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Battlefield 3 Integrating Social Features

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by Adam Biessener on June 03, 2011 at 03:55 PM
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DICE general manager Karl Magnus Troedsson revealed that the studio's upcoming shooter will launch with a powerful web portal that includes social tools, friend feeds, detailed stats, voice chat, real-time friend tracking, and more. The monthly fee for all this additional multiplayer support: $0.

In a blog post teasing Battlefield 3's E3 presence, when he wasn't taking shots at that other multiplayer shooter franchise Troedsson mentioned that DICE and EA will be showing off both single- and multiplayer gameplay, and that the press will be able to play multiplayer on a single map called Operation Metro. He also made mention of team deathmatch, the ubiquitous mode that DICE normally avoids in its releases.

Send your jealous vibes Matt Bertz's way; he'll be the GI editor knee deep in BF3 at the show. Look for extensive hands-on reporting dropping here next week.

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  • by Friday, June 03, 2011 at 04:17 PM
    The funny part is that Call of duty did this and every comment is: "Evil Activsion is exploting COD!" But since this is Battlefield, everyone will think it is amazing.
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    by Friday, June 03, 2011 at 04:18 PM
    That's the way it should be! Included with the game at no extra charge.
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    by Friday, June 03, 2011 at 04:19 PM
    This seems like a funny shot at CoD, releasing news of a free social networking part of BF3 so close to the announcement of the CoD elite subscription based service.
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    by Friday, June 03, 2011 at 04:19 PM
    Awesome! Sounds like what cod is doing with cod elite but Dice is doing it for free. Think I might for the first time skip on getting the next cod and just play BF3 instead of getting both like I use to do.
  • by Friday, June 03, 2011 at 04:21 PM
    One thing that I love that EA's doing that COD won't is the word FREE....
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    by Friday, June 03, 2011 at 04:21 PM

    I'm glad. BF3 looks like it's only getting better and better. E3's only a step away, so I expect plenty of other details to come out.

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    by Friday, June 03, 2011 at 04:26 PM
    At this point, I just think that BF3 and COD are trying to be like each other, fearing the other for competition so much that they end up being each other. Gift of the Magi on a large scale.
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    by Friday, June 03, 2011 at 04:31 PM
    AHAHAHAHAHAH In your face activision... IN YOUR FACE!!!!!
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    by Friday, June 03, 2011 at 04:33 PM
    The difference between this and Elite? It will be infinitely better received for the sole fact that every single feature is available to every single person for free. Regardless of whether or not it has the same features. If it does match Elite's paid features for free then Activision has egg on their face. This is a PR win-win situation for DICE and EA. Don't match the features of Elite and it's okay, because everything is free. Do and you make your competition, already regarded as overtly greed by the majority of the informed gaming community, look bad.
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    by Friday, June 03, 2011 at 04:33 PM

    Nice!!

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    by Friday, June 03, 2011 at 04:34 PM

    funny to hear this after the cod elite sytem

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    by Friday, June 03, 2011 at 04:44 PM

    EA rocks! They just gave away FREE MP map packs for Dead Space 2 a couple days ago also!

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    by Friday, June 03, 2011 at 04:45 PM

    This is the most promising competition against Call of Duty in history. Honestly I wouldn't mind if Battlefield came out on top, maybe it would put the COD franchise under new and less greedy management. This is very similar to the elite system though and the people at COD are gonna tell BF3 off for this even though COD wasn't really the first to think of this system either.

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    by Friday, June 03, 2011 at 04:46 PM

    $0 will win over people. well that and the game being freaking amazing. i soooo cant wait for this fall

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    by Friday, June 03, 2011 at 04:54 PM

    I like free things (welcome back from PSN) and I like Battle Field, seems like a win-win.

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    by Friday, June 03, 2011 at 04:55 PM
    This is how it should be! I cannot believe that Activision has the gall to charge for a social networking site based on an overrated shooter. I hope Battlefield 3 utterly destroys CoD, so far, EA and Dice have done everything right.
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    by Friday, June 03, 2011 at 05:03 PM
    And this is why people are angry about CoD: Elite. DICE is doing this the right way. Give the people support like this free and they'll support youin return.
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    by Friday, June 03, 2011 at 05:04 PM

    Thank jesus.

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    by Friday, June 03, 2011 at 05:06 PM
    "The monthly fee for all this additional multiplayer support: $0." I have never been more scared to read the end of a sentence than I was reading this.
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    by Friday, June 03, 2011 at 05:17 PM
    Call of duty charges for something which Battlefield 3 not only does it better, does it free.
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