That 66% less figure does not even include the 3rd party services admins subscribe to and use, it also does not include the time involved configuring and populating a server for people to play on. I own at least two accounts I use to seed a server, all purchased at extra cost, they have DLC/premium. I pay for metabans, pbscreens and a procon layer on top of the server rental costs AND gaming clans donate or pay for 3rd party anti-cheat membership, like pbbans et al. I doubt, but remain open to, the idea that EA will be able to come close to the quality of servers currently run by admins in games like BFBC2, BF3, BF4, and Hardline.
@Braddock512 is in the awful position of being caught between a rock and a hardplace, between us and the EA marketing team. I suspect we will see a glorious ‘infographic’ detailing the server rental initiative before it is given to @Braddock512 to share with us.
There also seems to be a lot of confusion about what an Anti-cheat is compared to a ban stream. e.g. Metabans vs FairFight. And that Metabans, PBScreens, PBBans, GGC, 24/7 FairPlay are free to use, not for profit services that have zero ability to Ban a player from the game as PB/FF would.
@Braddock512 New question: Will we be able to disable the pickup heroes? As it looks now, this will be an ESL rule.
Also important for our community: Will it be possible to rent a server and make someone else full admin?
In our community someone is in charge of all the finances, but I’m the one who configures and admins the server(s).
@MouseKiller3 I take the hit when I make a mistake. That is what is wrong with this sensitive generation, when someone corrects you and you get offended, you have an ego problem.
Our clan with 40+ members is waiting for rent a server with VIP slots, kicks, bans -and of course clantags. And more info about servers, also this DATE when it’s available etc.
Kick and Ban has been confirmed, we just don’t know when they are releasing it. VIP slots have not been confirmed and Clan Tags, just go the old fashion way and make people change their Origin names.
Dude, nobody at EA will get an award, or a feather in their cap for suggesting it. Executives are dumb… they don’t know what is good for their product, only how to extract the most revenues from it.
Our clan is not gonna change names in origin, because it’s connected to many games not only BF games. So it’s not the solution.
Clantags is the only way, it’s good and working way to do it. And frankly I do not understand how a Basic thing like that is not already in BF1.
What worries me that lack of clanplay abilities is making our BF1 channels empty, we used to have 12-15 ppl online last spring for BF4 when we had own servers with procon. Now there is 3-5 players playing BF1 together.
So if things won’t change fast, many clans will abandon BF1. Also that you can rent server in a 1 size only? Does EA think that people will buy 64 slots server for clanwar servers (if that feature is gonna be released)? If they are not renting servers slots By slots, at least they should have options like 16 slots, 20 slots, 24 slots, 32 slots, 48 slots and 64 slots with different price of course.
As I was corrected earlier on non grandfathered in pricing. The servers in BF1 run off of 60 Tick, a 20 slot 60 tick from a GSP is more expensive than a 64 slot 60 tick from EA. The pricing with EA is better, the support and security on the other hand still has yet to be confirmed of worth a crap.