User blog comment:AnonymousTom/DICE responds to "Blackout"./@comment-1990578-20120225222945

See, now I've seen a bit since I heard about Battlefieldo's proposed blackout. And this article on Kotaku explains it the best...

Some people just go a little too far to try and get what they want. This community, as much as I like it, really gets waaaay too mad at simple things (and I'm not excluding myself from this either, as I have ranted many a time about shenanigans that are pulled). It's EA's fault that DICE hasn't released info on patches and such.

EA wants to keep stuff a secret to everybody because they want money - being a publisher, while DICE - the developer -would probably rather tell their community stuff, but cant because a contract with EA, who owns them. And if DICE breaks that and spills some beans that EA doesn't like, then EA sues and/or fires them all. Thus, no more Battlefield.

Protests may get what you want, but at what cost? Now DICE is forced to take some of their time from patching BF3 to make it as awesome as possible to let us see what its like at their HQ...