New Years Eve Only: 50% off Battlefield 1943 [update]

by Xav de Matos on Dec 30th 2009 8:15PM

Update: It's your lucky day, folks! Battlefield 1943 is on sale for 560

($7), not 600

as EA originally tweeted.

Concluding its streak of daily deals during the holiday season, the Xbox Live version of Battlefield 1943 will be on sale for 50% off, tomorrow. EA's official Battlefield 1943 Twitter account revealed that the New Years Eve sale (and final daily deal on the Marketplace) would slash the popular shooter's price to 600

($7.50 USD), for one day only.

While we're avid fans of the WWII-themed shooter, we're still irked that the game hasn't received proper (read: any) DLC support, save for the unlocked Coral Sea "air superiority" map. Perhaps a rush of new soldiers will push EA to begin development on new content, but we won't hold our breath while we wait in that foxhole.

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Reader Comments (55)

Now THAT'S a deal!

No, Im kind of a big deal
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a bad deal. the game is broken, no joke the xbox version is lag city and the issue hasn't been fixed for a few months now.
the only way to play is online and they can't fix it.

It's true. I have it on PS3 and it's broken to the point I feel truly robbed.
There are such terrible server issues it borders on unplayable. And with EA and DICE focusing on Bad Company 2, this will be ignored. Don't buy!!

Look on the support forum to see for yourself:
http://forum.ea.com/eaforum/posts/list/265643.page

i get down ranked for warning people about 24 hour lag?
im serious i loved the game i got all the achievements and loved flying the mustangs but god damn the servers are broken. the support forums are full of reports of kicks and disconnects.
I'm talking for the xbox end not the pc or ps3.
if you want to spend your 800 points on this go ahead, hope it gets fixed. its only been 48 days since some mod said so and so will look into it.

WARNING: Gets old quick

So does porn. You're point?

I will give every single person who buys this tomorrow $7.50 if they honestly feel they don't get their worth of play time. I can understand people bitching about longevity in a $60 single player game, but a seven/fifteen dollar multiplayer experience? Come on, the only way you won't have a blast with the game is if you don't have any friends to play with... And who would bother wasting money on a multiplayer game if they don't have friends?

Point? No my name is Antony, pleased to meet you.

@Granger
I've had tons more fun on much cheaper and simpler games like Peggle, so what's your point about the price? The fact is, this game doesn't have much to it even for the price point and gets boring after the first few plays.

Bought it, Dropped it.

The game isn't all that great, the controls are really horrible, the speed of the character movements is really atrocious. I liked previous battlefield games, so I thought this one would be nice, but it really isn't all that it's cracked up to be.

For 7.50 it probably isn't that bad of a deal for some, but if you already have games like Socom, MW2, or Warhawk I would forego this purchase all together. That 7.50 could go towards some DLC or add a few more bucks and buy a game worth it.

@ Then a white kid said:

nice punctuation/spelling burn!

Peggle sucked and was way way way way overrated. BF 1943 was one of the tighter and better MP experiences of the year. I'd take about a 25 other puzzle games over Peggle. One of the biggest wastes of money I've ever spent was buying Peggle ... and I suckered myself into buying some downloadable games.

Gets old quick? What are you talking about? There's tons to do in this game. I play 1943 more than I play Modern Warfare 2. This game is extremely well balanced and entertaining. In fact, this was one of my favorite games of the year...and it was only 15 dollars!

Still compatible with the '800 points back' deal?

No, that ended back in the summer.

Lol rob...you apparently have no idea what you are talking about. There is an EA deal to get 800 pts back if you buy 3 games and/or DLC packs. I started to get this as one of mine but I too was not sure if it would count or not. So I decided to go ahead and get the Dragon Age DLC and got the two Mass Effect DLCs for 400 each...which would be like getting the ME DLCs free. It probably will work, but I didnt wanna take the chance.

No, the new one from EA where you get 800 points back if you buy 3 select pieces of content from the Marketplace.

