Battlefield 3 Premium pricing and date outed by PSN update

Battlefield 3 Premium pricing and date outed by PSN update

Wed 30 May 2012 1:14pm GMT / 9:14am EDT / 6:14am PDT
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£39.99, €49.99 or AU$79.95 for a year's subscription from June 4, says listing

Electronic Arts

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An update to the EU PSN Store has apparently revealed the pricing and date for the rumoured Battlefield 3 Premium pack, listing the cost as £39.99 (€49.99/AU$79.95) and the release date as June 4, 2012.

Spotted by Eurogamer, the since-removed listing has jumped the gun on the expected reveal during EA's E3 press conference next week.

By paying for the subscription, users will access DLC drops early and for free, as well as being granted the use of cosmetic in-game items and stat-tracking services.

The package, a clear response to Call of Duty's Elite service, has been rumoured by various leaks and stories over the last few weeks, but this listing would appear to confirm it.

Weighing in at £5 more per year than Activision's price, the pack should be available on the same day as the Close Quarters DLC for Battlefield 3. Elite has over ten million registered users and 2 million paying subscribers.

4 Comments

Sonat Dennis Ozturk
Lead QA

SimBin Studios AB

I think, if you were going to do it, you should have done it from launch. Seems a bit late to charge for something people have enjoyed for free (the multiplayer, not the cosmetics and dlc) for a while.

Edited 1 times. Last edit by Sonat Dennis Ozturk on 30th May 2012 2:55pm

Posted:11 months ago

#1

Morville O'Driscoll
Games Blogger & Journalist

Indeed. It's also essentially pointless for those people who already have B2K and who pre-ordered the Close Quarters DLC. Which would be the hardcore group that this is aimed at?

Very silly to allow pre-orders of Close Quarters before announcing this. Not that many people care about the cosmetics, so once you hit 2 out of 5 DLCs purchased, it becomes cheaper to continue buying the DLC packs instead of the Premium service.

Edit:

Full disclosure - I preordered the Limited Edition of BF3 (getting B2K for free), and have already bought and paid for the CQ DLC. I'm thus ignoring the Premium service for the reasons above. Nice lost sale there, EA. :p

Edited 2 times. Last edit by Morville O'Driscoll on 30th May 2012 3:22pm

Posted:11 months ago

#2

Dominic Jakube
Student

Wow thats more than I paid for the game at luanch with the first DLC map pack as a bounus.I assume once the one year supsciption runs out you keep access to the DLC's?

Posted:11 months ago

#3

Mark Gilbert
Games Designer

Abstraction Games

Looks like the Aus guys get the short end of the stick again. When is this pricing unfairness going to end? As of writing this:

1.00 AUD = 0.975466 USD
1.00 EUR = 1.27407 AUD

so by that it should be around 64.95 (rounding up), this is digital content, there's no shipping costs or anything else to take into account so what's the other $15 paying for?

Posted:11 months ago

#4

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