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EA and Visceral Games Announce Battlefield Hardline Premium

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jelmerjt

Member
Press release:

EA and Visceral Games Announce Battlefield Hardline Premium

Own More and Be More with Four New Super Features, Early Access to Story-Themed Multiplayer Expansion Packs, and Exclusive In-Game Items and Events for Only $50

REDWOOD CITY, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Visceral Games™, an Electronic Arts Inc. (NASDAQ:EA) studio, today announced Battlefield™ Hardline Premium*, an exclusive membership program delivering new content and early access to Battlefield Hardline fans to fuel their cops and criminals fantasies all year long. Battlefield Hardline Premium members will enjoy four new super features - Masks, Gun Bench, Competitive Play, and Legendary Status - as well as two weeks early access to four story-themed digital expansion packs. In addition, members will receive monthly rewards and access to exclusive in-game events and items that ensure players execute heists and roll into high-speed chases in style.

Battlefield Hardline Premium membership includes:

Four super features:

Masks - New player masks with unique gameplay benefits tied to the theme of each mask.

Gun Bench - Provides players with the ability to visually customize their weapons and track their kills per weapon.

Competitive Play - Support for competitive play through Battlefield Hardline Premium-access only tournaments and ladders.

Legendary Status - Provides replayability of the entire progression system.

Four digital expansion packs featuring new multiplayer maps, modes, vehicles, in-game content and a story themed throughout all four:

Battlefield Hardline: Criminal Activity - Players have to make a name for themselves in fast-paced, highly-destructible new maps littered with small-time crime jobs. Available summer 2015.

Battlefield Hardline: Robbery - Take down the opposition head on and progress through key locations with major cinematic action. Available summer 2015.

Battlefield Hardline: Getaway - This is frantic, high-speed chases that immerse players deeper in the heist. Available fall 2015.

Battlefield Hardline: Betrayal - There is a rat in every operation and players will have to find out who to trust. Available winter early 2016.

Two weeks early access to all expansion packs

12 Gold Battlepacks

New personalization options including gun camos, ammo skins, and more Battlefield Hardline Premium exclusive in-game items

Access to double-XP, in-game missions, and more Battlefield Hardline Premium exclusive events

Priority position in server queues

Battlefield Hardline brings new innovations in strategy, speed and story in both single player and multiplayer to deliver a complete first person shooter experience. The game delivers a fresh and stylish new entry to the critically-acclaimed Battlefield franchise as players take to the gritty streets of Los Angeles and Miami in a crime-fueled showdown between cops and criminals. A new class of weapons, vehicles, and gadgets pushes players to approach the gameplay in entirely new ways. Ziplines, loot-laden getaway motorcycles, nimble police choppers, and muscle cars ensure players get to navigate the concrete jungle in fast, team-based Battlefield multiplayer. Players can also tune into a TV inspired episodic single player campaign that follows rookie Miami Police Detective, Nick Mendoza, through a story of crime and revenge. This is brought to life through veteran and up and coming Hollywood talent including Alexandra Daddario from True Detective, Wendy Calhoun from Justified, and Benito Martinez from The Shield.
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http://investor.ea.com/releasedetail.cfm?ReleaseID=899214

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ElzarTheBam

Member
Day 1. Premium and game on the X1
all for half the price
.

Although, generally, premium has been the only season pass model worth the asking price IMO.
 
shanafan

shanafan

Member
Xbox 360 and PS3 support. When will the last generation start losing support? Will we still see blockbuster releases this Fall hit that consoles as well?

I understand the playerbase is huge, but I feel when games are appearing on both current and last generation, it is leaving a lot of desired improvements on the table for current gen versions.
 
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Fury451

Banned
Not shocking. Premium delivers usually though.

But aren't they adding new content for BF4 also? Like new maps and such? I'd buy a new premium for that.

And doesn't Battlefront release this year too?

I don't get this strategy, it's like they're competing with themselves.
 
