# The Battlefront Conundrum

**URL:** <https://battlefieldforum.co/t/the-battlefront-conundrum/101796>\
**Category:** General Discussion\
**Created:** [June 11, 2016, 10:05pm UTC](https://battlefieldforum.co/t/the-battlefront-conundrum/101796 "2016-06-11T22:05:00Z")\
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**Author:** ![Loqtrall](https://battlefieldforum.co/user_avatar/battlefieldforum.co/loqtrall/32/100975_2.png) [@Loqtrall](https://battlefieldforum.co/u/Loqtrall)\
**Post date:** [June 12, 2016, 6:11pm UTC](https://battlefieldforum.co/t/the-battlefront-conundrum/101796/21 "2016-06-12T18:11:00Z")

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> [@MartinBabl](#):
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> You were the one who took my analogy literally so I just pointed out how wrong you are.
> 
> Will you please look at what happened to the Call of Duty franchise.
> 
> Yes Battlefield 4 has become more casual than its predecessors.
> 
> If you have played Battlefield 2 you would know what the core of the Battlefield franchise is.
> 
> So what is the core of the Battlefield franchise?
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> Oh, so the 1.25 billion people who are living in absolute poverty, for them that $60 is not a lot? Do you realize that absolute poverty means that one earns less than $1.5 per day. For your sake I hope you learn to see the real value of things.

The core of the Battlefield franchise (what has made it so successful) is a large-scale mix between vehicular and infantry warfare and large playercounts rarely featured in other AAA FPS titles.

I took your analogy literally because you used the term “milking” which as an objective definition, meaning to exploit someone for monetary gain (a term spawned from the “milking” of animals to sell their milk for profit), which the video game industry is not guilty of. NO game developer, in the history of the industry, has exploited or forced anyone in to buying their product. You’re acting like gamer’s don’t have free will and that developers FORCE them to buy their games.

Also, out of the 1.25 billion people who are living in poverty, I highly doubt even a large minority of them regularly play video games. Usually if you’re living in poverty, you can’t afford an Xbone/PS4/PC, so you’re probably not going to be playing the games featured on said platforms.

For the vast majority of people who regularly play/buy video games, they’re not living in poverty, and paying $60 monthly or bi-monthly for a new video game is NOT a major purchase.

I know the “real value” of things - for most video games it’s $60, and whether or not that is a major purchase is entirely subjective - but I’m willing to be that for MOST people who play video games, it’s a minor and REGULAR purchase.

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