DICE Answers Some Battlefield 3 Server Questions

The whole “Rent a Server” thing is a complete sham and just another way for EA to make more money. I have an Xbox, so I pay for the Game £45 plus Xbox live and now basically I have to pay more money to be able to play the game how I want it.

I have always said They need to add in some features from the Modern Warefare collection like the ability to create private games for just you and a couple of friends but they still have it so you need a minimum of Eight and make it an options so you can select select the maps you want to play on and take out ones you dont.

EA have now done this but you have to pay Extra for the privilege of doing buy renting a server at a ridiculous price of 4900 points for 90 days which lets be honest is quite expensive.

Now these changes I with the game options and private matches should have been in the game to begin with but coming from playing Bad Company 1 and 2 I did not expect them to add and low and behold they didnt. But the worst thing is that they have kind of added this but charging for it but at the same time pretty much renting all their servers and making it impossible to find original servers and no way to separate them from the rented ones. So with the new change it makes it nearly impossible to play the game how it was to begin with because why woudl I want to join a rented server where the host can kick you at anytime and with all the lag issues and the fact they are all mainly hardcore servers.

This update has pretty much rendered the game unplayable for me now all they had to do is make an option to be able to have private matches with a few of your friends or even one on one and it would have been perfect.

What really grinds my gears is that not only are they making money from renting all these servers, they have basically said “Oh well we dont want to pay for these servers anymore, Oh I know how about the customer pay for them” so they are not even paying for the server costs anymore. Also, remember that when I says servers, your not renting your own dedicated server as it is all on cloud hosting and not a Massive room full of all these massive computers, it wouldn’t surprise me if it was hosting on Amazon CloudFront service.

I will tell you what the future is for the up coming Battlefield/Bad company series, you will get a disk they will install a few things on your Xbox but you will have to set up a monthly account for their hosting service that you will have to pay monthly for an apparent rented server so you can set up your games. You wait, that is coming!!

If I had of known what was coming when I purchased BattleField 3 I would not have purchased it and I just wish I could get a refund on it now. I was actually looking forward to the New Bad Company that I am sure will probably be out later this year because I am a huge fan of BC2 but I am not so optimistic now as the future looks bleak.

Sorry for the Rant and I am sure I will get many responses saying my post is just me bitching and moaning and they are right but wake up guys, EA are basically stealing money from our pockets without us even knowing by hiding it behind the nice words of “New Amazing update available”. They are trying to get a monopoly in the gaming market by taking over many game making firms to the point where you wont be able to buy a game that is not made by EA and then they can do what ever the hell they want.

I would just wish people to see the bigger picture.

Actually John the multiplayer sucked before this patch. It was more like COD. This is BF a different game. I agree that Rent a Server sucks but I’ll still use it. Not to sound so rude but don’t be lazy, open the server browser selection just below Quick match and go from there. That way you KNOW what match your getting into.

I just wanna play the normal multiplayer and until that is an option I think BF3 will remain in its case

yea i totally agree with “mannyy” i kick ass on the new patch too!

GO PATCH!

Sweet. Now, in addition to the 47 minutes my friends and I have to take to try to get in one game on the same team, we get to get booted from a server at some fucking faggots discretion. Can’t wait to sell this game back for the 8 dollars that it isn’t even worth..

I can’t agree more with the cry baby comments. If it’s not bitching about weapons and vehicles, its about servers. If it’s not about servers, its about DICE not doing their job or over doing it. Both CoD and BF3 have their ups and downs. You have to accept ALOT of server issues with a server based game, VS CoD which is HOST BASED, and you randomly deal with lag in every other game. All you people crying about the patch are the same ones crying about it NOT being patched. Now that DICE did something for you, its not good enough. When you log into a VAST community the size of a small empire, there are bound to be people who are happy with change, and those who are upset. Simple rule of thumb; you cant please everyone. DICE is doing a bang up job of maintaining a flowing gameplay ethic. Keep it up Dev’s. The Rent-A-Server option is GREAT. I don’t rent, but being able to find games that are actually moderated by live people who WILL KICK base vehicle killers and people who team kill FOR vehicles… just outstanding. The DICE servers still exist. So to all you cry babies who dont want to play in rented games, Server Browse and find a server to your liking. All this griping and moaning and belly aching just makes you all sound like pissed off lil preteens. Isnt this game rated “M”??? GTFO if you dont like it. There are games like Kinectimals and Avatar Golf which may suit your liking a bit more. No matter the changes made, BF3 still remains #1 in MMO in my book. Nothing against CoD, i just lost interest in the “twitch” fest corner campers.

Nuff Said.

Deddlokk – KDR : 1.27 SPM: 290

Come find me and bitch to my “nerfed” Famas that I’ll still pwn you with. Noobs.

battefield 3 kicks ass

Grow up kid. They pay for the server and can do what they want. As i said, you may like the kids games where no one gets kicked. As your vocabulary amd grammar skills indicate, id guess Kinect Carnival games might suit you. Possibly the most ignorant and childish post ive read in my 20+ gaming year career. Never ceases to amaze me though how moderators of these posts allow such slanderous and derogatory comments in. Wake up mods… you want this trash on your board?

DICE screwed the game with the latest patch.

Rent A Servers suck, full of cockwad admins who kick you at will.
Game freezes consistently.
Inconsistent Aiming and damage model.
Seems more like a MW3 clone now……which really SUX.
Rush rounds with 250 tickets for the attackers, lol !

Despite 10million plus sales, EA & DICE have seriously fucked because of their greed, good luck winning back your frustated fans……

Why do I get kicked from vehicles can’t move when shot at can’t fire my gun when shot at and if try to run away from grenade I get pulled back onto it what’s up with this I’m also get server message at start of all games all of this never used to happen

Ok this is a joke right who has totally fucked up bf3 who is in control of the games keep get kicked and for fcukd if I now and why can I put a full mag into someone and they can walk away they can shoot me once and I glitch can’t move can’t shoot back they can then walk up to me and get a kill I can’t even move just stand there till I get killed lots of other strange stuf too this has taken all the fun out of the game and the next time I get admin kicked from a game when I have done not a different thing to when I started to play I’m gona kick the bf3 game to the bin roll on the new halo coz bf3 you have fcukd up and fcukd ppl off . I’ll think hard before I buy another of your games good luck with trying to win back fans EA DICE this is jj over and out!!!!!