DSOGaming writes: "This is awesome. No, this is beyond awesomeness and is what we call trolling. A couple of days ago, DICE's Mikael Kalms revealed that the company would offer an option to remove the color grading effect in Battlefield 3. Fast forward two-three days and here we are today with Mikael Kalms claiming that DICE won't offer such a console command after all."
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Seriously though, why not give console users that option? How will that harm anything?
... Rallisport Challenge 2 was amazing, as were the earlier Battlefield games. I still play Battlefield 1943 on a regular basis.
But the really messed up big-time with Battlefield of Duty 3, with the 'custom servers', with STILL having too many disconnection-problems, with the DLC splitting up the online community, etc etc.
I'm done with them.
I hope another studio decides they will create a Battlefield-type game the way it should be done.
... but once DLC comes out, and a certain group doesn't buy it, they usually stop playing the MP altogether, cause half of their friends-list DID buy it, thus the community is split up between haves and have-nots, but many of the have-nots now start playing a whole lot less.
How would I battle it!?
I would include the Premium with the game, meaning free DLC. But I would keep the price of the game at 50-60 bucks for 2 years. Meaning everyone pays 50-60 bucks, but everyone also gets the complete experience, thus including the DLC-packs.
I think that's an incentive for people to pay full price for the game, instead of waiting for a pricedrop and/or GOTY edition, meaning EA/DICE would get their 60 bucks. It also means you start out with AND KEEP a strong community where everyone has exactly the same (COMPLETE) experience!
Everyone wins.
It also means that when you have (and keep) a strong community for 2+ years, those players will have faith in your businessmodel and the value for money you offer them, and making sure the community always stays strong so there are always people online, so they will pick up your next game on day 1 for full-price as well, knowing they can expect the same!
Right now, I know of a lot of friends who bought into the Battlefield-love, gave it a shot, and were very disappointed with what they got, which sadly wasn't pure Battlefield anymore, and once the DLC came out, they bailed and moved on to other games instead.
Planetside 2 ;)
... seems to be getting some positive feedback.
Sadly, my PS3 is completely full at the moment (partly thanks to huge BF3 'updates' you're forced to download even though I can't play any of that new content due to not having bought the DLC...), so I'll have to wait until I buy a new PS3 in december, when I'll be moving to the other side of the world.
IF you want the DLC maps you can buy them on release, if NOT then just wait when they go for free in 6months to a year. That way you can at least try them out and prolong the game.
I think the way they did DLC for H2 was one of the reasons it stayed alive so long...heck that game is the only game I waited till 3 AM just to get their DLC.
Made my hours of getting skilled with my vanilla weapons pretty useless and wasteful when some Premium players simply bought their guns/skills in an instant.
If it just like the camo DLC like in BFBC2, then it's fine. Some will buy it, some won't.
BF3's Premium DLC on the other hand forced you to buy it if you want to stay.
Sorry but if Team Fortress 2 still has a growing fanbase after 5 years, I don't see why a game with cutting edge graphics like BF3 shouldn't have the same if they followed the same business model. Happy fans, good revenue, no milking.
I guess I'll be playing Call of Duty again but on the bright side, I haven't played it since MW:2 so it'll actually feel like a new game for once.
I love bf3 but the disconnection is abit of a joke and tends to happen on 1000+ ticket games. I was playing sein crossing had 40+ kill streak and bam got disconnected, I never nerd rage but my room got it that day I punched everything, so glad my gf wasn't there cos I would of battered her to damn you dice making me resort to violence.
I think you've mistaken BF for Counterstrike.
He's talking about Desert Combat and how well that was received. While CS being its own game/mod, DC was what set off the modern warfare era we are in now.