Colin Clark, Dice Community Manager has written a short article for IGN which discusses community feedback and how public beta will affect Battlefield 2142.

Almost all of us in the office regularly play Battlefield. Although it's a lot of fun to get in the game with the various types of players, it's often quite dangerous to enter a server with a [DICE] label in front of your name! Anytime I use a [DICE] tag I find myself dying to knives more often than usual; I actually enjoy this since it gives me an opportunity to score my own knife kills.

So will you be beta testing with the DICE developers?