I hope battlefield doesn’t die, but, if it does, I’m calling Rockstar
They make bigger bucks for understanding their user base
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@MegatronNerd no offence at all. I totally agree, it should be about be about BF2042. It’s just I felt that there’s something to learn from what Rockstar is doing and wanted to see some takes on that. As
@A_al_K_pacino_A mentioned, these micro transactions can be our part to fuel BF development. And it actually may be super useful in keeping the Portal lit. Imagine the portal getting support, upgrades, and expansions for over 8 years. We might not need a new battlefield until another gaming evolution comes our way.
@SmackChatHC There in lies the problem, the 'community' hate microtransactions (just read these forums!) so expecting them to support the game long term through them is a fools errand.
It depends on the business model.
Some may say that splitting the community with paid expansions is a bad idea, but then you split the community giving 3 modes to play (and one of them, Portal, could generate an overflow of custom servers where the community will be further diluted) and apparently all content is free but then you have microtransactions (and no guarantee on how much income those will generate).
IMO I prefer the paid expansion DLC in some scenarios, microtransactions in others, custom "mods" and just so much content in order to keep the game self-sufficient in other environments.
Some games have the microtransaction only aspect, and they build on that because they know it's gonna bring so much income with no distractions by the customers, but there's no guarantee the game will receive the same amount of quality content as a paid expansion model for example.
Other games used the paid full content DLC with maps and so on as a model, and they focus on that, and people still buy it (but yes some complain they are left behind or can't join a server they don't own the expansions for).Other games use "modding" to keep the player base self sufficient, the game alive for years, and sometimes they release DLCs to implement new systems and content (but sometimes very rarely).
I think EA went shotgun with bf2042, trying everything at the same time. The risk is doing everything average, and nothing good.
@Trokey66I think they hate it because they are not paying to expand their game play. It’s just expensive cosmetics that they want me to pay for over the already expensive base game. But imagine if micro transactions made it a better and bigger game: new vehicles, weapons, gadgets, specialists or whatever. I know it might make the game a pay to win, which will screw it up even more but I can’t imagine it any other way.
- @SmackChatHC pay to win will never, and rightly so, be acceptable in Battlefield.