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Kysen

Member
I bought premium for bf4 and it turned out to be a waste of money. I got as far as the second dlc before all the regulars I played with quit due to the bad netcode. Playing this game solo isn't nearly as fun.

A prime example of taking too long to fix the game. I'm betting the same happens once again with hardline.
 
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flkraven

Member
I can't believe after the issues they had with Battlefield 4 for the first 6 months and that this game is basically a glorified expansion they still expect people to pay $60-$70 for the game and $50 for the season pass. People that buy into this entire package day one are very naive and are sending a terrible message to publishers. Have fun, but I'll stick with BF4 for the next year.
 
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Omni

Member
lol.

With BF4 getting new content this year, I have absolutely no reason to buy Hardline. Or Premium (not that I would anyway. Beta was trash)
 
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Noaloha

Member
Relevant:

Battlefield 4's DLC release schedule is much longer and more detailed than most games, with a steady drip of minor content (eg. customisation options) coming every week, and packs of new multiplayer maps (which are the real meat) being released every two months or so. The content of these expansion packs continues in much the same vein as the rest of the game, but the timing of their release is another expression of the game's capitalist conception - metrics show that a significant proportion of gamers sell their games on the secondary market (ie. eBay, trade-ins, etc) after about a month, which devalues the product in the primary market (ie. buying new copies from retail, digital services, etc). It has become standard practice among AAA game developers - which you can implicitly interpret as "developers who can afford it" - to announce DLC release dates before the main game comes out, as a way of persuading players to at least hold onto their copies of the game for a few more weeks. A crystal clear example of this in action is Battlefield 4's China Rising DLC, which was released about two months after launch but given free to anyone who pre-ordered the game. This incentivises players to both pre-order the game (ensuring strong Day 1 sales and generating free marketing buzz around the number of copies sold) and keep hold of it for at least two months in order to access their free bonus content, which stalls second hand sales, encouraging more primary sales, etc, etc. I'm starting to flog a dead horse here, but it's important to understand this: The release schedule for Battlefield 4's expansions, the resource investment being put into developing each of those expansions, and so on, are all determined as a direct result of DICE/EA's profit-maximising capitalist ideology.

Seriously, those shortcut kits. For those who don't play Battlefield: The different player classes in the game come with a huge list of unlockable weapons and equipment which slowly become available to the player as they play more games and earn experience and level up. However, EA/DICE have released some premium puchase items which unlock all of this stuff immediately, for pretty much the same cost as a whole new game. I'm not going to try and second-guess the intentions of the designers, but it should be obvious that a profit-maximising company has, at least, an incentive to make this unlock chain longer and more boring, to try and nudge players towards shelling out money to skip the grind.
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http://midnightresistance.co.uk/articles/game-design-always-political-im-not-even-exaggerating-here
 
MrToast

MrToast

Member
I suppose if you're really into the Frostbite engine Battlefield games, and this game already interests you along with the DLC, then why not? I'd rather personally wait for a huge discount on both game and premium.
 
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Pastry

Banned
RedRooster said:
Agreed. But I'm not paying $110 for a game from the same series every year. BF is meant to be a biennial game, at least for me.
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Oh I agree, I'm skipping Hardline and playing BF4. But when Star Wars Battlefront comes out I'm all over that :D
 
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gthobbes

Banned
$110 for a game that's received mostly negative pre-release word of mouth? Only EA has the balls to try something like that. Then again, I did read that Peter Moore unloaded $6 million of EA stock last week. Guess he's no dummy after all.
 
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Give War A Chance

Member
Lmao. Only pay for the game twice to get all of the game! What a deal!

"Here's a quarter! Guys, we are running out of these fast! But if you call in now, you'll get a limited edition book with a sleeve for your quarter! It's a $0.75 value, that can be yours today for only $19.99!"
 
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glaurung

Member
I am pretty confident I wasn't going to buy this even before. But with the premium shenanigans piled on top of this turd heap... -2 sales.
 
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