Battlefield 2042 Will Cost $69.99 On PS5 and Xbox Series

Battlefield 2042 will follow the expensive current-generation price tag of $69.99 for the PS5 and Xbox Series version according to a press release sent by EA.

[contra157]

What a joke 😑

[FPS_D3TH]

@logicwins $10 more and you won’t buy at all now. Tell us more how you never were buying this anyways

[LOGICWINS]

You're right. I was never planning on buying this, because only a dumbass publisher would charge $70 for a multiplayer-only game when this genre is aggressively shifting towards a free-to-play model (Warzone, Fortnite, Rogue Company, Halo:Infinite etc.).

Complete and utter stupidity.

[ActualWhiteMan]

$70 with free DLC… vs $60 with map packs. Hmm, what is the retarded consumer going to think cost more? 🤔

[kayoss]

@logicwins
But most of free to play games you mentioned makes more money off of microtransactions. Yes, battlefield most likely will have MT too, but MT dont dictate your progress whereas most of these free to play requires you to buy MT to progress.

[Christopher]

***when this genre is aggressively shifting towards a free-to-play model ***

Towards a F2P model with games that rarely perform as well or offer as much.

I do agree with the idea that $70 for just an MP game, is bad form, though. But, comparing it to the F2P market isn't the best thing to do, IMHO.

[DJStotty]

@D3TH

It is the principle, not the increase, if we accept 70 games now, it becomes the standard across the board. Then in a few years, they will try 80, if that gets accepted, it becomes the standard.

There is a reason why games have been around the same price since the SNES/Mega Drive era.

[darren_poolies]

$10 in the US but it's £20 in the UK which is a big difference.

[medman]

I know this....if a developer is going to try to charge 70 dollars for the ps5/series x version, that version should be designed for those consoles, and not simply a last gen version with better visuals and framerate options. If it's not fundamentally a better experience, are you seriously attempting to charge for the extra capability inherent to the new consoles while not really taking advantage of it in any unique way?

[Shane Kim]

What do you and other gamers expect from a new generation of consoles besides better graphics?

[StoneyYoshi]

Don't forget we will get DOUBLE the player count and access to the entire size of each map on the new consoles compared to the previous gen (previous gen gets 64 players with smaller versions of the maps. Seems pretty unique in that aspect IMO and that is the important part to me.

[medman]

@shane kim
What I expect is that in 2021 and 2022, we not be getting games developed for a ps4 that has a tablet cpu from 2012 in it. What we are getting would be akin to a 2009/2010 ps3 blockbuster, like Metal Gear Solid 4 (2008) being developed to run on the ps2 with it's circa 2000 hardware. Is that a good visual for you? Imagine the sacrifices of Metal Gear Solid 4 having to run on the ps2, and what would have to be cut back, then multiply that exponentially for the tech of 2021 and realize the sacrifices made will be significant and substantial.

I'll leave Mark Cerny's own words here so perhaps you'll truly understand....
“The primary reason for an ultra-fast SSD is that it gives the game designer freedom. Or to put that differently, with a hard drive, the 20 seconds it takes to load a gigabyte can sabotage the game the developer is trying to create,” Cerny said. “Say we’re making an adventure game, and we have two rich environments where we each want enough textures and models to fill memory, which you can do as long as you have a long staircase or elevator ride or a windy corridor where you can ditch the old assets and then take 30 seconds or so to load the new assets.”

Cerny says most modern game developers more realistically “chop the world into a number of smaller pieces” to avoid those extra-long elevator rides. But the end result is that you have levels designed with twisty passages and long, repetitive environments that are there solely to account for load times and to avoid kicking the player to a black screen. Cerny cites Haven City in the classic adventure game Jak 2.

“The game is 20 years old, but not much has changed since then. All those twisty passages are there for a reason. There’s a whole subset of level design dedicated to this world, but still, it’s a giant distraction for a team that just wants to make their game,” Cerny explained. “What if the SSD is so fast that, as the player is turning around, it’s possible to load textures for everything behind the player in that split second? If you figure that it takes half a second to turn, that’s four gigabytes of compressed data you can load.”

