Thread: The train wreck

The True Story of Battlefield 3, the Battlefield Franchise, Its Community, & EA/DICE
The train wreck that was BF3...

There is an untold story that few know and that story is the whole story....

Yes, yes, and more yes.

sent from the dark side of the Moon.

WOW.

Dude nailed it. Great find Soviet.

Great read thanks for sharing

Originally Posted by SOPEK

That was an orgasmic read.
Hopefully dice can clean their act and not allow EA t push them.

I recall several of us being called whiners.

I know I was by quite a few guys on here. I wanted BF3 to be great so bad but it just wasn't and some of these guys just absolutely refused to admit it until a few months after release.

The train wreck really goes back further than just BF3 though... It all started going downhill after the BF2 release...

April 2001, DICE acquires Sandbox Studios (renamed DICE Canada). September 1, 2004, DICE bought Trauma Studios, renamed DICE New York (the guys behind the Desert Combat mod for BF1942). They were brought in to help finish up BF2. November 2004 EA announced they were acquiring DICE. On March 31, 2005, EA owned 62% of DICE's stock. On June 7, 2005, DICE announced that they had shut down DICE New York (Presumably because the work on BF2 was essentially done.) June 21, 2005, BF2 ships. In November 2005, BF2: Special Forces ships (Developed by DICE Canada). In October 2006, EA bought out the rest of DICE's stock and it became a wholly owned subsidiary that we know now as EA Digital Illusions CE. EA's first task after this acquisition? They close DICE Canada. Later that month, on October 17, 2006, EA DICE releases BF2142..

See a pattern here?