DICE on why you can’t shoot civilians in Battlefield 3: “people will do bad”

[sycogrim]

I also think they just trying to avoid the bad PR that MW2 got, although that didn't seem to hurt their sales too much.

These days it seems like everyone is just taking the safe route, what next, replace all the guns with water pistols so that no one has to die.

I think it's a more a case of,

"and in today's news, Man shoots up city central, the peoples' people blame video games aka GrandTheft Auto."

I think that's why they removed the concept of having be able to shoot civilians ingame.