[Bruh]

In no way am I defending EA, but they do a pretty good job with cross-gen stuff. Usually offsetting the older systems to a smaller team on an older build of Frostbite, while giving the main team, in this case DICE LA the project only on the newer systems.

[CaptainHenry916]

EA😆

[badz149]

wait...this is MP only but they still want $70?? WTF are they smokin over there at EA HQ?

[CornholioX]

I'm buying it day 1 ( not a joke ;) )

[RosweeSon]

Biggest joke is it’ll be replaced within 12-18 months time for people to speak with wallets I been doing it for years but come on people just play 4 or 5 some more, or don’t but don’t get this Day1 or at all 🤣 wait for the proper next generation versions that aren’t half arsed and still expecting full next gen prices for last gen games. Jog on EA. Couldn’t even show and in game screenshot it’ll be 30%+ within 3 months don’t do it 🤞🏻🤞
27995;🤣 same with Fifa just stretch last years out for another 6 months 😱 a whole 18 months with one version, let’s face it the stadiums don’t change the teams do marginally a number on the end changes and the soundtrack and that’ll be £70. Play your own tunes and use the transfer market 😑🤣 save your cash Fifa is best part 50/70% off within 6 months it’s an utter joke and they are mugging you right off people 🤷🏻‍♂️✌🏻 ;😜🤣 don’t get me wrong not terrible games but each and every year?! Surely if the games are that good they don’t need a replacement every 12 months looks at Nintendo (1 Mario kart/smash bros per gen etc) rockstar one GTA per 3 gens 😑🤣 EA 7-8 FIFA’s a gen 6-8 battlefields 🥱💰💰
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[gamer7804]

Wait a week and it will be 60, nothing about this game warrants that price

[CyberSentinel]

No single player campaign, pass for me.

[zumlauf14]

lol yes because battlefield always had quality campaigns /s

[JEECE]

Yeah. After everyone who said they'd buy Titanfall 2 if it had a real campaign bought COD instead, I'm guessing EA has pretty accurately figured out that the "no campaign, no buy" people aren't worth listening to.

[Kavorklestein]

It's usually had decent campaigns tbh.

I personally think lots of people will buy whatever their fave streamers/content creators/friends buy. I also feel like if enough streamers, etc... get hooked on this game for a solid month or more, then it will be huge, and it won't matter if we buy it now or after a sale.

It will already have millions of people who bought it at full price. I kind of hope it has enough content and some solid game modes to dethrone the onslaught of BR modes everyone is hooked on. I love me some Warzone and Apex etc... but only playing 1-3 maps for a year+ gets kinda samey after a while.

I don't really wanna pay 70 bucks, but EA Play/Gamepass will probably give a bit of a discount at some point.
Since I'm paid up for the next 2.8 years with Gamepass, that could save me money on the game if I decide to buy it day 1 or week 1 or something.

Hope it ends up good. But I'm still very bummed about no SP.

[FPS_D3TH]

The game mode only a fraction play once if at all? Shame

[Yui_Suzumiya]

That's all I buy these games for

[badboyz09]

same I'm passing or waiting for it to hit like $20

[Fluttershy77]

maybe it will only hit like $30

[moriarty1889]

same for me. hard pass. lazy devs wanting maximum money for minimum efforts.

[BrockEmSockEm]

i don't blame you. I don't mind just multiplayer games, but making it $70 and adding $15-20 microtransactions is greedy af

[badboyz09]

I'm patient I can wait for a few months till I find a copy for $20.

[gazgriff2k12]

JUST LOL

[Inverno]

I thought we were all in agreement that we weren't going to pay full price for multi-player games? So 70 bucks, season passes, and microtransactions. I'm glad I don't get excited about multi-player games

[Chriswheeler22]

Not me, its my favorite hobby, a few extra bucks a year aint shit.

[Applejack]

Maybe they should charge you $100 for the game since an extra $30 a year “ain’t shit”.

[OneLove]

@Applejack just cuz you can doesn't mean you should.

