Still waiting for a direct statement, instead of sending news out via via. Although finally we hear something from the other side!

The "Inside DICE" Blog sounds interesting!

Like it or not, I'm glad we now have some sort of "official" news of what the developers are working on.

exactly. its a first step. lets hope this will be the trend from now on and not just a flash in the pan. its important for the Devs and the Community to be able to have effective lines of communication open.

the Inside Dice is a good idea. i am gonna look forward to it

"While there still is no ETA on the patch"

That's bullshit! Everything has an ETA. The key word is "estimated". We're still being circle jerked! This is nothing more then an attempt to stop the black out.

It looks like the blackout action already starts taking notice. This is already a very good thing to start with. I hope this patch works and is not going to create a ton new bugs.

The blackout isn't about demanding patch dates or fixes, it is about re-opening the flow of communication

I don't blame them for not releasing a ETA. Even just a tentative date. If it was't ready on that date the community would go nuts.
I think their response to the blackout has been very respectable. If they continue, my intense respect for DICE will be restored.

It all means nothing to me, you can tweak every weapon and item in this game to the enth degree, you can put up tweak lists of what your going to do but EVERYONE will have issues with it, tweak till your hearts content but nobody will be happy. It means nothing, you sound like children who dont get ice cream for dinner, grow up. Fix the obvious dam problem with this game THE CHEATERS, the dam players that have 190 kills 0 deaths. the IRNV scoping? REALLY???????? COME ON????????

Ok, If you want to open a line of Comm, you dont layout specific tweaks like a blueprint plan to build a Flux Capacitor. Nor do you shove it down their thoats and give them no alternative, god sake this is a game not Iraq,,,,,,FIX WHATS WRONG....THE DAM CHEATING. bottom line.

not to mention your basically talking about being able to "Get More Points" tweaking to make it easier to kill. you guys who are doing all this militant driving are all Col 20 and above, you really need more rank? wow.

You can tweak the SCAR to fire .000000001 to the left, what good does that do when a cheater just shoots it into the air from his own spawn and kill 30 players.

yes some news

Excellent stuff. Great job everybody - if we work as a community we can make things happen.

Remember that this entire movement is about ONE THING and ONE THING ONLY - communication between the community and DICE. We aren't arguing for a patch ETA, we aren't demanding more content or DLC or anything like that - we just want increased transparency and open communication between DICE and the community.

And it's working.

Now i can own all jets and helicopters with my RPG

At this rate maybe BF4 will be the true successor to BF2!!!!!!

This is an excellent first step and regardless of what people say, this is a huge change for EA. I may be wrong but I don't recall them ever doing this in the past. I applaud them for their effort as this is a great step toward rebuilding the communication between EA and its customers. Good job to BFO and everyone else that supported.