EA's BF 1 rental server program info released. PC pays premium price.

[corrado33]

1 minute ago, ivan134 said:

 

Are you both serious? Do you actually think it would be an equal playing field or are you both trolling?

I never said it'd be an equal playing field, but the technology is there to make this easy. There's no reason NOT to support it. It's also perfectly possible to play console games with a keyboard and mouse if they feel that their "wittle controllers aren't wup to the task of beating the "nasty" PC gamers."

 

Easy enough to have "controller only" servers. In fact, the games that I have played that were crossplatform all had this. 

[Prysin]

2 minutes ago, ivan134 said:

 

Are you both serious? Do you actually think it would be an equal playing field or are you both trolling?

 

1 minute ago, ivan134 said:

Controllers cant compete with mouse and keyboard

we keep hearing this. And for SHOOTING and WALKING id agree.

But Ivan, i have yet to EVER meet a single person who can play a vehicle better with a M+KB then a controller.

 

BF has vehicles. And trust me, controllers are far better suited for those then mouse and KB is. Not to mention, the average player on both PC and console is rubbish, so it would be a even playing field.

[ivan134]

2 minutes ago, Orangeator said:

It's not about an equal playing field... Console players chose to use a controller, we chose to use a keyboard and mouse. It's up to them to be capable of competing with us. If two men know they have to fight each other and one brings a knife and the other brings a gun... Yeah it's not fair, but he chose to bring the knife to the gun fight. 

 

Read what I said above.

Yea, I'm just going to assume you're all trolling and not take any of you serious.

[ivan134]

2 minutes ago, Prysin said:

 

we keep hearing this. And for SHOOTING and WALKING id agree.

But Ivan, i have yet to EVER meet a single person who can play a vehicle better with a M+KB then a controller.

 

BF has vehicles. And trust me, controllers are far better suited for those then mouse and KB is. Not to mention, the average player on both PC and console is rubbish, so it would be a even playing field.

No. Just no.

[crosstiger]

Guys chill...

 

On topic: I don't think it's that expensive. In Germany a 64-slot BF4 server cost you around 119€ for 90 days.

[tlink]

1 minute ago, ivan134 said:

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just say what you have to say or say nothing, no use in leaving posts like that.

[corrado33]

2 minutes ago, Prysin said:

 

we keep hearing this. And for SHOOTING and WALKING id agree.

But Ivan, i have yet to EVER meet a single person who can play a vehicle better with a M+KB then a controller.

 

BF has vehicles. And trust me, controllers are far better suited for those then mouse and KB is. Not to mention, the average player on both PC and console is rubbish, so it would be a even playing field.

 

It depends. If you're talking about racing games as well then I will refer you to the vast number of USB steering wheels available for PC. If you're talking about a FPS game with vehicles, then I can sorta agree with you. It REALLY depends on how the steering is implemented. Some games get it right and are perfectly playable with a keyboard, others are not.

[Prysin]

3 minutes ago, ivan134 said:

No. Just no.

1337 h4x0r spotted

[ivan134]

2 minutes ago, corrado33 said:

 

It depends. If you're talking about racing games as well then I will refer you to the vast number of USB steering wheels available for PC. If you're talking about a FPS game with vehicles, then I can sorta agree with you. It REALLY depends on how the steering is implemented. Some games get it right and are perfectly playable with a keyboard, others are not.

Are you both insinuating that to balance it out all the console players would use vehicles and all the PC players would be on foot??????????

[corrado33]

Just now, ivan134 said:

Are you both insinuating that to balance it out all the console players would use vehicles and all the PC players would be on foot??????????

Not in any way, shape, or form did I say anything like that...

 

Anyway, I'm done. Stupid increase in pricing. I always run my own servers for MP games (mostly indie) that I like to play.

[ivan134]

3 minutes ago, Prysin said:

1337 h4x0r spotted

 

3 minutes ago, ivan134 said:

Are you both insinuating that to balance it out all the console players would use vehicles and all the PC players would be on foot??????????

