Battlefield Heroes Has No In-game Advertising

the amount of baseless negativity in both comment pages on Battlefield Heroes is pretty astounding, I hate EA as a business and company just as much as the next guy but I don't hate on their games. Because they make good games.

you guys are faggots, also do some research before you talk out your ass, you guys aren't normally this bad.

Their micro-transactions strategy involves charging you per bullet. A bullet costs 1 cent. If you play a game and fire 100 bullets, you get charged 1 dollar.

I'd like to be known as anonymous if you quote me on this tip.

Is it just me, or did that entire "preview" feel more like a sales pitch than a view at what is going on in this new Battlefield installment? Not just any sales pitch either; watching that video made me feel like I was an investor with assets tied to EA. I'm really not interested in playing this game in the slightest. EA is trying to capitalize on the recent success of a more playful approach to FPS's in the wake of all the time and money wasted on the only mildly-successful 2142 series.

I won't be shelling out $2.95 to put a new hat on my character or new weapons and abilities. It's an ingenious approach to continually suck cash out of people who love to play 'The Sims' at the same time they are shooting something or casting a spell.

Don't misunderstand me either; customizing your character has always been an integral part of the BF series, but this extension looks to be a new business model that is potentially more hazardous to the welfare of the people who play the game. EA is hybridizing a games and stepping further and further away from being a test of skill or a game that combines skill and luck (tetris, monopoly, hi-ho cherry-o even) and more and more into the realm of emulating the real world, even if they are cartoon characters. It's the World of Warcraft business model for FPS's.

Games like TF2 are fun because its still a relatively simple game: pick a class, pick a weapon, capture the flag; or pick a class, pick a weapon, capture the points. I don't want to be absorbed into "WOW LOOK AT THAT GUY HE'S GOT THE ULTRA RARE EXPENSIVE REICHSTAG HAT" while I'm playing a first person shooter. That sort of thing is for the slower-paced and infinitely deeper MMORPG genre.

Then again we live in an electronic age where if the computer games are not your poision, it's the TV you spend alot of time in front of and where there is money to be made there will be producers to suck it out of them... It's a sad say for FPS gaming when we're so irresponsible about how, when and how much we game that this is the most suitable business model EA can come up with.

TF2 called...they want their art back. derr HAHA!

There is a guy riding on one of the wings in the pics. I'm not gonna play it because it is historically inaccurate :(

Hmmm, looks like EA is trying to compete with TF2!

of course ads wont be in it, its just coming out, gotta wait for the expansions for the ads to be placed in

Wow, this looks cool.

TF2 meets Battlefield + it's free.

I'm all over this.

I imagine there will be ways around having to visit the website to play the game..

How is this news? They said this when they announced the game.

Rather, the advertising revenue will come from the title's official web site, which players must visit to launch the game.

OK, so I'm not complaining since, hey, free game and all. But I just wonder how this will work exactly. As in, will it be the traditional installed-on-your-hard-drive game (like, C:\Program Files\EA Games\Battlefield Heroes) but just "hooked" into the site somehow? Will you be able to specify where the stuff is installed? (some people's C drives are full and their D drives are the ones for games). Will it be like Microsoft ClickOnce technology where the end user isn't supposed to care about where it's installed? (and it's really installed in some weirdass location under Local Files with gibberish names) Will it not be installed locally anywhere and will rather be "streamed" over the web?

Just curious

requirements: 1GHz processor and an integrated graphics chip in their system

SWEET, my cousin from Chile can play!

Good! Wouldm't have fitted with the carton style.

So this game will not have steep requirements or what?