@smbu2000: That's pretty much my point. The game was in development for over 5 years.
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"Put minds at ease"?
@Seraphna: What else am I supposed to say?
I'd sooner grab a regular netbook and a copy of Baldur's Gate off of GOG.com
@Seraphna: You mean this one?
@Spider: Technically? Yes. They've made that illegal with the DMCA.
@Kenny: EULA's have to be tried in court, which companies are extremely loathe to do. Largely because they put so much ridiculous tripe in them and typically strip you of so many rights that you can't legally be stripped of that any real scrutiny would probably cause them to be thrown out as unconscionable.
@Walking Eye: If it's any consolation I was just coming in to make that one.
@Tactful: Most people generally recognise that on the off-chance that you can get pirated multiplayer games working online, it typically isn't worth it because
@subedii: Can't edit, but that should be "from equal to well below the other two platforms"
@gigawings: A more fair comment would probably be that most players console-side don't even know there is a spot button. Most games never use that button for anything in-game.
@imode: You think the same didn't happen PC-side?
@Tactful: Which by their very nature, can't (not won't, but literally can't) be be counted in the official stats.
@Eric Smith: If you're talking about "useless numbers" in your first post, the number of people who own a copy of BFBC2 on each platform is irrelevant to this, only the number currently playing online (which SG gave a partial indicator of). Hours logged online is another metric to measure this by, and that clearly…
@TERROR-HORROR: That's some virus.
@GhostRaven: Pretty certain you can't take a modded 360 online. MS don't mess around with that, shortly before MW2 released they actually banned somewhere in the region of 1 million modded 360's from XBL. Yes, one million. Could still play singleplayer, but couldn't access Live.
@CharmeleonWithAttitude:
@Adhominem: I do believe the server culture does help this a lot.