Battlefield Bad Company isnt Battlefield 3.
BF3 will happen, we all know it will - the BF series on PC has been very lucrative for EA/Dice.
Fixing BF2 and developing BF3 are seperate things. Just because a team might have started developing (remember it's a few months of heavy planning/discussion before anything actually gets written down) doesn't mean a seperate team can't spend time working on one or two more patches. When patches stop coming, it means the patch team will have moved on to help finalise BF3 and then we can all get excited... but right now we're still playing BF2 and I for one am loving it.
I think BF3 *should* maintain a modern setting but incorporate DirectX10 technology, which is at least 2/3 years away from becoming mainstream (very few cards use it and only then on Vista). DX10 will give TONS more power to games developers, it will allow much nicer looking games than you see early on in the next-gen consoles.
BF3 will happen, we all know it will - the BF series on PC has been very lucrative for EA/Dice.
Fixing BF2 and developing BF3 are seperate things. Just because a team might have started developing (remember it's a few months of heavy planning/discussion before anything actually gets written down) doesn't mean a seperate team can't spend time working on one or two more patches. When patches stop coming, it means the patch team will have moved on to help finalise BF3 and then we can all get excited... but right now we're still playing BF2 and I for one am loving it.
I think BF3 *should* maintain a modern setting but incorporate DirectX10 technology, which is at least 2/3 years away from becoming mainstream (very few cards use it and only then on Vista). DX10 will give TONS more power to games developers, it will allow much nicer looking games than you see early on in the next-gen consoles.