Electronics Arts buys DICE, makers of the Battlefied series. Then Computer And Video Games comes along and conducts this interview with Marcus Nilsson, senior producer of Battlefield: 2142, and he says this:

It's not that we are necessarily very bad, we're not, but there is a very vocal minority on the forums who say 'EA is crap' and 'DICE are lazy', but they're all probably playing the game every day already anyway. We have minor problems, sometimes we have big problems, but minor problems are not what people should write about. Maybe they should write about why they're playing Battlefield every day. But that's human nature, I guess - you have a vocal minority and a silent majority.

Lovely attitude. If you are complaining about something the devs qualify as "minor", they suggest you would be better off spending your time writing about, say, your own sexual dysfunctions. After all, you are part of the minority that speaks... the majority loves the game and has no problem with it, as evidenced by the fact that they aren't talking.

Man, Marcus, shut up. That vocal minority? Those are the true fans of your game. The guys who aren't talking? They are the guys who ponied up the money, got bored a week later and aren't likely to come up. Silence in gaming forums, as in death, does not indicate satisfaction. Florian Eckhardt

Interview: Battlefield 2142 [CVG]