Origin Group/Platoon Info-Link

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EA's version of a Steam group is called "Platoon"

While this Platoon name is corny as hell, when we started the Steam page it was a great way for people to connect to us.  I think the Platoon idea is the DICE answer to justified criticism about the Bc2 ingame friends list, while trying to piggy back on the "social" side of todays online trends at the same time.

While I can live without 90% of what the Platoon system has to offer, it is a good thing to have in joining friends ingame. Make sure you get added to the group page:

http://battlelog.battlefield.com/bf3/#!/bf3/platoon/2832655240983283846/


The main benifit I found in the Steam page while running the BlackOps server was getting instant help from our server regulars. Be it a heads up on a cheating/suspect player. Someone on the server using offensive language. Or a guy  being a general douche bag (that needs to be removed from the server) let us know. Many times when someone complains through the forum, by the time someone reads the post, the suspect player has left the server. Try as we might, there will be times that there will not be a server admin ingame. Having the ability to instantly communicate w/ an online  308 member w/ server admin is a positive thing, and makes your online gaming experience more enjoyable. 

We know... it sucks to be on a server w/ a twit that needs to be removed. Having our "regulars" linked to us through Origin will only improve your gaming experience, while helping us maintian tightly run servers.   Sign up today.



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Updated topic w/ new link to new platoon. Everyone will need to re-add yourself to group. Dont thank me, thank DICE 

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Just a heads up 
I've cleaned up the 308 platoon member list.  I've removed inactives and non-members (except for longtime friends to 308 - like Compaq or similar). Membership in the platoon will be by invitation, and primarily for 308 members only.


With a year into the Origin experience,  platoons fell short when compared to Steam groups - in my view. For the non-clan  kid gamer, they are probably helpful in many ways. But, we have a nice website to conduct our business on, and this "platoon" deal is superfluous for the most part. About the only benefit I see to the Platoon is a reminder board to members, should there be news on our forum they would benefit from being informed of.


Just posting this note to let anyone removed from the platoon, to not feel bad. Was only removing inactive gamers, as to par the list primary down to active members.  You all are still welcome to play with us on our Bf3 server, or join us on TS for some pubbing fun. Thank you for understanding



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