EA expects to sell about 15 million copies of Battlefield 1

[HEXUS]

And it makes China Rising Expansion free for Battlefield 4 players (deal is on until 9th Aug).

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[cheesemp]

I think either Mass effect 3 or Battlefield 3 was my last EA game. I stopped buying them back then after all the stupid DLC practices they started adopting. Has this changed or are people happy paying for essential DLC now?

[D-T]

I think either Mass effect 3 or Battlefield 3 was my last EA game. I stopped buying them back then after all the stupid DLC practices they started adopting. Has this changed?

No.

...are people happy paying for essential DLC now?

Seemingly so.

I got stung with ME3 & BF3 as well. Now I just don't buy EA games until they release a GOTY / Premium edition, and even then only if it's heavily discounted and I've had chance to read reviews.

Punishing your early adopters and most dedicated fans is beyond stupid. I used to happily pay £40-£60 for the "deluxe" editions of certain franchises like ME. Then they started taking the mick and charging £50 for the game with a few extra textures, then releasing DLC after-the-fact at £10 a pop, or £40 for a 'mystery box' season pass.

Now I'll wait and won't pay more than £10 - £15 for the whole thing, or I'll skip it all together. I'm all for supporting the franchise but not if the publisher is going to try to milk me for £100 for the privilege.

BF1, Need for Speed, Battlefront, DA:I, Titanfall, BF4 and Crysis 3 are all games I probably would've paid full price for at release if it wasn't for EA's awful anti-consumer practices. Of those, BF4 is the only one I ended up buying (for <£20).

I'd much rather give my money to publishers who deserve the support.

[big_hairy_rob]

<Insert Hype Here>
Wait for the reviews before investing... Which means I almost certainly wont be.

[realstock]

Punishing your early adopters and most dedicated fans is beyond stupid.

I am glad I am not the only one feeling like this, I have been mugged for BF3, BF4 and SimCity which regret purchasing, due to the nature of the failed release. The game should have been pulled, or refunds handed out, but alas you do not get that sort of 'fair' treatment from EA.

Here is to hoping that my current friends playing BF4 don't fall for the same money grabbing exercise by EA with BF1. If they do though I will be compelled to join them eventually, but begrudgingly.

[J ack]

Has this changed or are people happy paying for essential DLC now?

Not sure about other people, but when it came to the Sims 3/4 I just plain refused to buy DLC that seemed interesting. I have a rule where I won't buy a game/DLC if I can't make enough money in the time it takes me to complete it to pay for the DLC, and most of the Sims DLC just isn't significant to be worth it. Who wants to pay £8 for a pack of 'stuff'? and I couldn't justify paying £30, that I could basically buy an entirely new game for, for DLC that actually only included 3 jobs. Think the last Battlefield game I played though was 2, had a decent campaign but couldn't really get into the online - Didn't agree with them selling 'short cut' kits so people didn't have to play the game for longer. I guess at this point, they're just trying to create 'cash-cow' games.
Doubt I'll buy Battlefield 1 for the same reason.

[excalibur1814]

Dear EA,

You'd probably sell the same amount if you'd released C&C Generals 2 or a new C&C game. Shame that you stuffed it up with f2p.

Thanks

[QuorTek]

If you are clever you go and buy another game that has not been touched by EA in any way.. you will end up with DLC's that is needed to finish the game as it would only give a little on release, weird ways of doing a BF game that does not look much like the originals.

Addons was a cool thing in the past.. for an instance the first Neverwinther Nights.. you got actual true enhancements to the game including a personal dev kit to make your own mods with and 3 full games with the 2 additional addons and tonnes of player made content, including servers for micro MMO's in some sort of weird way.