I very disappointed in DICE, the creators or BF3. A few months ago they opened up their servers to be rented out to players so that they could setup and run them. This sounds all well and good but it now means that there are only a very few official servers running and nearly all the servers run by players have ridiculously high amounts of tickets.
The consequence of this is that you can no longer just nip of BF3 for a quick match for 15-20 minutes and then come off again, having satisfied a hunger for some quick killing and objective grabbing; games now tend to run on for an hour at least.
The other big issue is that if you are doing particularly well then there is a strong chance you will be kicked prior to the end of the game so that the people who run the server get the MVP awards - 3 kicks from a server and you are banned. You may not have even done anything wrong!
The consequence of this is that my brothers, friends and I who have all loved the Battlefield games ever since the very original, Battlefield 1942, are now thoroughly disenchanted with the franchise and feel alienated. Once again capitalist money grabbing has destroyed a game!
I must say that we have persisted for a while since the change, which was back in April or March sometime, but our play time has just dwindled. The real nail in the coffin is the "Premium membership", which gives players free and early access to all future expansions plus additional content, all for a cool 4000 microsoft points - that's about £35. Considering we payed ~£25 for the game, plus have already paid out 1200 microsoft points - ~£10 - the prospect of another pay out equal to the total we've already paid seems absolutely ridiculous.
There are other issues, which I breifly touched upon in my earlier post about BF3 when I couldn't compliment it enough! The issue with forming a squad and then trying to join a game together is still there; we get split between the teams and waste the first game trying to get together again.
DICE, please, bring back more official servers, get rid of the server list browser and just make it easy to join a game, as a squad, first time, and if you're going to anounce a premium membership, anounce it upon release so we don't waste money on content we can then get for free once we're premium members!
BF3 has slid down my pile of games and I can't see it becoming an easy favourite again. I hope the community has sense and urges them to move back to the ease of their previous titles - BF: Bad Company 2's menues and squad support was a joy. However, I fear the community loves the way things are changing - I really dislike the modern gamer's mentality.
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