Battlefield 3

[MrTires]

Originally Posted by Jamfan

aw its only suppose to be in the upper 90's again this week....... We'll be drinking plenty of water & gatorade to stay hydrated.... They were talking about possibly triple digit temps, but they backed off from those.....

By water you mean whiskey and water, and gatorade you mean margaritas?

Originally Posted by Jamfan

Play together?? Not to be too much of an arse, but when the phuck have joined the rolling BLU crew?? It's not a hidden secret, that Friday, Saturday, & Sunday Nites, there's typically at least a few member playing..... I'm also aware Saturday & Sunday afternoons, there's a few BLU's on (I'll admit my gameplay has diminished lately due to nice weather creating opportunties for home upkeep projects).... And what the phuck with all the no shows?? You preach you'll be on, but you never show up... It's actually a running Joke....

There's my swift kick to the threads gonads....

Don is notoriously unreliable. We just don't have enough players to run clan matches and always have 8 people playing regardless of when you are on. From what I gather from postings most of us have families and other responsibilities that don't allow for that type of commitment.

Slow time for gaming though with the beautiful weather and vacations coming up.

[DonRSD]

I hop on, I just don't play with you guys.

Sure there are nights I plan to hop on and don't. Big deal.
There are also nights I hop on and nobody is on.

All I'm saying is if anyone knows a clan that actually does clan matches & speaks about strategies?

I have 2-3 on my favorites I'm going to look into within the next day or 2, but if anyone is part of a clan, let me know.

ME > all of you peons.


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[cvm]

All i know is that, generally speaking, I play with many of you throughout the week.

[MrTires]

Originally Posted by DonRSD

I hop on, I just don't play with you guys.

Sure there are nights I plan to hop on and don't. Big deal.
There are also nights I hop on and nobody is on.

All I'm saying is if anyone knows a clan that actually does clan matches & speaks about strategies?

I have 2-3 on my favorites I'm going to look into within the next day or 2, but if anyone is part of a clan, let me know.

ME < all of you peons.

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Fixed that there for ya!

TactopsHoot (sorry off of memory if it is incorrect) I believe is part of a clan.

[Jamfan]

Originally Posted by MrTires

By water you mean whiskey and water, and gatorade you mean margaritas?

Will admit Dereksworl got me hooked on the Honey Whiskey lately.... Drink it straight or mixed with a splash of sweet tea..... Liking the Wild Turkey's American Honey, over the Evan Williams Honey Reserve.... Only negative beside of nagging wife saying i'm drinking too much, the damn bottles go empty pretty quickly......

[MrTires]

Originally Posted by Jamfan

Will admit Dereksworl got me hooked on the Honey Whiskey lately.... Drink it straight or mixed with a splash of sweet tea..... Liking the Wild Turkey's American Honey, over the Evan Williams Honey Reserve.... Only negative beside of nagging wife saying i'm drinking too much, the damn bottles go empty pretty quickly......

D is an enabler. Summer drink has been Vodka Tonics for me, crisp and refreshing.

[cvm]

Originally Posted by MrTires

D is an enabler. Summer drink has been Vodka Tonics for me, crisp and refreshing.

Mountain Dew all the way. It is a summer drink, and a spring drink. Heck, it even works in fall and winter.

[Jamfan]

Originally Posted by cvm

Mountain Dew all the way.

Used to drink 2 litres a day, during my college days.... Now i rarely drink pop....

I remember the saying back 15+ yrs ago, that we'd joke with, you drink too much dew, and ur balls will shrivel up......

[MrTires]

Originally Posted by Jamfan

Used to drink 2 litres a day, during my college days.... Now i rarely drink pop....

I remember the saying back 15+ yrs ago, that we'd joke with, you drink too much dew, and ur balls will shrivel up......

Don't mind a Dew now and then, but stick with Diet pop.

I do remember the urban legend or whatever that MT Dew made you impotent.

[Jamfan]

Originally Posted by MrTires

but stick with Diet pop.

Barf.... Can't stand taste of artificial sweetner...... It's either water, tea, or Black Coffee....

[cvm]

Originally Posted by Jamfan

Barf.... Can't stand taste of artificial sweetner...... It's either water, tea, or Black Coffee....

Agreed. Diet sodas are not as good tasting and not as good for you. When it comes to gaming, nothing is better then Mountain Dew. Barqs Root Beer is a close second.

[MrTires]

Originally Posted by Jamfan

Barf.... Can't stand taste of artificial sweetner...... It's either water, tea, or Black Coffee....

Originally Posted by cvm

Agreed. Diet sodas are not as good tasting and not as good for you. When it comes to gaming, nothing is better then Mountain Dew. Barqs Root Beer is a close second.

If i'm going to drink 165 calories it will be in the form of a beer. I never liked diet growing up, but once my metabolism slowed down I tried to lay off of pop. When I do I make it diet. I got used to the taste, to the point now where I can't stand non diet pop as it is way to sweet.

[tarvis]

Originally Posted by MrTires

If i'm going to drink 165 calories it will be in the form of a beer. I never liked diet growing up, but once my metabolism slowed down I tried to lay off of pop. When I do I make it diet. I got used to the taste, to the point now where I can't stand non diet pop as it is way to sweet.

