And your thought EA/DICE ripped you off with the booster packs!

[imported_Rhino]

Re: And your thought EA/DICE ripped you off with the booster packs!

Jeez guys, the bonus packs were £5

That's the same as a Big Mac meal from McDonalds. You guys are just waaaay to stingy. Nothing is free in this world...

Project Reality is free....

[iQue]

Re: And your thought EA/DICE ripped you off with the booster packs!

Project Reality is free....

Yes but you don't code PR for a living, right?

[Rambo]

Re: And your thought EA/DICE ripped you off with the booster packs!

They've already got your money. Why should they care if you play the game for 5 hours or 5 years? They already have the money. And with the shift to consoles, they can put out whatever "budget" titles they want, at full price, and people will still buy the hell out of them.
"Ohh, look. Shiny. Must buy."
They spend as much on marketing as development, these days.
It's easier to get more people to buy an inferior product than it is to make a superior product in the first place.

its called reputation and repeat buyers,i mean if you got 1942 and it was crap then bf2 would hardly sell.Only mcdonalds can sell crap and survive:p

Patches give support to balancing issues and the reason the do that is repeat buisness,you tell your m8 he tells his friends ect.

1942 has made them a great name so dont you think they need to keep that up?

[JunoPPCLI]

Re: And your thought EA/DICE ripped you off with the booster packs!

I will tell you all in regards to balancing, its all known when the qa testing is done, and they keep it that way for a reason.

[=98=]

Re: And your thought EA/DICE ripped you off with the booster packs!

Project Reality is free....

DICE are a business. PR is a fan based community.

[imported_Rhino]

Re: And your thought EA/DICE ripped you off with the booster packs!

Yes but you don't code PR for a living, right?

That dose not explain why DICE is selling crap, when we are giving away much better stuff for free....

DICE are a business. PR is a fan based community.

Its still free

And although PR has a community, its still a mod team.

[=98=]

Re: And your thought EA/DICE ripped you off with the booster packs!

I thought you'd know the basics of business Rhino. DICE are out there to make a profit and satisfy shareholders. Therefore they have to sell their products.

PR are there to please fans, not to make a profit, therefore you can give away your creations for free!

For a £fiver, i don't think either AF or EF were bad deals considering what you got. A whole lot more than McDonalds give you!

[imported_Rhino]

Re: And your thought EA/DICE ripped you off with the booster packs!

I thought you'd know the basics of business Rhino. DICE are out there to make a profit and satisfy shareholders. Therefore they have to sell their products.

PR are there to please fans, not to make a profit, therefore you can give away your creations for free!

For a £fiver, i don't think either AF or EF were bad deals considering what you got. A whole lot more than McDonalds give you!

I do, but its still free when you said nothing is :p

some of you guys may consider that stuff worth a £5, but really, when you consider that BF2 was what, £30 when it came out? that means that the booster packs where 1/6 of the cost the game was, where in the full game, you get a engine, you get many pretty vehicles, many weapons, many maps etc and they are not bad quality, most of there stuff isn't amazing quality but they never went for that, where with the booster packs, you get a few new vehicles, weapons etc which are all, real ****, I mean I could make that stuff in my sleep... the best thing about them where the maps, but no one plays them.... All in all, there isn't anything like 1/6 of the original BF2 in them, and as such, its a rip off...

[Rambo]

Re: And your thought EA/DICE ripped you off with the booster packs!

PR has probably outdone 1943 in terms of a full BH version

POE is a great game mode too

[imported_Rhino]

Re: And your thought EA/DICE ripped you off with the booster packs!

PR has probably outdone 1943 in terms of a full BH version

POE is a great game mode too

hehe cheers :)

and you mean POE2 is a grate mod? Ye they did some really awesome work, shame no one plays it these days :cry:

[Rambo]

Re: And your thought EA/DICE ripped you off with the booster packs!

yes mod but i was trying to stay away from that word and alexs arguement

[imported_Ekalb]

Re: And your thought EA/DICE ripped you off with the booster packs!

I really had no problems with the price of the boosters.
I paid $20 (Australian) for deluxe edition during a **** smith sale.. That includes original BF2, the latest patch at the time (1.41 I think), Special Forces and the two booster packs.

The only real shame is that I can barely find even American servers to play them on.

[RangerXML]

Re: And your thought EA/DICE ripped you off with the booster packs!

DX edition is great and all, but that doesn't help my friends who refused to buy them in the firstplace (seeing how its still $20 for both with another copy of BF2 and BF2SF). Releasing the Boosters for free now would actually not be that bad of an idea.

[=)BiT(= Evant3k]

Re: And your thought EA/DICE ripped you off with the booster packs!

Alex so you don't believe $50 is a lot for a video game? Steam has increased their revenue by having 50% off deals. That has to mean something, right? IMO if games were around $20-$30 people wouldn't have to contemplate if you should get "game A over Game B". I wouldn't pay $50 for a game that lasts 4 - 10 hours, its way too much. If I already paid $50 for a game why do I have to buy an expansion pack on top of that?

[=98=]

Re: And your thought EA/DICE ripped you off with the booster packs!

I paid £25 for Battlefield 2 and feel it was the right price.

When console games cost £40, I really don't mind. I don't think £5 is too much for a booster either. I've paid more for a single pint of beer in London before.