Yes, I do speak to Phogue regularly. He’s in my Teamspeak all the time. He’s a good friend.
Having said that: he cannot talk about anything he does for DICE and has not told me anything about the plans EA / DICE is having for BF1.
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I’ve contacted several DICE devs to hear what’s going on, but none of them want to elaborate.
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So… what else can we do? I don’t know…
Hey Braddock,
How’s it going?
Two things: a) that tat is hardcore. nice. b) do you think we’ll have some clarity on this issue within the first 24 hours after release?
Maybe I’m just getting paranoid in my old age but I’m having serious misgivings over the way this is being handled. We are days away from the game starting yet they are avoiding answering basic questions that would have been decided on years ago at the beginning of the development cycle. We know they are avoiding telling by the delay. This sort of info should have released months ago. The only reason to delay it is because they are worried about the impact of it affecting sales.
I was confused at first because the seeming direction this is all going seems like a reaction to a handful of trolls who don’t like not being able to be abusive in game but that doesn’t make sense. They can’t be that naive. What next came to mind worried the hell out of me. I am starting to wonder that maybe EA (not dice) really want to destroy the clan community that has built up around this game. I know this sounds paranoid as all hell but think about it for a minute. For a decade or so now there have been whole communities that have played a battlefield game non stop basically until the next one comes out. This in not what EA wants. They want us buying the game, playing it for a few weeks then moving on to the next big title. If we are modding this game and keeping it alive for two years or more then thats less money in their pockets.
I could be wrong obviously. I hope I am frankly. But the way games lately have been slanted more towards the casual player has made me wonder.
We’ve been asking these server questions for weeks now. How long does it take to pass out the information they already know? Even if it was just a “don’t worry your fears are groundless” type message.
@fumzz Thanks. I sincerely am doing my best to get that info as soon as possible.
@EBassie Yeah, unless it’s been authorized to be discussed publicly (which would most likely first come in a Forum Post or Blog), you will be hard-pressed to find an employee (EA or DICE) who both knows and is willing break NDA to tell you any details. What you can do is wait until I get the information y’all are requesting and share it the moment I can. That’s just a suggestion and not being snarky. There’s really nothing WE can do but wait until the information comes my way.
-Braddock512-
The anticipation is murdering me.
Must be hard for phogue to see that his beloved program will not be used anymore…
I used procon since BC2 and loved it all the way… it shows wat a community can do for their passion for the game.
And some idiots whine about badmins and EA takes it all away and leaves us in the dark till the end… It all is sad!
I realy hope you guys and the community can get something from EA
@Braddock512 I know… I know. You keep up the good work. 
Why? Just don’t buy the game and move on. Stress gone. EA/DICE have demonstrated they aren’t willing to provide you any relevant information before release, so why even buy the game and then be pissed/disappointed about servers. The simple solution is to just not buy it. Let it bomb.
I see a lot of comments about badmins, who cares? Are you seriously so butt hurt about being kicked/banned from 1 or 2 servers when there are literally hundreds if not a thousand servers for BF4. If someone purchases a server, they have every right to admin it as they choose as it is their money, not yours. LOL, I got called a badmin once because I kicked a guy that was 40-0 on one of our servers in the first 5 minutes of play. I couldn’t determine if he was cheating or not, all of his PB screenshots (12 of 12) were black (good indication he was running a screen blocker though so he probably was cheating). I didn’t ban him for cheating, people were leaving the server because it just wasn’t fun so I banned him to keep the server from emptying out. People get kicked/banned for multiple reasons, and for the most part they deserve it. LOL. I’ve never been banned from any server that I can remember. I’ve been kicked from many for things like over the skill cap, over the ping limit, over the rank limit, K/D too high/not noob friendly, using a sniper rifle when there is a sniper limit. but you know what, I didn’t cry badmin about it. I accepted they had rules and breaking those rules would get you kicked. I moved on and went to another server, the same option as any of you have. Quit crying about badmins because your little fragile underdeveloped emotions got hurt.
As a server owner, there are somethings I won’t tolerate, and those are my rights as a server owner. You have no right to tell me or any other server owner how to moderate/admin it. If you think you do, then you are the problem, not the admins/server owners.
/End of Rant
just another week to go. I can wait.
Till the early access, they could keep jerking us around on the servers for another month or more.
I can hold onto my money just as long as they can hold on to the details 
I’m in no hurry to buy BF1 and will hold off until DICE makes a full disclosure.
If their disclosure ends up being another round of not so good news, then I’m not buying BF1.
Rising Storm Vietnam and Squad, are looking sweeter by the day!
I’ll hold out for the people responsible for this SNAFU being thrown under a line of buses as a warning to whomever replaces them.
The funny thing is I used to work in the industry, but left due to suggestions falling on deaf ears. It’s really frustrating to know that something is going to fail, bringing it to attention only for it to be ignored and the failure realized. The worse part about it, is when the realized they messed up, but will not acknowledge that if they would have listened in the first place, the crisis would have been avoided. I’m actually working on something right now that I know will be great.
In the meantime, I hope these suggestions don’t fall on deaf ears like they have so many times in my past experiences. I’d loved the gameplay of bf1, I however don’t like cheaters, and people who spams chat with every racist messed up thing you can think about which is exactly what happens when you don’t have admins or the tools necessary to get rid of these toxic people.
EB seriously get off your i am almighty horse for one second of your life, you are nothing more than a toxic server admin who has more bans to his name than dinners, you think the gaming world revolves around you and your mates. As you have previously said, and I really hope its true, If there is no Procon you will not be an admin or have your little ban hammer privilege for BF1, here is hoping !
@Jodomar
What are you working on?
If anybody is worried about the waiting, and hasn’t played Witcher 3 yet, get that game! I just purchased it over the weekend (GOTY Ediition) as I’m passing on BF1, and holy hell does it appear to be a loooooong fun game. From all the available settings, they also seem to care about PC players. WIN WIN!
Running at 3440x1440 with max everything and uncapped fps on sli 1080s, the game is just gorgeous too.
It’s a long ways off, but will be amazing, it will be what people have been wanting, and it will be PC first. Still in the planning/concept phase but I do have some talented people totally down for creating something new, and fun. I have just gotten tired of the sub-par treatment of PC gamers and how backwards new games have become. Don’t get me wrong, they are some really cool titles out there that I love to play. But the trend has been less features, less polish, for more money, and it needs to stop. I hope that battlefield 1 could be among these really awesome titles but they’re letting me and most of us down so far. Maybe they can turn it around, I hope they do. The beta was super fun, but the fun will only last until the cheaters/toxic players ruin the servers. It’s why you have got to have solid admin controls, and I really hope that they announce the features they will be providing those that rent the servers.
I really don’t care if you are a mod, if you are wrong, you are wrong, and guess what, you are wrong. The PC player will most certainly get the shaft if our worst fears are realized. How’s that you ask? Try a bunch of official servers with absolutely no oversight. Yeah, good luck with that.
Then again, you could come back with, “well what about Battlefront? No one is getting shafted there because no one is playing!”. Of course you’d win that argument. Maybe I should rethink my stance… NAH.
Just because someone doesn’t share your opinion, doesn’t mean you are right
it goes vice versa of course.