Updates on multiplayer shooters tend to be more important than your regular updates, because they tend to completely change the balance of the game! It looks as though Battlefield 3 is on the cusp of receiving a massive update, and the details can be found here.
What’s better than Elite? EA is hoping the answer is Premium. The mega-publisher’s plans for a paid subscription service for the Battlefield action franchise have been revealed via a PlayStation store update reported on Eurogamer. The inadvertent leak outed a June 4 release date and a price of €50 ($62).
Shooters protagonist Terry Glass isn’t that different from the kind of character you’d play in a Medal of Honor, Battlefield or Call of Duty game. He’s a fictional American soldier fighting in the geopolitical hotspots where America’s armed forces face off against disparate, tough-to-pin-down threats.
After it was discovered last week that the number of “official” DICE and EA Battlefield 3 servers on console had dropped significantly in the wake of a new rental scheme, the developer has moved to bring a large number of them back online.
Battlefield 3 community site, Battlefieldo, is reporting that EA is prepping a premium service for Battlefield 3, a service that’ll be unveiled June 4 at E3.
I mean, what’s the point? I hide in tanks to stay away from guys like this, but the more they level up, the more tools they get to pry me out and do terrible things to my corpse.
EA is no stranger to allowing users to pay for upgrades most people earn the hard way. It’s been doing it since the dawn of the DLC era. But a new set of unlocks for Battlefield 3 is beginning to take the piss.