It just makes no business sense to me at all , that is , why the IP owners have done what they ' ve done to date . There is definite potential but open sourcecommunity development is realistically the only way major progress will ever be realised . If I were a benevolent billionaire I ' d buy it all then open source it overnight . <| sep |> Which is my biggest problem with the Battlefield fandom and part of why I ' m so disillusioned with it at this point . I don ' t play it as obsessively as I used to solely because the fanbase is a bunch of racist , elitist sycophants and the only reason the game was a success at all was because of the CoD hatejerk . Battlefield used to play second fiddle to CoD and to a lesser extent even Halo , it was the black sheep , the redheaded stepchild . Now it ' s everyone ' s golden boy because RIPCOD ECKS DEDEDE And this is coming from someone who ' s been a fan since the first Bad Company . Edit If you ' ve confused this as Battlefield hate you ' re wrong , it ' s more annoyance at people who are only into it because it ' s trendy