Maybe you should try drinking soda with cane sugar rather than subsidized corn syrup. Dublin Dr Pepper or what have you. Hello.

[MrTires]

Originally Posted by tarvis

Maybe you should try drinking soda with cane sugar rather than subsidized corn syrup. Dublin Dr Pepper or what have you. Hello.

Yo I know not of Dublin Dr P and your yuppy California sodas.

PS3 fixed yet? I hit Act II Inferno last night...weeeee

[tarvis]

Dublin Dr Pepper was from Dublin, Texas. There's also Coke with cane sugar. Or, Mexican Coke.

Ordered a drive, it was DOA, shipped it back. Haven't played Diablo for a while. Tried out Left 4 Dead for the first time yesterday. I had originally refused to play it because of that stupid four in the title.

[DonRSD]

GGs earlier

[Show spoiler]my favorite girls

Nolan & FRANKTHETANK

people actually used mics.

oh GIGGS......get a mic.

[cvm]

'Battlefield 3' Premium tops 800,000 within first 2 weeks

Within the first two weeks of availability, more than 800,000 players signed up for the Battlefield 3 Premium service, says EA Games chief Patrick Soderlund in an interview with Game Hunters.

The service tied to EA's popular first-person shooter gives players early access to the game's downloads, including the recently released Close Quarters.

Soderlund says the initial response has topped EA's expectations. "We are very pleased with the performance so far," he says.

Premium was introduced at the Electronic Entertainment Expo earlier this month. It's available for PC, PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360. As part of a deal reached with PS3 makers Sony, downloads were available to Premium PS3 owners first, followed by PC and Xbox 360 one week later. From there, all owners across all platforms will receive the DLC.

As for whether EA might adopt similar plans for their other games, it's still too soon to tell. "We're actually only two weeks into it, so it's a little early to tell how this is going to pay off," says Soderlund. "It certainly it looks very promising right now."

As head of the EA Games label, Soderlund commands a powerful lineup including Battlefield 3, which has shipped 15 million copies since its October 2011 release. Also on the Games label: Dead Space 3, Need For Speed, Crysis 3, Medal of Honor: Warfighter.

It's heavy on sequels, a departure from a few years ago when EA seemed to embrace fresh franchises more frequently such as Mirror's Edge. Soderlund says expect the publisher to introduce more original properties down the road.

"As game makers, we have to continuously work and launch new intellectual properties into the market," says Soderlund. "If we think we can live off of our existing brands and that only, I think it will not only be costly, but a short-lived mistake. I still think there's a lot of creative juice in brands like Battlefield and Need For Speed and a bunch of our franchises, but I also do think there's a lot of room for new intellectual properties. We are investing in that today, and you will see new IPs from EA and the Games label in the future."

Here are a couple more excerpts from our interview with Soderlund:

GH: How would you assess the health of the video game console business?

Soderlund: "I think there's still a large number of console gamers out on the market. It's not necessarily growing at the pace as it has before, but maybe because we haven't seen new hardware for a long time, and the behavior of the consumer is changing.

What EA has undergone in the last 4-5 years -- the digital transformation that we've been going through has been based on that type of consumer and how that consumer plays. If EA was a very console-centric company five years ago, it's wrong to say we don't still focus on packaged goods. But if you look at the volume of revenue coming from what we call direct to consumer digital, that's by far the fastest growing part of EA. So I think EA as a company ... as such, is rapidly changing and adapting to this new type of consumer behavior and new platforms that arise.

I do think the console experience now and in the future will always be -- I compare it to the Hollywood blockbuster, the summer movies. If you want the highest, blockbuster experience in the highest fidelity, you're going to want to hook it up to your 65-inch TV with your 5.1 sound, darken the room and then go play it and get really immersed in that experience. We can't get that as of yet on an iPad, iPhone or an Android phone or whatever it may be. You can't necessarily get that on a free-to-play game on PC as well. If you want that experience, that blockbuster feel, you still need to play that on a console and experience that on a console. I don't think that's going to change. It will be the same going forward."

GH: The Wii U is slated to launch later this year. How much has EA invested into that system?

Soderlund: We're backing the Wii U with a couple of titles for launch. Obviously, what was announced at E3 was the (EA Sports) lineup. If you look at our Games label, we will assess the Wii U as we do with any platform. If it's successful, we'll be on it, and we absolutely hope it will be, and think it will be. If it is, we will appear on that platform will all the games that we deem need to be on that platform.

http://content.usatoday.com/communit...1#.T_IRg7UgTbP

[DonRSD]

Originally Posted by cvm

'Battlefield 3' Premium tops 800,000 within first 2 weeks

800,000 x $50 per premium subscription = 40 MILLION DOLLARS!!!

[cvm]

Originally Posted by DonRSD

800,000 x $50 per premium subscription = 40 MILLION DOLLARS!!!

Looks like premium has already paid for itself.

[SlmShdy1]

Originally Posted by cvm

Mountain Dew all the way. It is a summer drink, and a spring drink. Heck, it even works in fall and winter.

Have you tried the new Dark Berry? I bought 3 12-packs and I've gone through 6 20oz bottles to try and rack up points for The Dark Knight Rises give-a-ways. The soda itself is delicious.