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Originally Posted by cDnStealth
I don't care how you spend your money. However, I am tired of seeing the same asinine comments about DLC. They've been charging for map packs for a long time now so don't make it sound like this is something that's come out of the blue all of a sudden.
BF4 is a complete game. You don't have to buy the DLC to continue playing the game. You've got these rose tinted glasses on about the good old days of gaming. Complete games? They had these things called expansion packs that cost the same price as new game. And the only reason those expansion took so long to come out is because it wouldn't have been feasible for developers to release a few maps at a time given that everything had to be put on a CD and shipped. DLC is no different then expansion packs only that with the internet, developers can now distribute that content more quickly and in smaller chunks.
BF1942 Road to Rome added, what 6 new maps. 8 in Secret Weapons of WWII. Each were $30 if I recall so you would have paid $60 for 14 new maps.
BF4 Premium cost $50 (less if you were patient) and you get 20 new maps. Seems like a better deal to me.
You don't want to pay for maps? That's fine. That's absolutely your right and you can continue to play your vanilla game with no problem. There are tons of servers that run the original maps. But they're never going to stop charging for them at this point. That ship sailed a long time ago.
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First of all I'm certain at least 3 of the 4 new maps in the last bf4 DLC are just rehashed maps from battlefield 3. So they are not releasing new content.
And you are right that this is the way EA is going, that's why I jumped ship to counter strike global offensive. Game costs $15 bucks, Valve still releases new maps, they let the community make new ones and if you want to play them right off the bat in competitive mode is costs something like $2. Which you can easily make from just selling the skins you find in game. So no I don't think that nickle and diming gamers for content is the way of the future.