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Is Battlefield Hardline's Premium a Ripoff?

Is Battlefield Hardline’s Premium content a ripoff? Short answer…. If there was one I wouldn’t still be typing.

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GCO Gamer3428d ago (Edited 3428d ago )

I honestly believe Season Pass' for yearly titles in a totality are ripoffs. In fact, paid DLC for an annualized title in general is a ripoff.

DarkOcelet3428d ago

Yeah, especially when they make millions each year.

Syntax-Error3428d ago

If they didn't make millions each year they would go bankrupt!!!! Wow are you really that "intelligent?" DLC keeps them afloat considering the cost of AAA titles nowadays. Try thinking before you speak sometimes

spacewarrior13428d ago

Syntax-Error i'm sure devs are worried out of their minds going bankrupt in their sports cars and mansions.

ifistbrowni3428d ago (Edited 3428d ago )

and especially because the last two Battlefields have had their "premium" at a 50% discount before all DLC was even released.

I told my buddy, who traditionally buys all battlefields + their premium subscriptions at launch with me, that I refuse to buy this game until I get it for $20-30 "complete edition." Going off the previous two Battlefields "discount timelines", I'll be playing Hardline in June/July.

Yi-Long3427d ago

I agree that the whole Season Pass crap is a total rip-off.

HOWEVER, this simply means I won't buy the game at launch.

Quick math: game 60 bucks at launch + 50 bucks for Season Pass = 110 bucks.

I'll simply wait a year, see how the game is still doing, what the alternatives are offering, and when it's 40-50 bucks for the complete package, I might pick it up.

I didn't pick up BF4 at launch, because of all that DLC, and also bacause basically the game wasn't ready to be launched yet.

Picked up BF4 including Premium 5 months orso ago, and obviously, that's a bargain. The game has been fixed, all DLC is included, and it's balanced and netcode and all other problems have been fixed.

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BattleAxe3428d ago

Paying for a Season Pass is essentially the same thing as buying a 2nd game. Publishers are making twice as much per game as they used to, and this is in a digital age where many of the games they sell are digital downloads with no shipping or packaging costs. DLC is generally a rip off.

BluEx6103427d ago

Didn't EA release DLC for BF4 which was redone BF3 maps? Like seriously how fucken lazy can they be. Won't be surprised if they did it again for Hardline.... believe the DLC was called Second Assault. Don't support shit like this please.

die_fiend3427d ago (Edited 3427d ago )

@SyntaxError

Stupidest comment ever. You think EA are close to bankruptcy? If you think EA is being kept afloat by DLC then you need to go back to school for a long long time.

Hardline should be free DLC for people who had premium on Battlefield 4. To try selling it as a full-priced game is more criminal than robbing a vault! Then to also try and charge another full price game for DLC. Like hell I'm spending £100 on this belloni! And graphically, it's absolutely identical to BF4, much like most of the gameplay.

DarkOcelet3428d ago

A dlc pass for the dlc game. SMH.

MikeyBoy3428d ago

I will say it plays different from BF4 and even from the beta I kind of liked the overall premise and gameplay than BF4. Wouldn't call it a dlc

Yi-Long3427d ago

I think the BIG problem with this game is simply that they called it a Battlefield game. They never should have done that, and instead should have just made it a new original IP.

I'll skip Hardline at first, for multiple reasons, but mainly because I'm still more than happy with BF4 and I won't buy any game at launch when they have a DLC pass announced...

If the game turns out to be great and all the DLC is great, and it's in the bargain bin next year with a complete edition, and still being played, I'll consider buying it.

MikeyBoy3428d ago (Edited 3428d ago )

@GCO Gamer: Read my mind mate. Its getting really bad

Starbucks_Fan3428d ago

I feel like $60 for the main game is too much already...

purebennyc3428d ago

$60 is nothing in NZ you're looking at $100-$120

Iceball20003428d ago

$69 in Canada, soon to be $75. Plus the 13% tax we have.

BattleAxe3428d ago

@ Iceball2000

Where did you hear that games were going up to $75.00? Even back in the early 2000s when the Dollar was worth around 60 cents USD, games were still always $60.00, so I don't get this....

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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.

-Foxtrot851d ago

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

gamesftw250850d ago

Maybe it was a inside job then haha.

jeromeface849d ago

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

PapaBop850d 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.

Inverno850d 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

XiNatsuDragnel851d ago

They want people to go on 2042. My theory

excaliburps850d ago

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

Pudge102888850d ago (Edited 850d 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

pr33k33850d 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.

Pudge102888850d 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_D3TH850d 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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Ranking All The Battlefield Games

From Xfire: "With the next game being a return to the classic XX42 formula, now is as good a time as any to make an utterly definitive and in no possible way controversial ranking of the Battlefield games we've enjoyed over the years, with which undoubtedly nobody will take issue in the comment section. Right? Okay then - here we go, from least good to best."

OMNlPOTENT1121d ago

Battlefield 1 above 4 and Bad Company 2? Not a chance.

Ruegrong1121d ago

battlefield 4 was broken as shit on launch same as battlefield 3

isarai1121d ago

Bad company 2 was still my favorite, sure it was a bit gimped compared to the rest if the series but more fun and far more satisfying weapon unlocks.

XxINFERNUSxX1121d ago (Edited 1121d ago )

Battlefield 1942 + both expansions are my all time favorite, it can still be played online to this day. Vietnam would be my 2nd, 3rd Battlefield 2, last BF2142 the rest I didn't care for. They really need to remake from the ground up in the new engine BF1942. Next year it will be 20 yrs since it was released. If they don't at least to me would be a disservice. ☹

CoNn3rB1120d ago

"erasing that simply reinforces toxic male privilege." I see the writer is one of those types of people...

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The Life & Death of the Season Pass

In a time not too long ago, a foul infection spread its way through the games industry. It was a vile illness that burrowed itself in deep, feeding off of greed and the incessant begging of teens desperate to receive funds from their parents. It divided friend groups, suffocated player bases, and was common practice up until recently—it was the season pass.

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IanTH1350d ago (Edited 1350d ago )

This doesn't make a ton of sense. Season Passes may slowly fade out for multiplayer games, perhaps, but I don't see them going anywhere in games that are primarily single player. They don't seem to touch on this either, with every game being some kind of online/multiplayer/GaaS title, and nary a mention of a single player game - at least that I saw.

I mean, games like Borderlands 3 just asked people to buy in to the 2nd season pass. Battle passes can't really take over in places that have story driven content and such. So I'd say perhaps they missed a bit of a necessary distinction but, since they claim the death of season pass is at hand, it appears they may have missed how single player games factor into this entirely.