Battlefield 3 Premium service confirmed
Battlefield 3's "Premium" service is a real thing, EA has finally confirmed.
Battlefield 3's "Premium" service is a real thing, EA has finally confirmed. The publisher promises additional information on June 4th, which coincides with their E3 press conference. June 4th is also the rumored release date for "Premium," which suggests the company plans on announcing and releasing the add-on at the same time.
The $50 "Premium" bundle should include access to all five expansion packs for Battlefield 3, including Back to Karkand, Close Quarters, and End Game. "Combined, the Battlefield 3 expansion packs include 20 maps, 20 new weapons, 10+ new vehicles, 4 new game modes, 30+ assignments, and 20+ dog tags," a leaked fact sheet revealed.
In addition, "Premium" users will get two weeks early access to add-on content, mirroring the release schedule of Call of Duty Elite. Additionally, "Premium" members also get "server queue priority"--a dicey proposition, given the criticisms surrounding the lack of official servers.
While many will likely balk at its price, Battlefield Premium does represent a savings over buying all the DLC separately. (Four expansion packs would cost $60, versus $50 for Premium.) Call of Duty Elite also offered similar savings, and it garnered two million paid subscribers.
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and CoD's Elite wasnt ?
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He's referring to EA / DICE's stance on "mapathy" back when MW2 was out and they were releasing "free maps" (retooled existing maps for the most part). The only paid DLC that DICE had at the time was the Vietnam (which was fun for about two weeks and then they weren't supported for shit). It was the one, rare moment when EA wasn't looking like complete dicks. Ever since they pushed out Origin, it's been a 180.
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but... since we already own BtoK..... the 2 other packs would be 40 right ?
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I'm curious as well as to how they'll handle the players that already have some of the existing content to be included in this "Premium" bundle. It could be that what is listed in this article is speculation and the things that have already been released are not included at all.
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yeah, bye dice. we had some good times, but these friends of yours.... well. nice knowing you.
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no, its not the end. but crap like being able to take queue slots away is shadier than i like to deal with. don't care to support that.
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*being able to take queue slots away from other players
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not taking away, i mispoke there. if you buy bf3 premium, you'll get bumped up ahead of of non-premium users in server queues.
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Dude, I can't even find official EA/DICE servers anymore. Plus, I never queue up anyway. If there's not enough slots for me and my team, I pick a different server.
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So between this Premium queue crap, Blizzard's WoW-ification of all its IPs (all 3 of them), and Valve's asinine changes to good games (TF2 and DOTA2)...I think at least part of the game industry is trying to kill my interests in gaming.
Luckily, there's still CD Projekt and kickstarters abound for a new renaissance of CRPG and adventure games.-
My interest has dropped significantly. The only way I can put it, is games are turning into products more and more.
The reality is, they always were products but the illusion was there and I could pay and get lost in another world, now that veil has been pulled back to see the money grab more and more and it feels dirty.
Honestly, I think I'd just prefer to pay more, 65, 70, 75 whatever. I just don't want to subscribe to this whole DLC crap, the pre-order bonus shit, the DRM bullshit - it's all a mess. It all feels off to me and it's sullying gaming for me. Not that I'm bitter, more a bit sad. I get to enjoy TV and movies more lately. -
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I'm getting in my car and coming at you bro
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I just want to be able to do slight changes to the Hardcore settings damnit....
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Why are people so down on this? It's optional, and it gets you the upcoming expansions for cheaper than it would cost to buy them individually. Seems like win-win to me.
It's really not much different, in my mind, than offering a discounted price for pre-ordering a game. Don't like it? Don't buy it, and buy the expansion packs later!-
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That's a really weird feature. Do people really sit there in long server queues that often? Every time I want to play I just search for a server with open slots. I guess if my friends are playing in a full server I'll sit in the queue but I've never seen a queue longer than 3 people, and if one dude got to cut in line in front of me it would barely increase the wait.
I mean I still think it's weird but I don't think it's going to be a problem for non-premiums-
When it's the only server under 100 ping that doesn't have 1000 ticket w/instant respawns then yes I will sit there. Though yeah I agree, the premium stuff doesn't bother me at all.
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How does it create multiple tiers any more so than expansions packs do?
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From what I read above there are unlocks that are also only available through the paid service, and there's that queueing thing. So that's true. Also, expansion packs that you have to buy suck too I did not say they don't suck.
There are many things that are widely accepted by gaming consumers now, like paid and release day DLC, that doesn't mean they're good.-
Oh, I did not see that there are Premium only unlocks. I don't like that. (although I will buy this so I guess it doesn't matter a lot to me)
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It isn't a bad deal considering all the DLC is included and its not a monthly/yearly fee like CoD Elite.
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Probably because it's nearly impossible to play the game "as designed" in its current state. Seems like every server is 1000 tickets which throws off the balance of the maps and makes the matches take way too long, and half of the servers are instant vehicle respawn which REALLY fucks up the balance of the game.
Even turning on the filter to not use modified rules fails to filter out those servers :(-
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Yeah, I wish I could set my server by 50% increments instead of 100% (after getting to 100%).
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i would love to agree with you on the high tickets servers but i also hate waiting very long time between every game
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What if I buy it but then don't like the other DLC packs? What if they do nothing about hacks? I think I would prefer to purchase the maps as they come and I can decide at that point if it's something I want to play. This is too much like a fucking Kickstarter for EA DLC....
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Menu? So we're adding imaginary bonuses now?
And how often do you really sit in a queue, let alone find more than 1 or 2 "official" servers?
And yes, some restaurants actually have VIP seating. If you want that privilege then pony up (getting other content at a discounted price in the process). If you don't.... well, then don't.
Personally, this just sounds like people who have to find something, anything to bitch about.
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Sounds a lot like Crysis Maximum. I'll prepare my Steam Wallet.
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Battlefield 3 sucks. The Battlefield series used to be of high quality, then it dumbed down several notches, became a simplistic shadow of its former self in an attempt to steal some of CoD's audience and profit. DICE happily sold the series out with Battlefield 3, which is probably the worst game in the franchise to date.
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Nope.avi
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I didn't just start with BF3 or only play the previous console games, and I think you're completely off base. The only major issue with BF3 is on the console side with only having a maximum player count of 24.
Sorry that you feel so butthurt.
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I enjoyed the carrier a bit, but overall didn't really care for 2142. Sunk several hundred hours into BF2 though.
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Fragmented player base, stupid 1000 ticket instaspawn servers, horrible unlock system, and paid queue priority. I'm obviously not the target audience because I don't want these things.
I miss the days of BF1942. A complete game, a level playing field because everyone can access the same weapons, large, worthwhile expansion packs.
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