Unable to access operations campaign

you're wrong
in the first French DLC "They shall not pass", 3 maps became free for all BF1 players later ...

@HUN_gattaca_lg Yes, I mentioned that in my last reply.

You are supposed to be able to play the ops campaign without owning premium. This is definitely a bug and has been going on since January actually. On Playstation there used to be like 5 campaign servers running every day, but then suddenly in January in the middle of the campaign that was running back then the amount of servers running dropped to maybe 1 a day. Some days there weren't even any active campaign servers. Sometimes we had 2 servers, but that was very rare. With the last campaign, the Fall of Empires, which is the only campaign which consists of 2 base game operations, we suddenly had 5 servers running each day again. And now we are back to maybe 1 server a day.

I'm sure DICE or EA has posted this somewhere, they made this change at some point, it wasn't always the case but you are definitely supposed to play the ops campaign without having to own premium.

@ElliotLH can you please forward this issue to the team? Thank you.

Edit: a quick google search found this news article detailing campaigns are now free for everyone: https://www.pcgamer.com/battlefield-1-operation-campaigns-go-free-for-everyone/

I have asked about this and the information which I've been given is that having the DLC is required.

So they randomly reversed their decision from back in 2018.... without informing anyone....

Well, so much for grinding scraps.... Might be time to call it quits then.

@MrCostari 

I think that in 2024 there are more and more signs that Dice no longer wants to maintain the Operations campaigns:

-For the first time in 6 years in January, Dice increased the price of the Operation Battlepack from 2 x 25,000 points to 2 x 30,000 points.
-The following month, the Operations screen clearly indicated to the BF1 player that there was no Operation Battlepack reward (the Operation Battlepack icon was missing).
-On average, the Dice employee sets a duration of 30-40 days for the Operation campaign, and does not start the next one for 1-2 weeks.
-The order of the Operation campaigns is not fixed by the Dice employee.
-Dice does not make the free Operation campaign available to all BF1 players.

@ElliotLH 

I started searching for maps and game modes in the server browser (Battlefield 1 Standard Edition without Premium Pass).
I didn't know this either until now, that all Shock operations maps are free for all players:

https://www.ea.com/en-gb/games/battlefield/news/bf1-shock-ops-update-2018

five Shock Operation maps:
Giant’s Shadow
Prise de Tahure
Lupkow Pass
Zeebrugge
River Somme

Best of all, the Shock Operations experience is available to all players, even if you don’t own the expansion packs that offered these maps. (For access to expansion pack maps outside of the Shock Operations mode or full access to the expansion packs, you’ll still need to purchase the expansion pack or Battlefield 1 Premium Pass separately.)

@MrCostari 

I'm thinking weekly game modes also have free maps?
Because I can start DLC maps with special game modes (WW1915 Conquest, Urban Conquest, Trench Cleaners Rush).

I can connect to these servers with a Standard game (without Premium Pass):

[DICE] Official - WW1915
Conquest - Achi Baba

[DICE] Official - WW1915
Conquest - Cape Helles

[DICE] Official - WW1915
Conquest - Lupkow Pass

[TSAR] Official - Urban CQ
Conquest - Fort Vaux

[TSAR] Official - Urban CQ
Conquest - Tsaristyn

[TSAR] Custom - Trench Cleaners Rush
Rush - Fort Vaux

[TSAR] Custom - Trench Cleaners Rush
Rush - Soissons

[TSAR] Custom - Trench Cleaners Rush
Rush - Verdun Heights