Battlefield Heroes enlists two million recruits

Prof that if you build it, they will come.
I wonder if EA and DICE are making more $ of this than previous retail titles?

It's not a FPS...

Enlist...Recruits...? Kind of redundant right?

For a "casual" game, BFH is not a very newbie friendly. I wonder how many of those two million signed up, got turned into paste and quit after a few games. Still, quite impressive. Maybe we'll get another freebie code in the mail for something.

I played this game a bit and It seems Battlefield Heroes was made for people who don't want to buy an online shooter. It's competent, but that's about it.

I would not sign up just for the fact that this is absoutely a ripoff of another FPS...

EA can go choke on phallus.

Yea I signed up, played 2 times. I mean how many are actively playing the game. Who cares how many sign up!

So this is the future, heh? Multiplayer browser gaming and micro transactions? It's like we've gone full circle, somewhat; hardware manufacturers absolutely adored the coin-op era of the 70s-80s-early 90s as people were constantly enticed to have one more go. Just one more go to try for the high score, just one more go to beat that mute badass at Street Fighter. If all it costs is 20p/50p/a quarter, as you Americans would say, then what's the harm?

And now we're here again. Much has changed, such as input devices, and a bunch of other stuff I can't go into as I'm currently multi-tasking, but the philosophy remains the same. Guide the player into parting of his cash via many mini increments: micro transactions. Never will you physically own the game, but you can partake in a moments playtime for a period determined by the publisher. This goes against teh fundamental pillars of console gaming.

With this, the falling stock of traditional consoles in Japan, slumping sales worldwide, amongst a whole bunch of other things, it feels like console gaming is under siege. So I'm not too sure whether Joystiq, a site devoted primarily to console gaming, should be celebrating developments such as these.

This game would be so much better if there were more maps to play on.

Did they fix the bug where your whole system would slow down to 5 fps to let punkbuster check for hacks every 5 minutes or so?

Blight on humanity because I do not like how they used the artstyle for this game, as another developer used it prior.

Truly fanboys!

Really? Really? Can you please take your links to irrelevant content somewhere else? Also, why "must" I see that video? It has no bearing on my life.

Go AWAY!

Maybe they should finally get working on that Mac support they talked about when they announced the game. I know they never blatantly said "Mac support later", but they did say that if the game was successful/well received they would put it in. I think this counts as well received.

Yeah... I'm sure 70% of the 2 million are people who sign up, download it, play it for a day, and leave.

I'm sorry, I HATE that game. And you can't jump on me for not playing. I HAVE. SERVERAL TIMES. Half the time I'm playing, my team is a bunch of five year olds slamming their faces across the keyboard. Plus the whole upgrade system is way too annoying for me.

I'll be in TF2 if you need me.

I played the game through beta and release. It was buggy and unbalanced. The micro-transaction scheme was despicable thanks to how quickly the items would disappear (and the price). Instead of blowing twenty dollars on micro-transactions it would be smarter to buy a well balanced game like TF2.

I had been playing in the beta, and I did have my fun with the game. Especially when the beta players got free stuff at points. I ended up leaving it when the game went to final release because it was sooo buggy. I kept getting lag and punkbuster issues.

Its fun, but I guarantee most of those 2 million just tried it out.