'Battlefield 3' Premium tops 800,000 within first 2 weeks

USA Today - Within the first two weeks of availability, more than 800,000 players signed up for the Battlefield 3 Premium service, says EA Games chief Patrick Soderlund in an interview with Game Hunters.

[snake_eater]

sigh....

people are so brainless these days...

[Rampaged Death]

Yep they are brainless saving money. If they are going to buy all the DLC they may as well buy this and save money !

[chela]

you dont even know what you buyin lol

[yoyo12121]

Yea we don't know what we're buying but battlefield is a awesome game I waited to buy premium after close quarters came out and it was well done so that sets the expectations and I have a feeling the other maps are going to be amassing because they've already showed footage of armored kill and it looks great and I can't wait!

[chela]

@yoyo, i am battlefield vet. you clearly dont know what you talkin about. awesome game? for noobs like you maybe. you got feelings about buggy, noob friendly game? great. now wait for your on-rail AC130

[awi5951]

I got mine for 25 bucks from india thats worth it for me lol.

[S_C]

WAW what happened to all the people who slated Elite, double standards much.

[sllshrm]

As far as i remember, you don't save money with Elite...or am i wrong?

[S_C]

i mean about the product itself, paying for stuff before they have even shown you it.

[TekoIie]

so im brainless because i bought a package which gives me quite a lot of saving and something NEW every 2 months or less?

Oh the Irony...

[bumnut]

Did you buy Karkand twice? I think its a joke that you don't get a discount for already owning Karkand.

I don't see that as saving money

[yoyo12121]

@bumnut You still save 5 dollars either way and u get extra goodies stop being SOO cheap
You probably got karkland free anyway

[RAYMEISTER]

Got mine for $42.75 so I can't complain.

[InFAMOUS1]

40 million bucks EA just made of that... 40 million... Sickening, and yet they can't be bothered to fix the terrible sound issue with PS3.. No thanks EA! I'm done buying new games from you..

[GearSkiN]

Its dice not EAs fault

[Tachyon_Nova]

Unlikely, EA are most likely forcing almost all of DICE's resources into making new games or new content to sell rather than on fixing the sh*t excuse for an experience they already put out.

[yoyo12121]

@Tachyon_Nova
Nope it is stated (look it up) ea is mostly in charge of financing and advertisement and stuff like premium dice is in charge of the game itself
Dice has a budget that is larger than EA's budget so it's dice fault

[InFAMOUS1]

EA owns DICE... I am pretty sure what DICE does, goes through EA first.. The only other things, I can possibly think the problem is other than a terrible publisher and/or lazy developer is that there is simply NO fix for the problem.. Down to the basic fabric of the source code for Frostbite 2.0.. If that's the case, than still or even more, I am not buying a single new EA game...

[XabiDaChosenOne]

And here I thought it was just me. In that case WTF DICE?!

[dantesparda]

@infamous

what "terrible sound" issue? Im being serious here.

[GearSkiN]

The deal is worth it. My opinion.

[fermcr]

There a lot of stupid people that have way to much money to waste.

[dazzrazz]

So whats the problem now ? I'm saving $25 by paying one time fee upfront rather than getting $15 a piece which would cost me $75 How is that stupid ???

[ginsunuva]

How do you know you will buy every dlc? And why would you buy overpriced map packs in the first place?

[finbars75]

Yeah and your not one of them obvisouly.Im enjoying my content with all that money I wasted on it.Dam im stupid for saving money.

[Rumplebumpkin]

Remember how DICE said that they would never charge for DLC?
Good ol' EA.

http://www.computerandvideo...

[kassler]

Never charge for just maps, he said. Close Quarters is a lot more than just a map-pack.

[lorcraven]

I would've bought this if it wasn't for the rent a server update on consoles, now the game is just stressful.

[solidworm]

MUGS............

[Bladesfist]

I got it for the price of one DLC *Cheeky Smile*

[KontryBoy706]

The only thing that I don't like and what is keeping me from buying it is the fact that back to karkand is one of them. Most of us that got BF3 day one already got that. Technically that means you are giving them their $15 back. We should only have to pay $35. How is it fair to repay for something you already have? There is no way to justify that.

[venom06]

its so worth it for Battlefield fans and for people that are finally realizing just how GARBAGE MW3 is... has the same fast paced action, without the garbage spawns, bad hit detection and annoying pre puberty 12 yrs olds....

[TrueGaming]

Just to be fair Venom06, ALOT of games suffer from garbage spawns, bad hit detection & annoying 12yr olds & annoying 30yr olds, but to point out MW3 & no other games with those true albeit simple faults, makes you look like a p-hurt fanboy... Even BF3 has those same exact problems, there's not any shooter without those same problems more or less ... SEEK HELP FOR YOUR CASE OF FANBOYISM.. IT'S NASTY & SEEMS VERY CONTAGIOUS SO PLEASE GET HELP B4 IT'S TOO LATE.. LONG LIVE GAMING!!!

[TrueGaming]

I understand & agree with the argument about knocking $15 bucks off the premium for those that already have Back to Karkand, but for those asking if BF3 dlc is worth it then I must reply yes... the close quater maps are the best maps in the game( they basically play how MOH was described as @ 1st, a mix between cod & bf3 which is actually awesome.) The only thing I say is not so good is $15 a pop but like I said I'm happy with the purchase though & it actually made me play BF3 again (4 months off). IMO everybody milks their dlc just about, you just have to pick your battles & decide what's worth the asking price even though it's a smart way to get money but crappy for the consumers and often times too little of an effort is being made to please both the companies & the consumers... until then ttfn.

[Hufandpuf]

That means I'll be playing against 800,000+ people when new Expansions come out. Nice

[Dojan123]

EA would make more if they put the game and DLC in steam for $65. It would get the people that refused to buy from Origin and comply with Steams rule like cryisis 2.

[urwifeminder]

I havnt played much as origin wont work for me lol 7 hrs of fixes still nothing ha ha good times.

[TheGamerScene]

Votes up for the 'alt source' :D