[citation][nom]robwright[/nom]@AlidanOuch. That Mass Effect comment hit close to home. Good point. Also good point on the servers in a shooter vs. MMO. I guess the bottom line for me is, I'm not offended by this at all because I think paying a subscription fee for an MMO for years on end is insane, but if there's a market for it, then who the F am I to judge, right? As long as I can still play CoD online without an Elite membership, then I'm okay.[/citation]
the mass effect comment is true, sadly, and they aren't even hiding the fact that its ea intervention.
now lets look at the price. they say cheapest or at least infer it, so what is their competition on the subscription side... im looking at mmos. now most mmos started at 10$ a month, but moved to 15.
runescape, i believe is 5$ a month, so to be cheaper, they are talking about 15$ or less, possibly 5$ or less, and subscribers get free map packs.
map packs cost what is it, 15-20$ each, so its between 1 month - 4 months to have the map pack payed for, and however often they come out, i cant imagine the packs coming out before a premium subscription payed for the map pack. so lets assume 2 a year at 5 $ a month.
that comes to 60$ a year, 30-40 of that is only for map packs, so, you pay an extra 20$ a year for services that other people are pointing out are free with other fpses for years.
[citation][nom]EnFoRceR22[/nom]Sorry Alidan i don't agree with your assumed comment about OFP. IMO best ever hands down FPS ever made. If operation flash point were to be basically updated to a engine thats not um 2 decades old! i would be all over that like.... well you see where i am going. Nothing more fun then a game where the devs put some real time into it. Nothing less fun then a average death match pos game that seems to pass as a good fps these days. I guess the closest thing ill get to a good FPS anymore is Battlefield so here is hoping the 3rd is good.Also on topic here i prefer steams way of doing this. I know its not totally the same but, It's as far as i care to go with the idea. I sure wont pay for it no matter who does it. It doesn't add anything that hasn't been in a fps for many years anyways other then a GUI irc channel.. Even thats free![/citation]
i just watched a video of that game. it is a good shooter, but its not the best tactical shooter. i believe that it was rainbow 6, or something like that, were you could plan out where each squad mate goes, how long they should wait to continue, and so on. that was honestly the best tactical game, in the way that you could send a squad mate to the other side of a room, have them create a deversion, than come in the other side and pick people off. the best tactical shooters are behind us with not future game it seams.
now lets also look at the engine that you have a problem with. how much have fpses changed in the last... post halo?
besides graphics getting better, not much at all.
now i can deal with graphics staying how they are now better than most people, and i play on a pc.