BF2S Forums The "Diablo 2" Theory (Patch 1.3)

cyberkiller25 wrote:

This is my first post at this forum and I think it was made with good timing. I have a theory here that seems all but probable : BF 2's 1.3 patch is like Diablo 2's 1.10 patch.

I don't if some of you played this RPG style game but the purpose of 1.10 was to destroy the game. They set the difficulty level extremly high (near impossible), they made a war against hackers and they tried their best to cut the gameplay of the game. Why? 3 words : World of Warcraft.

Now, what does Diablo 2 have anything to do with Battlefield? Does 2142 means something to you? You are a major company and you want to get the more players possible. How do you do that? MAke them stop playing the old games and force them playing the new ones.

What is supporting this theory :

1-They cut a little the gameplay.
2-They lowered most requirements to make sure more people will get all medals and then stop playing.
3-They changed the servers configuration and now its become difficult to find a good server. Oh, what a surprise, they said that they will bring a brand new kind of server search for BF 2142.

Anyway, might be paranoia but you guys have to agree that this just cant be a coincidence...

Last edited by OpsChief (2006-06-02 14:22:17)

wooglin wrote:

You people are amazing!  I suppose that EA killed Kennedy too?

They could add to this game endlessly and just have people buying expansion packs for years, like The Sims.  It is a perfect business model.  Why would they intentionally ruin it to spend more money developing another product.

If you hate EA so bad, stop buying the products and crying on these boards like a girl named Sally.

I think EA does a great job and have brought happiness to a great many people.  This game changes, much like life.  Change with it and have fun doing so!

Point&Shoot wrote:

I know I can picture the top brass at EA and their marketing department sitting down and talking about how much everyone enjoys BF2 but they only paid once for the game so the players aren't really customers any more.  First they bring out SF to get some more cash of BF2.  Then they come up with EF to bilk $10 out of all the players hoping for some good maps and better weapons.  Now they're gonna want another $10? for AF which has no new weapons at all just vehicles and 3? maps.  But of course with 2142 in production and ready to be released just before Christmas, they are worried that with all the money BF2 players have paid and all the time they have put in for medals and rank that it may be hard to get a few to switch over (personally I wasn't too sure if I'd switch).  But now in the interests of "improving game play" they bring out 1.3.  They add features like vehicle drop, sounds cool but is so obviously flawed that the flaws were intentional or just allowed to create problems.  Then the change in the medals and ranking system has given us three and four star generals overnight and given a few players medals and ribbons that were almost impossible to obtain ie. War college.  All in the interest of curbing some enthusiasm for BF2 and trying to pre-sell 2142 because now players want what they had in BF2 which is slowly being eroded away.

Or EA's maintenance team, which so far has been doing a fairly good job in fixing the game play with past patches, has suddenly dropped the ball.  Maybe they lost all their old programmers and the new ones don't care.  Maybe the maintenance team all got hooked on meth and are having problems focusing on the project.

So I guess it's a matter of which you believe is more plausible - a group of programmers loosing 40IQ points somehow since 1.21 or corporate greed.

wooglin wrote:

OpsChief wrote:

yes true wooglin but the same holds true for many games and instead the companies went for the new releases instead of patches and updates. I think someone is advising companies that making new games every 18 months is smart.

I also agree that new releases often are the way to go, but do you honestly think they would purposely sabotage an old game?  I mean BF1942 still funtions properly, right? 

I just think the issue is that they are not testing the patches fully, due to the screaming masses.  I also think they listen to said masses too much and noobify the game at times.

I wholeheartedly disagree that anyone would sabotage a game they created just to sell more of something new.  Sometimes they just blow it, in the case of SOE with Star Wars Galaxies.  Too much tinkering...