While it may not make the best business sense, I think DICE/EA should offer future BF1 maps for free to the community.
By doing so, DICE/EA will keep the BF1 gamer community together by virtue of not fragmenting the community via map ownership (e.g. if you don’t own a specific map, then you can’t play any given Map Playlist).
between cost of development and investment of the money from DLC sales to produce the next BF game, no, not really. maybe 1 or 2 maps like they did releasing night versions of already existing BF4 maps, but definitely not for everything
Yes, free maps doesn’t make much sense from a business perspective.
But from a gaming perspective, it makes perfect sense.
well of course from a gaming perspective any free content makes sense to add to the longevity of any game for every consumer. but the longevity of the series and company has a dependency on return investment including the development of DLC
There is at least one free map.
dirty commie. always want something for free. life tip OP, nothing is free.
I would love that but realistically there is zero chance of it happening
However i will not buy a single DLC until they give us at least one free map.Like i did with BF4,when i only played vanilla for 2 years,then got premium after they gave us operation outbreak
Maps for free and extra guns, camos, melee weapons, emblems etc. as payable DLCs? R6S did handle DLCs rather good way by not splitting community with extra maps.
@Oroku_Miwa
That’s exactly what I was thinking as well.
Good to see there’s a few on this forum who are well-read in what other developers/publishers are doing.
Campaign DLC could replace multiplayer DLC.
That’s a good idea.
Those who are interested in continuing the single player experience (me as well as many others, I believe) can do so while helping finance those who wish to play multiplayer (me as well as many others, again).
Best of all, free multiplayer DLC will result in a more unified community (i.e. one that isn’t fractured by “who owns which maps”).
I dont think any of you realize how much time it takes to build maps for a game of this scale. We’re not getting free maps any more. that era is over.
Of course it makes sense from a gaming perspective. You’re getting free stuff, why WOULDNT you like it?
I do realize how much time and money it takes to build a FPS game map.
But these opportunity costs are what’s needed if a developer/publisher really wants to keep a gaming community unified.
As for making sense from a gaming perspective, I’m again referring to keeping the gaming community unified by all players having access to the same maps.
Getting free stuff is just icing on the cake, as far as I’m concerned.
NO STOP DOING DLC AND DON’T ADD NEW MAPS.
Just make the game and package it and sell it. Build it good first time instead of half a game. Thats what has fked these Battlefield games. We know when we buy it that it’s not going to be finished for a year because part 2, 3 and 4 are dragging along 3 months behind for each installment.
If they could make a new lobby where server admins can opt to put their server into a regional pool with mixed maps they could bring BF1, 2, 3, 4 all together if they were all frostbite 3 versions and instead of rejecting a player for not having part of the game they could throw them in a lobby and put into an available server for next round. It would be better if this were a platoon or squad feature mixing teams up by moving squads around a set of servers similar to how full tilt poker move players on tables.
maybe if they did something along the lines of an unranked test server for dlc to allow people to experience the new game modes etc and allow the consumer to decide from there if they want to invest further. but business is business. DICE deserves to get paid for their work. not like the core game and vanilla maps are so lacking of content that people who choose not to pursue expanding their game further will be left feeling they dont have a near complete experience.
also a good portion of the community don’t buy DLC, so while DLC does segregate, those who opt out arent left with out others to play with
No because if it’s good people will pay for it. They deserve to be compensated for a job well done…
However
Yes, because I think that would be the ultimate nail in COD coffin for them this cycle with no chance for them to recover.
Dice/EA could really flip a lot of CoD fan boys and count on them as future buyers.
I’ve never had an issue paying extra for extra content.
Only seems fair.
By the end of the product life, there’s usually more DLC maps than original maps…only makes sense to pay for what you use.
Premium is what…$20 after 1 year? Dice games aren’t even good until the 1 year point (I.E. That’s when most of the major bugs have been worked out). I don’t mind paying $20 extra for a ton more content
I don’t mind paying for my DLC when it comes to this franchise. It’s an investment. I wish EA would buy-out other dev studios and acquire their titles, produce those titles on Frostbite, and embed key DICE devs to oversee their development. Could you imagine Homefront on frostbite with DICE dev oversight??? Perfect example of a great game concept with poor execution that would have otherwise been absolutely amazing under their umbrella. 
NO! they should come out with new boxes of expansions! like ROAD TO ROME / Secret Weapons of WW2
Everyone should have the maps so it wouldnt be like it is now that there are no servers other than vanilla. Everything else could come with a price tag