Decent_Jam wrote:It feels very very recently that BF3 came out...*just checked - Oct 2011*...does it all seem a bit too soon to anyone else? The team have been working on all of this fairly substantial collection of DLC for a while since it went gold, but even so, is there really enough time to have exhausted it? Obviously they won't be doing a new engine, so perhaps they could make 3 and 4 compatible in multiplayer...THAT would be interesting.
Imagine it, just one 'Crossover' playlist lobby, which had a spattering of each of the two games, it would great way to coax a BF3 player like me on to 4 if they didn't jump in right away.
It may only have come out in Oct 2011 but BF4 is not expected until Oct 2013 at the earliest - and the DLC is due to finish in March 2013 too so there will be a god 6 months+ of NO BF content. I am sure EA are expecting their developers to be able to make a game in 2 years and support it for a while with DLC content (In the same way that Activision do) It isn't as if they do not have a good engine to work with and I can't see the Frostbite Engine being replaced for a few years yet.
It has always been a wish of mine to see former maps available in the latest edition of the game automatically (If you installed them and DLC maps to your Hard drive) It does bug me that we have to 'buy' the maps again - at least with CoD we got Terminal Free but I would still like to see a system where all maps are available - like Guitar hero tracks or dance central dances are carried over into the latest games.