I heard that BF1 is going to use the same model as the previous installments by charging for map DLC, and I’ve had it. I’ve been a premium member for the last two real battlefield titles, and frankly it’s a waste of money and even toxic to the community at large. When you charge for new maps, it fragments the player base, and most servers end up only hosting the vanilla maps. I’ve seen this time and time again. Why waste good maps doing this? The new maps come out and there are a ton of servers for a few weeks and then none afterwards. I’m sick of wasting money on stuff I can’t even use. Free map DLC should be an incentive to buy the game, a show of continued support by the developer, and it’s good for gamers. By charging for maps, you restrict who has access to them, and thus the number of servers willing to host them. Why not release the maps for free and advertise the out of doing so? Not to mention selling DLC seems to incubate situations we’ve seen previously where a game is pushed out substandard and then DLC is made the primary focus instead of fixing the game. The new DLC trailer should excite the whole community, not just a subset. I wouldn’t mind buying DLC again if everyone did it, but I, like many, end up in the situation where not all of my close friends even buy it, so I can’t play it with them. I’m tired of wasting my money and being put in these situations
Allright man.
Because developing a game takes time and isn’t as cheap as it used to be.
That's just the way it is
That’s fair. I’ll enjoy the DLC. Didn’t really bother reading your while paragraph either just the title.
because 25 dollar expansion packs with barely any more content were any different?
maps are content. they are hard to make. you dont have to buy them. its not as simple as just opening up the Unreal Editor and dropping in placeholder objects for a capture the flag map in Ut 2004 anymore.
TDLR; sorry, its all for you to choose if you want/don’t wanna pay. You don’t have to buy a premium if there is one, just buy the ones that seems fun to you.
Well good luck with that then, I guarantee you be buying dlc when you hear on the forums about good maps and shiny new weapons.
On a point you made, I don’t have trouble finding dlc servers each time I play.
nice eyeball
Yea, 2 and a half years later and this is the first thing that pops up in my browser… so hard finding DLC servers, lol
The entire gaming industry uses this business model, its nothing new. Look at it this way, they are being nice and allowing you to purchase half of the game, if the industry wanted to pull together, they could all say no more Season passes, our next title will cost you $120…Take it or leave it!
LOL yeah the maps don’t die out, it’s the gamemodes
geeze OP you have to support things you enjoy, irrelevant to any bad bits or small fails I have over 2000 hours in BF4 for like £80 bf4 + premium.
Thats like 4p an hour for full on fun.
I’m done with paying for games in general. Either devs ship me free games or my ps4 is getting tossed in the ocean.
TBH I thought from the title that OP didn’t want to buy dlc due to dragons teeth being released for free
haha, same here.
Don’t wanna pay for dlc map packs, don’t bother then. A few million of us will be getting premium again and looking forward to new maps, guns and vehicles every 3 months
I’d prefer to see expansions such as Special Forces rather than smaller addons like Armored Fury.
4 maps for 15 dollars just isn’t worth it to me. 8 Maps for 30 dollars would be, though. The problem I have is that there’s no enough cross over, such as vehicles and modes. Other smaller issues I had as well, such as DLC servers only having 4 maps in the rotation when the DLC’s released.
math is hard, huh?
lolwat? it is the same thing just spread out more to keep content fresh.
An interesting option would be to charge more for the game so it includes dlc for all. Unfortunately though sales would dip same with market share because alot of people simply won’t pay $120 for a game. I’m sure EA has done its analysis on the feasibility of a more expensive game that includes dlc vs the current model and have come to the conclusion that the current model is more profitable.
I don’t know how GTA5 and Halo 5 give out the dlcs for free. It must be that they made the decision to forego the extra $ for a happier community, a larger community. Good on them. As a player I wish EA would let Dice do this. I have premium and it’s all I play but oftentimes I don’t find the maps I want right away.