DICE – Battlefield 3 Will Have an Online Pass ‘Because Servers Cost Money’

[ErikStenger]

THE BUZZ: Alan Kertz, Gameplay Designer at DICE has explained the reason behind Battlefield 3 having an online pass for multiplayer access.
The online pass for the game was first mentioned back in March and many fans thought that a game as big as Battlefield would try to avoid the system in order to get the game in as many homes as possible, however this isn’t the case and the inclusion of a pass has been officially confirmed. Kertz explained that the reason is, “because servers cost money, and used games don’t make developers any money.”
EGM’s TAKE: Lets be honest, everyone knew the game would have an online pass considering all EA games do now.

DICE – Battlefield 3 Will Have an Online Pass ‘Because Servers Cost Money’ | EGMNOW

 

[Matt-aka-FAST]

so they are charging people with dedicated boxes because servers cost money. No shit it costs money how does that mean we need to pay EA to run our servers? Oh wait so that you can maintain your shitty master server which will still give us problems...Milking money....BF and COD no difference.

 

[ErikStenger]

The pc has the cd-key, which is the same as an online pass for console.

 

[ErikStenger]

I would assume they're talking about consoles not PCs by reading the comments.