I went ahead and preordered this earlier today. Every review I've read this week is just glowing about how much better the final version plays over the beta. Kind of begs the question, why the fuck would EA release such shit when they have a game that is a lot better? It wouldn't surprise me a bit to hear that they lost a good many sales over the lacking quality of the beta.

The thing that won me over is that every single article I've read(Destructoid, IGN, and Joystiq) all raved about how the health was much higher and there was actual gun battles as opposed to the one or two hit BS in the beta. Considering that was my main beef for not wanting to get the game, hearing that it's fixed from multiple sources is more than enough to get me to pull the trigger and I'm definitely glad. I was really excited about BF3 until I played the beta and saw the low health.