BF2, Great more shovelware.

Take directly from a press release by Dice on 12-22:

The Battlefield 2 expansion pack planned to be launched during spring 2006 is now replaced by two booster packs. The change means slightly lower project revenues during the fourth quarter 2005 than during the third, due to a lower development budget. The anticipation though is that this will be compensated by higher royalty revenues during the first six month 2006.  

The expansion packs in the Battlefield series have new maps, vehicles and weapons. Each Battlefield booster pack will have new but fewer maps, vehicles and weapons. Instead they are sold to a lower price: 9.99 USD. An expansion pack is usually sold at between 19.90 USD and 29.90 USD. Today at least two Battlefield 2 booster packs are planned for spring 2006.

And how about this..... if you have the Xbox version, you get a mini expansion pack for FREE!!!! WTH??!! I guess no one else matters to EA unless they pay more $$$.

This came in my email this morning- nice, huh?!

DICE and EA bring loyal Battlefield 2: Modern Combat fans 3 explosive new maps with the Warsome Booster Pack™*!

As a special holiday thank you to all Battlefield™ fans, this pack will be given away FREE on Xbox Live™! The Warsome Booster Pack includes 3 all-new maps, including new vehicles plus new character and weapon skins. This pack, valued at $9.99, can be downloaded for free by all Battlefield 2: Modern Combat players on Xbox Live™ beginning December 22nd.
Play 3 new maps; Frostbite, Full Frontal and Hidden.
Take control of the new attack snowmobiles with dual-mounted machine guns, modified pickup trucks with .50 cal armament, assault vans loaded with mini-guns, and a RIB boat with four open positions.
All-new arctic camouflage for your soldiers helps you blend into the winter background.
Download the Warsome Booster Pack from Xbox Live TODAY! More Info.

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* The Battlefield 2: Modern Combat Warsome Booster Pack requires
Battlefield 2: Modern Combat to play, and is only available via download over Xbox Live.
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And who said there is no money in consoles, Rat F-ing bastards

ghey!

Chances are that's something M$oft did in order to promote sales of the Xbox.. they like lil exclusive deals like that.. ruins games though *cough* Halo 1 & 2 *cough*

But still

ghey!

I am not happy about these "Booster Packs" either. While the next patch "should" go a long way towards fixing many of my issues with BF2, some of this stuff is content should be released for FREE! I don't care about new weapons or vehicles, or armies, I just want some additional map variety. It irks me a lot that if I owned an XBox, I would get one of these for free, but not for PC 🙁

Take control of the new attack snowmobiles with dual-mounted machine guns, modified pickup trucks with .50 cal armament, assault vans loaded with mini-guns, and a RIB boat with four open positions.

$5 says you still can't hit shit with the guns while moving, so what does it matter what kind of vehicle it is?

Unless everyone says "Sarge, you gotta have this it's da bomb" (yes, exactly like that), I likely won't shovel out my $$. With any luck some more mods will be out soon and we can entertain ourselves with them 🙂 In fact, I haven't hardly played nilla or SF in a while now as I have been pretty well occupied with the CTF mod.

Speaking of CTF. Have they released .2?

no, but they have tweaked the server settings for .1 and it is much better. The flag sticks around on the ground for a bit now and it follows the movement better. Played a bunch the last two nights on the TNT server and it has been "wicked" fun. eK clan and "unholy" clan guys seem to populate that server and so far they have been pretty cool to play with/against.