FIFA and Battlefield are EA's most profitable franchises

@Aria1368 @myungish By all means, DICE deserves to be big, they've come a long way, it's just that, EA doesn't deserve to be a part of that.

@toshineon Interesting.

1943 is the only multiplayer game i've gotten into, other than FEAR Combat on the PC.

At the beginning of this gen I considered myself fairly new to FPSs, certainly modern console based FPSs so I've not had much confidence going to multiplayer.

I've been able to crack the 1943 nut eventually though. It seems simpler than most FPSs and so i've been able to get my head around it.

I've had a peak at MW2 and B3 multiplayer but they both seem jolly complicated.

I'm not really a fan of team-talk, although I am interested in playing in a team. I'm a lone wolf in 1943 and it'd be fun to have someone cover me once in a while but it;'s never happened. I can't bear to listen to people on their MICS, it just sounds like waffle most of the time. Having said that, FEAR Combat had lots of talk via typing and that was a lot of fun.

I'm considering hanging up 1943 for a while and venturing into CoD and B3 territory. Not sure how i'll go.

@davedrastic @Aria1368 @myungish It's kinda kard to explain, but I'll try. The old Battlefield games have a sense of teamplay that the newer ones are missing. It doesn't feel like people are helping you for their own good, but to help the team out. In BF2 thay had a very smart commander and squad system. One person was a commander, that gave orders to each squad leader who in turn gave orders to the squad. The squad leaders spoke directly to the commander and the squad member spoke to the squad leaders and each other. It made for some great teamplay and strategy from your teams side, but it's been taken out in the newer games. BF1943 is a little bit like 1942, but not quite the same.

@toshineon @Aria1368 @myungish I really like Battlefield 1943 - is that very much like Battlefield 1942 and Battlefield 2? I've not really got into to Battlefiedl 3 or Bad Company 2, although I've dabbled a bit.

Why do you prefer B1942 and B2 and not the others?

@Aria1368 @myungish I'm interested to know who "we" are. You can't be speaking on behalf of the Battlefield community, as most people that have played BF for a long time would agree with me. Oh, and why did you bring up Call of Duty, that a separate franchise. Apart from Black Ops, I haven't so much as touched a CoD game.

@toshineon @myungish We are happy, that people like you are leaving BF frenesie. go play COD, you don even deserve to play battlefield

@bicelis @tightwad34 @skornedwarrior

Not to pick sides, but this goes back to tightwad34s' in: What this does for people, or how is this relavent to the common person?

@tightwad34 @bicelis @skornedwarrior A billion dollars is typically regarded as quite significant.

@bicelis

Sorry, I wasn't trying to be sarcastic. Of course not all news is pointless and I should have thought about both sides first. I am usually good about thiniking before I speak. I just should have not said anything. I will say thank you for being civil in your response.

@tightwad34 Then it's also no different than a story about a new anti malaria drug that has the potential to help millions of Africans. Would such news also be pointless? While good, it is as irrelevant to me personally as I don't live in Africa as a celebrity's new haircut. Some gamers who study business for example, might be interested in how the gaming companies are doing. These news might also shed a light on what we can expect from EA and other companies and what's the state of the industry, etc.

@bicelis @skornedwarrior

Yeah, I am making a deal out of nothing. This is no different than a news article/story coming out about a celebrity who got a new haircut.

@tightwad34 @skornedwarrior For some it's interesting. Why are news even reported at all? To inform people. Simple as that. Everybody reads what's relevant to them :) Gaming company news in a gaming website seems appropriate to me.

@bicelis @skornedwarrior

Informs them about what games make them the most money? What does that really have any bearing on?

@tightwad34 @skornedwarrior Informs them.