Battlefield 4 goes Premium

If I should get this game, I'll get it. I'm in no great anticipation for this as I was when Battlefield 3 was released.
It was vastly different than its predecessor.
 
Vampothic said:
If I should get this game, I'll get it. I'm in no great anticipation for this as I was when Battlefield 3 was released.
It was vastly different than its predecessor.
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I think some of the new features they have shown are pretty awesome. But its pretty hard to tell how it will impact gameplay admittedly. The vids they have shown are obviously staged and perfect communication situations, where is in general MP doesn't work out like that unless you playing in a clan.
 
Gir said:
I think some of the new features they have shown are pretty awesome. But its pretty hard to tell how it will impact gameplay admittedly. The vids they have shown are obviously staged and perfect communication situations, where is in general MP doesn't work out like that unless you playing in a clan.
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I enjoy playing in a clan -- but much prefer playing alone, that way I don't feel rushed (so-to-speak).
 
I'm a bit disappointed to see that server queue priority made it back into Premium, seeing as a lot of people were disgruntled about it, including loads of Premium members. I bought BF3 Premium blindly, and upon finding out that it was prioritizing me in server queues I disagreed so strongly with it I pursued a refund from EA, but they refused to refund me for it based on the fact that the information was available before I purchases it - which is a fair reason to deny a refund, I guess, but I still feel queue priority is wrong. Base BF3 customers also paid money for their game. They shouldn't be put at a disadvantage in server queues simply because I paid more money.

I've decided to skip BF4 altogether. It just doesn't seem to do enough new to warrant another two years of MP. They really shouldn't have gone with a modern warfare setting again. I've decided to rather stick with ArmA2 (or 3, once that fully releases) as my MP game of choice.
 
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I'm a bit disappointed to see that server queue priority made it back into Premium, seeing as a lot of people were disgruntled about it, including loads of Premium members. I bought BF3 Premium blindly, and upon finding out that it was prioritizing me in server queues I disagreed so strongly with it I pursued a refund from EA, but they refused to refund me for it based on the fact that the information was available before I purchases it - which is a fair reason to deny a refund, I guess, but I still feel queue priority is wrong. Base BF3 customers also paid money for their game. They shouldn't be put at a disadvantage in server queues simply because I paid more money.

I've decided to skip BF4 altogether. It just doesn't seem to do enough new to warrant another two years of MP. They really shouldn't have gone with a modern warfare setting again. I've decided to rather stick with ArmA2 (or 3, once that fully releases) as my MP game of choice.
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I thought Arma 3 is modern as well?
 
Yes, but ArmA3 does not play anything at all like BF. ArmA3 is both bigger in scope and offers more varied gameplay. In BF I'm playing it pretty much the same as I did in BF3 and BC2, so the setting is much more important to the overall game for me because it spices things up a bit. I think DICE should rather have gone for a more futuristic setting or gone back to Vietnam or something with BF4, instead of yet another modern warfare shooter in a market flooded with them.

The ArmA series also has full mod support, meaning you can install mods that change the setting entirely. I just feel that at this point if you had to compare ArmA3 and BF4, ArmA3 is by far better value for your money.
 
Clive Woofer said:
Yes, but ArmA3 does not play anything at all like BF. ArmA3 is both bigger in scope and offers more varied gameplay. In BF I'm playing it pretty much the same as I did in BF3 and BC2, so the setting is much more important to the overall game for me because it spices things up a bit. I think DICE should rather have gone for a more futuristic setting or gone back to Vietnam or something with BF4, instead of yet another modern warfare shooter in a market flooded with them.

The ArmA series also has full mod support, meaning you can install mods that change the setting entirely. I just feel that at this point if you had to compare ArmA3 and BF4, ArmA3 is by far better value for your money.
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I agree with the time setting, but not the value for money. Unless Arma 3 gets the player base in south africa, its not going to be very fun after a few months. Where as Battlefield has a pretty big player base in South Africa, its still going strong over a year later.
 
Yeah, I guess it's down to personal opinion in the end. Don't discount ArmA3 based on its local playerbase alone, though. The ArmA series has always had excellent netcode and the slower, more deliberate pacing of the gameplay makes it very well suited to playing on international servers. I frequently play ArmA2 on international servers and I hardly notice the difference between playing a local server or a European server, whereas in BF3 playing on an international server immediately makes me feel like I'm at a disadvantage.
 
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