Right psycho, stop acting like BF3 is gonna save the fuckin gaming world cause quite frankly IT WONT.
Fact 1, it's not a "totally new engine", Frostbite 2.0 is just a tweaked version of Frostbite, so same as used in BC2 and MoH just with new lighting features and bit more destruction.
Fact 2, It will never be as appealing to a competitive crowd as BC2 was, no mod tools, and as for the time warp comment, CS 1.6/CS:S/CoD4 still the most popular competitive FPS going regardless of age or looks, that wont change anytime soon either.
I played the beta enough to know that yer it is like a reskinned BC2/MoH but with some extra's, and it just aint for me, same as BC2 wasn't, battlefield series just doesn't do it for me and that's MY opinion and i'm entitled to it just as the others are, so i'll happily stay in my "time warp" and play something i enjoy and still has competitive support