Re: A call for BF3!
Posted: Thu Sep 18, 2014 11:56 am
I am relatively new compared to all you old timers, and I haven't played with GC on BF3; so maybe this will give you another viewpoint.
I honestly do not care what BF3 was like. From what I have read it was fun, but so is BF4. You say it is so bug ridden and unplayable, yet no one I have played with has had a major bug affect them, their gameplay or their GC Experience. To me, BF4 is uncomparably fun, I gave BF3 a go, of course, and it just doesn't have the same sort of, well anything to it. It seems like it's trying to be too serious, where as BF4 is accused of trying to be too realistic, it just doesn't feel as serious.
Moving back to BF3 would be a terrible inconvenience to two groups of people. The first being people like me, I am terrabad at BF3; I played quite a few hours, but I never really got into it, and I know many of the people who joined during BF4 times, will feel the same. That's if they even have the game, why would they buy backwards into the franchise, I know it is cheap(ish) but there is no point, people who had BF3 would have brought BF4 to see what the game is like, not just to play with GC. The other group of people would be the guys like Wi1D_K4rD, the guys who now detest BF3. For the majority of us, BF4 works. It is about 5 or 6 people who hate BF4, but also the same amount of people who hate BF3, we shouldn't make any accommodation for the minority, especially when the majority of us actually *gasp* like BF4.
In addition to this, from what I have read GC has always just gone onto the next game (with the exception of 2142, I believe), and it has seemed to work pretty well. I understand the BF4 launch was botched, but the Executives made the decision to wait and see how it goes (exactly like they are doing now), and we are having fun as a community has always. There will have always been people who didn't like the next game, and undoubtedly people who will have left because of it, and they probably didn't try to cause an almost revolution in the community. I trust the people above us, I don't know about the rest of you, but I really do. They clearly have been chosen because they are a key and amazing part of the community, and the people who chose them were the people who have made all the decisions in the past to make this community what it is today. And therefore I believe in them to make the decisions of the future.
As Razy said, it is down to preference, and it appears, that although the community loved BF3 for many campaigns, it seems to love BF4 to, despite is small, and largely unnoticeable hiccups. But also, as Razy mentioned, fun is THE key aspect of this community and it should be treated as such, if things stop being fun, then people won't play. But hey, people are playing, maybe, just maybe, people find both games fun. Maybe a poll wouldn't be a bad idea?
But in general this thread is annoying, it is all demands and statements. Not really any suggestions that help further this discussion or help the Execs out in whatever decisions they may or may not be making regarding this issue. And I know for a fact, that although you, Necro, feel that you have no power, that the Executives will be, and have been looking at this thread. Having be part of leadership in other communities I know that even the smallest talk of the smallest matter at the bottom of the food chain can set some of the people in power nattering and making plans for this and that, contingencies for crazy events and agendas for imaginary meetings. But my point is, the Execs will have seen this, and they will be doing something:-
What they are doing or plan to do, is beyond me and probably beyond most people, but whether they decide to say 'NO!' and not give us a chance to voice our opinion, or whether they said 'Meh, answer this survey' and we poll for weeks on what to do, or whether they say 'HELL YEA!' and we go straight for our 'BF3: C7', we will still be the same community with the same people. If people decide to leave because of this, then shame on them, this community isn't about which game we play, its about how we play the game.
Well, that was longer than expected.
I honestly do not care what BF3 was like. From what I have read it was fun, but so is BF4. You say it is so bug ridden and unplayable, yet no one I have played with has had a major bug affect them, their gameplay or their GC Experience. To me, BF4 is uncomparably fun, I gave BF3 a go, of course, and it just doesn't have the same sort of, well anything to it. It seems like it's trying to be too serious, where as BF4 is accused of trying to be too realistic, it just doesn't feel as serious.
Moving back to BF3 would be a terrible inconvenience to two groups of people. The first being people like me, I am terrabad at BF3; I played quite a few hours, but I never really got into it, and I know many of the people who joined during BF4 times, will feel the same. That's if they even have the game, why would they buy backwards into the franchise, I know it is cheap(ish) but there is no point, people who had BF3 would have brought BF4 to see what the game is like, not just to play with GC. The other group of people would be the guys like Wi1D_K4rD, the guys who now detest BF3. For the majority of us, BF4 works. It is about 5 or 6 people who hate BF4, but also the same amount of people who hate BF3, we shouldn't make any accommodation for the minority, especially when the majority of us actually *gasp* like BF4.
In addition to this, from what I have read GC has always just gone onto the next game (with the exception of 2142, I believe), and it has seemed to work pretty well. I understand the BF4 launch was botched, but the Executives made the decision to wait and see how it goes (exactly like they are doing now), and we are having fun as a community has always. There will have always been people who didn't like the next game, and undoubtedly people who will have left because of it, and they probably didn't try to cause an almost revolution in the community. I trust the people above us, I don't know about the rest of you, but I really do. They clearly have been chosen because they are a key and amazing part of the community, and the people who chose them were the people who have made all the decisions in the past to make this community what it is today. And therefore I believe in them to make the decisions of the future.
As Razy said, it is down to preference, and it appears, that although the community loved BF3 for many campaigns, it seems to love BF4 to, despite is small, and largely unnoticeable hiccups. But also, as Razy mentioned, fun is THE key aspect of this community and it should be treated as such, if things stop being fun, then people won't play. But hey, people are playing, maybe, just maybe, people find both games fun. Maybe a poll wouldn't be a bad idea?
But in general this thread is annoying, it is all demands and statements. Not really any suggestions that help further this discussion or help the Execs out in whatever decisions they may or may not be making regarding this issue. And I know for a fact, that although you, Necro, feel that you have no power, that the Executives will be, and have been looking at this thread. Having be part of leadership in other communities I know that even the smallest talk of the smallest matter at the bottom of the food chain can set some of the people in power nattering and making plans for this and that, contingencies for crazy events and agendas for imaginary meetings. But my point is, the Execs will have seen this, and they will be doing something:-
What they are doing or plan to do, is beyond me and probably beyond most people, but whether they decide to say 'NO!' and not give us a chance to voice our opinion, or whether they said 'Meh, answer this survey' and we poll for weeks on what to do, or whether they say 'HELL YEA!' and we go straight for our 'BF3: C7', we will still be the same community with the same people. If people decide to leave because of this, then shame on them, this community isn't about which game we play, its about how we play the game.
Well, that was longer than expected.