[Applejack]

@OneLove I agree, that was the point I was making.

[Mikeyy]

Applejack I get where your coming from but to be honest it used to cost me $120 a year for call of duty.

$70 + $10 for battlepass is the better of 2 evils.

[PitbullMonster]

70$/80€ for 7 Maps. They must be crazy.

[CornholioX]

I'm crazy too and i will buy it day 1 :)

[Emartini1222]

There shouldn't be loot grabs if they're charging 70 dollars for a game. And at least the first 2 map packs should be free.

[StoneyYoshi]

It's gonna be a battle pass system like COD. Cosmetics only and maps/expansions will be free to keep from splitting the player base like they did in the past. Battle pass will have a free version and a premium version just like COD.

[JEECE]

All maps are free.

[StoneyYoshi]

Good thing I'm getting it on PC.

[annoyedgamer]

Same. I still wont pay $60. I'll wait untill Christmas.

[CDbiggen]

Yeah, you never have to wait long for price drops these days.

[Urrakia34]

Guess I'm gonna have to wait a couple months until it's on sale. Fewer and fewer games are actually worth full price these days considering how broken they launch and how long it takes to get them running properly after patches.

[Good-Smurf]

This being Battlefield they tend to do numerous patches for game balancing as well so depending on how stable the launch period is then it safe to wait at least few months.
And with so many gadgets than ever this time oh well there's going to be a lot of changes.

[FPS_D3TH]

Damn some of y’all are really poor and should be working instead of spending time on the internet talking about an expensive hobby

[PitbullMonster]

I have no problem with paying full price for games, I pre-ordered R&C Rift Apart for 80€ but charing 70$/80€ for just 7 Maps is not a great deal.

[StoneyYoshi]

Initially it looks short changed but all future maps which will happen are going to be free for all. I don't see this as an issue in the long term.

[CDbiggen]

Incredible bait

[FPS_D3TH]

😏

[BrettAwesome]

Yeah, shit talking everybody tends to work. D1CK_3ATR has a lot to be proud of. What an accomplishment 👏👏👏

[TheLigX]

I hope you're not serious

[seanpitt23]

Haha EA can’t resist that temptation

[Epicent3r1249]

Buncha whiners.. I'd rather spend an extra $10 on a full mp game then $10 on a gun skin. And for those that are lamenting regarding missing sp campaign, the only good ones they had were BF1 and BFBC2 in my opinion, so not missing much there for me. I'm pumped for the new one. I'm hoping it gets back to the BF3/BF4 vibe

[Orchard]

It will be $0 on Game Pass after Sunday.

[Latex74]

Let's hope so lol

[John_McClane]

I hope so!

[ocelot07]

I don't think it will. EA will just make their own subscription service looks like a poor deal if they release battlefield 2042 on gamepass but not ea play?

[Tedakin]

You get EA Play for free with Gamepass so that's where they'd put it, EA Play. Then as a Gamepass subscriber you can play it with your subscription.

[StoneyYoshi]

@Tekadin

I stated this is probably how they would do it but I got shot down on here hard saying they have never released a game day 1 on EA play and it was gonna be on GP specifically.

Good to know I'm not the only one who assumed this is how it would be done.

[ecchiless]

so is coming to gp after sunday?

[raiden_188]

I will simply not pay that price for a game.

[sourOG]

Was any of that trailer even gameplay?

[gazgriff2k12]

ALL OF IT LOL

[MrPerfect813]

da fuq

[badboyz09]

🤡🤡🤡

[SinisterKieran]

i was excited for a new battlefield..but i think i can wait a while

[porkChop]

They're charging more while also cutting the campaign? Bruh.

[Yobo5]

Right like pick a lane. They want to pretend they were out in the street begging for change, but ride to their mansion on a lambo. "Rising costs my ass"

[John_McClane]

Too much imo.

[BioShockGX]

It's $59 on my ps5 and I just pre-ordered lol

[Orchard]

That is the PS4 version you've preordered.

PS5: https://store.playstation.c...
PS4: https://store.playstation.c...

