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CCybax's avatar
4 years ago

BF1 Premium Pass with friends

I had bf1 for a while now but I hadn't played it more than 10 hours. I decided to play it so I bought one copy for my friend too.

But now we can't play together in so many maps because they are premium pass only. I didn't even know I had premium. There are not so many maps that's not premium. Or even if we find one, we never know if the next map is gonna be one of the premium ones. I just wanted to get it out of my chest. This is so irritating. I don't like being forced to buy premiumt this way. 

Also I see premium pass was given for free in 2018. This game was released in 2016. it's 2021. Why not find a solutioun for this?

6 Replies

  • because that is unfortunate how business was made for this game.

    back then all the big games out there. did Season Pass or Premium Pass.

    for get new maps / mods / guns, and so on.

    and why it was free in 2018. was because for advertising.

    for get ready on Battlefield V.

    just wait on a sale for Premium Pass. last week it was 75% off.

    and with the next Battlefield game, on the way. 

    we will probably see more sales again. my guess before EAPlay 2021, in June.

  • CCybax's avatar
    CCybax
    4 years ago

    I will be honest, this is the first time I'm seeing a map being premium only. It doesn't make any sense. You could include anything into premium but why maps?

    Other than that, yeah I bought the game when it was on sale. But we didn't start playing right away. Had I known maps were included in premium pass, I'd have bought the full version of the game.

  • MichaelDK's avatar
    MichaelDK
    Seasoned Ace
    4 years ago

    premium pass has been a thing for years. it began with Battlefield Heroes.

    and premium maps, are one way to make people buy the premium pass .

    for in the old days.

    most people did not care for, new weapon / skins / game mods.

    only maps and maps. and people could just buy what dlc they want.

    and the BF1 Premium Pass, did not sell well. or that what rumors says.

    so premium only maps. was one way to make people buy the premium pass

    before all the big things with battle royale, came into the picture.

    but I thought the premium only maps, was gone now in BF1.

    one example here. 

    Prise de Tahure | Battlefield Wiki | Fandom

    Following Nivelle Nights, Prise de Tahure was made available,

    to all Battlefield 1 players.

  • CCybax's avatar
    CCybax
    4 years ago

    I understand all the effort is being made to gain more profit but there really must be other ways. Because this is ruining the game for non-premium players. There isn't really a lot of maps left to play with. Especially when you substract the 64 size maps because they are somwhat laggy on my friend's hardware.

    Yes those maps are not premium only now. But still another way could be making better skins for everything in game. The legendary skins look too bad. They are mostly camouflage skins.
    Something else to show off maybe? It's just not well designed in my opinion. That's why they can't sell in game items. I'm not a fan of Valorant but they know how sell skins. Really

  • MichaelDK's avatar
    MichaelDK
    Seasoned Ace
    4 years ago

    Battlefield 1 is from 2016.

    that was how EA/DICE did things back then.

    maybe it will be different, in the Battlefield 2021 game?

    we can only wait and see.

  • i brought the premium pass,  with in a few months of the last map drop the game really died off.... payed the $60aud before they even dropped the new maps and hardly got to play them.

    I wish they would just make it free now,  just so i can get another chance to play the premium maps once again.  

    I play Oceania servers and there is only about 150 players mostly on the base maps,  one or 2 french dlc maps are included some times.   so sad to see so many great maps not being used anymore ☹️