ahmm! We will have Private Rent a Servers on March 27th! for BF3...

[Outlaw__Rebel]

We’ve been hard at work collecting and working on your feedback and suggestions, and are now happy to report that the next patch for Battlefield 3 will be released for PlayStation 3 on the 27th of March. More information on Xbox 360 and PC will come soon.
This patch includes many gameplay tweaks and balances; several suggested by you. The full list of changes and updates is as follows. This update will also bring the “Rent a Server” functionality to Xbox 360 and Playstation 3. For more updated information on this functionality, check back next week.

src: http://blogs.battlefield.com/2012/03...ill-come-soon/

[bloodbath09]

Looks like we are paying for them. Hopefully its not too much.

[Red0ctobeR]

Interesting

[xPUDDYTATx]

Looks like we are paying for them. Hopefully its not too much.

i was a pc player for a long time before i got my ps3. i played a lot of the old battlefield games. played counterstrike. a lot of the old original shooters. one thign pc has always provided was rent-a-servers. they were greta cuz you could find mod servers, no glitch servers, game specific servers. you always got what you paid for and the host always could kick anyone that did not play to the rules of the server. also, if there was ever a complaint about a server, you turned in a ticket and it was fixed immediatly. when your paying for somethign, it seems to get fixed pretty fast. even xbox live seems to run a lot better than the psn, but again, when yuor income source is the servers and not the store or premium membership, you have a tendency to take better care of things. ive been a firm believer for years i would pay to play on the psn and would love to see private servers for many of the game s we constantly bitch about. if im gonna pay 60 bucks for a game, i wanna be able to play online without complaint. a few bucks a month for a private server is well worth it in overall gameplay experience.

[bloodbath09]

Ya the key there is "a few bucks a month". 5 bucks max I think. Lets hope this rent-a-server works as well for the console as it has for the PC

[IRISH BULL]

i was a pc player for a long time before i got my ps3. i played a lot of the old battlefield games. played counterstrike. a lot of the old original shooters. one thign pc has always provided was rent-a-servers. they were greta cuz you could find mod servers, no glitch servers, game specific servers. you always got what you paid for and the host always could kick anyone that did not play to the rules of the server. also, if there was ever a complaint about a server, you turned in a ticket and it was fixed immediatly. when your paying for somethign, it seems to get fixed pretty fast. even xbox live seems to run a lot better than the psn, but again, when yuor income source is the servers and not the store or premium membership, you have a tendency to take better care of things. ive been a firm believer for years i would pay to play on the psn and would love to see private servers for many of the game s we constantly bitch about. if im gonna pay 60 bucks for a game, i wanna be able to play online without complaint. a few bucks a month for a private server is well worth it in overall gameplay experience.

I've never played on the PC before, but one of our guys in RVN was a big PC player before the PS3. He also loved how each server could be tweaked to the "renters" liking.

I do have a question regarding this new venture when compared to private servers on a PC. Would this even be possible on a PS3 or XBOX? As I said, I never played on a PC before, so I have no idea how you make a Star Wars mod for CoD. Or how you set it up to be one or two maps only.

[CritiKiL]

Okay, I heard (but still cannot confirm) that the rental's are going to be around $22/month? Some [SCK] members had better start digging into their piggy banks for this one! ~ lol

[Neoblackhound]

If its actually 22$ DK won't have a problem supplying a server. Id like to have a huge amount of people but 20 for our current roster size might be cool to go.


...In the world where I once existed.

[Shane]

We do have a few ideas on how we are going to handle this and we will probably put a short survey together to get some feedback as well.

[F_E_A_R_L_E_S_S1]

Pricing for renting your own server is $1.49 / $6.99 / $24.99 / $64.99 (for 1, 7, 30, and 90 days).