When I said BF1943 is not the next BF game, I meant in terms of what BF1942/BF2 are. BF1943, like you said, is a mod of the Frostbite engine, not a "full" game. The next full battlefield game centered around multiplayer will be the next BF.
Battlefield: BC is more a Singleplayer game with smaller multiplayer options.
It is a fulll game. It is as much BF as bf42 and BF2 is... You think bf1943 will be 3 maps, and stop?...
This is the next Battlefield, period. I understand that you (and many others) are waiting for the next mega-bomb a la BF3 or somehing epic, and consider bf1943 to not be "real"... you forget that bf1943 is a platform on which we will all be playing alot on, future releases and mappacks will all use it... It is not 3maps and then stop...
Frostbyte will be moddable ofcourse, at some point, but there's along time until enough titles are out to even start thinking about which FB title to build a mod on.. definitely not bf1943, probably not BFBC2 either, but the one after that maybe... Allthough Im guessing Bf1943 will be what we all will be playing for some time... with patches including western europe, russia or whatever they're adding later on.
I dont know if they have announced how many players BFBC2 will support, but as for the next 64 player game it can take as long as it want, we have FH2 for many years now and to play bf43 will be alot of fun, for that kind of fun/arcade shooter.
The truth is: the companies (dice) are lightyears ahead of you in their plans, for them it is not about creating this one epic game that will take over all the old titles and the #1 "BF" game. for them it is about branching this IP out, about occupying servers and players to play their games... Bf1943 is the next Battlefield game, period. If it is what nostalgics consider "true BF" or what not, is irrelevant. It is the new Battlefield game. BFBC2 comes after, also new. Bf1943 is more a real BF than BF2 IMO, if they would have made maps you didnt "recognise" you would think different, now you look at the overlay and see the outlines of Wake and make the assumption its a ripoff?... That is 0.001% of the game's content, the terrain on the heightmaps... all the rest is totally new. When people say "its not a real BF" or "its just a remake" etc.. I dunno if to laugh or cry. BF1943 is the first PC game on Frostbyte, its WW2, its 100% new.
Why whine?