Battlefield 3 loses 34K preorders.

[DarthMol]

This is the dark side of the "hype machine". With a game as hyped as this you'll either love it or hate it, people react vehemently either proclaiming "BF3 is the best!" or "stupid piece o' **** game!". So these 34K hyped up players had a bad experience in the beta and now swing from one side to the other. There seems to be no in between, or very rarely.

I must admit, I was feeling pretty bleak about the game when I couldn't connect to any games. I was considering whether I should preorder at all. Fortunately a fellow forumite provided a solution. Now I'm really enjoying the game and will probably preorder soon.

[Isengard]

At the end of the day they should have kept this a closed beta, at least until the major bugs were ironed out.

Was it a smart move releasing a clearly very unfinished build to the public? No. But that doesn't mean anything for the final game. I'm going to say that the final build while not perfect (name one mp fps that ever is on release) is going to be absolutely brilliant.

I just can't believe that people are reacting like this over a beta product and declaring that the final game wont be much better.

As the game is now, bugs and all, I'm enjoying it a hell of a lot more than I did black ops.

[thisgeek]

I, for one, am very happy if all the COD players cancel their pre-orders.

There is a very obvious difference between veteran BF players and veteran COD players. The COD players can keep their game, thankyewverymuch!

[JackBauer]

Me for 1 is not cancelling my order as i enjoy the game. Only think that they should have sorted out the bugs before the Beta and Origheid is awful.

Dink net as hulle dit n demo genoem het, het 1000 000 mense dalk gekanselleer.....

[Tsar]

Beta code == bugs

Whole reason for beta testing


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Yeah. People just want to moan dude.

[fayainz]

I say let all the run and gun COD fan's cancel their pre-orders. This game is very different from the CoD franchise, and I for one won't mind one bit if all the run & gunner's leave. This game is about teamwork, not sprint -> kill -> die -> respawn...

[PaPaRaZZ!]

I played for 2 hours last night since my first time last week Wednesday, I must say i'm glad that several of the bugs i picked up last week has been fixed. not seeing through the floor anymore ect.

Had good fun last night, hit reg improved x100 from BC2, for now i'll leave my pre-order alone.

Personally feel that those 34k people who cancelled, will probably order again once Caspian Border comes out this week

Oh and stop comparing MW3 with BF3, different games!

[DarthSWNT]

I haven't seen any games that aren't buggy at release...

Most game devs want more time and more testing but I would rather have the game than have it delayed 14 years and still be rubbish (duke.)

Have you ever done something and it turns out perfect every time? And have you ever programmed something and been perfectly happy with your code?

A beta is meant to put production stress on the program and servers.and since I have not updated the game yet it seems to already have less problems I would presume that the server was to blame for some of them.

How can they test a game with production-level use? They cannot... The best they can do is run a beta and fix those problems.... I have not fallen through the ground in a few games now....

So we must just wait for the final product to judge... And I don't mean 1.0.... I mean 1.x when the game is at maturity.

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[Uberutang]

Loads of people I play with cancelled their console pre-orders to get the PC pre-ordered.

[DarthSWNT]

Haha. Touche. Pc winz for once.

I have nothing against consoles... I just hate that pc always gets the leftovers instead of the nice things. And yet they wonder why the sector has declined so much.

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