New Free-to-Play Battlefield Game Announced, Featuring BF2 Maps

I love the BF series, but...what the hell is this? These giant companies are doing some really strange things lately. It's like they're figuring out how to make little bits of money here and there from marketing existing products here and there instead of actually trying to make something cool.

When are they going to realize they need to invest in some radical developers? My guess is they saw that an existing company could make several fantastic things in a row over many years (Blizzard/Valve) and that anyone can do that.

Look at Minecraft and Gratuitous Space Battles. What would it cost a giant company to establish a fund where they pay random people )or even people in their own company already) like that to pursue their "crazy" ideas?

That's how new genres and "the next big thing" are invented. It has nothing to do with pumping out sequels and PLAY4FREE versions of existing stuff.

How much do you want to bet they took prone out of the game?

MEC forces replaced with generic looking Russian forces, not very Hard Core of DICE to do that now is it?

Okay so they are making a watered down version of BF2 free to play? Cool I guess, that would be decent if they upgraded the engine somewhat, I guess the player progression sounds decent.

I'll be checking this out, like all BF games, but it doesn't look that interesting right now.

id much rather give them $50 for the bf2 maps ported over to bc2...

uninspired. no wonder it's free.


snore.

so what !!...hell i'll give it a go...people can be so ungrateful...come on it's FREEEEE

When I moved into my dorm, my parents decided to replace my more than capable gaming rig with a piss poor $400 labtop... So I guess I am happy that I will finally have something with decent gameplay that will run well.

I don't get it. Why are people complaining about getting something for free? I guess gamers are just a really hard crowd. The game isn't forcing you to pay for anything. I assume it's just for the people who are willing to spend lots of money on game related things. This is battlefield, not counterstike. Having a new weapon doesn't give you an advantage, simply a different tactical approach to things.


What I am worried about though is the hit detection. It might have been the accuracy of the weapons, there didn't seem to be any dependable way to hit things beyond 10 feet. I would put my crosshairs over someone but when i fired 90% of my bullets would miss. By the time I had killed 2 or 3 people, I would be all out of ammo.

Must...contain...Jihad Jeep Fever!

why??

I am the biggest BF2 fan and player on the shack. I know every inch of Karkand so I have to try this. 32 players is a little small for Battlefield but it's free, or at least funded by microstransactions. I hope they allow for character customization this time around. Battlefield 3 remains the main course but I am so worried about that game.

"hopefully it won't follow Heroes' lead, where prices were raised until many felt players had to pay to compete."

Are you kidding? That's exactly what they want. It will happen again.

Say it with me: O-v-e-r-p-o-w-e-r-e-d P-r-e-m-i-u-m-s

"Man, what do we call this new Battlefield game that's free and is multiplayer? God. I don't know. I'm going to go play me some L4D2. Need to kill me some zombies, Halloween's next week!"

"L4D2? WAIT A TICK! EUREKA! BF4F!"

Horrendous yes, but also a pretty descriptive title!

Let's hope that's a working title, lol.

It has potential, but EA's microtransaction approach in their other free-to-play games makes me a little pessimistic. I'm not going to spend money to RENT a virtual gun or a virtual car or a virtual set of golf clubs for 7 days.

"It's developed by EA's Easy studio, who were responsible the cartoon-y F2P offering Battlefield Heroes. "

Thanks thats all i needed to know. Not playing.

looks like BF2 with a low quality version of the BFBC2 engine,

like the remix of the BF Theme song :3

32 Players? Wasn't BF2 64 players (supposed to be 128 during development, bastards!)?

This is a good way to tap into an existing market without needing to "dumb down" the core battlefield games. Then, maybe people who like this "Play4Free" title, will purchase Battlefield 3.

If only they announced it for Mac as well... That would make my day.

Well, at least it's not a Facebook game like I speculated it could be after the big deal EA and Facebook made.

This looks cool. I play BFH from time to time. I'll probably check this out too.

Well, I'm a huge BF2 fan and even I find this coming from EA as weird, im puzzled.. I could even say mystified :o

Looks like BF2 with the character models from 1942 DC mod.

In BF2 you were made of sand and if you got shot dust, brown dust, would come off you. Now there's blood...wtf?