I can't imagine they'd revoke it just for the one day but you never can be sure with these things.

Yea has anyone been able to check this? Im assuming it would as its still in the list of deals but official confirmation wud still be gud.

gaaah...*your*

Love this game for nostalgic purposes. Brings back great memories from Battlefield 1942. Time to start playing this again.

I would download this but I'll be busy having sex with my wife. Have fun with the game boys.......

Just for that I won't let you borrow my air compressor. Good luck getting your 'wife' ready.

Yes because you'll be spending all day bugging her to get her in bed and keep that pesky "headache" away so you won't have any time for games.

im going to download this and have sex with my wife whilst playing it

dude, are you gonna have sex ALL DAY?? Why can't you have sex and then frag her in the game afterwards?? My wife would totally do that with me! ;)

You still get sex even after you married her,you lucky bastard. i have to be nice & buy her stuff, whenever i want sex. makes me wonder why i married her,oh yeah sex w/ no glove .(again you lucky bastard)

That's odd, I was under the impression that I was going to be having sex with your wife all day tomorrow.

Okay, Microsoft, what will the deal for New Years Day be? Do make it something nice, please.

This is it. This is the last deal, being the 31 of December.

I really don't know whether to buy it or not. On one hand, its a one time deal, on the other, its only 3 maps and there are no bots and (supposedly) no DLC on the way either.

Help me decide Joystiq comrades

(PS: By the way, why don't we have a forum?)

I'd say wait for the PC version, if you can.

We've been calling for a forum for a while.

Because if the comments are anything to go by, a Joystiq forum would be the biggest shitfest of fanboy wars and righteous indignation the internet has ever seen. By the end of the forum's first day most of the people using it would be banned, by which point there would no longer be any use for the forum.

Oh, that's not certain...

Wait, you're probably right. Sounds epic though, doesn't it?

Fernando, Samfish, Winterfang, tmac, jmac, Bradwart, Dark Wayne, Dark
inchworm, Rhamsey just to name a very, very few.

Call me mushy, but I don't think I've ever grown more attached to a
site an its community (quirks and all) more than Joystiq.

I think it's a real shame we can only interact with each other in the
comments for the most recent stories. Once "news" hits
/page/2/ people stop commenting on it thus leaving conversations half
finished.

We are a pretty freaking nutty bunch, aren't we?

Don't buy it Sam. It's a broken game with serious lag/server issues.

That we are.

Do I get Castle Crashers today or 1943 tomorrow? Decisions, decisions.

Castle Crashers today, especially if you have at least 1 friend willing to play with you.

I'm honestly kinda disappointed with this. This is the culmination of all the build up? Seriously? So, for the last three days of the countdown, we got a crappy free movie (Into the Blue), half price of Castle Crashers (a game that many many people had anyway) and now half price off Battlefield? What a let down

Microsoft: Your Money, Our Passion.

Seems like a decent deal to me. I didn't buy Castle Crashers or Battlefield 1943 before this and I wouldn't have at 1200 points each. But at these prices, hell yes. Can't please everyone.

Most of the deals (although decent to good), I have already picked up last deal of the day. This is something I was looking forward too.

I'm a sucker for deals. I always want this game but the price was always too steep for me. I'll definitely be picking this up.

It's an awesome game and for that price it's truly a no brainer.

Does this come with 50% fewer people taking off with all the landing craft before everyone gets a chance to board?

You know who you are. Jerks.

I hate the planes so no issue there but I always board a boat and wait for people to hop in, I like to storm the beaches. Just be thankful there is no friendly fire......... runways = hell in the Battlefield series.

This deal is okay...but it's certainly no Batman Returns or Stargate episode for 80MSP.

I have Battlefield bad company... so I was wondering if I should get 1943 as well since it's pretty different (just 3 classes and a couple of maps in ww2) sounds great but should I get this while waiting for BFBC2? or continue playing BFBC?

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