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Topic: Battlefield Heroes

EA just announced a new game coming out this Summer that is a different version of Battlefield. It will be a free download with cartoon like characters. Each map will be a smaller short experience lasting about 10-15 min. You will be able to buy small add ons to the characters such as new models, clothing, guns and the such. EA is calling them micro-transactions.

Read More Here: NYT Article

My opinions are as such.

A cartoon like Battlefield with a touch of TF2 in a smaller 10-15min battlefield experience. Add some of that trade card feel with mini-transactions and buying extra weapons and models and given that it's a free download to begin with... I can see people giving it a try and actually playing it.  Since it's cartoon like you can't really expect anyone to be serious while playing it. So with that mindset I wouldn't care that there are a team of nothing but snipers. Who cares? It's a cartoon. Cartoon Death Match (CDM)

Please read the article before commenting.

Cheers.

(copied from bf2s)

heres a link to the site http://www.battlefield-heroes.com/

Last edited by teek22 (21-01-2008 10:36:25)

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Looks like TF2, but with tanks and shizzle.

Paying for upgrades? Well, since it's free and you don't actually have to buy anything. I guess, if you were sensible, you'd only buy stuff that improved gameplay, rather than outfits and stuff.

Looks like EA are going to make a lot of money out of this. People will undoubtedly spend as much if not more than a normal game would cost.

Looks like a pretty cool game though.

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I think its going to be more or less shit, if you dont use money for it, you cannot be as good as other players...

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Electronic Arts is to release a free online version of the popular Battlefield game to be supported by adverts and micro payments. -- BBC.

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Nice summary:

DonFck wrote:

In my personal opinion, I'd rather buy a disk/set of disks for 50€, that being my only investment in a game.

The catch here is that a player can boost  his/her performance on the battlefield by purchasing add-ons to the characters.

Article wrote:

Players can pay not only for decorative items like shoes and jerseys but also for boosts in their players’ speed, agility and accuracy. Mr. Florin said that while most users do not buy anything, a sizable minority ends up spending $15 to $20 a month.

So you've got a small group of people running around in funny clothes pwning and boomheadshotting you because they decided to spend money on pixels? Personally, I'd rather spend my money on rl-items.

Of course, a certain "added value" was implemented in BF2 also, by allowing SF-unlocks to be used in vanilla, although this could be gotten around by playing a few rounds of SF on a friends disk (which I did).

Sure, I'll try it, but I'll be damned if I spend any money on something that won't even get me a disk packaged in a plastic box with a booklet.

EA might strike gold on this one, though. Especially if they make the add-ons accessible to kids by E.g. buying codes from a 7-11 in the form of Pokeman-style trading card-packages with chewing gum with a taste that disappears faster than the consumers weekly allowance money.

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Ad that is something i tried to say, or maybe i forgot to post it tongue