Friday, June 29th 2012
Battlefield 3 Premium Sells Over 800K Since Launch
While many scoffed at Battlefield 3's late-arriving competitor to Call of Duty Elite, it seems to have worked quite splendidly for the publisher. More than 800,000 players have signed up for Premium in its first two weeks of availability, EA Games' Patrick Soderlund revealed. Although Premium less a "service" like Elite and more of a DLC Season Pass, the $50 asking price does include a lot of content. Namely, Premium includes access to over $75 worth of content, making it a "value" for hardcore fans of the series. Speaking to USA Today, Soderlund said that "we are very pleased with the performance so far." When asked if this strategy is something EA will pursue with future games, he said: "We're actually only two weeks into it, so it's a little early to tell how this is going to pay off. It certainly it looks very promising right now."
Call of Duty Elite currently has over two million paying subscribers, a number which took about six months to reach.
Source:
Shacknews
Call of Duty Elite currently has over two million paying subscribers, a number which took about six months to reach.
69 Comments on Battlefield 3 Premium Sells Over 800K Since Launch
BF2 had special forces, first. Then two or three other map packs.
BF2142 had Northern Strike.
BF: BC2 had Vietnam...
:D
I would have payed 50 Euro for new content that I'm interested in and not already own but this is not the case.
arstechnica.com/gaming/2010/10/an-inconvenient-truth-game-prices-have-come-down-with-time/
I remember when Ocarina of Time came out for the N64 and it cost $79.99! I picked up later on Majora's Mask and it was $60. So why is everybody complaining?
Now getting past that rant, everytime I mentioned 1942 in the past when people were talking BF2 this and BF2 that, almost never was an eye batted. I don't think many here played 1942, most seemed to have jumped in at BF2, which makes me a bit sad :( I want to see El Alamein brought back in the next DLC. I know it never will be, but man that map was epic. That map was so large it's Flags were like little towns. I remember getting tanks destroyed out in the desert and just committing suicide, simply because the run to any base was too far to even consider.
I'm actually thinking of starting my own club and I got the idea from this thread. "The Great Unwashed". There will be only one rule for membership. You never purchase a game from The Great Unwashed for more than 9.99 per video game. I've been able to purchase every single title that has come out in the last year(sans COD and BF3) without hassle. You don't even have to look very hard.
I started this rule when TGU changed their format from $49.99 and the whole game to $59.99 and 1/2(or less) of a game. I figured I'd just wait and pay them the difference.
:),
LC
P.S. We're heading into a Depression. Games will be cheap.
Since the release we receive only balance adjustments which yes, they're necessary, but require no real work and even these came untested. DICE has to release so many DLCs that literally they don't have time to fix the countless glitches and bugs.
I got the game 34.9€, the Limited Edition, Box with B2K and now they ask 49.9€ for premium, digital content... Europeans and Aussies have to pay the most expensive price in the whole world.
Most of the 800k had already B2K which means they repaid it. Many of them won't even play CQ and some both... But somehow they still 'save' money. I won't even mention about the last 2 DLCs which no one knows what they'll be about...
I stronly believe all of us ( gamers ) lose in long term.
What about the CoD-like, fully recoil-less, fully spread-less CQ weapons? I bet they'll be nerfed after 2-3 patches for obvious reasons... It's like they're saying "buy CQ/premium" to get these OP guns.
When you buy transatlantic online products, few our different governments can do about.
I really hope it was just a wit and has nothing to do with the fact that you are American and the relative stereotypes that you do not know what is going on on other countries, outside the U.S.
Incidentally, I see that you purposely leave out all the serious reasons and you grapple with the most trivial, and even this mistakenly. I think you were ready to include the phrase 'poor peasant', right? :p
As for the American comment Ill just chalk that up to the inferiority complex so many young people have these days. Most cannot even grasp their own issues so they blame "the big bad wolf" instead of owning up to there own short falls.
Do you believe that the US has no part in shaping international trading to ensure that it maintains an advantage? To discuss the market is to discuss an invisable and unidentifiable force, but in many instances the US is the "market" you refer to and actively shapes the economic context around us. That is not to say that the US is at fault in this specific case, but I do not believe that we can or should speak of the US and "the market" as separate entities that operate according to different principles and with different aims - often, perhaps too often, they are one and the same.