I noticed that the deluxe early enlisters edition of battlefield 1 includes about 3 packs but do any of those packs include extra maps? I don’t want to pay 20 dollars extra for a few themes.
Currently no, they will probably come out with another bundle that has Premium in it later on down the road, so if you buy the current Enlister Deluxe Edition you might have to buy Premium later on.
Preordering BF1 would give you a week’s early access to a DLC map that will be free early 2016 to all so those packs do not include any maps. All of those content packs in the preorder bundle are weapons and various cosmetic items. We currently do not know if BF1 will have Premium as seen in BF3, BF4, and Hardline or if a season pass will take it’s place along with if all post release maps will be free or not.
You must be new to BF??..How do you think EA/DICE make their money?, they came up with a good system operation “Dig Deep”…Pre-order The Basic $59.99 or The Deluxe Edition $79.00 and then BAAM! they hit you with the Premium $49.00…It’s been like this since BF3.
After the debacle of bf4 I might wait to see what happens. I would like to think EA/Dice have learnt their lesson. But the push for revenue is great. As to the premium/season pass, of course this will happen.
Personally I think if you pre-order you should get the game and a special battlefield toy or dog tag for all those collectors cause it would be nice to brag about how much you love bf1
Bad Company 2 was at it’s best and had all free DLC. But yeah all companies want money now days.
They should include dlc maps for buying the early enlister or collectors
I hope they would stop asking money for the dlc’s and add other stuff that is new to games and ask money for that! But not to make the game a pay to win thing!
I think entire community gets 1 free DLC. Not sure how many maps in it but read somewhere 1 free DLC within the first couple months. That’s after that most likely premium kicks in if they go that route.
So, for an extra $20, the Early Enlister version includes the Red Baron Pack and Lawrence of Arabia Pack. Is that content that will eventually be unlockable, or released to the masses anyways, or will it ALWAYS be exclusive to people who purchase that version?
I’m assuming they’re gonna do the standard premium that will on the player base and map rotations, etc. Sigh…
I’d be pleasantly surprised if they did something different though.
Yeah its their STANDARD ed that is killing the game espesh over 2yr lifecycle. Whatever the stand ed is, is pretty much the game offering for 2yrs, in BF4 case thats 9maps. Thats not good enough.
The LIM ed has 4 bonus maps but theyre not inc in base rotation. Its the lowest common denominator wins model.
Either they bite the bullet HARDLINE off and release a BF every 12mths or so or they look after their premium users either thru more attractive pricing. Better options for Premium users to find receive info of other PREM users, notifications to all about servers starting up in like a special premium tab. Easy identifying PREM owners outside the server so cann target directly or a notification bar at the bottom of screen when someones attempting to start server requesting fellow PREM users to join.
Premium Service should be full banger map counts but its really 9maps (standard) and each DLC (4 maps) as indivdual server. There should be set Quickmatch lists for 9, 13, 17, 21, 26, 30 map rotations as they are released
Its definately problematic here in AUSTRALIA we run Vanilla Maps for 2yrs
DICE need to start from what is acceptible 2yr common denominator - 15 maps would be find them in much healthier position if 2yr lifecycle is their model. Would last longer, wouldnt lose fanbase to other games. Engagement is huge issue when you decide to space out releases.
Having 9 vanilla or standard maps played to death, and then a LIM ed 4 bonus maps a week or month or so later to encorage LIM ed purchase but that doesnt have great life or plays as own 4 map dlc that never gets inc in standard rotation especially later in game is bad business model. Standard ed is encouraging purchases of a 9map base. LIM ed should just be the starting price so 13 maps base for 2yr lifecycle.
2 additional maps should be released free getting the base up to 15.
15 reg played maps is better than 9 over played and 23 under played dlc that act in their own set. Dont pick up QuickMatch searches so harder to keep filled.
Now Premium if it wants to offer another 15 maps there after that hardly get played then keep charging $69.95 etc the kids cant justify it. They wont buy it. Youre far better and so are the fans to have DICE release a game a year and that Hardline crud off.
If the Prem model is 11 maps say $29.95 and you get far more uptake at better price point, and 4 free community maps to make 30 maps in total.
Basically your STANDARD model undercuts your PREMIUM…you want more $$ Standard off and just pricepoint lim ed as lowest entry 13 maps is about standard, and cant have less over 2yrs. Inc 2 free maps later as sweetener for pissing off the Standard ed
Then better to have a lower coast PREM package so majority uptake, OR just release a BF every 12mths cos way it is now PREM dlc doesnt integrate, they get screwed/limited benefit when cant merge with Vanilla and are the minority. Its basically waste of money buying it in AUSTRALIA and the kids/community know it. Youre hurting ya brand running standard 9 map base over 2yrs. You gotta recost/plan this or PREM will be dead.
Im sure EA want punters to feel this way so Hardline sells, lasted 3mths tops. Aussies prefer BF. Give us 1 a year or do better on the base you cant carry a community for 2yrs on Vanilla alone theres so much hate born out of staleness. Its our own fault but if you make it so attractive to go cheap or unintegrated then most will go cheap. You could get the LIM price here cos its BF all your doing with Standard is cutting own throat over 2yr cycle
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