Battlefield 3 is EA’s fastest selling game ever

Umm, not sure what being direct x 10 has to do with the price of bread, end of the day it is users resposibilities to keep up to date with their graphics drivers, I updated mine at release date and havent updated since and have yet to see driver issues on both machines (one GTX270 one GTX460 SSC) didn't experience issues with the auth server at all but that could be down to blind luck but surely even that is an EA/Origin issue and not a Dice/BF3 issue? I'm all for shitcanning devs/publishers when they get things wrong but I seem to recall a whole string of driver issues and server failovers for about a month after the release of a little game called Call Of Duty Modern Warfare, they seem to have got their house in order I think it's only fair we give Dice the same courtesy. End of the day a lot of the issues end users complain about on the forums boil down to two things, their rig is badly configured or they just plain suck at the game, you can please vereybody some of the time..........

Since bf3 doesn't have a DX9 fallback but is pure DX10/10.1 you can assume people's system are at least somewhat up to date. Although it might be underpowered since even integrated graphics claim DX10 compatibility now.

And initially some graphics drivers had issues I believe? And the auth server was having issues, so then it's not the user's fault if things fail.

Ummm 90/100 metacritic score is hardly low now is it, most of the review mark it down for the poor SP game, which any self respecting BF fan will tell you is Not the primary focus of the game. The MP side of the game is fantastic, yes the Origin security aspect is a worry but that aside I fail to see what the posters aboe me are going on about? I haven't had and server drop offs, never had trouble finding a game and aesthetically this game surpasses EVERYTHING that is currently on the market. For fear of turning this into a cod/bf flame war, we all know tha the cod SP will be superb but they have been using the same engine for since MW so i would expect the game to be largly bugless now. But if the MP is anything like the MW2 No dedis debacle or Black ops turgid mess then I know who's going to win that fight.
I am still trying to figure out what the beef is with Battlelog? It's great, Find game run it, whats hard about that? team up before joining a server? check, no sill splash screens to go through, done, Just cos something is different does not make it bad.
Xybverviri is not talking for the entire gaming computer (not sure who elected him king of pc gamers :/) I am running this with no issues on 2 different PC's, all my mates are running theirs with no problems. As a pc gamer of nigh on 20 years (Civ on an old 8086 lol) it never ceases to amaze me how some of us will so quickly slag a game off before looking at the integrity of our own rigs.

I checked and it gets 4.5 stars on the xbox.
As for the PC version, that does indeed get low scores but when you read the reviews all negativity focuses on the damn origin DRM system and the web-based community interface, but the game itself is well received.

So yeah I think it would help if they put it on steam without the origin crap.
But they won't do that until they tricked the largest part of the buyers in clicking yes on that insane EULA and they installed the spyware called origin

I haven't played it but the "high review scores and word of mouth" seems like a strange comment to make since on Amazon the average rating for PC is 2/5 and 3/5 on the XBOX.

For the most part I'd say the fact that games keep selling more and more copies is the fact that more and more countries and populations have computers capable of gaming and the world population is increasing.

It would be selling even quicker if they got it on Steam like every other big game I've ever wanted to play...

BF3 is/was the biggest disappointment in pc gaming history. Even those that meet the recommended system requirements are unable to play, while a bunch of the other players are having no issue. Day 1 already had a hacker in the #1 spot on the leader boards.

FU EA you ruined a good game.

Shame PC players are so happy to have their privacy invaded by Origin just to play this game....

Apart form the initial hiccup on the Origin activation servers, BF3 is amazing and is exactly what I've been waiting for as have my friends.

It's so great to see the PC being rewarded as the top notch gaming platform it is by giving it a game custom built for it and giving the consoles lite versions due to the limitations of P2P matchmaking and not being able to support battles over huge maps with up to 64 players.

I know review wise it didn't do to well but that was only because of the single player campaign which no BF fan cares about. Had it been reviewed as a multiplayer game only it would have got top marks.

I know MW3 is around the corner too and will have far more sales than BF3 but I won't be buying it as Activision made it quite clear they don't see the PC as a viable gaming platform or money earner for them.

Well done EA and Dice :)