Hello everyone!

It has been quite some time since my last post, life has been a rather messy thing in the past few years but now I'm back so lets get to business.

Today's topic; Season Passes & Early Access

We've seen this in the shovel loads recently and my current gripe actually sits with Battlefield 4 and EA/DICE.

The season pass for BF4 allows you early access to the map pack which unfortunately I have to complain about. For those unwilling to pay for the game twice, we miss out on the maps for a clear two weeks and to rub salt into the wound the people with early access have basically paid for beta access. I suppose a thing to be glad of is the major game breaking bugs in the map pack will be fixed (In theory, we are still waiting for bug fixes for BF4 vanilla).

But when you think about it, all those annoying snipers that have had two weeks to find their sweet spots etc.

Not a good thought, is it?

Especially when this is a game plagued by snipers, it isn't even a skilled class. It's a selfish class for those that don't want to help the team. It's a defensive role by nature and most players use the class incorrectly, forgetting that a high kill/death ratio doesn't mean top of the scoreboard and doesn't accurately show 'skill'. I suppose the 12 year old kiddlings have already swamped the consoles.

I could understand if the season passes offered just a monetary saving but it bugs me that the season pass buyers (in this case 'Premium' members) get exclusive items as well. This takes away from the completionist part of my brain that wants to collect all the weapons, attachments, camos and dog tags. I simply can't achieve any of that due to the fact that I don't want to pay the price of a retail game to get access to them.

It's a sad state of affairs when game companies try to rip the soul from a game by basically charging you twice and expecting everyone to smile about it.

Unfortunately, many players did just smile hand over money and walk away. This species are known not as gamers, but as morons.