EA really doesn’t like Call of Duty. At all.
This isn’t opinion, EA has, in the past, denied truces with Activision and expressed great loathing for the franchise itself. This is nothing out of the ordinary, Call of Duty is a direct competitor to the Battlefield franchise.
But EA may not have their hands entirely clean on this one.
Apparently EA had sent out a questionnaire to Norwegian sites Gamereactor.no and Gamer.no and others when they had asked for early review copies of Battlefield 3.
The questionnaire was heavy oriented on the critic’s current view of the Battlefield series and Call of Duty series.
EA Norway has stated that the questionnaire was sent out due to human error. It’s hard to not smell a Norwegian rat amongst EA’s ambitions.