[Applejack]

Yikes, I’d definitely call Sony if I was him 🤣

[BioShockGX]

Then I got lucky
https://imgur.com/r1meZJs

[ocelot07]

Yer I don't know if it's a bug or what. But the ps5 version is showing as £59.99 on the PSN store and £53 if you sub to ea play.

[bloodymeatballz]

Why why why does every single shooter have to include shipping crates?

[dsammy04]

They cutting the campaign no Battle Royale and it’s launching with one less map then battlefield 5 and 3 less than 4. But they are focusing on multiplayer!?!? And then they charging more.

And then they hype all this up for a cinematic trailer!?!?!?

Dice these 7 maps better be the best f’Ning maps mechanic and gameplay wise cuz right now it’s sounding like a hard sell.

[gazgriff2k12]

THIS IS BATTLEFIELD, battlefield 3 introduced campaign to help compete with cod (it didn't work). battlefield 5 introduced battle royal to compete with cod wz (it didnt work). battlefield has always been about multiplayer specifically conquest. if you don't know this then your not a battlefield fan and probably a but hurt cod player.

[dsammy04]

That’s a lil harsh. Let’s take a step back and I’ll let you know my truth. I wasn’t introduced to Battlefield until Battlefield 3 so it’s all known for them to have a campaign. Sorry I didn’t go back in time and go play every game that came out prior to my introduction. But I’m pretty sure Battlefield Bad Company 1 & 2 had a campaign so you might want to come off that high horse.

And with the campaign on I have beaten everyone since 3 even 5. I enjoy single player campaigns as much as I enjoyed the multiplayer aspects.

What your post basically says tho battlefield did everything in response to call of duty from the campaign to Battle Royale and nothing worked.

Your post also says that I’m not a battlefield fan because I don’t agree with your logic.

Man bro you are in for one hell of a ride when you realize people can like something for different reasons other than yourself.

I’m just a person that expects games to get better I know EA is one of the most hated companies but they also have a lot of resources behind them to help make DICE better.

And for a company to be focusing on one aspect and still coming up short with the amount of maps and modes is no excuse.

Them only giving 7 maps is like mortal kombat saying we won’t do a campaign anymore and instead focus on the fighting and go back to our roots and only launch with the 7 original characters with some ominous announcement of more to come.

It’s ok to hold companies accountable

[King Nezz]

70 dollars for an online multiplayer game only? Doesn't seem like good business.

[Vithar]

Of course EA gonna charge 70$ lol expecting anything less?

[Kaii]

That gameplay trailer better be Impressive, i.e. jawdropping.

[TheEnigma313]

All you have to do is wait for a price drop after a few months. don't feed into the $70 nonsense

[Watchyabackbai84]

It was $71.99 on the store earlier but now they changed it to $89.99. Anyone got it for $71.99?

[CPTN MITCHELL]

Everyone here complaining about the $70 price without a campaign are the one that would buy cod for $59.99 then spend $20 on skins and guns then $10 on a season pass and only play the campaign once (cod) or $40 for McClain and rambo

[King Nezz]

@CPTN MITCHELL

I have an issue with the lack of campaign, so I can respond about your COD message. I buy a new Call of Duty every 3 or 4 iterations. And I'll assure you that I have not finished one of its campaigns in a long time. Modern Warfare 2 to be exact. I prefer Battlefield's campaigns more. So for the price, I would want a complete package.

[Storm Shadow NF]

You can preorder ps5 version for 59.99 from PSN right now so this is a lie !!!! Plus you get ea discount if you have it.

[anast]

That's a lot for a F2P game. Just play Warzone if MP CoD likes are your thing.

[Paleblood]

That's a lot for a only multi-player game filled with microtransactions and we don't even know if it's going to be good.

Not convinced. This game looks like is not going to do good on its own. Better to throw it on gamepass.

[Silly gameAr]

With a battle pass??? Yeah, I think I'm starting to see what's going on. This game was made with Gamepass in mind. It's like if you have Gamepass, and the new Battlefield game is on there day one, they think It's going to be the new Fortnite. It will be like it's free to play, but all you need to do is get the battle pass, and you're good to go!

