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<DIV>At bf2gaming.com we did a poll and almost everybody said the same: this will ruin the game totally. Also, i have lots of bad comments and bad mood for this. Better EA take care of this, if they don't want to lose customers. You know, if people want to make a movement on internet, they can do.</DIV>
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<DIV>Personally, i don't like the ranking system, is like you said, casual and delayed players will be hurted and they can even stop playing the game (and spreading the word about how bad is playing this way). But if they finally add it to the game, at least, private servers MUST be in the ranking system. Don't forget, EA, that players run private servers to have full control of it, hardware, bandwidth, SO, configurations.... and most of all doesn't want to be asking for doing anything: they do and that's all.</DIV>
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<DIV>Take a look at these two threads and you'll see lots of examples:</DIV>
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<DIV><A href="http://www.forumplanet.com/planetbattlefield/topic.asp?fid=7419&tid=1601933">http://www.forumplanet.com/planetbattlefield/topic.asp?fid=7419&tid=1601933</A></DIV>
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<DIV><A href="http://www.forumplanet.com/planetbattlefield/topic.asp?fid=7419&tid=1600118">http://www.forumplanet.com/planetbattlefield/topic.asp?fid=7419&tid=1600118</A> </DIV>
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<DIV dir=ltr style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt" <i><B>De:</B></I> <A href="mailto:bf1942@icculus.org">bf1942@icculus.org</A></DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt" <i><B>Fecha:</B></I> 02/16/05 16:51:15</DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt" <i><B>Para:</B></I> <A href="mailto:bf1942@icculus.org">bf1942@icculus.org</A></DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt" <i><B>Asunto:</B></I> Re: [bf1942] How could DICE agree to this??</DIV></DIV>
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<DIV>> Did anyone else see this interview? A former customer of mine showed it to me.</DIV>
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<DIV>>> They did this with Americas Army and it didnt work out that well.</DIV>
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<DIV><sarcasm mode></DIV>
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<DIV>America's Army? Was that a game?</DIV>
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<DIV></sarcasm off></DIV>
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<DIV>I hope this ranking non-sense is indeed non-sense, because it'll ruin BF2 for the casual player, only a very small amount of players will benefit from this.</DIV>
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