Battlefield Heroes is Effectively "Already Out", Says DICE

[Spawndemon]

GameIndustry.biz has posted up a new interview with DICE's executive producer Ben Cousins that details some of the launch plans for Battlefield Heroes. Take a look:

Talking to GamesIndustry.biz, Cousins explained that by the time the beta closes they expect to have a player base "about as big as Bad Company". He further revealed that the game is "already out" and won't have a "big splash release".

"We're not going to turn on a switch one day and suddenly our audience gets 100 times bigger," he explained. "It's really our plan, within the closed beta, to get a very high number of peak concurrent users and we expect in the later phases of the closed beta to be about as big as Bad Company is today in terms of online numbers.

"We're going to have a very large closed beta almost to the point where every hardcore gamer in the world will probably be able to get a key if they want to - it would just be within a closed beta so that we can control the size of it to a degree."

The project lead behind Battlefield Heroes went on to explain that there was a lack of understanding with how a free-to-play online game would launch - talking issue with comments made by EA's CEO, John Riccitiello, that the game was delayed.

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[Micster]

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Looking forward to getting either an open or closed beta key then.

[MrKLM]

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hmm I can't really tell if this will be a good thing or a bad.

[therealmat]

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Looking forward to getting either an open or closed beta key then.

Ditto.

[Iwantcable]

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I'd like a beta key but I don't plan on refreshing their site every 2 hours for a stupid contest.

[Eglaerinion]

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How about giving those keys to people who've been playing BF2 games for years instead of some 15 year olds who have the time to refresh the EA site all day long.

[RangerXML]

Re: Battlefield Heroes is Effectively "Already Out", Says DICE

How about giving those keys to people who've been playing BF2 games for years instead of some 15 year olds who have the time to refresh the EA site all day long.

Ditto.

[FPS[SONIC]]

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Still no keys... sigh.

[USApatriot]

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Ditto.

Agreed, I've been playing BF2 since the demo came out in summer of 05'.

[[GCA]Tim270]

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So have thousands of others?

[imported_youm0nt]

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Or just give out keys to players who have been playing the BF1942 demo since the very start...

[RangerXML]

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Check my account I own every single BF game (2 copies of 1942, BF2+SF and 2142, not to mention copies bought for friends as gifts) except the console and I'm looking forward to a distraction till BF3 (for the fragging PC)!

I would have been so down for a PC version of BadCo.

[sickre]

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So... how do I get a key? This is just ******** designed to increase interest in their dumbed-down TF2 clone.

[imported_Apostle]

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Well it's free to try, so maybe it'll be fun to play and you'll like it. It is clearly very different from TF2.

[therealmat]

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So... how do I get a key? This is just ******** designed to increase interest in their dumbed-down TF2 clone.

It is nothing like TF2...... :shakehead: