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PC gamers not invited.

An online Battlefield 3 competition with a $1.6 million prize pot kicks off early next year, developer DICE has announced.

Organised in partnership with Virgin Gaming, the Battlefield 3 Worldwide Conquest Tournament will see PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 users shoot each other up for a slice of the dough. Sorry PC gamers, you're not invited.

Details of exactly how it will all go down are yet to be firmed up, but the matches will take place online with a live grand finale planned for some time in 2012.

Reckon you're in with a shot? Pre-registration has just begun.

'The Battlefield series has always been a very social experience with its best-in-class multiplayer gameplay and we're honored to have such passionate and loyal fans," commented DICE general manager Karl Magnus Troedsson.

"We want to give them the best Battlefield experience we've ever created with Battlefield 3. The Worldwide Conquest Tournament with Virgin Gaming is a great way to celebrate the gameplay and reward our fans."

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bemaniac #1 8 months ago

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What the fuck, buying my 50mb virgin gaming broadband and my �2500 pc to play my �35 battlefield 3 and I don't get to enter a competition run by Virgin, on the game I paid for on the system the game was born on and developed on. Love this world.
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Evil_Badger #2 8 months ago

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So much for PC being the lead platform.
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filipo #3 8 months ago

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Stop the world, it's fucked.
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dirtysteve #4 8 months ago

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I can't believe this isn't Pc only. Like most online sports. I'm not mad about it, just thought that PC was the obvious platform for tournaments.
I guess there may be a separate one for PC down the line.
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arcam #5 8 months ago

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I see they don't mind using the PC version for the video on the tournament sign-up page
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Graveland #6 8 months ago

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The console winner will need the $1.6m in order to buy a PC powerful enough to play BF3 on full specs.
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ubergine #7 8 months ago

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It takes far more skill to play well with a console pad than a mouse/keyboard. Game might as well be a point-n-click adventure on PC, hardly worth prize money.
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KayJay #8 8 months ago

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Oh no he dih'ant...
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uiruki #9 8 months ago

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ubergine: +1 for originality!
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MerricK #10 8 months ago

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i'm a pc gamer & a ps3 owner.......

and.....

LOL
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JumpinJackFlash #11 8 months ago

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The reason PC gamers aren't invited is because they hold a significant advantage over console owners playing with a mouse and Keyboard.

MS killed a project due to the above too:

[link url=http://kotaku.com/5593259/rumor-microsoft-killed-plans-for-pc-vs-xbox-360-online-play
]http://kotaku.com/5593259/rumor-microsof...[/link]

Problems quickly arose in testing, however, when Microsoft found that even the best console gamers simply couldn't compete with the accuracy a mouse and keyboard afforded a PC player. "The console players got destroyed every time", Sood says. "So much so that it would be embarrassing to the XBOX team in general had Microsoft launched this initiative."
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FarbrorBaku #12 8 months ago

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This makes sense since the console versions on the game will outsell the pc version by far, and this is a deliberate attempt from ea to attract the ever growing number of competitive console fps gamers.
And there will of course be pc only tournaments later.
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Donaldthescotishtwin #13 8 months ago

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I wasn't planning on getting BF3 but now I am(it's better than the lottery)
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Totza #14 8 months ago

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HAHAHAHHA
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ucankurbaga #15 8 months ago

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fps tournament on console is fail.
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JumpinJackFlash #16 8 months ago

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Great vid of PC version vs Console

http://youtu.be/AGbo50Ar420
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Lunastra78 #17 8 months ago

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Rabble rabble rabble!!!
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CaptainQuint #18 8 months ago

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EG are cheap fucking whores, a lot of the time.
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ubergine #19 8 months ago

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I'm glad people enjoyed my comment earlier, I was expecting to be negged to oblivion.
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Radish #20 8 months ago

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I wonder if the EA are more confident with Battlefield on the PC (logical given it's history), and feel they need some incentive for console gamers to get into the series - this might just be a way to advertise the game to them.

Oh, and you're wrong ubergine - it takes a lot of skill to play well with a controller, but the relative ease of the keyboard/mouse combination just means you're up against a higher average skill level. A professional player using a keyboard/mouse would beat one using a controller, based purely on accuracy/reflexes alone (and not weapons, map knowledge etc).

Edited by Radish at 28/09/11 @ 02:02
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overcorpse #21 8 months ago

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Ahahahahahaha PC elitist's with their sense of entitlement are foiled once again.Oh lordy.
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Puriel #22 8 months ago

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if entry to this comp is via a code that emailed to you from EA I think the 1.6 million won't be getting won anytime soon
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Ahskay #23 8 months ago

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Well

Up yours too E.A. & Dice

...still playing it on p.c. cause i'm far too old to care about prize winning contests. Don't even have the time these days. Good luck to those that are entering though.
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Inmediasress #24 8 months ago

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@FarbrorBaku
Nah, its just marketing for consoles since they know that COD will destroy them in the console territory.
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Tiel #25 8 months ago

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The video maentioned in post 16 is great, though I wonder if the ps3 footage is 'target render'

Ho ho.

Not really a fan-boy-I have ps3/360 and pc and they all have plusses and minusses.

That said, this is a great time in the gaming cycle to get a pc--500 quid will buy a pc that sees significant enhancements for all current gen games, and the games themselves are usually cheaper too. I generally buy a console when they are new and sold at a loss, and a pc when the consoles are ageing. For me the biggest pc advantage is simply 1080p and 60 fps without tearing. I'm fussy like that.
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bobfish09 #26 8 months ago

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Isn't Virgin Gaming that gambling site? Where you bet on online matches?
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hiddenranbir #27 8 months ago

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BIG WHO CARES
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DirectAim #28 8 months ago

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lmao Virgin Gaming sucks!

I was interested in it when it first launched but after seeing $5 entry fee's to tournaments for a grand prize of $20 I just couldn't see the point. Most of these tournaments have over 100 players entered which means out of $500 they are awarded $20 to the winner, its a fucking JOKE!

Ill enter the BF3 one tho bcuz I could do with a million lol
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cw- #29 8 months ago

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@JumpinJackFlash

That is irrelevant to why PC users aren't invited. Xbox users WON'T be playing against PS3 users, two separate tournaments, so if PC was invited, that would be a third tournament.

Battlefield 3 isn't a game that can be played cross platform
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Silvervein #30 8 months ago

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It has less to do with hardware, and more to do with controls. Anyone playing that game with a mouse and keyboard would have a huge advantage over pad users. As good as they are for simulations (driving, flight) when it comes to rapid pointing (shooters) they are bad.
Simple as that.
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Ranger101 #31 8 months ago

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@Radish - ubergine's comment: Woosh!*

*That's the sound of a joke going over your head :-D
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Spekingur #32 8 months ago

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Good focus, DICE.

/sarcastic slow clap
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Architect_z #33 8 months ago

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I'd love to see a 1v1, one guy on PC, one guy on a console, and see them play a match. I always wanted to see how well controllers stacked up against the traditional WASD + mouse. ^_^
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