Battlefield 3 Update Controversy Created by Dice

<p>Patrick Back&comma; <em>Battlefield 3<&sol;em> executive producer and temporary DICE CEO&comma; has responded to criticism the studio has received after the last patch to <em>Battlefield 3&period; <&sol;em><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The latest patch for the PlayStation 3&comma; Xbox 360 and PC was released at the beginning of April&period; The weapon buffs&sol;nerfs and other fixes that were released did not go over well with some fans&period; The patch also created a few new issues as well&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The biggest challenge when you release a big patch like this is to wait&comma;” said Bach&period; &&num;8220&semi;Because we know that if you have a favorite gun that we have balanced down or you score in a certain way by doing certain things and then we nerfed that down then you will get upset&comma; period&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>According to Bach&comma; much of the feedback they receive from gamers is not very useful since it only takes into account the performance of that particular gamer&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&&num;8220&semi;People do not care and they do not know about the big picture&comma; but we do&period; Because we don’t care about single individuals&comma; we care about everyone&period; We try to make sure that everyone has a great time and that the balance is overarching&period; So we have a lot of statistics&comma; we look at all the data and we try to listen to people and ask &OpenCurlyQuote;is this really an issue&quest; And in most of the cases it is not an issue&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Dice is evaluating certain issues and trying to determine if there is an actual problem&comma; or if it’s simply a case of gamers saying I’m not used to this&comma; so I hate it&period;’<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&&num;8220&semi;We get a lot of praise for it but the biggest problem is that the people that like it don’t go on forums and write about it&comma; they just keep playing&comma;&&num;8221&semi; Bach added&period; &&num;8220&semi;We can see that our player numbers are going up as we speak because of the patch&period; It’s not going down even though people say &OpenCurlyQuote;I’m not playing because of the patch&period;’<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;I think if people went back to the old patch now after a couple of weeks they would see the big differences&period; But then again it’s not that it’s hassle free&comma; so of course we are looking into any real issues that we need to fix&comma;&&num;8221&semi; Bach explained&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&lpar;Via <a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;nowgamer&period;com&sol;news&sol;1339289&sol;battlefield&lowbar;3&lowbar;update&lowbar;controversy&lowbar;we&lowbar;dont&lowbar;care&lowbar;about&lowbar;individuals&lowbar;dice&period;html">NOW Gamer<&sol;a>&rpar;<&sol;p>&NewLine;