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EA and Visceral Games Announce Battlefield Hardline Premium
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TouchMyBox
Member
If you think that's shady, last time I played BF3, I got kicked from a game after 15 minutes because I wasn't premium. That was the last time I'll ever play a BF game.
So like Ultra Prestige Mode. No thanks, things are a big enough pain to unlock and upgrade with all the attachments already, I wouldn't want to start over just to get a special embalm or dog tag or whatever.
Cool that they have that option for those that want the challenge though.
Tal Shiar Agent
Member
I guess they decided to scrap the extra pointless 100 ranks and just go with prestiging.
I think BF4 is at 150 ranks right now. Each one after 100 is basically a prestige. It takes the same amount of points to get from 1 to 100 to get from 100 to 101 (I think, I may be wrong).
Anton Sugar
Member
Again, this really just sounds like semantics. You're saying that this:
"Publisher announces full game but doesn't announce payment plan for DLC until closer to DLC release date"
is better than
"Publisher announces full game and announces payment plan for DLC that is far from DLC release date"
All they're doing is announcing planned content/price ahead of time. The game is no less "complete" either way, it's just how you're perceiving it. In either situation, it's not content they could have packaged into the base game, although that MAY not apply with Day 1 DLC.
Daffy Duck
Member
So without premium there is no weapon stats?
Anton Sugar
Member
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How did this happen? Was it a private server or an official one? What was the given reason? Were you somehow playing on a premium map? Did the server switch to a map that you didn't have access to?
I have NEVER heard of someone being kicked from a server because "you don't have premium".
Yeah, not sure WTF the deal with that is. Hardline has Battlelog, so I can't imagine they'd lock basic stat info behind a paywall. If so, yeah, that's suuuuper fucked up.
It's more likely that you'll be able to attach visual kill counters to your guns ala CS:GO's StatTrak.
Reckless Onion
Member
sure you do, on battlelog. Gun bench is just something extra apparently
EatinOlives
Member
Super DUPER features! The more nonsense adjectives I add the more the price is justified!!
140 now. And not really. But i get what you mean. Problem is. Is that i prefer to see my orginal rank going up instead of a reset rank and weapons.. I never want to prestige, Not back in the day and not last year with Titanfall.
OdysseusVA
Banned
Y'all done made Nayon upset.
MaverickVII
Member
While I actually got more than my money's worth out of BF4 Premium I'm probably going to pass on this unless I end up loving the game and it has a strong enough community to make getting the DLC worth it.
ElzarTheBam
Member
#Shill4Lyfe
I've played BF4 for 528 hours and I still play that game regularly.
I've spent anywhere from 40-100 hours on each DLC, and I use the DLC weapons a lot.
110 dollars for 500+ hours of entertainment.
Now take inFamous last year, I paid $60 for that and got maybe 15 hours of entertainment from it.
Battlefield has ruined buying most $60 single player focused games for me.
TouchMyBox
Member
I'm pretty sure it was an official server, the message was something along the lines of I've been kicked so a player who bought premium could join. It was like what happens with reserved slots on community-run TF2 servers or something, except seemed to be built-in to the game.
Schweinehund
Member
This game seems more like a stop gap to Battlefront or BF5, didn't think they'd be doing a lot of DLC for it.
SmokedMeat
Gamer™
So pay another $50 to not be a red headed stepchild
No that's crazy lol.
100-120 takes the same time it takes 1-100 and 120-130 / 130-140 takes about the same time as 1-100. So if anything 100-140 is like getting to Prestige 4.
So not exactly a prestige system, specially since you don't lose your unlocks either.
Yea, I don't believe that. That never happens, like never. Not on official servers.
Maybe a crappy admin on a private server kicked you and you're remembering things wrong.
A few companies play this game with season passes or whatever. This definitely isn't the first time for EA, or even for Battlefield.
I agree with you, BTW.
NowhereFaded
Member
This
Mr. Giggles
Member
Ditto, I'm going to return for battle front
Defcon_2Fast4u
Neo Member
Premium for BF4 was worth it for me, because I still play it today.
But this is a joke. I wish the whole DLC thing did not exist like this. It may keep the game fresh over the course of the year, but it is a slight kick in the butt.
Whatever. I am broke thank god, and will not be getting premium for this game.
But this is a joke. I wish the whole DLC thing did not exist like this. It may keep the game fresh over the course of the year, but it is a slight kick in the butt.
