On release date a pre-order becomes a purchase, eligible for refund.
Come on folks, just be patient. The news is coming Soon™. In the mean time here is some news you can enjoy
Battlefield 1 Has Spectator Mode and Screenshot-Taking Tools on PS4, Xbox One, PC
Source - http://www.gamespot.com/articles/battlefield-1-has-spectator-mode-and-screenshot-ta/1100-6444258/
Unfortunately they have already SHAFTED us by not being upfront about this to begin with. I enjoyed the Alpha play but the first thing I noticed in Beta was there were no Game server hosting companies names in the server browser. In other Beta’s there were servers from NFO, Game servers, fragnet etc… People Starting asking questions then we still have not received anything from EA! That in itself is SHAFTING all of us that have servers. There is no way the people at DICE/EA did not foresee this as being an issue to the community!
Now it looks like we wait until (Take Out The Trash Day) Friday for some word…
they wait till the very last second of release to not crash the pre-orders … since they know that pc gamers won’t buy their product without an rsp program they had in the past no mater if dice will host the server by themself or not.
That’s your belief, however I believe you are incorrect
maybe but for me its the case
I go to sleep and come back to this? Seriously guys, chill out. The last 103 pages have made it abundantly clear how we feel about the timing issue, lets not get the thread reclosed now by going overboard right before we get the information.
this. too many people sniping at each other (hey this problem exists outside of the game too!) and making deliberately sarcastic or overinflated comments that do nothing to further the conversation.
we’re given a chance to be civil and discuss, be civil and discuss. we can all rage later when the news is out today or when they don’t give the announcement that was promised this week and find some other excuse to throw at us.
The GSP’s have the information. They’ve been told they will not be involved in BF1 in any way. That’s been stated by a couple of the GSP’s. They’re still going to be running BF3, BF4, and (a teeny tiny number of) BFH servers, but that’s it.
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What that tells us is there will be no competition between GSP’s. Which could mean higher prices, or it could mean lower prices since EA is buying servers in bulk and can pass the savings along. It could mean a slow, painful, limited set of options for renting servers, or it could go the other direction. It could mean very poor server performance because they don’t have to try harder, or we could get uniformly great performance. No way to know.
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The lack of GSP’s is not inherently a huge problem. It might be, or it might not. But I will miss the old GSP’s that done me good. I won’t miss the couple that I waved bye-bye to after 30 days of rental because they were hopelessly greedy or inept and couldn’t provide servers that didn’t lag.
Don’t forget service.. NFO rocks on service when there’s a problem. EA ? Not so sure…
It’s all too easy to be cynical towards any corporation, but no doubt that everything EA does, say, reveal, “hide” and want to sell you is with the outmost regard to directly/indirectly increase the value of shareholders’ stocks. I get the business side of things, and we should stop seeing BF as nothing but a money making vehicle.
. That aside, it’s fun to play and if we feel the game is giving us something back for the money invested - it’s all good. But the goal is to get new players into the franchise; from other titles and/or new players that are introduced to the series for the same time and have never played it before. Again, it’s easy to be cynical, but getting a million more players that buy the game on consoles with the risk of losing 200,000 on PC, is a good investment. Of course they are trying to please everyone, but it can certainly backfire as well.
. Whatever their reason for not revealing the server situation earlier is/was; it still looks bad for PC players, I think.
. The very existence of BF on consoles is very evident in PC titles. Any limitation and/or game mechanic addition/removal on PC is because the consoles have a limitation to what they can handle. Higher resolution, mouse + keyboard and/or higher tickrate servers aside, I do not get why gameplay wise the PC should be limited to consoles’ hardware limits. BF as a PC-only title would be a better game. Too bad we’ll never find out…
It’s not even clear EA is who we’d be dealing with on customer service. Likely maybe, but not certain.
Just throwing a random idea here…
RSPs certainly know what’s going or not going on about it…but this only pertain to the heads, not CS agents (due to the obvious contracts and NDAs to have in-between)…
So, I would better wait for the info instead of already grinding the axe…
“EA Support” shudders
If renting through I3D, Amazon or whatever service; it’d be taken care of by/through that company, I believe. If servers are streamlined to be set up a certain way (EA’s rules), then those companies will be contractually obligated to follow those rules/steps.
. Pretty sure you’d talk to Amazon or I3D support for issues/questions, and I would be if we’ll not have to deal directly with EA on potential issues down the line…
good point…
Least it’s better than Valve?
My clan akso m8 , we played cod1 till cod5 , buy when they removed servers in MW2 , we changed to bad company2.
Because it had servers and a rcon tool…
Does MWremastered have rcon tools?
Sadly this seems the case
Is that this week , this month?
Because my 90 members realy like to know yesterday