[Matt]

Everyone's moving to cs go or BF3! Guess I gotta torrent BF3! Why isn't bf3 on steam, if there is bf2 and others! I'm not gonna buy it because I never buy games in a store besides steam obviously!

Because EA is trying to push their own products. Steam has their own problems, and your reasoning doesn't make sense.

Matt: It makes sense especially if you look into BF2. The BF2 servers were never released to the public in an attempt to curb any attempt of artificially inflating one's stats.

DandyAndy said he could make a BF3 server off of his box because he knows the owners of the GSP he rents his box from.

That is correct! I can and will host a BF3 ranked server... cant wait!

Anyways, I highly doubt a non-ranked server would be very popular among anyone that had bought the game legally. Yes, it sucks but half the appeal of the multiplayer in BF3 is the ability to advance one's rank and guns.

Wouldn't mind giving us the files?