 

[ltguy]

Hard to say if this is expensive since at least in the OP there's no details on number of players, how many cores the server has, how much ram you get, bandwidth etc. I sure as heck don't pay this much money for the linux and minecraft servers i've rented in the past.

[2FA]

Still a ridiculously cheaper than renting a BF4 server from a GSP. Those are $60+ per month for standard tick rate servers whereas the these prices are much better. The 90 days is essentially $33.33 per month and the 180 days is essentially $25 per month.

[Doobeedoo]

Urmm meh, also not alowing us to host? Oh well whatever.

[PlayStation 2]

I've talked a lot of shit about the Source engine and TF2, but I'll say this: at least you can run your own fuckin' server on most Source games.

Fuck off with that pricing, EA.

[Misanthrope]

So EA finally found a way to charge a monthly subscription to PC users, clever but fuck em I do not negociate with terrorists, there's other fucking shooters.

[pyrojoe34]

3 minutes ago, Misanthrope said:

So EA finally found a way to charge a monthly subscription to PC users, clever but fuck em I do not negociate with terrorists, there's other fucking shooters.

You don't have to host a server... you can just play for free as usual.

[Bleedingyamato]

4 hours ago, Pyrii said:

Yeah I saw this earlier and just facepalmed. This is why they keep trying to garden fence game servers in FPS games lately, so they can charge high prices themselves instead of allowing for a competitive market of server providers.

 

4 hours ago, ivan134 said:

Lol, why would it have crossplatform play?

Question: Can't people just use their own computer or build a server PC to use and do this that way?

 

Idk about server stuff but don't people normally just host their own severs for free?

 

 

This seems like a lot of money to me..

[raphidy]

17 minutes ago, Bleedingyamato said:

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I don't think you are allowed to host without monthly payment. EA just blocked that to make more money.

 

PC is masterrace, we don't pay peasant amount of moneyz.

[Bleedingyamato]

8 minutes ago, raphidy said:

I don't think you are allowed to host without monthly payment. EA just blocked that to make more money.

 

PC is masterrace, we don't pay peasant amount of moneyz.

Please no master race bs...  It's just that it's taken on a negative connotation that isn't something decent PC gamers want to associate themselves with.  

 

Damn you greedy EA!  (Insert Darth Vader nooooooo!! here.)

 

 

[Misanthrope]

1 hour ago, pyrojoe34 said:

You don't have to host a server... you can just play for free as usual.

Somebody eventually has to and EA has offered no good reason why it should cost more other than "Fuck you, pay me more"

[Misanthrope]

26 minutes ago, Bleedingyamato said:

Please no master race bs

Please no language policing: we all have enough sense of humor to use self deprecating jokes like PCMR

[Notree]

I dont see why you guys think this is a big deal. Every  multiplayer shooter has servers you can rent.  EA is just taking over the server rentals. And the cost is actually cheaper in most cases for 32+ man servers.. Considering your charged upwards of $1 a slot. EA is actually undercharging.

[Scruffy90]

All of this has been ok with folks, until you remember that dedicated servers used to be free and able to be loaded onto your own computer. The memories . . .lol

[AlTech]

7 hours ago, Prysin said:

oi, smarties. you know WHY its more expensive?

Inb4, Nestle comes to your house and demands you pay up .

7 hours ago, Prysin said:

@GSTARR@Orangeator@tlink@Notree

 

BECAUSE PC GETS THE ABILITY TO RUN HIGHER TICK RATE SERVERS. AKA MORE TICKS = MORE SYNCS = HIGHER REFRESH MONITORS ACTUALLY MATTER!!!! PC CAN ACTUALLY RUN UP TO 120Hz SERVERS. PS/XBOX CANNOT

PS/XBOX WILL BE LIMITED TO 30-45Hz SERVERS -> AS USUAL!!

Lol. And here I am with a 60Hz monitor.........