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.
rumours continue to swirl about the next iterations of the PlayStation and Xbox consoles. With nearly nothing actively confirmed by either Sony or Microsoft, one of the most popular recurring threads is that the consoles will in some way block the owners’ ability to play secondhand, used copies of physical games.
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.
By sheer coincidence, total accident and obvious happenstance, today, on the day that three new maps are made available for Modern Warfare 3‘s Xbox 360 Elite subscribers, we’ve been given a trailer to show you for some new Battlefield 3 DLC.
Eschewing the normal practice of releasing intermittent “piecemeal” map packs, DICE intends to deliver three completely new experiences to Battlefield 3 players this year in the form of a trio of expansion packs, delivering new game modes, “innovative” gameplay, and unique environments with each release. It’s maps plus!
So who’s still playing Battlefield 3? [Waits for hypothetical massive response.] Wow, that many? Well, DICE has just released the patch notes the upcoming balance changes its making to the game on all three platforms.