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Re: First Strike 2142

Yeah what hes saying is that those Maps he mentioned where provided in the free Patches for bf1942 and almost reflect what can be found as an addon Booster Pack for BF2 today for which we pay.

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Re: First Strike 2142

Right, I understand that ... I just assumed the other booster packs were similar in size to Special Forces.

I take it Special Forces was an expansion and not a booster pack then?

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Re: First Strike 2142

Oh now you got me, an Expansion I would say.

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Re: First Strike 2142

One important thing that everyone overlooks is that the base games now (BF2 and BF2142) are produced in Sweden by DICE, and that same studio is also responsible for patches. The expansion pack and booster packs are made by DICE Canada... in Canada, a seperate studio.

So you've got two studios, with expansion content and entirely new games being made at the same time. This, and the fact that game studios are always growing to meet the demands of modern games, means that you have to have far more people working for you then you'd normally have, and therefore $50 isn't enough to make a healthy profit off of the initial development, continuing development, and expansion development.

I'm sure that the content made by DICE Canada more than doubles that of vanilla bf2, and that just didn't happen in 1942 so the argument is invalid.

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Re: First Strike 2142

I am only concerned about the move to 2142 if there is no BF2 release whatsoever. I think EA has handled BF2 quite well, with the notable exception of not hardware banning stat padders, and claymore whoring being implemented in 1.21. But every game company screws up, and online shooters are the most difficult to make work.

Really, what could hurt about releasing a BF2 version without walkers and various flying things, or whatever 2142 allows? Personally, I dont dislike EA, but I have never had the slightest intention of buying 2142 and unfortunately even this great mod ain't quite worth 50 bucks on its own. Mainly because BF2 has so many great mods to begin with.

Because of this the only reason I would buy 2142 would be to play this mod.

However, if this mod has some outrageously sweet space battles, anything where you can man a turbolaser on a movable star destroyer and start whaling on blockade runners, that is CERTAINLY worth 50 bucks from me. So when the workable star destroyers and epic space battles appear, thats when I buy 2142 for this mod.

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Bewilderbeast wrote:

I am only concerned about the move to 2142 if there is no BF2 release whatsoever. I think EA has handled BF2 quite well, with the notable exception of not hardware banning stat padders, and claymore whoring being implemented in 1.21. But every game company screws up, and online shooters are the most difficult to make work.

Really, what could hurt about releasing a BF2 version without walkers and various flying things, or whatever 2142 allows? Personally, I dont dislike EA, but I have never had the slightest intention of buying 2142 and unfortunately even this great mod ain't quite worth 50 bucks on its own. Mainly because BF2 has so many great mods to begin with.

Because of this the only reason I would buy 2142 would be to play this mod.

However, if this mod has some outrageously sweet space battles, anything where you can man a turbolaser on a movable star destroyer and start whaling on blockade runners, that is CERTAINLY worth 50 bucks from me. So when the workable star destroyers and epic space battles appear, thats when I buy 2142 for this mod.

The 1st batch of maps will include a space map ( battle over Endor)  and will include pilotable Star Destroyers with man-able turbolasers and more .... smile

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Re: First Strike 2142

That sounds great! Would there be one like judicator too, where youre inside a star destroyer? (judicator from GC for bf1942)

But will there still be at least a beta release for BF2? Can't hurt could it?