The matchmaking has been really bad for me since the DLC. The game keeps throwing me into east coast servers. I get around +90 ping on those servers, while on the west coast I get around 25. Obviously its still playable, but Id rather be on a west coast server. Its not like there is a pop issue, the PC version generally has over 40k people playing it. So I dont understand why its been throwing me into these servers. Lately, Ive had to use the server browser and go into them manually.
But yeah putting maps and modes behind a paywall is dumb. Frontlines and Operations will pretty much be dead and only Conquest will get played. They could find other ways to make Premium worth it. Make the modes and maps free, so it doesnt split the community and charge for something else. (More double XP, skins, assignments, events, and etc).