EA restructures Battlefied: Heroes pricing; fans enraged

01.12.09

"As a commando, I can't be around a soldier all the things. I need bandages to stop burning bullets, and I need them to heal myself after each knife fight. Since I can't in conflict with bandages anymore, this means that even if I manage to knife a gunner down, I'm going to die next time I attack someone, because I won't have any more HPs. Well, that's not prevailing to happen, because I quit. I don't want to do this, but I really have no choice other than paying to play, and I can't afford it right now."

That nature of reasoning is repeated over and over throughout the thread. People want to play, but the new pricing means that in order to be moving in the game you either have to play for hours upon hours a day, or pay money. The "free" nature of the game has been eliminated; as configured now with the prevalent pricing, it simply won't be fun unless you pay for items.

The signatures in the game's forum have taken a humorous tern—we've included some of them in this version—but this update has a very real chance of ending the game. People enjoyed

Source: Ars Technica