BF2S Forums Battlefield Heroes (Summer '08)

“The existing Battlefield games are fairly deep; you have to be pretty good or you’ll die pretty quick,” Mr. Florin said Friday in a telephone interview from Geneva. “Now we’ve toned down the difficulty, shortened each game session to 10 or 15 minutes and made the visual style more cartoony.”

Strategically, Mr. Florin said the game was a step toward figuring out how to generate multiple revenue streams from a single intellectual property, a maneuver Hollywood has mastered.

So... make the game easy to get more money? No skill needed, just a bigger wallet? GG EA...
Not to mention it looks like a complete rip off of TF2's popularity.

In my personal opinion, I'd rather buy a disk/set of disks for 50€, that being my only investment in a game.

The catch here is that a player can boost  his/her performance on the battlefield by purchasing add-ons to the characters.

Article wrote:

Players can pay not only for decorative items like shoes and jerseys but also for boosts in their players’ speed, agility and accuracy. Mr. Florin said that while most users do not buy anything, a sizable minority ends up spending $15 to $20 a month.

So you've got a small group of people running around in funny clothes pwning and boomheadshotting you because they decided to spend money on pixels? Personally, I'd rather spend my money on rl-items.

Of course, a certain "added value" was implemented in BF2 also, by allowing SF-unlocks to be used in vanilla, although this could be gotten around by playing a few rounds of SF on a friends disk (which I did).

Sure, I'll try it, but I'll be damned if I spend any money on something that won't even get me a disk packaged in a plastic box with a booklet.

EA might strike gold on this one, though. Especially if they make the add-ons accessible to kids by E.g. buying codes from a 7-11 in the form of Pokeman-style trading card-packages with chewing gum with a taste that disappears faster than the consumers weekly allowance money.

But the game itself its still free,.. I like it actually.

Modedit: Post merged from another thread -Don-

In a major departure from its traditional business model, E.A. plans to announce Monday that it is developing a new installment in its hit Battlefield series that will be distributed on the Internet as a free download. Rather than being sold at retail, the game is meant to generate revenue through advertising and small in-game transactions that allow players to spend a few dollars on new outfits, weapons and other virtual gear.

At a conference in Munich, the company intends to announce that the new game, Battlefield Heroes, will be released for PC this summer.




And a cartoon-style!


http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/21/techn … ref=slogin

Last edited by Casartelli (2008-01-21 02:57:27)

DeathUnlimited wrote:

http://battlefield-heroes.com/

Want to guess who has made that site?

(12:45:44) (@ktotheimmy) credit for that website goes to mr Jeff Minard who has been working way too many hours over the last week

W00t! Jeff sure knows how to produce a site, we've surely established that!

Merged with older thread, moved to "Other titles"

This whole thing reeks of "no thanks!"

there is only 1 word to describe this: meh

max wrote:

there is only 1 word to describe this: meh

or fail, that works too.

Does it bug anyone else that it says "will be distributed on the Internet as a free download"? Not even a dvd with the game on it for free? I prefer having my own hard copy and not having to spend hours downloading a game.

Is this supposed to be BF3 or is this just a Battlefield side-project?

justice wrote:

cablecopulate wrote:

Is this supposed to be BF3 or is this just a Battlefield side-project?

Fuck, if this is bf3 = suicide.

cablecopulate wrote:

Does it bug anyone else that it says "will be distributed on the Internet as a free download"? Not even a dvd with the game on it for free? I prefer having my own hard copy and not having to spend hours downloading a game.

It's so they can lure more people into playing it. Then you realize all the people who spent money in the cash shop have an advantage over you with over-powered weapons/vehicles/etc and entices you to waste more money than a hard copy would cost on a horrible game.

Chances are most BF vets won't get far since you'll quickly notice everyone and their mother has downloaded the game and the pings are so varied that people teleport all over the place and half of your shots don't register. This also means hacking will be much more rampant since accounts are free and infinite. Most games like this use GameGuard or something similar which is even worse than Punkbuster.

I hate to dump on this game before i've tried it, but i've seen much more interesting games than this use the cash shop model and end up being sub-par toilet games.

hmmm, looks weird. we cant judge it as a TF rip off yet, as we haven't played it.