http://venturebeat.com/2012/05/09/official-dice-servers-disappear-from-battlefield-3/
JIST: EA and DICE have withdrawn the mutliplayer servers for Battlefield 3. Now, in order to play, one must rent a server from them for 30$ for 30 days. Of course, gamers being the fucking awful wretches they are, have signed up in droves. I'm sure this won't affect most people who can just find someone's public rented server. Of course, you'll always be at the tender mercies of the admin.
I don't know who I can't stand more, the gamers/enablers who just lick this anti-consumer gouging up in droves or the corporation who perpetrates it.
I hate you both.
I can't wait until the next gen of gaming when everything will have a subscription fee.
JIST: EA and DICE have withdrawn the mutliplayer servers for Battlefield 3. Now, in order to play, one must rent a server from them for 30$ for 30 days. Of course, gamers being the fucking awful wretches they are, have signed up in droves. I'm sure this won't affect most people who can just find someone's public rented server. Of course, you'll always be at the tender mercies of the admin.
I don't know who I can't stand more, the gamers/enablers who just lick this anti-consumer gouging up in droves or the corporation who perpetrates it.
I hate you both.
I can't wait until the next gen of gaming when everything will have a subscription fee.