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EA Confirms Battlefield 5 Will Not Defect From Premium Single-Player Experiences

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Games have become increasingly connected and social, with always-on features being both part of a permanent player engagement (and monetization) attempt. As a result, some publishers are already looking to not so slowly eliminate big budget, single-player premium experiences from their games. One need not look much further than one of the industry's behemoths, Call of Duty, which has been confirmed, in its latest Black Ops IV iteration which will launch this year, that single player content has been wholly cut- despite a three-year development window and Black Ops being one of the best storytelling experiences to Call of Duty in recent times.

EA, perhaps picking up on the momentum of backlash against the lack of single player content in the upcoming Black Ops IV, has confirmed the upcoming Battlefield 5 will not eschew a single player component, giving players the premium campaign experience we've come to know. The next Battlefield (which is expected to be set in World War II) will likely release around October of this year, sporting the usual campaign and multiplayer modes, with a chance of a battle royale mode as well.



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I can't remember the last "premium" single player experience from previous Battlefields.
 
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So... are they implying that previous Battlefields had a "Premium Singleplay Experience"?

Not since Bad Company 2 they haven't.


I like that but no like thing to do so ? ok now its there to like

ya, I thought story line movies and cut scenes = Premium Singleplay Experience . or like one I recall MOH with dusty ? the game took over my game play and finished out the map for me ? like why could I not do it or allowed to ? well in the junk box .

thing is the code writers and developers of old like a john carmack are all dead, quit , retired or moved on to better things ,and this new breed of them aint got a clue what real game play is

they do MP maps but so did we back in the good ol days here at home in the sandbox to be uploaded for use in the games community . so how hard can it be for them to just offer MP maps all day long
 
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So you pay lots of money for only a multi-player game and still pay more $$$ for loot boxes if you want them. No thank you EA.
 
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So you pay lots of money for only a multi-player game and still pay more $$$ for loot boxes if you want them. No thank you EA.


lol.... ya like games you got to go find gold to buy upgrades or what not, and spend more time on that then fragging enemy's . what little they offer to even to do that
 

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Now we have an article (more of a press release, actually) about screwing the single player? I called that out since Quake 3.
 

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Premium Hell of a word for EA, as premium the death of one of the great Single Player game Mass Effect. Sorry sounds damage control and EA think their words mean any thing any more.

Actions speak louder than words. Then again personally after killing of ME they can go were the sun don't shine.

If they started remaking what they destroyed studio's closed down i might consider buying another one of their games.

Funny that they think their words mean as much as a company you can trust (CDPR).
 
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what was wrong with quake 3 for its time ? we still lan party and MP that game as well as ETQW

you don't ''buy '' these games you buy there client first off well before you even get to any thing about the games that they allow you to use after you agree to that , with out them first you got nothing
 
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what was wrong with quake 3 for its time ? we still lan party and MP that game as well as ETQW
No single player campaign/story whatsoever? Du-uh.
 
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don't know what quake 3 you got . my full retail copy got plenty of SP game play but I guess you one for story line over game play ? quake 3 is run and gun and if your lagging your not doing much fragging. not that they all lived happily ever after play as a pretend I'm a hero guy that all he can do is camp to win

maybe you got some crap steam client game down load ?

quake 3 and etqw are about game play not how good a camper you are . and AI that comes running and gunning for you if you try
 
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It hasn't been confirmed that BLOPS 4 won't have SP... its all a rumor. Activision even said they don't comment on rumors and they are revealing more info May 17..
 

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Why not make expansion packs that you install on top of 1 another that update graphics, fixes bugs etc? I mean we are up to BF5, and COD etc, would make sense.
 
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Just don't be lazy and use pre-rendered cutscenes like in BF1. BF4's real-time cutscenes look way more awesome.
 
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I can't remember the last "premium" single player experience from previous Battlefields.

Battlefield 3 was actually pretty decent. If only they didn't cock up FOV and non-WASD keys so hard that it broke the whole game... Then again, Call of Duty wasn't much different. WW2 era ones were epic, I liked Modern Warfare 3 (more than older ones) and the CoD: Ghosts, despite criticisms, the beginning of it was jaw dropping with world collapsing apart. That was pretty cool.

I've always bought these games for single player. Only CoD1 and Medal of Honor was played on LAN and some online.
 
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Ha "Premium"
If it's gonna be like Wolfenstein and DOOM, i'd get it in an instant. But we know it won't... cause EA...
 
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My body starts twitching involuntarily when I see press releases speaking of 'the premium experience'. Its another way of wording 'you're getting raped with a stick'

So... like BF1 I say NOTY. Yesterday's games with yesterdays' gameplay with crappy online, I'll pass cheers
 
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Let's see ... a brand new AAA game costs £69.99 - £79.99 and you get:
  • Multiplayer only (ie no story, no actual content, just players competing with each other)
  • Multi-layer DRM
  • Expensive lootboxes
  • Over-powered expensive in-game purchased items
  • Cheaters (e.g. PUBG)

No thank you. I want my good old single player (with multiplayer feature) games back.
 
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Let's see ... a brand new AAA game costs £69.99 - £79.99 and you get:
  • Multiplayer only (ie no story, no actual content, just players competing with each other)
  • Multi-layer DRM
  • Expensive lootboxes
  • Over-powered expensive in-game purchased items
  • Cheaters (e.g. PUBG)

No thank you. I want my good old single player (with multiplayer feature) games back.
You're a little unfair. For that kind of money, you sometimes also get to opportunity to grind forever.
 
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Ha "Premium"
If it's gonna be like Wolfenstein and DOOM, i'd get it in an instant. But we know it won't... cause EA...

Just like NFS Payback. Given it's EA, you'd expect an actual AAA title. But I just couldn't shake the feeling the game was made by bunch of interns at EA using their state of the art engine. From really rookie mistakes to missing content that we had in older NFS games already to really dumb stuff like trailer truck in a story mission going so fast I was hardly keeping up with Ford Mustang and it was going so fast the trailer was leaning left and right so hard it should tip over. How is such nonsense acceptable in an AAA title for 70€ is just absurd.

And it's not much different with Battlefield franchise when I was playing it. Battlefield 3 was actually quite fun, story connected with sequences etc. For example, Battlefield 4 felt the same as NFS Payback. Almost. You can just sense things aren't as they should have been when some huge studio like EA is doing the game.
 

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Funny how "AAA" refers strictly into the money poured into a project, with no correlation whatsoever to the result being any good.
 
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Battlefield 3 was actually pretty decent. If only they didn't cock up FOV and non-WASD keys so hard that it broke the whole game... Then again, Call of Duty wasn't much different. WW2 era ones were epic, I liked Modern Warfare 3 (more than older ones) and the CoD: Ghosts, despite criticisms, the beginning of it was jaw dropping with world collapsing apart. That was pretty cool.

I've always bought these games for single player. Only CoD1 and Medal of Honor was played on LAN and some online.
Same here, though I wait for the inevitable price drops. It'd be nice if they'd add games to GOG but I'm not holding my breath.
 

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Same here, though I wait for the inevitable price drops. It'd be nice if they'd add games to GOG but I'm not holding my breath.
EA and Ubisoft shun GOG because they have their own distribution platforms.
 
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