While most free-to-play games are garbage, regardless of the platform, sometimes one of them sneaks past your defences and actually finds its way into your spare time. Even I, as hostile as I am to the business practice in general, have my weaknesses.
One at the moment is Star Wars: Commander, which is a terrible video game but damn it, itâs so cute. My main indulgence, though, was and always will be (at least in my heart) Battlefield: Heroes.
EA announced that the game is shutting down today, and to be honest, itâs been a while since I thought about it. But when it first came out in 2009, I loved this game, more than the actual Battlefield games of the time.
Whenever I wonder why the hell people spend money on League of Legends, which is another game thatâs both fun and free, I remember Battlefield Heroes, and how I once spent $12 (actual human dollars) to make my main character look like Sean Connery from a Bridge Too Far. And he looked good
Of course, it wasnât long before EA ruined all the fun. A big reason people stopped talking about the game was that it soon turned into a money pit, which might have padded its books for a while but also drove away a lot of early players who had just signed up for the cool art and sweet fighter handling.
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For a short time, Battlefield Heroes was one of those games. Something Iâll always be thankful for. And while the business model it initially tried to work with was quickly dumped, itâs at least nice to see it live on (and prosper) in bigger games like League of Legends, DOTA 2 and Team Fortress 2.