And, I think this is only the beginning. What a joke.

[annoyedgamer]

I told people this. Stupid consoomers just believe whatever the news/corps say. They will keep spiking prices untill you need to use subscriptions to buy them.

[FallenAngel1984]

BS pricing

[greywolf39]

Horrible... And the game is MP only if I am not mistaken. It is not good fo bf... Same thing went with black ops 4

[Bronbron92]

I think it’s funny that everyone is crying about the 70$ price for this game this was said before launch games will be 70$ no surprise honestly and on top of that people are crying because it’s only multiplayer…….. so y’all were fine with paying 60$ or more depending on the edition of the game you got for rainbow six siege and call of duty black ops 4, i mean if it’s that hard for you to accept this sadly wait for the game to go on sale in the holiday season or just wait for it to go to gamepass. Not trying to argue or start anything but if you don’t like the price don’t buy it plain and simple

[SpineSaw]

So I guess the rental service day an date release was incorrect.

[Orchard]

Was it? They are premiering the gameplay at Microsoft's E3 conference. Any Game Pass announcement would be there, not in today's EA trailer reveal.

[ocelot07]

Just got it for £53 via ea play on ps5 earlier but it seems they have now fixed the price and is now £69.99 or £63 if your a ea subscriber.

Now I know I am going to get some flack for this comment but I don't care in the slitest if people disagree with me.

If I didn't manage to get that error price on ps5. I still would of pre ordered (but not yet) for the £63 price. These days I am careful with what I buy. Games like battielfied and cod and FIFA and demon's souls I know am going to get many many many hours out of each game. So the £60-£70 price I am fine with.

The likes of Returnal and Ratchet and Clank. If I didn't have a back log I would of gotten at full price or near full price. But since I have a back log I'll buy them when I backlog is almost clear. No matter if they are still expensive. As I know I'll get many hours of entertainment out of them.

Now this is not me crapping on gamepass. I have time and time again said it's a decent service just not a service I would pay full price for. On twitter people are absolutely raging because Battlefield 2042 has not been announced for gamepass. All because some apparent leaker said it would be.

I rather own my games and not rely on a service like gamepass. As paying what is it £120 a year then having to buy the games that don't go to gamepass like FIFA and cod. It just adds up.

[Bronbron92]

Completely agree if you know you’re going to put in many hours on a game I don’t think the price should matter, I still don’t get why everyone is upset way before these consoles launched it was said prices will go up and it’s happening now and people are going crazy and with gamepass people whenever any new game release/announced and it’s not said it’s going to gamepass they’ll always rage sadly I understand why yes you get a game practically for nothing but then again just go out and buy it if you want it that bad ya know

[Dixiedevil]

…and like every other $70, I’ll buy it used and they’ll get nothing.

[NotoriousWhiz]

I haven't played Battlefield since 1942. If the multiplayer is solid and includes cross play, I'll see if my old friends want to play it together.

[MIDGETonSTILTS17]

As long as they support the Dualsense, that’s fine.

[purple101]

£30 after Xmas for sure.

Then il sell it for £20 after playing it for 6 months. Ta.

[iplay1up2]

No campaign! No way!!

[purple101]

Hahaha. Just checked ps store UK

£59.99 standard
£89.99 gold. With season pass
£109.99 ultimate. With season pass . Early access. Digital artbook / soundtrack.

Got to be kidding me - 109.99 who do they think they are! That's a big fat PASS. from me.

EVEN ON GAME PASS IT WILL BE THE STANDARD EDITION AND THEN THEY WILL CHARGE YOU A LOT FOR THE YEARLY PASSES FOR THE DLC. you will end up paying for this, one way or another.

[StoneyYoshi]

"EA confirms that new locations will be accessible to all players."
Source
https://blog.playstation.co...

[GoodGuy09]

Get a pc for multiplats everyone.

[CantThinkOfAUsername]

Not for multiplayer. You get free online, yes, slightly cheaper prices, also yes, but you pay the price to play a game that dies out in 3 months because of cheaters. CoD is no different.

