March 20, 2006

Battlefield 2: European Expansion Pack

I’ve had a chance to play the new European expansion pack for Battlefield 2 and I have to say that I’m relatively disappointed. You really don’t get much…three maps, a few new weapons and some new vehicles.

The new chopper flies horribly — it’s way too sensitive for my joystick — but the new jet isn’t so bad. But on the whole, there really isn’t anything worth buying in the European expansion pack…even if it’s only ten bucks. Seriously. Save your money.

The primary reason I really don’t care for the new expansion pack is the amount of money that EA Games has you sinking into them. First they get you to buy a fifty-dollar game with decent maps, weapons and such. Then they come out with special forces expansion pack that they want thirty bucks for, basically giving you a set of new maps, weapons and capabilities — thing is, you can’t use them on the base kit maps. That sucks.

Then they release this poor excuse for an expansion pack and charge ya ten bucks for an appetizer so-to-speak. You really don’t get much for your money. When all is said and done, you’ve just spent ninety bucks on a game. Now if that isn’t a marketing ploy to try and sap more money out of you, I’m not sure what is then.

If DICE and EA Games had any decency, they would have released Special Forces WITH the European expansion pack and only charge you twenty bucks. It is almost obvious that DICE and EA Games are a bunch of capitalist pigs with their expansion pack scheming. You just watch them over the next few years against their history of revenue-generating expansion packs. They’re tapping into that thing inside us that says “I’ve gotta have more…the base package isn’t enough.”

Of course they’re just trying to make money — but let’s at least be reasonable about it and not rip off the gaming community with half-assed expansion packs. Seriously.

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March 20, 2006, 12:37 am

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1 Comment »

  1. Jamison said,

    March 20, 2006 @ 1:39 am

    Heheh… tell us what you really think ;-)

    I do agree though that the booster pack isnt’ much to write home about. Especially with how much they hyped it up.

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