@-DFA-Thump I'm not disagreeing with your post but you state that "the only real reasons I can see why they took it away [XP] in the first place would be that they wanted to slow the player base from moving on from 2042 after they unlocked everything and realized how void of content it actually was". I would also offer another explanation that could be that they had plans to reward higher-ranked players with future updates / DLC content as progression rewards. Allowing users to abuse the system for a progression rate that wasn't intended would cause more angst with players leading to less than desirable comments/reviews..... again. Either way, in the eyes of today's consumers, they will never do anything right and every decision is criticized.
@R00zillaThat's a possibility as well but I see that as naturally limiting as they are going to want to entice the non-Colonels out there by making it at least moderately easy to achieve (especially when it comes to paid DLC as I doubt it would be free). If they held it only to those who ranked 100+, they would more than likely see unachieved expectations as far as money earned by those DLC and conclude that the content wasn't wanted (when the it could have simply been that people didn't want to/couldn't sink Colonel levels of time into the game. The key question would be whether or not they offered any tangible advantage to the game. If so, you would be looking at a self-induced problem that could have been mitigated by something as simple as only being able to earn progression through player kills or nerf only the XP gained against bots (to an extent) via some percentage reduction. This would make people want to still play portal as their main source of BF entertainment while allowing for progression through effort. In any case, it will be interesting to see how DICE/EA dig themselves out (if they even attempt to). They could have avoided this criticism by simply making the Battlefield that they sold and not the hero shooter they ran away from.
@Stew360Please slow down and read the thread posts. Thump was talking about XP in portal modes. Are you stating that you got to S049 (lvl 148) playing 1 to 3 hours of Portal games a day? I highly doubt that.
