BF2S Forums The Reason Dice/EA dropped the requirements for rank?

i believe DICE was smoking crak, after all the complaints they received about ranks and weapons unlock they took the easy/shortest way out and lowered the point gap between ranks which means unlocks also...wait not lowered, i meant to say droped drasticly.  it's the only feasible explanation for this barbaric act...i think it's (pulls out the BS flag) to drop the requirement as they did, they could have lowered some, now as it stands everyone will have everything, the guns, the ribbons, the patches.

before it meant something when someone had a patch/ribbon/weapon/rank, now it don't mean shit.

i was looking at the updated uabr and i fell out of my chair laughing (typo), what a crack...

I personally think this was a horrible mistake, I was 5K pts away from staff sgt before the patch and was still debating which unlock to pick. When I was sgt I got 10K pts into that rank before I could decide which gun to unlock. Now I have every one except for the jackhammer and i'll be getting that in a week or two. Lowering the rank took alot of the fun out of making those tough decisions that could haunt you for months. All they really had to do was modify maybe the last 3 or 4 ranks by 25%, that would have been fine.

Word they better do something like that or its a big FU to all the hardcore.

jesus christ, how many times do i have to explain it; its MARKETING.
The only reason anyone is in business is to make money.  With the up-coming expansion, EA/DICE is purposefully making bf2 expire early.  You don't need to be a commerce student to understand this, c'mon people.

Last edited by beeng (2005-10-05 11:38:32)

Hell ill buy the expansion. Only 1 thing wories me.. If I buy the expansion. Can I still use my old account on the expansion with all its upgrades and ribbons and etc?

id say u did earn it..i mean u do have almost 300 hours in the game, in my book 300 hours in a few months is pretty good!!

Personally I like the fact they dropped the requirements. I was getting a bit bored of the same weapons. I live about 45-60 mins from work. I leave the house at 8am and get home during the week between 6:30 and 7pm. I'm married. I also go shooting every Saturday morning for a couple of hours. Which means I maybe get 2-3 hours of play in PER WEEK. I don't think it takes anything away from the game, personally. I do feel a bit bad for the guys that worked so hard to get the unlocks. However, it makes me laught at the stat-padders as all their BS was for nothing.

Beeng is right. Its all marketing. Lots of people on a lot of forums were complaining about it. I don't know how you guys buy games, but I generally do some research of what players think and download the demo. If I like the demo, I do more research. Word of Mouth is powerful. If people are complaining a lot about a certain thing, I would be surprised if the game company DIDN'T do anything to fix it!

"Well, considering that the game already HAS all the little icons for 2nd LT up to 4-star general"

It does?

I say that it's good that they droped the requirements, as things are now possable to reach. I do think, however, that they lowered the requirement too much.