BF2 should not get a retail expansion

[Emultra]

Battlefield 2 would be better off having occasionally released new content, or downloadable expansions instead of retail ones.

When you have retail expansion packs for a game like Battlefield, not only does it split up the player base, but often the expansion leaves just a temporary mark in history.

Think Road to Rome and Secret Weapons of WWII.

 

[blurredvision]

I don't see how a strictly downloadable expansion would be beneficial over a retail expansion. Downloadable or retail, it will still split the player base, because you will have people buy it and people who wouldn't.

 

[Stuxnet]

Actually, the best way - in my opinion - is to wait until interest in the initial release starts to slip. THEN you release a retail expansion. This gets you more content and it reunifies the player base.

 

[Schadenfroh]

I would rather have had them release a non beta version of BF2.

 

[Stuxnet]

Touchè

 

[otispunkmeyer]

Originally posted by: Schadenfroh
I would rather have had them release a non beta version of BF2.

dont think that could ever happen

and EA seem to have a knack for breaking it even more when they release patches....i mean C n C generals played fine out the box, with the latest patch i cant play anything higher than a 4 player map.

 

[crizzar]

I know what you mean by download...as in free

Much like the 1.2 patch for BF:V that added the three new maps and didn't cost a thing except the time to download.

 

[dquan97]

I just want more maps and different weapons.

 

[ryanv12]

Originally posted by: Schadenfroh
I would rather have had them release a non beta version of BF2.

tru dat. half the time I can't even get it to work, and not at the settings that my computer is capable of. I went back to COD:UO until they come out with a patch.

 

[Emultra]

Originally posted by: blurredvision
I don't see how a strictly downloadable expansion would be beneficial over a retail expansion. Downloadable or retail, it will still split the player base, because you will have people buy it and people who wouldn't.

Well, it wouldn't at all be the size of a retail expansion.

And it wouldn't branch the game in any way, it would expand on what's there.

Along with server settings to enable/disable content, and filters to allow/disallow these servers to show up in the server browser.

No separate CD's or DVD's, no separate executables or anything. It would all be there in the same game.