The gang at Battlefieldo are refusing to talk about or play Battlefield 3 on March 2nd in an attempt to get EA and DICE to talk more with the community of issues and glitches within the game. Accusing the developers of having to rush the game out to compete with Modern Warfare 3 and the publisher of withholding information, the community manager encouraged people to lay down their controllers, log out of Twitter and perhaps go outside for the day, visit and elderly relative or eat a bagel.
He didn't suggest any of those things in all seriousness, but he did stress the importance of communication with fans. "We’re going to give Electronic Arts until Friday, March 2nd to announce the next major patch and the fixes that they have made, or are currently making. SOME acknowledgement of the outcry about the issues that is currently wrong with the game right now, today… Or we’re going to black out the entire battlefield community for 1 day, 24 hours, no playing, no posting, and no tweeting. Silence fed right back into the mouths of those who have chosen to give us the very same silence."
This leads to an interesting discussion: how open should a developer/publisher be about their most popular games? Battlefieldo believe more is needed: "This community has been neglected since the launch of the game in October. No information on patches until release date, and no communication at all from the studio and developers on issues."