Incorrect… I pre-ordered my servers a month in advance and was able to set them up two days prior to launch ready for people to join them.
Indeed I can… You can also google search all the way back to BF3 servers when they started doing this.
The information below is from our GSP at NFO Servers.
I recall the case with BF3/4 being like this too. Which is all the more reason I’m worried about BF1 because there is no information out yet. I hate to speculate like parkingbrake but I fear we will not like what we will hear (eventually).
Imagine how clan members feel, they want to make plans for setting up servers but they are being kept in the dark. I suspect a lot of them will not go ahead with servers if they are not allowed to administer them, that isn’t how PC clans have operated in BF. One way or the other EA should grow a spine and announce how they are going to handle this. Delaying bad news isn’t going to make the PC BF community feel any better about it, if anything it will only cause more hard feelings.
I totally agree! I also hate being negative towards a franchise I have grown to love. However, I think it is bad PR to keep us in the dark on this issue. I mean stop the speculation and people in need of anger management. They need to give their loyal fans of the PC genre the when, how, who, and where of gaming servers in BF1. The problem is no-one outside of the moderators have probably even seen these posts. Higher EA / DICE employees are hardly ever seen posting in normal threads and when they do it’s a locked post. I am sure they have been instructed to not fan or try to put out fires for any reason. I would like to believe otherwise, but I think our efforts will fall on deaf ears and blind eyes.
To those who have nothing more to contribute than give it a rest, who cares, and all that mumbo jumbo – Why even post a response? It must bother you in some shape form or fashion or you are feeling inadequate and felt the need to troll the forum. The questions that people, like myself, are posting in here are valid for them and their experiences with this Franchise. Though rational thought and civility would be to you so asking for it to stop will most likely make it increase.
SIDE NOTE: They really need to separate console and PC players in the forum for BF1. They don’t care about our concerns, and frankly, we don’t care much for theirs. It’s two different gaming worlds and fighting the PC Master Race vs Console Wars is tiresome.
Why did this get merged. To the administrator who did so, are you seriously so dense as to not understand the purpose of a separate post? I could care less about any questions in this thread aside from, will we have evaluated kick/ban control.
I am not interested in the arguments about the business model. I am not interested in discussing server statistics. I could care less what unique game modes we can create. I had a single unique question I asked, and you took it upon yourself to re-muddy the discussion by merging the threads.
Not only is EA refusing to answer this simple question, now the moderators are burying it another thread where the question at hand is not clear. What a joke…
I seem to recall with BF4 that we rented the server well in advance of release, so it could be customised with our name etc, and then on game release, the maps were easy to add etc. If one of the stat’s in this thread is correct about the PC community only accounting to 10% of sales in BF4, then for EA to go the same route as the console servers I can see why.
But, it still is a big kick in the face for us PC users, especially clans and their admins. If we don’t choose to pay for a server if we have no control over them (as in all the clans), then what will people play on? There won’t be much, see battlefront.
I contacted our server provider, Fragnet and they have no news yet either.
Not looking good, but hey, maybe EA will see this, change their tune, and give us what we all want.
Yes, you are right, I have read about that. The problem is, that the franchise has become dependent on console sales up to the impressive 90%!!! I think we all know that PC gamers and console gamers have a different mentality and I think it is normal for DICE/EA to cater to the needs of the majority of their customers. If that gets them into profit trouble in a few years because of general console sales shrinking, then they should start to thinking about that too.
I think many have already answered to this and I think it was only wishful thinking. The bare truth is, that even if the franchise started from PC (only), now it is completely dependent on consoles for profit.
I think DICE/EA by this morning know that there is an uproar in the forum about server rentals for PC. If it wasn’t true that they will become the same as console server rentals are, they would have informed us about it by a tweet from the official Battlefield account.
Battlefield 1 is going to be a really great game in my opinion. Just not for the majority of the PC ‘master race’.
This is the first time in BF history that info about ranked PC-servers is non-existent. And it should mean something. BC2/BF3/BF4 we could preorder servers before the release but now no server provider is giving any info about it. Before I have commented in other threads that if I will not get info about servers, I will not buy the game. And still holding my order and I hope many PC-players are doing the same until this is cleared…
GYT or starscream can you please confirm that the guys at EA are aware of community / clan leaders concerns …
Thanks
Never played on official servers and are not going to.
It could be the best game ever but if no rental servers with active admins then no BF1.
Then i will wait for RS:Vietnam and batallion 1944.
^^ this..i bet the decision to merge came from higher up the food chain..
Feels to me with the lack of info EA/Dice are being all out RUDE, by not starting to clear this up.
Our gaming community has paid thousands of pounds over the years on dedicated servers for the Battlefield franchise for our community members to play on and enjoy playing with and against each other.
This lack of communication from EA/Dice regarding the ability to rent servers for BF1 is ridiculous, so much so that nearly every single one of our Battlefield Division members have cancelled their pre orders from Origin. Many of us ordered the early enlister edition which amounts to a fair bit of money considering we have over 30 plus active Battlefield members.
We’ve asked repeatedly for confirmation on dedicated servers for gaming communities and clans to no avail. We’ve decided as a community to let our money do the talking and as such, we’ve boycotted BF1 until we hear from EA.
I know numerous other communities/clans that are saying the same, so please EA, at least confirm whether or not there will be dedicated servers for our communities and members, it’s the least you can do considering the amount of money we’ve all given you over the years with this franchise.
Agreed, all we want is an answer. I will be looking for a refund of my pre-ordered Deluxe edition. This silence is in-excusable, they say any publicity is good publicity but I seriously doubt having to hand out thousands of refunds is!
This.
Oh god, this is gonna be awful.
we started a norwegian bf1 community, we were thinking about having 2-3 servers up and running at launch.
Ive been following threads all over, mailed server providers with bad response in return…
Normal ping , ability to kick abusers/glitchers/racism/cheaters etc. is what the community needs. AT LEAST for PC gaming..
We all know how many games have been destroyed over the recent years because of cheaters.
Of course the blatant noscope 420 aimbot wallhacker will get caught, its the silent ones that is a bit doubtful thats the problem.
Even if they get caught it might take several weeks..
First game that comes in to mind is CS:go , could be a good FPS game but no one I know plays it any longer.
Same with BF4 ( except the private ones ). Then we got the pbban or what its called and people get banned more regular.. Less cheaters.. better gameplay.
I know that the beta servers isnt the same as the one on release, but to be honest im not intr. in playing on USA servers when my location is Norway.
Im just hoping if you cant rent server, that they will have server at least in stockholm,amsterdam and frankfurt.. (Typical server locations)..
I would be fine then with my 1gbit connection.. But my other friends would have atleast 20-30 ms ping more than me because of peering/network.
Main thing is cheaters, latency. I dont care about gamemodes and “max allowed snipers” . I just want a controlled envir.
- n3c , battlefield1.no
Based on what the guys at NFO are saying for Battlefield 4 and Hardline for instance they knew MONTHS in advanced that they were hosting servers for the games and even helped beta / stress test the hardware to see how well it would handle it. Now, they are in the dark as much as we are about the server rental situation. Really sad considering Battlefield was built off communities that rented servers. It’s one of the reasons that Battlefield titles are still played to this day.
C’mon DICE, at least give us an answer so we can either accept the bad news and decide how to proceed or rejoice that you’ve maintained your senses and will all admins to kick/ban when needed.
tiggr_ a.k.a. David Sirland from DICE LA commented this yesterday in reply to Battle(non)sense. Hope “soon enough” means before release… otherwise soon enough turns into too late.
https://twitter.com/tiggr_/status/775438267743281152