It's EA. Did you actually expect them NOT to be money hungry whores that screw their customers over?
It already began sometime ago. Rockstar did this same thing with L.A. Noire.nikki191 said:rockstar are offering the same thing for max payne 3 with their rockstar pass. so it begins.. pay a fee upfront for an unknown number of DLC that you might not of purchased individually.
Woodsey said:I seem to remember them calling out Activision for doing pretty much the same thing with Elite, and that wasn't even a year ago.
That's not a big deal because you are not playing a ultra competitive game online with people. And you won't get locked out of a match because you don't have a map pack. And you are forgetting how much people are investing in the servers. (Which will probably still get turned off within a year when they push out another version of the same game.)ColaWarVeteran said:It already began sometime ago. Rockstar did this same thing with L.A. Noire.nikki191 said:rockstar are offering the same thing for max payne 3 with their rockstar pass. so it begins.. pay a fee upfront for an unknown number of DLC that you might not of purchased individually.
AND they're charging extra to people who bought the game used with the Online Pass that gives them access to the multiplayer. I don't think Call of Duty does that. I could be wrong, though, as I've never played either of these franchises.SmashLovesTitanQuest said:No, it's because you're paying another 50 bucks to get the service you should have got with the 60 bucks you already spent on the game.Grey Day for Elcia said:Because people are dumb.
True story.
Priority when joining servers? What in the actual fuck, EA? This actually goes a step FURTHER than Elite. Remember Elite? That COD service you were flaming around the time BF3 came out?
EDIT: Although I have to say, if anyone buys this shit they only have themselves to blame. I don't know in what fucking alternate dimension you live when you actually think this premium service is worth that much money, but you must have too much of it.
I beg to differ.Verzin said:I dislike DLC. no..scratch that. I hate it.
The whole DLC thing treats games like unfinished services. I like my games to be complete products when I buy them, and I like sequels/expansions to have the same or at least comparable amounts of effort and care put into their design. I do not believe that DLC allows for this. I feel that DLC is greed. pure, undisguised, unabashed greed.
Honestly..I've had enough of EA. After maintaining hope that they'd put out a few decent games for the last few years, these last few months have been my breaking point. I wouldn't have bought this DLC thing anyway, but I'm not even going to 'touch' it now. I'm going to try to never buy anything with an EA label ever again.
Pretty much what this guy said.Griffolion said:I got it because it represented a £20 saving. I'm pretty committed to the Battlefield franchise and can almost guarantee i'd get all the expansions that are slated for BF3. Getting premium at £40 instead of each individual pack at £15 each (4 in total) as they come out made financial sense. The other bonus stuff doesn't really make much difference to me.
Queues are the same on consoles, and generally you only ever get into the game at the end, when 50% of the people leave... making queue priority as valuable as free shit. As for the rest... That's pretty stupid too considering 1 of the 5 DLCs has already been released, and at the rate they're going, BF3 will be a dead game before the last one rolls around.Zenode said:I gotta say I really dont see what the fuss is about, priority server access? So what queue's to get into servers are generally only 1-2 people long (on PC anyway) and you get all the DLC by paying 50 pounds, plus a bit more.
It's not a yearly fee or anything its essentially ordering all DLC for the year for 50 pounds.