I've been gone for a while, reason being my life got a bit hectic. I've been working my arse off for school and trying to make ends meet the rest of the time. Anyways, now that I'm on Christmas break I've had a little time to kick back and I figured at the bare minimum I could stop in and say hi, and offer some sort of explanation (however lame) for my absence.
And that's why I'm going to Pre-Order BF3, because they have addressed my concerns (well, some of them at least) Hopefully it'll be as good or better than BC2. I heard that it was going to have the same/similar system requirements as BC2, I'm sure hoping it will (I sometimes play on my laptop, which runs it on medium-high with respectable FPS)
I`m sure it is, but then again, why give even more of it away? I have zero issue with them collecting data about minor things, like how I play, what guns I use etc. Even using it for marketing, I'm fine with. But scanning my whole computer... I'm not okay with that. It doesn't matter if I don't have any sensitive information on there, the issue is privacy. And the numerous times I've been banned from live, I really haven't cared, cause I'll just go play a PC game
No need to be childish about it, I'm quite happy with the change. I'm still a bit bummed that it's not going to be on Steam, but I think I can deal with that. And honestly, we can probably add BF3 as a non-steam game and launch it like that to take advantage of the in-game overlay (which is essential to tell me to go the **** to bed at 4am...) Also, my issue with data being collected is that if a smart enough hacker were to make it his goal to hack into EA's servers, who knows how much personal information they could get their hands on.