BF2S Forums Poll

I am a Hell Yeah....it might crash all the friggin time like BF2 but it looks like fun..

I'd rather not buy BF2142. I'm still having WAY too much fun playing BF2 and don't want to move onto another game...sadly I don't have time to play both. BF2 has so much replay value for me that I don't care to play something else right now.

Yet another reason why I'm frustrated with EA...why release another game so quickly when BF2 is still doing great and still oh so very fun?! BF2 has only been out for a year and already they've slated a sequel for the fall...too soon in my opinion. I see BF2142 as a quick attempt to line their pockets by quickly forcing their player base to move past BF2 and onto a new game. Yes I know that separate teams are working on the two games but come on, do you REALLY expect EA to offer any meaningful improvements to BF2 once their new game comes out? Why would they? Adding new content to an old game only takes players away from the new one. Why do that when they can move the current BF2 team on to newer and more profitable projects?

I fear that BF2 will die once BF2142 shows up. All the better to delay its release.

I paid $40 for Half-Life and $45 for Half-Life 2...Between Counter-Strike and CS:Source, I probably got 6 1/2 years worth of gaming for my approx. $90-100 bucks.  Maybe I'm spoiled by Valve's attention to customer satisfaction, but if EA thinks I'm going to move on to the next half-assed attempt to milk the Battlefield franchise after already spending $90+ dollars on a game that came out a year ago, they are sorely mistaken.  The only game franchises I will buy on a year-to-year basis are usually sports games on console, and they make damn sure to come out with new engines and try to perfect those as much as possible BEFORE release (for obvious reasons). 

If EA wants to create a franchise out of Battlefield, they sure fucked up when... almost every one of their patches either A) failed to actually "fix" stuff it was supposed to (red tag bug, anyone?  survived thru like 5 patches to fix it so far, and it's not even something people have to exploit), B) actually created NEW problems, C) changed game balance in various ways that were generally unpopular and showed lack of testing, or D) managed to miraculously pull off A,B, & C in one patch.

Not to mention I'm not a huge fan of very futuristic games...Half-Life was a good mix of future and present, and Quake Wars looks intruiging simply b/c it's so beautiful, but for a massive multiplayer shooter I'll take assault rifles, tanks and helicopters over massive hovering geometric shapes and mechwarriors. 

I just hope it gets rid of all the dumbasses whose brains can't grasp the advanced tactical aspects of BF2 to begin with and want to move on to the newest thing as soon as it comes out.