Regarding the possiblity of future games with an ROE and online rankings....
After seeing what a royal clusterfuck BF2's non-binding ROE has made of the game, all I can say is I'm going to have a lot more money to spend on my other hobbies.
If you want rankings, code a secure game, enforce rules on ranked servers, and please stop acting like children with all the tattle-tail bullshit. Oh, and patching a game traditionaly meant fixing bugs. Since when did it mean change gameplay to dumb down the game for whiners?
Regarding the ROE itself, I'm still waiting on my official notice from EA on this one. Outside of these forums, it doesn't exist as far as I'm concerned. I've not recieved an email, in game notice I must agree to, anything. I play civil, and don't exploit game mechanics for virtual stats, that's it. If I suddenly find my favorite unlocks gone because of some stupid rule I've never actually seen, I'll just jump ship. BF is a dead horse as far as I'm concerned. The wonderful patching has seen to that.
Want a nice, easy to understand ROE? How about this?
1. No hacking.
2. No glitching.
3. No racist comments/profanity/retardism
How do you make this work? You FIX THE GAME!
Make it so that you can only revive a single person 3 times in a set timeframe.
Make it so players can't fix upside down boats, Jeeps in the water past the 'damage line', or vehicles in motion
Provide a good system for players to report servers allowing this stuff to run rampant. If a server can be proven to be encouraging bad behavior, revoke ranked status.
We, the community should not be your beta group for testing new rules. Yes, we can see that you're making the game worse, most likely in the hopes of finding out how much people will put up with in 2142 while at the same time making players so fed up that they will hopefully buy the sequel hoping it to be better. The ranked system, world viewable stats, and the ROE made the game worse, can't you see that? We've all seen the patch cycle with every other BF game, just like BF2. We knew it. We accepted it. BF2 is a fun game, but you seem to be trying very hard to change that.
Last edited by InnerMonkey (2006-07-21 14:35:09)