Whatever. I am broke thank god, and will not be getting premium for this game.
Anton Sugar
Member
The thing is, even if you have Premium, you still use a queue of sorts. It doesn't automatically just make a spot for you by kicking another player. I have Premium and have still sat in the queue for 5-10 minutes on busy servers, because multiple Premium players are trying to join it. If a player got kicked out, I theoretically shouldn't have to wait long, if at all.
Not sure what happened with you, TBH, but it's the first I've heard of it.
Gucci Messiah
Banned
Exactly. What a joke.
FrontalMonk
Banned
The thing that actually really irks me about this is the game features that feel so much like they should be an integral part of the game (masks, weapon customization) are sitting behind this paywall.
I think I'll take this opportunity to pick up the PS4 version of Payday 2.
I think I'll take this opportunity to pick up the PS4 version of Payday 2.
TouchMyBox
Member
I guess it's possible that there is a troll admin out there somewhere trying to make people waste money on premium with bogus kick messages?
Spottiettiedop
Member
If Hardline ends up good and I enjoy it, I'm down for the Premium content. BF4 is still in my rotation because of Premium.
NotTheGuyYouKill
Member
My only shocking take away from this is: wow, Alexandra Daddario is in this?
Gotdamn
Gotdamn
What you are saying doesn't happen tho. I've always had to sit in queue sometimes as long as 20-30 minutes when the match is done and someone leaves, to get in as Premium.
The system doesn't kick non premiums from servers so that premiums can get in, that simply doesn't happen.
The only other thing that I can think of is that you entered a mixed map server and the next map on the rotation had a DLC map you didn't own.
fastballspecial
Member
Wasn't buying this anyway. The gouging continues.
Gucci Messiah
Banned
Why are people alright with buying from companies that announce DLC before the game is even out? It's a straight scam.
AnthonypUK
Member
so now expansion packs get DLC?
Tal Shiar Agent
Member
Why are people alright with generalizing when they don't know what they are talking about? It's straight ignorance.
They've got a plan for DLC. So what? Everyone does, they just announce it early.
Anton Sugar
Member
Well, this is ironic, considering Payday 2 had around 20 different DLC packs, each costing $5-7, containing a mix of weapons, maps AND cosmetic items/customization.
How is it a scam? If all of this content were done and ready to ship at time of launch, you could make an argument for a scam.
But literally all they're doing is announcing their plans for DLC and putting a price to it. Where's the scam? A scam would be cutting content from the base game and repackaging it into Premium. Where is the evidence they are doing that?
How is this any different from back in the day, when expansion packs would be announced after launch? You really think they suddenly up and thought, "Well, the game is launched--now let's make an expansion pack!" I can assure you that those packs were probably on the roadmap 6 months before launch, if not earlier.
Fatal Futanari
Member
Yep. All non-BF or casual players probably too. GAF gonna GAF.
I got my Digital Deluxe preordered and I am stoked for this as well.
Tal Shiar Agent
Member
Yeah. Says Hardline is tone deaf, is not going to buy. Is on EA's payroll. Makes total sense.
ElzarTheBam
Member
jim2point0
Banned
This will be the first battlefield game that I don't jump on Premium immediately. Just haven't liked the series as much as I used to
cormack12
Gold Member
Hmm, in a bit of a pickle with hardline. We lost support for BF4 pretty quick because of the shoddy launch, leaving only a few of us playing it. Now it looks as though quite a few will be picking hardline up after the beta. Bit annoying. Ideally I wouldn't buy another FPS but it's the only time you can get friends together on the same game.
I don't like the way each game requires seperate premium. They should run a premium subscription for like £12 a year instead. You opt out after a year you lose the content. Simple.
I don't like the way each game requires seperate premium. They should run a premium subscription for like £12 a year instead. You opt out after a year you lose the content. Simple.
CarbonFire
Member
Damn it EA. This is not how you're supposed to handle your second tier Battlefield games. How quickly you forgot Bad Company 2.
I have doubts that Hardline will be supported as well as BF4 has, which makes a premium edition far, far less enticing. This is just going to sour people on Battlefront's inevitable Premium edition. 2 BF-related shooters in 1 year, both with premium editions? REALLY EA?
I have doubts that Hardline will be supported as well as BF4 has, which makes a premium edition far, far less enticing. This is just going to sour people on Battlefront's inevitable Premium edition. 2 BF-related shooters in 1 year, both with premium editions? REALLY EA?