That's a fine line, and the reason multiple law firms have to investigate before bringing any charges. If they can prove they didn't act on any information that wasn't publicly available, then they just made a smart business move.

Well, just because you are the CEO (or any executive) of a company doesn't mean you are obligated to keep all of your shares. If you are only acting on public knowledge, you are more than welcome to sell of half of your shares to make some money. If the stock then tanks a month later, you didn't necessarily do…

This is one of the awful truths of humanity that I have learned to (unfortunately) accept as inevitable. Pretty much anyone, when told by a friend or relative that their $5 mil in stocks will be worthless in a month, would sell that shit as fast as they could. It's easy to say it's despicable when you're no where…

Because the guys at the top of Enron are laughing on a sailboat in the French riviera right now? The gubment doesn't take insider trading lightly.

Or tree stands. They are very helpful when trying to get a first gun somewhat down south.

Ah yes, now it's coming back to me. I do remember it being quite a bit easier to flip over and burn to death in BF2. I would imagine this change was to move towards the more casual player as well as a result of developing for consoles.

This is probably a result of play testing. I can imagine that flying the gunship would be difficult and not very much fun.

I have, but it was a long time ago (obviously) and I forget the differences really. I play on PC with a joystick, so it's pretty rewarding and fun as it is.

A lot of the smaller Brits they have are surprisingly good drivers. The Americans are always awkward as hell though.

Hell, as long as I can pilot a chopper with a semi-competent gunner, I'm happy.

Very well put. I think it's harder to realize the FPS genre is fading than you think, but it's definitely true. Now if only I could come up with the next uber popular game...

Lowering the price defeats the purpose of cutting out SP. You are moving resources from SP to MP to make it better, but you drop the price? It's either/or and with no shortage of bodies to throw at the game, EA can just keep the price where it is and have both developments running side by side.

Better looking, better optimized, hopefully fewer bugs by release. It's the natural progression of things, 3 years will bring up the "standard" hardware quite a bit. Not to mention next gen consoles will raise the minimum specs they design for.

I agree in spirit, but it's still unparalleled. BC2 is more complete, BF3 is more... specific? They are different enough that they aren't parallel. Which one is "better" is a matter of opinion.

I could actually agree with that. I love BF3 but have never even opened the SP. Just got around to playing the coop a week ago and actually really enjoyed it, but SP, not so much.

Good analysis, and that's more than likely why they're having trouble selling haha. This is 100% a business thing and has very little to do with the actual game development.

Dirt 3's rally stuff was good. Way better than Dirt 2. If you don't like the Gymkhana stuff I can understand, but the legit rally stuff wasn't bad. Dirt 4 should be awesome.

Agreed. I guess we can hope that the way it's set up is more a factor of time constraints and more involved co-op missions could be future DLC that doesn't suck. More likely they will just wait until the next game though.

Ah, I've played through 1 and 2 plenty of times so I'm not too worried about that aspect. I'm more interested in the discount that is applied to 3.