Long quote, but I’m 100 % behind this.
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What is the reason for this lack of information? “All we need to know” post had virtually NO information. It said, hey there’ll be rental servers (duh), hey they’ll be rented from DICE (as we speculated), hey more later. More later? How late, after the release? Are they following up how many preorders are being cancelled? Maybe this is a good thing if this kind of unprofessional behavior keeps players from preordering.
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And for the record, I actually am looking forward to this game. I got the Origin Access and will try the game out (along with other Vault games), but I sure as HELL won’t buy a game that has crap servers. I don’t want instant vehicles. I don’t need 3000 ticket TDM. I want servers where admins can actually control the service they are paying for without contacting EA and waiting hours.
You can call it an opinion if you want but I don’t really see it like that. Unsupervised servers are a disaster, that’s a fact. I think most PC gamers will definitely feel the change (that is opinion based on the previous fact). You can be happy about the change or indifferent, it matters little. The fact is, this change is not good for PC gaming and most people who are really involved in the community know that). In all likelihood, this will end any kind of real PC community based around the Battlefield franchise (opinion).
So, questions are clearly asked on the other thread… a phone call or a meeting with EA should very easy give us the needed information!
Braddock forwarded 35 questions for us on Friday. I don’t think having a call is an option
This is opinions. Your opinion is that the average player won’t notice that servers aren’t what they have been in the past. PC players aren’t using Quick Join as much, I would think. PC players are used to searching servers, finding the game mode and player count they want, picking the lowest ping and adding the best ones as their favorites. Again, my guess, estimate. We can’t have exact numbers, but I am willing to bet money that a significant amount of players DO notice that their servers are out of control.
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Server owners play too. Communities pool up money and pay for a server together, they play on their own server. Friends join the server their friends are playing on. Well managed servers have long queues. Badmin servers get on the blacklist.
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PC players will get shafted, sideways, if admins can’t control the abusive players themselves. This is my opinion.
EA doesn’t care. Do you know why? Because they sold 14 million copies of SW Battlefront and there isn’t an admin in sight on that game. So why should they put up with clans who think that just because they pay for a server they have the right to run it? And the trolls et al. who’ve complained about these semi-mythical badmins provide all the excuse EA needs. So they’ve told DICE to build in just enough control to hopefully keep some server renters happy, but they’re probably okay going with company servers if there aren’t enough renters. The hack users and trolls will run riot, oh well, they have other games in the pipeline for us to buy, they don’t necessarily want us sticking with one game for years anyway.
The players care more about the game than the people who sell it.
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And let’s not forget that COD has already done the exact same thing, with games that were only like 24-player games, not 64-players.
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Link to section: You all keep saying that the franchise is gone, you’re done, and walking away. No sweat off your skin and you have options. Yet you keep posting the same thing over, and over, and over, and over, and You all keep saying that the franchise is gone, you’re done, and walking away. No sweat off your skin and you have options. Yet you keep posting the same thing over, and over, and over, and over, and over, and over until what? Are you expecting something to change? I feel your agony on wanting an answer from DICE / EA on why it feels as if we got the short end of the stick on this, but the fact of the matter is we got our answer. The answer is plainly put on their news section of this website. They said you are going to have to wait closer to the launch date for more information. We waited over a month to get them to say that, but repeating your feelings over and over doesn’t change anything. We now just have to wait and hope we get the answers that most of us want to hear. I am going to bet that you want to hear it too! You say you don’t care, but you keep coming back to this post with passion. Albeit, you do care more than you are letting on and want to see Battlefield succeed just as much as I do.
Link to section: You are venting — I GET IT! You know what though? Get all your friends and all of their friends who have an issue with this to come in here and express such. We have a ton of views, but only a handfulYou are venting — I GET IT! You know what though? Get all your friends and all of their friends who have an issue with this to come in here and express such. We have a ton of views, but only a handful of people voicing concern in this thread. There is no substance behind a few people filling up this thread with the same thing stated 50 different ways. You want to grab DICE’s attention? Fill this thread with 1000’s of people asking why? Then you will get the answers you seek.
I’m not calling you out here man… Seriously, it’s the same people posting over and over the same thing. There just isn’t any bite to that bark no matter how you try and spin it.
I’d say with 62.3k views and rising the thread has got some traction and has been noticed by both EA/Dice including the issues raised within. If they judge how important matters are by statistics then we can show them this thread when it comes down to it. Rather certain it was arround this time last week where the thread had about 24k views.
