New Battlefield 3 – Rent a Server Screen Shots & Trailer

T-Hill writes: Battlefield 3 took the FPS genre by storm last year and hasn’t let go since. This strangle hold of quality content…minus the latest patch has provided gamers countless hours of bullet pounding bliss.

[Dante112]

Nice idea, hope it works out for DICE.

[jr85prix]

Why dont they just offer custom matches like in Halo for free.

[soundslike]

because BF3 needs hefty dedicated servers. P2P would simply just fail

[Persistantthug]

@jr85prix...... BF3 is 12 vs 12....certainly not 32 v 32 the PC version has...
but 24 players can't really be done with a Peer to Peer connection....not without severe lag.

[killcycle]

If your internet is good enough you can easily pull off 24 player match's on. I used to do it all the time on warhawk with just a 20mb stable connection. now i got 100mb. P2P is the way to go but for people with not so good internet this is a good idea.

[TABSF]

Very expensive (£47.99 for 90 days) considering you get pretty much the same thing on PC for Free

I always find matches with setting I want :/

[Persistantthug]

yeah...but that isn't bad if you just want it for a day or a weekend @ $1.50 a day
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[Jovahkiin]

230e a year is very hefty. I just want to play a private match like in BC2 and 90% of other multiplayer games.

[HoneyBadger]

Have to see if this idea works

[B00M]

What a rip off! This should be free for sure! Cant believe people would actually pay that much to 'rent a server', when its free on so many other games on consoles and PC. Couldn't you do exactly this on COD4? I remember setting up private matches with custom rules and stuff for friends.