shooters are stuffty games for modding. why would that be so important to you?
Custom maps, skins, single player maps, UI mods, etc. They're no where near stuffty for modding, in fact they're probably one of the most modded genre, unless the developer decides to go fascist and not let the customers play with their tools.
I'm hearing that in order to install BF3, even buying a store copy, you WILL have to use Origin. Is this true?