 pm
    I foresee a future protest where it is asked "Where are all those changes you promised?"
    0 1
  • Battousai8
    Battousai8
    Joined: Mar 2007
    Posted: Feb 24th, 2012 at 4:59 pm
    Kudos to DICE/EA being proactive. Granted it took a good bit of complaining, not as much as it could have nor with the amount of protest DICE/EA could have put up. This game is fan****ingtastic as it is but if they keep fixing the the things we the avid players keep complaining about they will really push the life of this game out for a long time. As long as they keep making maps that it is... but so far so great. See you on the battlefield comrades.
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