Thursday, November 8th 2018
Battlefield V Launches Early For Origin Access Premier Subscribers, Pre-orders Get Shafted
Battlefield V is now live if you have paid for Electronic Arts' subscription service, giving gamers access to the title a day earlier than expected. At a cost of $14.99 a month or $99.99 for a year, you can take to the battlefield right now. We can only speculate that this was likely done in a bid to please subscribers while also trying to boost subscription sales. After all, it is blatantly obvious that EA's goal is to try and tap into a steady income stream that only a subscription service can provide. Sadly this has resulted in those that pre-ordered getting shafted to some degree. Resulting in a problem that wouldn't exist with a single set launch date.
This highlights the trouble that comes with a staggered release, someone is going to be the odd man out. Consumers that paid for the Digital Deluxe edition still have to wait till November 15th, while buying the base version means your left sitting on the bench until November 20th. That is roughly 1-2 weeks of waiting and will likely create some anger towards EA for how the release has been handled.
That said, while looking at early reports, the game is being received positively from those that have access. Granted a few bugs from the beta are still present with users reporting that audio problems remain an issue as do revive glitches, but otherwise, the game is considered quite fun and stable at first glance by the community. Still, this is only a small segment of the games potential user base so it is still a bit early to declare the game a success. For now, DICE will need to hunker down and squash bugs before the rest of the community gain access. Considering the current patch note list is 135+ pages, they have their work cut out for them. For those interested you can take a deeper look at the PDF containing the games launch notes here.
This highlights the trouble that comes with a staggered release, someone is going to be the odd man out. Consumers that paid for the Digital Deluxe edition still have to wait till November 15th, while buying the base version means your left sitting on the bench until November 20th. That is roughly 1-2 weeks of waiting and will likely create some anger towards EA for how the release has been handled.
28 Comments on Battlefield V Launches Early For Origin Access Premier Subscribers, Pre-orders Get Shafted
Games are hard to make and cost a lot of money to produce - - EA. 2018
Even tho I use my PC all year I mostly game from November-March...5 months tops...$75 is still cheaper than $100
I think I probably only get to play for a few months out of the year even though I like having a decent rig. So that is a better way to play for me than buying a game on uplay.
As there is a Holland map (like in Post Scriptum, I also like it), I can't refrain from buying it! Sorry... but I'm downloading now.
Just back here, to report, it looks much better than the beta (narvik etc), and I do not refer to ray tracing, I am on a 1080Ti. The beta looked like BF1 maps,, this is much nicer.
After playing some beatiful dutch maps, we came to Narvik. Does not look half as good, maybe it's the snow, ... but Polder landscape is excellent.
For what they will fight.
If someone haw free time, money for high end pc, internet. It place where the richest people gathers.
A subscription service to a single game ? Hell no.
A subscription service to every game EA has made that's worth playing? OK
I wouldn't subscribe to a single TV show or channel but Netflix is another story...
Well, the game play is slightly better, but the performance of the game is erratic with frames getting stuck at 2-3fps for 30 seconds and then jump to 50fps. This is using the high preset.
I would say this is still very much a beta and it looks like it'll be one I'll skip, at least for now.
I've found this to be the smoothest day 1 BF game to date and our systems aren't much different.