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Battlefield 4 Premium confirmed, promises weekly content 'all year long'

Unsurprisingly, EA and DICE have announced plans to launch a "Premium" service for Battlefield 4. And it will transfer from one console gen to the next.
Andrew Yoon
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EA wasn't going to just sit by and let Call of Duty: Ghosts hog up the news cycle.

Unsurprisingly, EA and DICE have announced plans to launch a "Premium" service for Battlefield 4. The glorified season pass was tremendously successful with Battlefield 3, so its return is rather expected.

"With membership, players can expect themed digital expansion packs, new weekly content and personalization options," EA detailed in a blog post. No further details were revealed, but BF3 Premium offered five expansion packs for $50.

The season pass will move from one console gen to the next--just like Call of Duty: Ghosts. For example, if you buy Premium on PS3, you'll be able to transfer your subscription and content to PS4. In addition, all stats will transfer from one gen to the next as well.

Andrew Yoon was previously a games journalist creating content at Shacknews.

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  • Shacknews legacy 10 years legacy 20 years
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    August 14, 2013 12:00 PM

    Andrew Yoon posted a new article, Battlefield 4 Premium confirmed, promises weekly content 'all year long'.

    Unsurprisingly, EA and DICE have announced plans to launch a "Premium" service for Battlefield 4. And it will transfer from one console gen to the next.

    • [deleted] 1410884402 legacy 10 years
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      August 14, 2013 12:10 PM

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    • pizzaput legacy 10 years
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      August 14, 2013 12:12 PM

      Not really excited for this.

    • [deleted] 439710436 legacy 10 years
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      August 14, 2013 12:15 PM

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    • etherboy legacy 10 years
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      August 14, 2013 12:27 PM

      Long live BF4!

    • Modulus legacy 10 years legacy 20 years
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      August 14, 2013 12:30 PM

      I have mixed feeling about the whole Premium service. It's nice to get new maps and game modes on a fairly regular basis, but at the same time I don't like the fragmentation that happens to the servers and community that is causes.

      • at0micgarden legacy 10 years legacy 20 years
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        August 14, 2013 12:38 PM

        I have positive feelings about the whole Premium service.

        • at0micgarden legacy 10 years legacy 20 years
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          August 14, 2013 12:39 PM

          I broke the chain nooooooo.

        • Pneum0 legacy 10 years legacy 20 years
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          August 14, 2013 3:14 PM

          I'm with both of you. I wish they sold the game, 1 game. Even if it's over 100 bucks due to the fragmented community. It only takes one friend to keep you off the premium servers.

      • sreyes22 legacy 10 years
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        August 14, 2013 4:10 PM

        yeah, none of that matters to EA, especially since there's something like 4 million active subscribers to BF3 premium

    • [deleted] 1710678874 legacy 10 years legacy 20 years
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      August 14, 2013 12:57 PM

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    • RikiTiki2 legacy 10 years legacy 20 years
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      August 14, 2013 1:05 PM

      52 dlcs LOL

    • godm0de legacy 10 years
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      August 14, 2013 1:47 PM

      Waiting 6 months for the rerelease with all the dlc included

    • [deleted] 1238918109 legacy 10 years legacy 20 years
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      August 14, 2013 4:11 PM

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      • Professer12 legacy 10 years
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        August 14, 2013 7:19 PM

        EA announced a couple months ago that it was ending "Project $10", otherwise known as online passes. Online passes imposed a fee, usually $10, on people who purchased a used game if they wanted to access things like multiplayer content.

        Season passes are just DLC bundles, effectively, and I see no reason why EA or other publishers would drop them in the near future.

    • winterface legacy 10 years legacy 20 years
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      August 14, 2013 4:13 PM

      1 map and then 51 different scopes

      • RikiTiki2 legacy 10 years legacy 20 years
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        August 14, 2013 4:28 PM

        at first the BF3 scopes seemed crazy until i understood what was going on there. too bad you can't change the order of the weapon unlocks so it will unlock what you want to use first and then go through all the ones you don't want

        still, don't need to have both the US and the Russian versions of each type for each gun

    • noobja legacy 10 years legacy 20 years
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      August 14, 2013 7:00 PM

      I like the alternating sentiments in the replies. Gotta say I will wait and see how it is executed.

    • planetfunk legacy 10 years
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      August 14, 2013 10:34 PM

      Can't wait to run weekly updates!

    • Kojak2000 legacy 10 years
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      August 15, 2013 3:01 AM

      "This is so exciting!" said no one.

    • utgaardsloke legacy 10 years legacy 20 years
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      August 15, 2013 4:13 AM

      If they implement proper destructibility this time I'll buy day 1.

    • Th3rdSun legacy 10 years
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      August 15, 2013 6:21 AM

      Is it me,or does it seem like "new content every week" translates into,"everything is already on the disc,we just want to trickle it out slowly over time to make you think you are constantly getting new content"?

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