BF2S Forums What are your thoughts?

Until I hear good things about it or talk to more people that have paid for it and think it is worth it I'm going to hold off.

If you have to pay a yearly fee to get a 'premium' service to get content it removes the onus for the developer to make content that doesn't suck. If you've already proven yourself to be a willing consumer Artiodactyla to the extent where you've already parted with your money there is no need for a developer to make a product that you want to buy.

It's a fucking mistake for the gamer community to be so willing to uptake this kind of thing. We've already seen that accepting these kind of moves just make companies like EA and Activision more keen to go further and further in order to get our money with minimal effort. And I do mean minimal effort. I am amazed by peoples' willingness to accept less for more.

I read it was $50 a year. I obviously need to check my sources. My point would still be though that by paying up front it removes the onus of producers to make something good given that it's already a sold product. Gamers should be able to assess whether a product is good before deciding whether or not to buy it instead of paying and having to accept what they're given.

FatherTed wrote:

cba playing until i get premium though. saves me using stuff that ill need to use again for the assignments.

Apparently, I can already work towards the new CQ assignments.
And there are none that are bound to CQ maps, so you should be able to unlock those 10 new weapons even before CQ is released on PC.

Ty wrote:

I read it was $50 a year. I obviously need to check my sources. My point would still be though that by paying up front it removes the onus of producers to make something good given that it's already a sold product. Gamers should be able to assess whether a product is good before deciding whether or not to buy it instead of paying and having to accept what they're given.

It's not a yearly fee, it's more like pre-purchasing a whole DLC compilation.
And if you plan to buy at least 3 DLC packs at $15 each, it's cheaper to go premium for $50 and get the bonus stuff too.
People who already own the B2K DLC from the BF3 pre-order are at a slight disadvantage.

Also, I strongly believe that DICE have already finished most, if not all of the DLC packs.
So I guess the player's money wouldn't really decide on how much effort the devs would put into it.

-Sh1fty- wrote:

I bought premium but I don't have anything beside the dog tags. Like I don't have the knife. Is that a challenge I have to accomplish or something to get?

The knife should have unlocked and replaced the regular one.
Apparently a permanent replacement.

I like it how the price is $49.99 in the U.S. and 49.90€ in €uroville.

Being that $49.99 is 39.95€ and 49.90€ is $62.44 at the current rate...






Hey EA...

lol seriously? if that's still working for you in a week hook me up lmao

100 euros for a bad game

meanwhile, in dayZ...

Spidery_Yoda wrote:

globefish23 wrote:

The knife should have unlocked and replaced the regular one.
Apparently a permanent replacement.

Not that again...

Well, at least it doesn't actually give you a disadvantage, like that bloated pre-order gun in BF2142, which covered 25% more of your screen.

Spidery_Yoda wrote:

Yeah the regional pricing sucks balls.
Which is why I just used an Indian proxy to buy it for $27/£16.

Spoiler (highlight to read):
Hope I don't get banned

Some people on the Battlelog forum reported that it didn't work, and their Premium was removed a day later.
Apparently because you need to have an Indian address, attached to your (Indian) credit card.

FatherTed wrote:

so you havn't bought premium yet and you can still work towards the CQ assignments?

I have bought it yesterday.

FatherTed wrote:

also what is gun game

Gun game is a CounterStrike mod.
You start with the weakest pistol and rank up through ever-stronger weapons, which you get immediately for a kill (or after your next respawn).
After the last weapon in the cycle, you also needed one grenade kill and one knife kill to ultimately win the whole round.
Every kill not made with the current needed weapon doesn't count for ranking up in the cycle.
It's a quite fun game mode, much better than the quite stale shooting in CS.

I have no idea how they will implement that in BF3.
But I can already imagine that it is much better than the silly Squad DM.

bugz wrote:

Steam waives the taxes for Canadians and yet Origin feels the need to charge us the extra 13%

People in Washington (where Valve is located) need to pay sales tax on Steam. I think it has something to do with the way tax code works and somehow Valve is able to get around it in most cases because they only have a single location.

Yes it does.

wondering if I didn't somehow buy premium for PC instead of xbox on the stupid battlelog.

m3thod wrote:

i wonder if anyone bought those booster packs for bf2.....

I did, and both of them contained some of the BF2's best maps.
IIRC, both EF and AF were $10 each for 3 maps, a few vehicles and weapons.

The new DLCs have 4 weapons each, weapons and vehicles and some game modes, all for $15.
Seems priced appropriately to me.

But of course, EF and AF have their rose-tinted BF2 filters applied...

globefish23 wrote:

Gun game is a CounterStrike mod.
You start with the weakest pistol and rank up through ever-stronger weapons, which you get immediately for a kill (or after your next respawn).
After the last weapon in the cycle, you also needed one grenade kill and one knife kill to ultimately win the whole round.
Every kill not made with the current needed weapon doesn't count for ranking up in the cycle.
It's a quite fun game mode, much better than the quite stale shooting in CS.

I have no idea how they will implement that in BF3.
But I can already imagine that it is much better than the silly Squad DM.

Sounds like BO's and MW3's Gun game.  BO had fixed set of guns.  MW3 has an option for random selection.