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it started because alot of people have heavily censored internet and werent able to see the articles
Many people here can't click on the links while at work.
Also, I'm sure he intended to provide a link and this was merely an oversight, as he seems to have provided links on everything else.
Also, even without a link, he still said it was from Kotaku, so plagiarism is a bit of a heavy handed word.
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it started because alot of people have heavily censored internet and werent able to see the articles
Gully I don't want to sound like a prick because like everyone here I appreciate how much effort you put into this thread (this is my one and only source for BF3 news) but I have a suggestion. In my opinion you shouldn't post the full text of articles you link, for a couple of reasons. Firstly, a lot of authors put a lot of work into the articles and deserve the pageviews from linking. Secondly, it would keep the page nice and compact, especially for those having to scroll past articles they have already read.
Mostly though it's for the first reason. Plagiarism isn't cool. In the case of the Kotaku article above you didn't even provide a link to the original source.
Maybe a short synopsis or the first couple of paragraphs of an article?
Seriously??
There actually is some precedent for copyright lawsuits being filed on the basis of forum reposts of articles: http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2011/09/copyright-troll-righthaven-goes-on-life-support.ars
I'm not saying anyone should get sued, I just think the original authors deserve the pageviews. If they're blocked at work, maybe there's a good reason for that.
the birthday coupon worked for meI have my birthday coming up fairly soon, and they told me that the birthday coupon doesn't apply to preorders, is this true?
Wishing you a happy birthday from Origin & EA. Here's 25% off to celebrate!
Note I didn't have to contact CS or anything, it worked without issue.SubTotal: $59.99
Shipping & Handling: $0.00
Discount: 25%
Tax: $0.00
Total: $44.99
Discount: $15.00
I have my birthday coming up fairly soon, and they told me that the birthday coupon doesn't apply to preorders, is this true?
BY: HBrun POSTED : Sep 09, 2011, 12:00AM
Battlefield 3 is a new way for DICE to tell a story. Read on for a personal post from Lead Designer David Goldfarb and his take on how to craft a captivating single player campaign -- one that forgoes the fantastic in favor of the grim and the authentic.
If theres one thing Im proud of above all else in Battlefield 3, its the tone of the game.
Tone is vibe. It's style. It's a feeling. It's why The Dark Knight is awesome and the 60s Batman is not, the difference between Saving Private Ryan and Hogan's Heroes. It's one of those things which, if you do it right, affects everything. More than anything else in Battlefield 3's single player story, this is where we set out to do something different.
Battlefield 3 Guillotine Gameplay Teaser (Watch until the end!)
Battlefield 3 goes much closer to contemporary reality and current events than previous games in the series. Were depicting a war and everything that suggests. We have tried to get closer to the slang of the modern warrior. We are mixing tension-building passages with the chaos of suddenly erupting firefights. Weve sought to keep the game feeling as plausible as possible, because the moment the audience stops believing it could happen, then youre just like every other shooter.
"Were depicting a war and everything that suggests"
We loved making Battlefield: Bad Company and Bad Company 2. They were great fun, they had their own theme, they were light hearted. In essence, they were adventure flicks. Indiana Jones with an assault rifle. But with Battlefield 3, we knew we had to really divorce ourselves from those characters and those themes. We had to go somewhere else and do something different and push a different set of buttons. We're telling a war story now, and that means it needs to feel credible, it needs to feel contemporary, and it needs to connect with things and emotions that we have never really tried or had the means to properly connect to before.
The non-linear story in Battlefield 3 is told by way of a frame narrative where U.S. Marines Staff Sgt. Henry "Black" Blackburn is being interrogated about recent world-shaking events. What the player actually plays are Black's recollections of the events where a new threat known as the PLR caused him to be involved in military joint operation all across the globe.
Keeping it real. In Battlefield 3, characters matter.
As the single player campaign takes players from Paris and New York to the dustbowl of the Tehran desert and beyond, they will also walk in the shoes of several different characters from different branches of the Armed Forces. Each playable character in Battlefield 3 allows the player to obtain his (or her) own perspective of the chaotic events that transpire, giving us the opportunity to explore the human psyche and what it means to be human.
One thing about DICE games is we do care about characters. This was true for Bad Company and it's true now. We put them in challenging situations. We ask them questions. In Battlefield 3, we ask: What would you really do for your country?. U.S. Marine Blackburn's answer might be different from another character's. It might be the same. We've tried to put our people in contexts where they make emotionally valid choices. Playing all of the different characters and first-hand experiencing their situations and methods leads to a stronger, more emotional, and more immersive experience in the single player campaign.
We're making a different game than we've ever made before. It's scary. It's bigger in scale and bigger in drama. The tone hits closer to home, is tougher and more raw than we've ever done before. But the values, I think, caring about the people next to you, the people you meet, the people you play. That's a constant for us.
David Goldfarb, Lead Writer & Lead Designer, single player
Stay tuned for Battleblog #11 soon
This game is not affiliated with weapon/vehicle manufacturers.
sigh. so little actual gameplay in there.
The code from the gun club with a bunch of small print does not. The email from origin wishing you a happy birthday with 25% off, did for me and tends to work for most others.
9/16, first confirmation on the beta release date???!! Guillotine looks sweet, nighttime battles!