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Player “freedom” in multiplayer games is a design cop-out

Sunday, July 15th, 2007

For the sake of cleaning random stuff off my hard drive, here’s something I saved which I posted to a forum a couple years back. It mainly concerns the Battlefield series of games, developed by DICE. In Battlefield, two teams fight each other for control of key points on the ...

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Battlefield Nerf

Monday, October 30th, 2006

Yes, Electronics Arts is evil, but having checked out the Battlefield 2142 demo, I caved in and bought the full game. If you're not aware of the controversy, here's a partial list of bugaboos: The game contains a mild form of targeted in-game advertising via billboards seen in the game world. ...

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