For a few days I have nothing to post about… Then it all comes at once!
First on my list today is the Battlefield Heroes debate.
Recently EA/Dice decided it would be a good idea, seeing as lots of people had large amounts of VP* saved up, that they could increase the prices to around 10 times as much for anything you buy with VP, and you get the items for less time. Now, the problem with this is that now people who don’t play much have to play a huge amount have the choice to either buy BF* with real money, or play for around 5 hours a day to have enough VP for a single weapon.
Now, my problem isn’t with EA/Dice raising the prices; its the amount they’ve raised them by. Now, a 50% increase would of been pretty acceptable. Especially near the start of the game, VP are easy to get. But now the cost has been raised by around 1000%, which makes weapons and items almost impossible to pay for with VP, especially as you have less time to use these weapons (1 or 3 days, instead of 7 days or a month).
Also, they have now added new, bigger weapons to the store. So now F2P players cannot buy normal weapons and items, and can’t get the new one either.
Now this is what sucks.
Battlefield Heroes was advertised a fun, casual game where you wouldn’t get shot in the face every few seconds by “a teenager who plays the game 8 hours a day”. Which is exactly what’s happening. We are now getting solidly beaten by those who play lots, and pay lots. We cannot get weapons (or can only get them for a single day), or many items. Widgets (used for healing) are hard to get, so once we’re injured, that’s it.
So, solutions:
- Put the prices back down.
If you want to raise them a little, that’s fine, but not by that much.
- Give us more VP
Simple. We get more VP, we can afford the items
- Make all the weapons able to be got by any player
Items, fine. It’s fair for the people who pay to get a bit more. But make all weapons equally affordable for all players. Sure, higher tier weapons should require a higher level, but not have to be paid for. This is the best solution if you want to move forward. The idea at the start was everyone could get the same weapons, but now new weapons and high priced weapons have made things very unequal. So please rethink that. The weapons and widgets should not cost a bomb, even if the customisation items do.
EA/Dice, please listen to your players on this. You’ve made a bad decision, change it back before it’s too late.
*(‘Valour Points’ being the points you get for playing, BF being the point you pay for; both are used to pay for stuff)
