Servers - Will we get them?
As a BF / Gaming community (clan) member, one of our big concerns are the servers.. will we have full access? dedicated servers? or what? This needs to be addressed early on so at release there is...
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I’m getting a crap feeling that it’s not going to happen.
I think if it doesn’t then the game will hype at launch but Just go the same route as bf1/5
badmins are rare
I ran many servers and kept them populated with fair rules and balance. It must of works as we kept 6/6 servers full.
but as someone mentioned, I feel console is the priority now and not pc.
@PeppaPigKilla wrote:I’m getting a crap feeling that it’s not going to happen.
I think if it doesn’t then the game will hype at launch but Just go the same route as bf1/5
badmins are rare
I ran many servers and kept them populated with fair rules and balance. It must of works as we kept 6/6 servers full.
but as someone mentioned, I feel console is the priority now and not pc.
I have the same feeling, but I think, more than ever, that there's a good argument for EA/DICE to give dedicated/private servers some serious consideration. Obviously it looks like a good proportion of the playerbase is interested in them, if not to rent and host one, then to at least game on them. That's your base level argument for having them.
However, I also think gaming has changed since the launch of BFV. Twitch is mature and more popular than ever, Discord has grown massively in the past few years. "Influencers" and Streamers are big as well. A big name BF streamer, being able to host his own games on his own server would be a HUGE plus to hyping BF2042. Discord owners would surely be interested in having a dedicated server for their members/Discord. This is where the argument is won or lost I think.
At this exact moment, BFV has 994 viewers across whatever streams, BF4 has 3.4k viewers. Obviously this is small numbers compared to the likes of MW or PUBG. Dedicated servers could help that, I feel.
I'm not sure I can handle another Battlefield without some sort of dedicated servers at launch. Until I have the answer to this questions, I am holding off on the preorder.
It's like Dice doesn't want us to play with friends or have any sense of community. Just login, join a server, and spend money on the store.
Me too.
I'm happy to see the portal information release, but i am still a little concerned. Will we be able to pay for a server and have it be perpetually online (even if it is empty)? to build communities within the BF community? Spinning up servers that are only available for a limited time won't do this...Server longevity builds communities.
As a long time BF player, i usually gravitate to playing on a small number of 3rd party hosted servers with the same rule sets and the same type of players. This is what is important to me.
I don't want to just play on any random server that won't be there tomorrow.
I stated earlier that DICE would be daft not giving us/community the servers we wanted. Now they confirmed they wont give it to us..
Im not buying it before we got rentals.
Please stop asking for servers we have to pay for ??? We are being given portal which is a free server solution.. And if we don't prove to DICE that we can make it work we will never be given a server solution again.
The procon servers of last gen titles is never coming back. You have to get over that, never coming back. I know it hurts because they were the good old days.
But the communities out there are going to have to work with portal and prove to the board at EA, not DICE, but the people that dish out the money. That the community will grow if you give them the tools to shape the game and that's what portal is.
And if we fail it will be the end of an era, simple as that it's in our hands. And boycotting, and paying and playing in games that have never offered and never will offer us any level of control only proves there case.
- @ShevermiN I completely agree with you 110% 🙂
Servers you are forced to pay extra for would lead to a ton more people refusing to get the game at all than those who want to pay for private servers.
If they ever made it to where we had to pay extra each time to create our own Portal Server even with the AI Soldiers... I would refund my Ultimate Edition right then and there.
The servers will remain FREE and if anyone here doesn't like that than Too Bad! Feel free to choose to stay with your paid only servers in Battlefield 3 and 4 until they are shut down.
I however will be playing on the FREE Servers I can create in Battlefield 2042 🙂 @Jesse165You know, paying for servers has always been an OPTION. I don't think this will have any negative impact on the playerbase. Actually the opposite. People have always hosted servers and maybe relied on some donations.
If there just was an option to host them, how on earth would that be negative to the playerbase? Assuming you understand what option means.
Another argument I've not seen yet, is training and clanwars on private servers. This was always a nice addition to earlier BF games. I guess maybe with portal you can password protect your server, but I doubt it will be possible for the base game. Meaning clanwars will probably not be possible at all. Oh well, I guess eSports have been dead for years in the BF franchise anyways. 🙂
PS: unrelated, it's rather hilarious that you've paid the ultimate edition but don't want to pay for hosting a server. Talking about wasting money. 🙂
