Battlefield Heroes pushed back to late 2008

by Ludwig Kietzmann { Jul 29th 2008 at 7:08PM }

Visually appealing, free-to-play shooter news now, with EA's post-results conference call revealing a delay for Battlefield Heroes. EA CEO John Riccitiello announced that the game would now launch at the end of 2008, with the developers shifting focus to implementing better "social networking features." Since we won't have to pay for the game's maps, we'll probably be using said "social networking features" to figure out how to complain about something else -- possibly Burger King ads.

Tags: Battlefield-Heroes, BreakingNews, Delay, EA, free-to-play

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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

David @ Jul 29th 2008 7:14PM

Aaaaaaand now I have nothing to look forward to in August.

GenBanks @ Jul 29th 2008 8:51PM

What about Stalker Clear Sky? :D

Limezor @ Jul 29th 2008 7:21PM

Ahh damnit. Oh well back to Battlefield 2.

GenBanks @ Jul 29th 2008 8:52PM

Apply for the closed beta ;) You might get on...

Sunny @ Jul 29th 2008 11:24PM

Yeah, and while you're at it you could get your personal information stolen, too.

mandark @ Jul 29th 2008 7:26PM

Bah ! I was really looking forward to this, not Gears II
, Resistance II or the other brown em ups.

Gbogdan @ Jul 29th 2008 7:35PM

Yeah we get it, you don't like the colors in those games. If you don't like them don't play them. When is it going to stop being cool to complain about them? I can't wait...

Shawn @ Jul 29th 2008 8:09PM

oh, i don't know, when developers start getting creative again and stop reusing the same fucking color pallet, over and over and over?

jakfoood @ Jul 29th 2008 9:37PM

fyi shauny, heroes is a rip straight off of tf2

WiiFTW @ Jul 29th 2008 9:55PM

fyi jakfoood, TF2 and Battlefield Heroes were in development at the same time according to an interview in the Games for Windows magazine.

http://www.1up.com/do/newsStory?cId=3165532 was the issue.

And no, I'm not a BF:Heroes fanboy, I love TF2.

Lijik @ Jul 29th 2008 11:03PM

@Jakfood: Thanks for highlighting how stale shooters look that when one game has color, all others HAVE to be copying it.

Trethan @ Jul 29th 2008 7:28PM

Who doesn't like Burger King?!

LaughingTarget @ Jul 29th 2008 7:28PM

Burger King ads are fine so long as I get to blow up the King.

Zach @ Jul 29th 2008 7:30PM

Social networking features? Blashpemy! Gimme my damn Battlefield Heroes!

Brucie B @ Jul 29th 2008 7:38PM

WTF!

spyker @ Jul 29th 2008 7:40PM

Holy shit! I totally forgot about this. Mostly because it WON'T work on my crappy comp. But I installed XP in boot camp this month on my super speedy iMac :D. Thanks for the reminder ;).

Poisoned Al @ Jul 29th 2008 7:47PM

Cock.

Oh well, back to TF2.

Jakka (Not sure why he got banned?) @ Jul 29th 2008 7:48PM

Spy sappin' mah release date.

Aww hell, I'll just get back to playing TF2.

Kevin @ Jul 29th 2008 8:14PM

I was wondering for a few days what had become of this game, watchin' the RSS feeds for the first sign that was going to be delayed. This is no surprise really.

Ah well, at least I don't have to worry about ANOTHER time sink on top of the other ones.