Post by Dan @ 12:06pm 31/05/12 | 20 Comments
The document reconfirms much that we had already heard about the planned Premium Pack, serving as a bundle for downloadable content packs and featuring mostly cosmetic benefits for eager BF3 players, however there are a couple of new stand-out points. Firstly, it reveals that it's not a subscription service, seemingly rendering all those comparisons to Activision's Call of Duty Elite service inaccurate. The document explains that the pack will be offered for a one-time fee of US$49.99 or 4,000 Microsoft Points (we'd expect an Australia Tax price will likely be implemented as with other BF3 DLC).
The biggest new stand-outs appear to be sever queue-priority, the ability to reset stats at will and exclusive "members-only events", which we presume will be in the form of online tournaments.
Given that PC BF3 players rarely find themselves in server queues any more, we're not sure that one will be a big deal to non-premium players on that platform, but it might be a bit sour for the consolers out there.
You can view the full image here, but here is the bullet-list summary:
The Battlefield 3 Premium release date is expected to coincide with the June 4th launch of the Close Quarters DLC.
- 2 weeks early access to all future Battlefield 3 expansion packs starting with Battlefield 3: Close Quarters.
- Unique in-game knife
- Unique in-game dog tags
- 10+ unique soldier camos
- Unique weapon camos
- Stats reset feature
- 10+ unique Platoon emblem decals
- Increased Platoon emblem layers
- Server queue priority
- Save up to five of your favorite Battlefield Reports
- 5+ unique Assignments
- Exclusive events
- Exclusive Double XP weekends
- Exclusive videos
- Strategy guides
- Additional bonus content
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Posted 12:09pm 31/5/12
This looks a lot like a s*** sandwich.
Posted 12:21pm 31/5/12
Posted 12:23pm 31/5/12
We value all our customers, unless you have already paid for the game. Enjoy your server queue less valued customer.
Regards, EA and Dice.
Posted 12:42pm 31/5/12
Which is insane, unless you think the normal DLC price is fair.In which case you save 16 bucks if you already have B2K.
Details are out June 4th. So prob June 5 in aus.
It's a bit disingenuous to include b2k which everyone has.
So it's 16 maps, less weapons and vehicles ect. Also I think all the new weapons are just in Close Quarters.
The original game only had 9 maps. So it does add a lot I guess.
Still $80 bucks seems a bit steep.
Why would anyone new buy the game, knowing they have to pay such a huge amount.
I'll probably get it. I spend more every few months on steams on old games I play for like an hour each. So I can justify it from what I waste on games as actually being good value.
Posted 12:45pm 31/5/12
i guess not.
Posted 12:53pm 31/5/12
Tollaz0r put it beautifully.
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Posted 01:38pm 31/5/12
What.The.F***.
That "EA In a Nutshell" video seems more accurate now.
Posted 01:49pm 31/5/12
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Posted 11:56am 01/6/12
Posted 01:40pm 01/6/12
We've known there's paid for DLC coming for a while.
If you want to only selectively buy DLC, then that's cheaper than this. It's only worth getting if you know you'll buy all DLC.
What's the problem? Or is it just the DLC should be free? Which sadly those days are long gone. For that, blame MS and Sony when they started charging developers big sums of money to release DLC and updates for games. PC just suffers as a result.
Posted 03:14pm 01/6/12
it's not just DLC though.
Posted 03:21pm 01/6/12
Clearly missed the bullet point quote in the OP. I don't know how but you did.
Posted 03:30pm 01/6/12