I loved Battlefield 1942 and played it to death, then came Battlefield Vietnam which was more of the same really but great fun. Battlefield 2 followed eventually which was rough around the edges but had a whole lot of content going for it and was huge amounts of fun. Then DICE released a patch for it which caused it to crash to desktop randomly for about 5% of users. Then they did not patch this crash for approximately 3 months. It rendered the game unplayable for me and many others.
I refused to buy 2142 because of that and I'm not sure I can bring myself to get this either despite it sounding pretty sweet. I'll probably cave in after seeing more