Where are the Dice official servers for PC?
Just got the game on PC after struggling thru the worst gaming experience in my life, which was BF4 on PS3. The game looks AMAZING but still plays kinda crappy...although not as bad as on last gen....
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They cannot ban/kick if the server preset is set to Official.
That still is not an answer as to why there are no Dice/EA hosted servers for many game modes...Classic mode NO SERVERS Infantry only NO SERVERS...Why are you just trying to argue semantics and not answer the question?
I should not have to play on a server that someone is paying to rent if I do not want to. There should be servers in my region hosted by the company that sold me the game. That are not pubstacked by clans and high level players just waiting to pounce on noobs.
There also should be a matchmaking system filling the hosted servers with players of like skill level. Like every other online FPS in history has had!
I really thought getting BF4 on PC would make the gaming experience better. It has not... the server support on PC is worse than it is on consoles.
How did Dice/EA screw Battlefield up so bad? They have fragmented the community with premium, lost all respect from their customers with how poorly BF4 has performed since release and how BAD the support has been since said HORRIBLE launch.
Oh and P.S.- as of right now in my region there is only one rented server for RUSH that has a normal "official" preset and it is actually hosted by Canadians so not really my region. So yeah Like I said where are all the OFFICIAL DICE/EA HOSTED SERVERS?!!!
I just answered what could be answered on a community based, mostly technical, support forum. It's not called "EA/DICE official responses to questions by the community" but that would be very awesome if it existed.
As for the rest of your question, my best guess is that DICE/EA was happy with the amount of official servers out there and saw no reason to have their own. If you would like to ask DICE/EA about it I would suggest BF4 Twitter, Facebook, Google+ pages or Battlelog. Alternatively there might be someone in here who has read an official statement about this somewhere and can tell us - time will tell 🙂
I love how all of EA's sites are set up to not have anyone around to answer the questions that ACTUALLY need answering. Like this site for example what is the point of this site supposed to be? To have the community do Dice/EA's job for them? Because they do not want to pay people to actually give folks definitive technical advice on the problems they are experiencing.
Everyone one of the sites you mentioned has mods that are language babysitters and nothing else. I have been on BF forums since BF2, before Battlelog even existed. You used to be able to get on and ask devs questions DIRECTLY. They were open with the community and appreciated feedback. Now Dice/EA has fostered this "us against them" attitude and cannot even be bothered to release full patch notes!
What happened? When a game franchise makes TONS of money from it's customers shouldn't the support and quality of the game get BETTER?
Computer games are complex. Especially on PC all the different system configurations there's out there can give specific errors for each configuration, you can't expect game company employees to know it all, sure general problem, but obscure problems and technical issues with specific hardware etc. no. Also, are you stuck in game where you can't find out a pussle etc. can you expect the game company to help, no. That's what Answer HQ is for, it's a place where the community helps the community with what it can actually help with and tries to reward the community for doing it.
For general support there's still EA support (help.ea.com).
I agree that DICE/EA is generally bad at centralising bugcollection + acknowledging, sorting and asking for help with errors, but that doesn't diminish the value of Answer HQ. Just because other areas of EA/DICE's community management could be way better doesn't mean you should treat this place badly.
In other words, I've pointed you in the right direction, you might not like the quality of the direction but that doesn't make it less right.
I also miss the days you could communicate with developers, sadly, developers are expensive and since games like these now have millions of users you can't have them answering questions from the community all the time. I agree that the way they do it now should be better, but now we are circling back around 🙂