[CrimsonWing69]

Yup, and I'll wait for a price drop out of spite.

[Donjune]

Wait for it to drop on Gamepass.

[Stoni88]

Imagine playing battlefield on consol lol

[NoLifeLoser]

Wasn't gonna buy it anyways. Multiplayer only is a big no-no for me

[DarthZoolu]

Fat chance at getting me to buy any game at that price. My understanding of economics would never allow me to waste money like that.

[Elda]

Black Ops 4 had no campaign & I didn't buy it. I guess I won't be buying the new Battlefield for the same reason especially for $70.

[Tedakin]

I bought Black Ops 4 and it definitely felt like a ripoff. The additional maps and season pass were expensive as hell on top of the 60 dollars. Ridiculous.

[SPEAKxTHExTRUTH]

Returnal was $70 where was all the hate for that? Single player game no multiplayer. Demon's Souls was a $70 remake of a PS3 game where was all the hate for that? All you people complaining about the price because of no single player are being fake AF. Nobody buys BF for single player. If you're going to complain about the price then be fair and complain about it across the board. $70 is a ridiculous price for ANY game and that's that

[talocaca]

Meanwhile Nintendo is selling old remakes for $60 and people justify it 🙄

[ghostrider32]

Wow. If EA was a Yugioh card, it would be Pot of Greed.

[Lionsguard]

I don't get all the crying, just wait a few months and it'll be on sale.

[gunnerforlife]

I'm okay with this, I'll just wait till it drops down to £40/35. no way am i spending 60 or 50 on a game!

[Hawk198666]

Warzone... £0.

[plmkoh]

Imagine paying $70 only for less content and more paywalls

[masterfox]

if is true next gen will consider then, in the end the next gen criteria is up to me not them cause this is a multiplatform game, and third party devs are usually full of nonsense lol.

[masterfox]

update: just saw the video and no way in hell I'm paying 70 dlls for that thing, it doesn't look next gen, it doesn't have a campaign and not to mention it will be flooded with MT's, cya EA. :)

[jamesclark1991]

Absolutely fine by me, as long as it isn't a total shambles like BF5 was/is.
People forget we used to pay £80 for Sega Megadrive games at one point 🤣. They also forgot we've been paying the same price for games since the PS2 gen even though budgets have skyrocketed for devs.

[swifty1]

$89.99 up here in Canada. With tax next gen games now top $100 cdn.

[sawoosevens]

How bold, haven't felt compelled yet to purchase one of these $70+ dollar games. I feel like they made more off of me when it was $60+.

[Inverno]

Check on the Epic store, and origins, it's 60 on PC. So they are over pricing the console versions just cause they can. Ladies and gentlemen right now is the time to fight against this before it becomes standard cause it's gonna get worse.

[TheColbertinator]

Buy it at Black Friday. Easy 15-20 USD discount.

[mike32UK]

Nope. No single player there's absolute NO chance I'm paying that 😂 ah well

[ibrake4naps]

No campaign. Gonna cost $40 when I pick it up.

[philm87]

If it had a single player then okay, but a multiplayer with microtransaction options is a no at that price.

[DJStotty]

Normal pricing (well close to) here in the UK

Xbox One/PS4 - £54.99
Xbox Series X/PS5 - £64.99

I'll be picking up the cheaper xbox one version for my series X, i refuse to pay extra for "enhancements"

Edit : then again, reading the comments here, if this is just for a MP based game, no way am i paying more than £30

[DJStotty]

So to get the game and year 1 pass etc, it will set you back £100 in the UK.

My opinion on this? no chance

https://www.microsoft.com/e...

[gazgriff2k12]

i brought mario kart on snes for £70 29 years ago lol

[NotoriousWhiz]

I bought Superman 64 for $120 at retail.

[boing1]

That's kind of crazy price for MP only game IMO. Maybe they expect low sales at the beggining because they now have bots that can fill up low player counts.

[thecodingart]

PC copies are cheaper….. wtf

[Good-Smurf]

$70 for multiplayer only title?
Only die hard fans can accept this.
They have the EA to announce price before any gameplay reveal.
DICEy move good luck with that EA.
I think I made the right decision to wait for discounted sale.

[vTuro24]

80 fucking euro for a video game. This is what "special editions" used to cost. I'm guessing the pc version will cost 70 euro? These companies can shove their price increases together with their greed up their arse.

Edit: Apparently the game costs 60 euro on steam so it's not as bad. Still fuck these corporations.

[Towers]

I will wait until it's massively reduced in price before buying it. If at all by that point.
EA's gross profit was $4.135B in 2020.
Stop the fallacy that it's too expensive to make games and that's why they cost more. The market is sooo much bigger now than it has ever been. They are raking it in and cutting jobs to make even more profit for shareholders.

[NotoriousWhiz]

Yeah, 4 billion is huge. They don't need that extra $10 dollars. That said, games during the PS3 era were $50 new. Seems the companies want to start bumping the price of AAA games by $10 every generation.

[HankHill]

Games during the PS3/360 era were $60 not $50. You're thinking of the PS2/Xbox era.

[NotoriousWhiz]

You're right. I'm remembering wrong.

[Npugz7]

No campaign! Stupid move and to sell it for that much with just a multiplayer mode is rediculous.

[2moda5gamer]

Here's an idea - big ass game studio's require top in class game designers and also intense crunch hours, maybe paying them this increase will help curb this somewhat or at least make them feel more their worth - because the designers are worth every penny.
Sure, I'd love for cheaper games - but as someone who also works in a creative industry - the pressure and energy going into this stuff, these designers need all the support they can get. It might make their 18 hour days a little easier to bite.

[TheLigX]

$70 for a multiplayer-only game... with paid battle passes! Shows how EA is set to behave for the new gen. A hard pass from me.

[Tyrant 8 RDFL]

EA go right ahead and charge $69.99. I will go right ahead and not buy the game. I have no problems at all wafting for the game to go on EA Play, but do you have no problems if it doesn't sell at launch? Please gamers send a message and don't buy on release. We control the narrative.

[KillBill]

EA follows the bad trend. Shocker!

[HexxedAvenger]

Man this game looked awesome. and then i saw the price.... I'll wait for the sale....

[chobit_A5HL3Y]

dice hasn't made even a decent game since bf4. no way in hell i'd even consider buying anything from them at this point, especially at a bs inflated price lol ea's out of their god damn minds(as usual).

[Mulando]

So they want $70 (well 70-80€) for a game that has only multiplayer and want to offer seasoned content by paying for the season? Do I understand this correct?

I can understand why fortnite has seasoned content with some stuff behind a season-paywall, the game is free. But battlefield .....

[Abear21]

Yup, this will sink in and be normal soon…just breath and make a gaming envelope you throw $20 in here and there…nothing to see here

[quenomamen]

Crying while buying COD every year for the last 10 years.

[GameZenith]

Buy on PC

[StrangerX]

I really wouldnt mind even $80 if they said it included everything from single player campaing and all other downloads after that. but then again, we could pay expecting that! but in a later date they will say that they added some other stuff not supposed to have come out and thats why there asking more money. it becomes a trend!

[Dandizzle]

Thats just for base game, expect $50+ if you want premium membership or anything else. $70 for what a multiplayer only game.... EA is just being greedy at this point to make up for poor BF V sales

[gazgriff2k12]

Battlefield 2042 will follow the expensive current-generation price tag

[Psychotica]

Maybe if I work really hard I can come up with that extra $10.00 over the next four months..oh, the pressure!

[Skywalker333]

and 79.99 euros in Europe, in the classic highway robbery that is the pricing in Europe compared to US.

[SharnOfTheDEAD]

A loy of people say "who cares about a Single player campaign", either never played or forgot how fun Bad Company 2s Co Op Campaign was with friends. £70 for 7 MP maps and that's it? Not seeing value here, even though the prospect seems good, I feel its a bit hollow.

[playbazar]

good article

[RosweeSon]

No wEAy!