Is it usual to start with 18 gold battlepacks?

Bought the game a few weeks ago and jumped in to find them along with 4ish camo packs. I have done a few beta events and I owned BF3. Is this normal?

Yep.. Apparently Oprah is in charge of battle packs..

I’m pretty sure you get them for having premium, at least that’s what I thought because I bought premium and I got quite a few too

I don’t have premium or any dlc though.

yep, they give them out like free candy at a frat party.

like “candy” at a rave