EA Unveils New Free-to-Play Battlefield Game

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EA Unveils New Free-to-Play Battlefield Game


EA has taken some of the best elements of previous Battlefield games and fused them together for its newest free-to-play experience.

Following on from its success with the cartoony third person shooter Battlefield Heroes [http://www.battlefieldheroes.com/en/], EA is once again diving into the waters of free-to-play games with Battlefield Play4Free, a realistic, team-based military shooter, designed to run in a browser.

Battlefield P4F takes some of the maps of 2005's Battlefield 2 [http://www.amazon.com/Battlefield-Bad-Company-Ultimate-Xbox-360/dp/B003VWGBC0/ref=sr_1_1?s=videogames&ie=UTF8&qid=1288963662&sr=1-1], tweaks them to run better on lower spec computers, and then fuses them with weapons, factions and classes of Battlefield: Bad Company 2 [http://www.amazon.com/Battlefield-Bad-Company-2-Xbox-360/dp/B001QXNBJM/ref=sr_1_1?s=videogames&ie=UTF8&qid=1288963630&sr=1-1]. Players will also be able to pilot some fairly impressive military hardware, like helicopters, jets, and tanks. EA says that it is working of making a lot of "cool connections" between Battlefield P4F, Battlefield Heroes and the upcoming Battlefield 3, and suggests that anyone planning on getting BF3 would be well served by getting into Battlefield P4F as soon as possible.

The game will be supported by microtransactions, much in the same way that Battlefield Heroes is, but EA recognizes that the majority of players aren't going to buy anything. "Five per cent of the audience buys stuff. 95 per cent of people never spend any money at all," explained Ben Cousins, head of Battlefield developer DICE's free-to-play division Easy Studios. "Those guys fund the experience for everyone else. It's a classic free-to-play business model, which we're really comfortable with and we've got really good at now."

The closed beta for Battlefield P4F starts on November 30th, and EA is accepting applications right now on the game's website [http://battlefield.play4free.com/]. There's no word when EA plans to fully launch the game, although an open beta is scheduled for early next year.

Source: Eurogamer [http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2010-11-05-battlefield-play4free-announced]




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fix-the-spade

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So, I get to play like a billion more rounds of Strike at Karkand.

That makes me happy. That makes me very happy indeed.
If it takes the good bits of BF2 and mashes in some good bits of BC2 then it'll have me very excited for BF3, as well as being well on my way to Acronym Hell!
 

Tattaglia

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So this is basically an updated version of Battlefield 2? Count me in.

fix-the-spade said:
If it takes the good bits of BF2 and mashes in some good bits of BC2 then it'll have me very excited for BF3, as well as being well on my way to Acronym Hell!
C'mon, everyone just calls it AH.
 

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Now THIS looks good! BC2 could have been much better with better maps. BF2 having some of the best maps of any FPS i've ever played, this makes me happy. And the price is right, so hell yes.
 

Tigurus

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Also signed up.
Sounds really nice.
Though I don't like Heroes at all.
BF2 and such is good :)
 
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orangebandguy said:
Strike at Karkand returns!

Such a popular map for infantry only servers.
Thats one of my favorite maps ever. I just love it.

OT: All I want from Battlefield 3 are Battlefield Commanders. Crossing my fingers hoping it has 'em.
 

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Irridium said:
OT: All I want from Battlefield 3 are Battlefield Commanders. Crossing my fingers hoping it has 'em.
What I want (what I realy realy want) is to have the TOW launchers back.

They were immensely satisfying weapons. Especially on those magic moments when you felled a helicopter or a jet with one, followed shortly by maniacal laughter from all sides.
 

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Free FPSing that's like the almighty and awesome BF2? HELL YEAH.

And the Battlefield theme played on electric guitar?

Sign me up (Y)
 

SomebodyNowhere

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I'm willing to give most Free to Play games at least a chance and this seems like as long as it isn't a too far stripped down version it should be pretty great.
 

Ldude893

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Russians again? Oh Jebus.

Well, at least it's free to play. I might try it when it comes out.
 

JourneyThroughHell

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Battlefield 2 maps? Oh, great, great, great.

If you take the command system from that game, too, EA, I'm going to supply you with a ton of cash for this game.
 

dbmountain

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Oh, classic Battlefield theme, how I have missed thee. Screw Bad Company for depriving me of such
 

Antari

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Graphics downgrade? ... Me smells a cloud computing scheme in the works ...
 

DannibalG36

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Just one question.

How the fuck is this supposed to run in a browser? I hope that was just a misunderstanding for "it launches from the browser."