Battlefield 3 premium service launching June 4 - Report

wow. DLC is slowly becoming the TRex that continues to grow. BF3 is a solid game, but I'm not about to pay for so-called expansion or mappacks. Game Devolopers are squeezing every bit of money they can from gamers, while overing very little in return.

Let's face it, most games we "own" today, feel more like rentals.

@maskangisir5 that was for bad company 2 and they still charged for vietnam

BF3 fans don't need to be jealous of CoD anymore.

well take that all 5 of the new packs is 75 bucks...holy shit...and you get all the packs and a little more for just 50 bucks HELL YES this is worth it, but a subscription that last untill next yaer that is a montly fee EA will kiss my ass

I would never pay for that stupid service. they're not offering enough for it!!!

It seems to me EA "gives" us something but does not maintain or support their games such as ONSLAUGHT in BC2. I emailed EA about not being able to kill the enemy if you had a full squad and asked for the problem to be fixed and was told there wern't enough people playing ONSLAUGHT to make it feasible for them to fix the game. I then emailed back to say "this could be because of the problem" I received no answere in reply.

This has made me very cynical as far as EA is concerned when it comes to release of new downloadable content for games.

What happened to decent DLC packs like Vietnam, there's no chance in hell I am paying a subscription fee and if this news story turns out to be true then I can't see myself playing BF3 much longer.

"Like all other companies, we're looking at how we can maximize our investment in this, get the most out of our investment, and get more people playing this product. That may take us to different places, but we're not really talking about where that is yet."

At least he was being honest :) FTW

EA people needs to get laid and stop screwing over the battlefield fans

Treat all players same and say no to premium we dont need that

dude! WTF is happening to gaming!!??

Why do these game companies want to widen the gap between economic classes? The world is already uneven and unfair with the gaps between the richest and poorest. I play video games to step away from the stress, not to play against people who have an advantage over me only because they can afford to. This idea that the more money you spend the better you'll be at the game won't take-over gaming. It'd be like saying cheating is going be the new way to play games.

I just wish this was available right now.

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I am very disappointed to hear that they will charge me for new maps. I and thousands of other gamers gave DICE feedback from playing a game sot that they could improve it and a lack of good maps was one of the biggest problems. Battlefield bad company 2 had great maps but the developers released 3 new maps on top of it for free! I feel that I should not have pre-ordered BF3 for $60 since my money is not being used to improve the game. Sure DICE updated the game a few time to fix bugs, but new weapons and new maps should come often and free of charge because they have my money and millions of other people's money to make the game better.

I´m not sure what´s more disappointing about this news - that DICE have the balls to charge for a "Premium" service with a game so badly flawed and bug heavy, or that despite all the EA/Dice bashing I´m reading here, everyone will probably go ahead and buy it, including me!

I love BF3 and try to see through the glitches and bugs we all know and love (bipods which don´t deploy; reviving being a 50/50 art form; the spawn menu suddenly blocking your screen etc etc) but news that a publisher, knowing its product has so many flaws still unfixed, has the balls to ask for more money from gamers instead of spending some of the cash they generated to give us gamers the game we paid for... It´s just disgusting... and surely destined to be a huge money maker like COD Elite. Sad days ahead gamers..!

THATS IT, NO MORE BF FOR ME. SREW U EA GUYS AND I M GOING TO PLAY BLACKLIGHT RETRIBUTION

olo

Good thing Halo has Waypoint for free.

Is it bad that I started playing BF3 again when this article came up? It's not like I'm happy about a premium service but chances are I wouldn't get it anyway, it doesn't really have anything to offer. Oooh shiny camo? Who cares, there are plenty in the game already and they're all equally impossible to see on the battlefield. The new DLC however, count me in.

They should give it to whoever bought BF2 already

This is bad! No, really, this is bad!

HAAHAAAHAHAAHAAAAA! For all of you EA/BF fanboys who bashed Activision for having CoD Elite Premium and said that BF would never have something similar, here you go! This article made me so happy. :D

NFS world anyone? And I never had BFBC2 - Vietnam for free?! did anyone?

uuuuugggghhhhh why does EA have to be a-holes about DLC? Bad company 2 limited got all DLC free and I respected EA/DICE so much for doing that when they didnt have and hoped that the trend would continue to but now that respect is lost. why did they have to ruin a good thing?

does this mean you gonna fix the 26 dart glitch & the ridiculous suppression?

as a level 100 colonel i say: no thnx

It's EA so nobody should be surprised.