I just hope we don’t get the same treatment and receive “more info” on Friday! That wouldn’t look great in my eyes.
First, people continue to post because they want good news and surprise when the rest of the information is released (extremely long shot I admit), short of that, they want to get their message across that these decisions that EA/DICE have made aren’t good enough. It’s not like we all want EA/DICE to fail, but we want them to return to the idea that PC gamers aren’t console gamers, our systems can do more and should be treated differently. So I think if people are saying the same things over and over, it’s because they are passionate about the franchise but don’t feel like they are being heard.
^ Insanity: Doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. Albert Einstein
See what you’ve done EA/Dice? Happy now? You put them over the top. /jk 
I can only speak for myself here, but yes, I do care. I do want Battlefield 1 to succeed. I played the alpha and beta, it felt good, keeping in mind that it wasn’t the final product. I keep posting on this and other threads because I want to keep reminding EA and DICE that this is important. I also post to discuss this situation with others, reading their posts and giving my view, voting up the good posts. But everything we post is speculation, our own feelings and opinions. Because there is no real information, even this close to release.
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We got one answer, I’ll argue that it wasn’t enough. The lack of information is a surprise, I thought the CTE was an amazing idea and mistakenly thought that the devs are communicating with their community more. That they have decided to keep us in the dark seems to me as a way to keep the sales up. They have had a specific idea for rental servers in mind for a long time, even if it is bad for us they should have said so.
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I try not to vent or rant, I delete many messages I’ve written before I’ve posted them. If I vent, it’s because I care for the franchise. I’m not done with Battlefield, EA or DICE. I want a good game with good servers. Keeping silent isn’t an option.
We are recycling things over and over due to:
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EA releasing incomplete information
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Other posters making their wishes known that they don’t care for admined servers
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Disagreements about server operation
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And yes, we are venting. Blame that on EA (see #1)!
You seem like the ¯_(ツ)/¯ ¯_(ツ)/¯ badmin people complain about.
Official information has been released.
Given that, I would rather say it´s more of an assumption that meaningful additional information even exists.
Nothing is going to change. No more information will be released until after launch and shortly before server rental deployment. The functions will of course include ‘kick/ban’, will be more than what was available for console BF4 but much less than what the PC community is used to. The community reaction to these decisions would have been fully realised and thus, as the decision was still implemented then they are obviously going to just ‘weather the storm’.
The only question that is left for us is whether or not we accept this new model and still buy the game and subsequent games or whether we leave the franchise behind. Personally, after many years of being a member of and leading a clan/community I am now what you could consider a ‘casual’ player, just dipping in and out when the mood takes me and thus less affected by these changes, however, I don’t think I will be buying the full game. I will give it a try on Origin Access and may even get the game when I can get it for £10 lol but EA are certainly not getting £65-100 from me.
Why because he banned an obvious hacker who was killing his server? Get a grip.
He didn’t ban because it was an obvious hacker, from what I gather it was more in the lines of “very possibly cheating” but more than that, he was disrupting the game of the rest. I can understand why he kicked that player.
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In the case it was actually a good player with a really good start to a match (I’ve seen such cases), he could very well yell “badmin” and blacklist the server. Again, assuming the kicked player wasn’t cheating, it does seem unfair that his good streak is cut short. I’ve had some matches where I play way above of my normal level. I would be angry for getting kicked. I rarely do as well on the consecutive round, but if I do, I’ll try to balance by switching teams. This is just my view, but I would understand the admin balancing the server, possibly even kicking me if I’m just stomping noobs - I don’t like easy games either.
Had you said that you would not or don’t feel shafted, that would have been a valid opinion, yours. However, you took the extraordinary step of speaking for millions of people by asserting that, “the vast majority of players, won’t feel shafted”. You have no way of knowing what people’s opinions are going to be about a game that hasn’t been released. You can’t even say with certainty your own opinion won’t change. Thus, the statement was the sort of baseless speculation that mods threatened to lock the thread over.
So yeah… you were wrong.
One thing i must say, i hear people saying…i am not playing if they dont give full rights.
Kick, ban, vip and mix mode would already be good.
But then people leave and start playing" the division, overwatch , battlefront , cod mw remastered"…
Guess wat guys, those games have zero admins and server control…
The game community should unite and real say in mp:" no admin, no game"!!