EA allegedly solicits favourable Battlefield 3 review scores

[Isengard]

It's a bit concerning tbh, because what does this mean regarding EA's faith in the game's quality. I imagine that resorting to this means the game might not impress like we are expecting.

To add fuel to the fire, Geoff Keighley posted on twitter a couple of days ago that he played 4 of the biggest fall games games over the weekend and was left disappointed by one.

Those four games can only be Skyrim, MW3, BF3 and Uncharted 3. Based on news around the web it's safe to say that Skyrim and UC3 are going to be really good. That leaves BF3 and MW3. Of those two the one we know least about, especially for SP is BF3.

All this seems to be pointing IMO to BF3's single player campaign (something I'm rather looking forward to).

So in closing. Could we be in for a disappointing SP campaign? I've seen this happen time and again...

[PaPaRaZZ!]

Bad Bad Dog!

[DarthSWNT]

It's a bit concerning tbh, because what does this mean regarding EA's faith in the game's quality. I imagine that resorting to this means the game might not impress like we are expecting.

To add fuel to the fire, Geoff Keighley posted on twitter a couple of days ago that he played 4 of the biggest fall games games over the weekend and was left disappointed by one.

Those four games can only be Skyrim, MW3, BF3 and Uncharted 3. Based on news around the web it's safe to say that Skyrim and UC3 are going to be really good. That leaves BF3 and MW3. Of those two the one we know least about, especially for SP is BF3.

All this seems to be pointing IMO to BF3's single player campaign (something I'm rather looking forward to).

So in closing. Could we be in for a disappointing SP campaign? I've seen this happen time and again...

I played the beta and had a lot of fun. If they have fixed most of the bugs it will be a really good game.

[Isengard]

I played the beta and had a lot of fun. If they have fixed most of the bugs it will be a really good game.

So did I, I loved the beta and I know I'm going to enjoy the MP. My comment was about the SP however.

[Anonymous]

I don't really think there's anything wrong. It's not about "faith in a game." The fact is that it's a new product, and EA are going to try to find people who might be more inclined to send copies to people who will like it. If someone answers negatively on the questionnaire, does EA really have the incentive to send them a copy of the game? If you created products which, in the past, were constantly hated by someone, would you still want to send them your new product?

[Graal]

I don't really think there's anything wrong. It's not about "faith in a game." The fact is that it's a new product, and EA are going to try to find people who might be more inclined to send copies to people who will like it. If someone answers negatively on the questionnaire, does EA really have the incentive to send them a copy of the game? If you created products which, in the past, were constantly hated by someone, would you still want to send them your new product?

I understand that point of view, but the thing is, I don't particularly like how quick EA were to apologize for it and call it an error. It's understandable that you might want to send your game to reviewers who might be more inclined to give it an unbiased (although in this case I'm not even going to think twice that EA will jump to send it to BF fans) review. The whole fact that EA made such a big deal out of it themselves is what's fishy, in this case.

[souluser7]

Sigh...Developers these days, I honestly have confidence that BF3 is going to be amazing and EA/DICE have their fanbase secure so there's no need to worry about stuff like this, IMO they really shouldn't do stuff like this just to try and beat their competition - Activision, they should rather just make the game and then leave the rest up to the gamers/reviewers to give an HONEST opinion...no need to do stuff like this

[Anonymous]

I understand that point of view, but the thing is, I don't particularly like how quick EA were to apologize for it and call it an error. It's understandable that you might want to send your game to reviewers who might be more inclined to give it an unbiased (although in this case I'm not even going to think twice that EA will jump to send it to BF fans) review. The whole fact that EA made such a big deal out of it themselves is what's fishy, in this case.

Yeah, I do agree with you there... Why are EA apologizing instead of defending their actions? That does spark a bit of fishiness in my mind as well.

[Wesley Gombard]

So which part was " human error " exactly? The fact that the questionare was sent out or the fact that it was drawn up in the first place? Either way, it's a poor response after being caught out. Kind of reminds me of the whole Verge debacle.

[DarthSWNT]

I agree, why not check out the people you send the game for review? It would be ridiculously stupid to just send the game out to any random. That is bad business practice. Good on EA for this.