Battlefield 3 suffering prolonged server issues while enraged fans go "ignored"

Seeing our previously coverage concerning Battlefield 3′s launch issues, GamesBeat reader Clint N. emailed me with the following information. “Just poke around on battlefield’s Facebook page and read some of the posts for the last 3 days or so. It is thoroughly blowing up with people upset with lack of communication and servers being down with no explanation. They only direct us to their battlelog news site, which is never updated and tell us that they have “reported the problem to their DEVs” or “are looking into the root cause” however no explanation why. You talked in your article about them being more transparent and we are getting nearly the in contrast.”

Clint’s sentiment about communication from EA is echoed in this Battlefield forum post, which started on December 7, 2011 and now has near 3,500 replies:

The biggest problems on PS3 have been AND continue to be VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol) and Input Lag. Since release, there have been thousands of complaints regarding this issue an but there has been no “Official” word from EA or DICE on if a fix is coming for either.

The latest such statement

The latest such statement was a Tweet by @TomasDanko, DICE Audio, who answered my question about a VoIP fix by stating that it would be then and there month. Oddly, this Tweet has disappeared and I am no longer certain that this will be fixed with the release of the February patch.