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Battlefield 4 May Feature An Always-Online DRM

DSOGaming: "Battlefield 4′s reveal trailer has been unleashed, and most gamers are amazed with its visuals. Truth be told, DICE’s upcoming FPS looks spectacular and is easily one of the best looking games we’ve ever seen. It’s not up to the standards of Deep Down, but then again we don’t know whether Capcom’s title will look as impressive as that tech demo or not. And even though a lot paid attention to some finer graphical details, it seems that none noticed a small pop-up message, hinting at a possible always-online DRM for the Single Player campaign of BF4."

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Neixus4038d ago

The majority ain't affected by this, only the few people who actually play the singleplayer. So i have no problem with this. (even though i dislike the concept of DRM)

Hufandpuf4038d ago

Battlelog served as a DRM for PC players. However, I believe that the top right info was just shown to show off the added features.

josephayal4038d ago

I don't blame companies for loading up their software with DRM in an attempt to stop people from pirating it

My_Name_BTW_Is_Dante4038d ago

I don't blame people for pirating it when companies load up their software with DRM.

Kennytaur4038d ago

If you're not playing Battlefield online anyway, you're doing it wrong. Unless it's a LAN-match. I don't like how the single-player is trying to mimic CoD, that's not Battlefield to me.

Somebody4038d ago

I thought I was having some sort of FPS fatigue when I passed the chance to buy some of the game that come out this this year. I even thought I would wait for some sales to buy them. Well, EA Spring Sale has started and no I was in no mood to buy any of them.

Now I realized that I was subconsciously boycotting EA for it's decisions over the past couple of months in particular enforcing micro transaction in all of it's future games and Crytek's going full on F2P. I thought I was OK with EA for allowing singleplayer to exist side by side with micro transaction but apparently not. I haven't bought a single EA game this year! I simply took notice of their launches, review scores and continue with my current games. In contrast I was torn between Far Cry 3, Tomb Raider, Assassin's Creed 3, Dishonored ans Bioshock Infinite - all are Steam games.

The BF4 trailer was one of the few EA games that made me interested but again the social pop up is not required. Players should be able to disable it. How does knowing what some other people did somewhere else will help me fending off a Russian attack gunship? I'm still going to end up in a scripted set piece that will put me dangling outside the van while holding a grenade launcher to finish it off. Will gaining points for completing a previous singleplayer chapter will allow me to use the grenade launcher earlier when the helo first appear instead of at the end of a long chase scene (thus saving the friendly helo crew, the guy's leg and the whole team made it safely back to base)? Seriously, our character have been using a grenade launcher throughout the trailer.

What does these social pop ups do to my singleplayer experience? It's like watching "The Avengers 2" movie only to have some giant window pop up on the top corner of the IMAX screen telling us that "Batman VS Superman" had just broken the highest world wide grossing weekend ticket sales.

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Battlefield 1, Hardline, BF4 Servers Are Being Taken Offline by Cheaters; EA Silent on Issue

Cheaters & hackers have been causing grief on Battlefield 1, Hardline & BF4 servers, with nonstop DDoS attacks among other things. Unfortunately, EA has remained silent about it.

-Foxtrot750d ago

Course they are silent, they are hoping people flock to 2042

gamesftw250749d ago

Maybe it was a inside job then haha.

jeromeface748d ago

wouldnt be the first time, titanfall 1+2 anyone?

PapaBop749d ago

Not even if they paid me.. EA always do this with old games with less money potential, if this was Ultimate Team, they'd address and sort it faster than stories could spread. Why invest time in their products when they will just dump it in the following years? Then again EA never could see the forest for the trees.

Inverno749d ago

I imagine after those games were given out for free a couple months back through Amazon, anything that makes people go to 2042 is a plus for them

XiNatsuDragnel750d ago

They want people to go on 2042. My theory

excaliburps749d ago

Nah. I think they can't do anything about it or they want to sink money into fixing it.

Pudge102888749d ago (Edited 749d ago )

EA owns all BF servers so yes, they can do something about it but they refuse to because they dont want ppl playing their old games instead of the new one. Its EA we’re talking about here

pr33k33749d ago

if this happened in 2042, they'd have something to say. which is weird, considering battlefield 1 has more players on steam right now.

Pudge102888749d ago

Its so obvious that EA is doing this or hired ppl to mess up the games so that we’d be forced to have just 1 Battlefield working.

FPS_D3TH749d ago

Honestly it’s probably the devs themselves. They did an update to bf4 way back that kinda made assault rifles doo doo in hopes that people would flock to BF1 cuz BF4 was too perfect

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5 Great Shooter Games on Xbox Game Pass

The shooter genre is one of the most beloved videogame genres in the gaming community, and rightfully so. From DOOM Eternal to Battlefield 4, passing through The Outer Worlds, the Xbox Game Pass has a lot to offer when it comes to amazing shooter experiences. Come check out some great shooter games available on Xbox Game Pass!

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MadLad764d ago

There's a bunch of great shooters on gamepass; both legacy and new.

A recommendation I have is a work in progress preview title called Anacrusis. It's a lot of fun, and has a cool aesthetic.

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5 Games That Started Out As A Buggy Mess

KeenGamer: "Sometimes a game starts out as a buggy mess and we all just stop and think, “that definitely could have spent a bit more time in the oven”. This is the case for these 5 games which infamously marked their place in recent game memory."

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KingofBandits856d ago

"Games That Started Out As A Buggy Mess - A Bethesda and CD ProjektRed tale"