https://www.battlefield.com/news/article/introducing-premium-friends-a-word-from-our-producer

 

Basicly if you have the premium pass you can bring in your friends who do not however they wont be able to work towards weapons and DLC content other than just play with Vanilla weapons.

 

Read the full article for details but sounds like a good idea!

Dice making another attempt to save this sinking ship. Player count is dropping fast and dice trap dances around fixing RSP.

 

Dice has never given this ability to people before. They might do better just giving away and refunding premium players. In the other hand dice could just make RSP functional instead and maybe players will want to spend money on the game.

 

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Dice making another attempt to save this sinking ship. Player count is dropping fast and dice trap dances around fixing RSP.

 

Dice has never given this ability to people before. They might do better just giving away and refunding premium players. In the other hand dice could just make RSP functional instead and maybe players will want to spend money on the game.

 

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I do want to clarify some info I handed out to Hubba and the guys last night regarding this program.

 

1) Until its checked out and refined this initiative is active for Battlefest for now. It could stay it could go away. Reception of the program and probably its use will deem whether it's worthwhile for DICE/EA to pursue further.

 

2) While the "guests" are playing the DLC content they have not purchased they will not receive XP for the maps in that DLC nor accumulate progress towards unlocking DLC weapons or be able to use said weapons. That said all XP and progress is stored and it the player buys the DLC or premium they will get the xp and be awarded progress towards the content weapons retroactively as per DICE.

 

I have likewise provided input to the guys in the CTE that maybe to make it a bit more enticing for players to play the content to award limited exp while keeping the rest of the restrictions. Somewhere between 25 and 40% with the rational that who wants to spend a night playing DLC maps with absolutely no benefit. We shall see and i will keep you up to date.

 

While I am at it Battlefest is active now. New maps play well and there was a 2x exp last night. Played CTE a bit and then played on a couple of custom servers. It's been very refreshing to take a break and play Wildlands as we have and not think about BF1. Playing last night was very nice and I really wasn't all triggered while playing. You can tell progress is being made.

 

One last note. The Automatic resupply of grenades that was introduced in the DLC pack , due to the collective loosing of our shit on the CTE, is being rolled out of the game and a timer based solution that is triggered by touching a crate will probably be introduced making resupply in BF1 very similar to the resupply mechanic in BF4 HC mode. Yes, I believe, I was the first one to suggest this to them hahah. They are releasing more details today and i will let you guys know what they have planned as soon as they do.

Battlefest is going

 

Double XP is going

 

Premium Friends is going on

 

PC Player Count dropping  Struggle on all machines to hit 200K players.

 

I would say DICE is wanting to change anything but Rental Server Program.

 

The Ship has hit the iceberg and we're down...

It really sounds like they are actually listening to the community on a lot of the updates on CTE. The addition of platoons makes me think they are prioritizing the community a little more, so who knows, maybe they will fix the RSP crisis. Its going to be hard for DICE to sell DLC if nobody is playing the game anymore.

Hence the premium friends. DICE is not making money on DLC and RSP. They are no longer making money on the game. They are scrambling is what they are doing.

 

DICE tried to pull shit on the community and their plan is hitting them in the pocket book now. Problem is, by the time they fix everything that should have been implemented at release, it will be to late. The game is 6.5 months old and they only half ass listen to the community. 6 player start has been talked about for 3 months now and is still not going yet.

 

Battlefield 1 is the video game version of the TITANIC. 

It really sounds like they are actually listening to the community on a lot of the updates on CTE. The addition of platoons makes me think they are prioritizing the community a little more, so who knows, maybe they will fix the RSP crisis. Its going to be hard for DICE to sell DLC if nobody is playing the game anymore.

 

There has been quite a bit of discussion on the CTE Subreddit about RSP this week. Dev response has been shall we say guarded. We shall see what becomes of it.