@ATFGunr wrote:
@TheSaltI agree with a lot of what you said, but I’ll challenge you on DLCs. I 100% think the DLC model is superior. If I’d known that Live Service would mean 1 map per season I’d have had to reconsider getting into it. I’ve played since 1942. The mod community then added a lot of content. The DLCs were consistent and reliable content. I was happy to pay $15 for 4-5 maps and new weapons. It was steady and reliable. I know what I was getting. I was shocked we got season 6 and nothing else is promised. They aren’t obligated to do anything else. Live service doesn’t make any promises. Yes DLC divides the players into haves and have nots, and guess what? I never had an issue finding a match in vanilla maps or DLC. Servers ran those maps. Clans supported those maps for both groups. Live service, no browsers, crappy servers etc all contributed to killing of clan play in 2042. EA did this to themselves. BF3 and 4 were huge as they gave us what we want, now it’s what they want and it’s underwhelming. So yes to DLCs imo.
Yeah i bought premium dlc everytime and yes unfortunately it did divide the community. It supported the lowest common denominator ie standard version. DLC servers would last a month here in Australia at best. I had to play West US to play those maps with any regularity. Was frustrating as. It killed the community in that for 3yrs we played 9 Vanilla base maps by yr 2 no one was playing. The problem was DLC maps if added in server rotation it would kick all those with standard edition from server everytime the DLC map they didnt own came up. This made it near impossible to keep the server populated.
I wrote about this at the time. That the standard edition was holding Premium to ransom. They tried if your friend has Premium play for free and other free w/ends in effort to look after Premium buyers. I suggested as i am again (however many years later) that the Vanilla base standard game with 9 maps needs to go. Instead of being $79 it should be $89 but with 13 starting maps, and the 4 x Premium DLC map packs $69 should be $59 but only release 3 maps instead of 4 with each DLC. Basically deliver larger base and 1 less Premium. They get the same $ for same maps but the Vanilla base is larger over the 2yr lifecycle.
Here we are again. BF2042 launched with 7 x 128 player maps. Its literally disgusting.
