Wow... Pisses me off because nearly every server seems to be 200% tickets or more. They take fucking forever to complete.
They really are a shitstain for the gaming community once a month.
I've got no beef with people being able to rent servers and control their own matches. I'm okay with community stuff like that. But I do think there's some eyebrow raising mean spiritedness to essentially bottlenecking a game's entirely multiplayer feature to rely on those who are happy to pay monthly fees.
It's great most people won't have to, but if this is legitimate it's basically EA saying "okay community, if you want to play this game, you need to pay us". Some fan has to be paying them just so you can play your game. That's pretty low.
Is this in writing somewhere? Is this EA/DICE's statement on the situation? Because if it's not, then you don't know that, no matter how likely it might seem.
I don't own the game, but this is BS.
MS needs to sort this out, MS need to wake up and realize that EA needs them more than they need EA. They can't allow EA to continue using their own servers and log in BS come next gen.
Clamp down on that shit, MS.
Sony, well I doubt Sony even care what the hell EA does so long as their games are on the console.
... you touch today, please destroy me this way.
Seems to be a song EA takes to heart.
Now you don't want to spend money on servers for one of your most recent FPS releases anymore? Like seriously?
I remember when people wanted private servers for MW2.
This is more or less a good thing people. Oh sure, some random asshat might ban you, but you'll find another server.
Actually it is the solution. I've been gaming on PC for years and if I don't like the rules of a server I simply find one to my liking.
The server admin payed for the server and they can run it however they see fit.
From my experience on PS3, this is true. What were official servers are now all being rented out. I think the Popularity of the server rentals was higher than they expected, and as a result have chosen to take the dollar instead of offering the standard BF3 affair.
I'm all for the user servers, but man...I do kind of want to play on default servers once in awhile. It gets old having to constantly quit servers because the description doesn't match up with the server settings.
It is common sense from my view. The official servers are being switched over to rentals due to the volume of people that wanted to rent them.
Lol, in a thread about a game you don't own and you still find time to bitch about Sony.
Your former tag was on the money.
Uhh no dude, you can play on rented servers unless they are pw protected I would assume.
But if all these players stop hosting/renting servers, will EA still keep the normal servers up? LOL
This is why I never ever play console games online. Though I do wish more companies allowed you to host dedicated servers for consoles on PC's(not like this however).
I've got no beef with people being able to rent servers and control their own matches. I'm okay with community stuff like that. But I do think there's some eyebrow raising mean spiritedness to essentially bottlenecking a game's entirely multiplayer feature to rely on those who are happy to pay monthly fees.
It's great most people won't have to, but if this is legitimate it's basically EA saying "okay community, if you want to play this game, you need to pay us". Some fan has to be paying them just so you can play your game. That's pretty low.
Soultron is soultron'ing hard in this thread. Haha I love it.
With over enthusiastic admins on their own servers able to kick you for whatever they want this move by EA is bullshit.
Maybe if you still played it you might know this.
Also when people are paying for online passes its even more bullshit.
Hello ..... people can do what they want on their own goddamn server, the point people are making is that EA is forcing them to deal with this shit by removing offical servers on a whim without even a heads up.
I have played PC games for years also, so what.
Videogame industry, running itself into the ground since 2005.
What can Sony realistically do?
Not much is my belief.
Actually, I'll rephrase. Not as much as MS. MS have their own closed network, they can easily take over the handling of EA game servers and make sure this shit never takes place and that servers aren't shut down for arbitrary reasons.
EA can only pull this shit because they run their own servers through both services. It's downright disgusting that MS is allowing this to happen on their premium network. I can understand why they allowed EA to run their own servers/log in system at the beginning of the gen, but the dynamic of the relationship has changed and MS needs to take a firm hand upside EA's head and not allow this to continue.
My guess is that the 'official servers' are the same that are being rented.
Quite a good biz move.
No they can't, and you're an idiot if you believe "only" MS can do that. MS is grabbed by the balls to allow EA to use their OWN servers just as much as Sony. And in fact, they were ball grabbed FIRST with the OG X-box.
Oh, wait you mentioned that. But you're still an idiot if you believe MS can just take over their servers. EA wouldn't allow either of them to do it and would stop publishing games on their platform and just go to the PC and use Origin instead.
Gamers just love to pay for things they used to get for free. It's only going to get worse.
Would love to see the private server owners get together and close their servers. Let's see what happens when nobody can play BF3 on consoles.
Even near launch there were so many servers that were ghost towns. It sounds like EA/DICE took notice of this and decided to strip things down a bit. And it makes sense that they'd remove the freebie ones from the server browser because they're offering the rented dedicated servers now.
It doesn't strike me as a totally anti-consumer move, really. It seems like a smart business decision. But the whole "EA sucks" hate train is the cool thing to ride, I know.
I seriously doubt that half the people in here are still even playing BF3 on console. I know I'm not anymore. Even if I wanted to start playing again, I'd just hop into a server that someone had put up.
EDIT: stuminus3, there is a pass with BF3. You can get a 48-hour trial here, however..
Would love to see the private server owners get together and close their servers. Let's see what happens when nobody can play BF3 on consoles.
Fucking this.
My mates and I have stopped playing because of this. I just want it to go back to normal for fucks sake.
My guess is that the 'official servers' are the same that are being rented.
The player base end up paying the server costs so the game will be live meanwhile we say so. :3
If EA ever remove fan severs then that will be terrible.
Sadly we are heading towards a Pay to Play model (monthly fees) and by next gen it may be the standard.
No they can't, and you're an idiot if you believe "only" MS can do that. MS is grabbed by the balls to allow EA to use their OWN servers just as much as Sony. And in fact, they were ball grabbed FIRST with the OG X-box.
Oh, wait you mentioned that. But you're still an idiot if you believe MS can just take over their servers. EA wouldn't allow either of them to do it and would stop publishing games on their platform and just go to the PC and use Origin instead.