Battlefield Heroes (Summer '08)

[kilroy0097]

EA just announced a new game coming out this Summer that is a different version of Battlefield. It will be a free download with cartoon like characters. Each map will be a smaller short experience lasting about 10-15 min. You will be able to buy small add ons to the characters such as new models, clothing, guns and the such. EA is calling them micro-transactions.

Read More Here: NYT Article (http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/21/technology/21game.html?_r=1&oref=slogin)

My opinions are as such.

A cartoon like Battlefield with a touch of TF2 in a smaller 10-15min battlefield experience. Add some of that trade card feel with mini-transactions and buying extra weapons and models and given that it's a free download to begin with... I can see people giving it a try and actually playing it. Since it's cartoon like you can't really expect anyone to be serious while playing it. So with that mindset I wouldn't care that there are a team of nothing but snipers. Who cares? It's a cartoon. Cartoon Death Match (CDM)

Please read the article before commenting.

Cheers.

[Prowler130]

i didnt look at the article, but by buying small thing in mini-transactions do you mean spending real world $$$ for items in games?

i remember a couple of older free games that offered that to you, and it was quite a genius tactic, very successful.

[Kitty]

i didnt look at the article, but by buying small thing in mini-transactions do you mean spending real world $$$ for items in games?

Quote from article title "The Video Game May Be Free, but to Be a Winner Can Cost Money."


I think its great that game developers keep "trying new approaches" for making/playing games. Sameold-Sameold gets... boring at times. Although, I wouldnt spend a monthly fee for a game. I did that with SWG in its begining many years ago now, and i'll never do it again.

[antigen]

Will I buy it?

No.

[GroovyDude]

In other words, if you don't spend money you're player will probably suck.

[Leadfoot]

As long as the price of each "micro-transaction" is in reason, and the game is fundamentally sound. ie (decent entertainment value) then I wouldnt have a problem with it. Its not much different than purchasing any other game.

However, if EA gets carried away, by having non-reasonable prices, or goes for quantity over quality (*ahem* booster packs *ahem*) then there could be major problems. The main thing is having what seems to be a relatively small game, be something that will last a while, with updates that improve gameplay rather than deteriorate it much in the way some of the battlefield 2 updates have been.

It does look like a chance to get some of that valued gaming time between war is hell members back.

[EANeuspeed]

Is this going to be considered a mod?

[Drayu]

Is this going to be considered a mod?
I wasn't going to say it for fear of ridicule.

[kilroy0097]

A mod using the BF3 engine? I have no idea.

[SnaKe]

http://www.battlefield-heroes.com/

[lamah]

sign up for games for windows, they will have a section over this game in their feb issue

http://www.warishellgaming.com/forums/showthread.php?t=20269

[Fovos]

dont know i have mix feelings about this one. i mean ok instead of spending $60 to a game once, you get it free and then they charge you whatever updates/upgrades you want to do.
it is ok if all updates are complete with about $60-$70, but if there is unlimited sources, that means if you want to play better you must buy upgrades. so you will end up spending over $100 or more just for a game. and then winning will be matter of who can afford it and not about skills. and don't tell me player with good skills can take everyone down, if you are running around with a pistol and the other guy has 1 pistol, 1 machine gun, 3 bazookas, 20000 grenades, and he bought also the invisible camouflage (all these are hypothetical...lol) i find it hard to find any point of equality.
the other option is the first updates can be all the weapons and such, so all players can be equal in a point, and then maybe just few gizmo's, and appearance updates. so yes the players with more upgrades have a little bit better advantage, so the feel that the extra spend money was worth it.!
well thats my thoughts, honestly i dont know, we have to wait until this game come out.

[Leadfoot]

dont know i have mix feelings about this one. i mean ok instead of spending $60 to a game once, you get it free and then they charge you whatever updates/upgrades you want to do.
it is ok if all updates are complete with about $60-$70, but if there is unlimited sources, that means if you want to play better you must buy upgrades. so you will end up spending over $100 or more just for a game. and then winning will be matter of who can afford it and not about skills. and don't tell me player with good skills can take everyone down, if you are running around with a pistol and the other guy has 1 pistol, 1 machine gun, 3 bazookas, 20000 grenades, and he bought also the invisible camouflage (all these are hypothetical...lol) i find it hard to find any point of equality.
the other option is the first updates can be all the weapons and such, so all players can be equal in a point, and then maybe just few gizmo's, and appearance updates. so yes the players with more upgrades have a little bit better advantage, so the feel that the extra spend money was worth it.!
well thats my thoughts, honestly i dont know, we have to wait until this game come out.

It appeared that most of the differences were aesthetical, and others would be more like the kit changing in BF2. Noone really had that much of an edge even with the upgraded kits, and skill could easily beat someone with a higher kit.