EA makes BattleForge free-to-play

By Robert Purchese Published 27 May, 2009

MMORTS reshuffles after stale launch.

EA has decided to make a Play 4 Free version of online real-time strategy and card-trading game BattleForge.

The only limitation will be a reduced starting pack of 32 out of 200 cards, but otherwise the Play 4 Free version offers the entire BattleForge experience.

To counter this, retail boxes now come with 3000 BattleForge Points, which is worth about the same as the game - GBP 35. And those who have already bought the game can redeem these points using the retail product code.

Meanwhile, Play 4 Free users will either have to buy booster packs at 250 BattleForge Points apiece, or earn and trade new cards in-game.

The Play 4 Free move comes after BattleForge launched to a lukewarm reception in March. Head over to our BattleForge review to find out why.

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Comments (7) Latest comment 3 years ago

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  • r4z0rbl4d3 #1 3 years ago

    Played the beta, never really got into it... I understand why they are doing this.

  • Rirekon #2 3 years ago

    Might have to give it a go if it's free - assuming that is I don't have to use that awful piece of spyware EA call a downloader...

  • jambo74 #3 3 years ago

    Free or not, it sucks!

  • Kremlik Verified Co-Founder, Crash To Desktop #4 3 years ago

    Well seeing as the market now has a 'free' TCG within reach now (Freerelms), it's a wise move - the buying the box and then having a cashshop on top of that is/was very offputting.

    I see more actally playing this now - hopfully it'll make a comeback, as unbalanced as it is it's still quite a novel game

  • Seoh #5 3 years ago

    The retail version already came with the extra points so i don't see the difference.

    Its actually a pretty good game and is quite fun but the bulk of the experience is replaying levels on harder difficulties and the 12 player maps. Problem is typically everyone drops out of the large maps if the first 5 seconds doesn't go their way.

    If they doubled the length of the single player and tweaked the narrative this game would have scored so much better.


  • johnlenham #6 3 years ago

    Been playing the free trail since yesterday, tis good and today I "unlocked" the full game The retail box now gives you 64 cards and 3000 points to spend, I maybe buy it if it becomes cheap but until then ill carry on with the free version ;p

  • Mooks #7 3 years ago

    its not a bad game and pretty good fun just to mess about on and unlike demigod it actually works online and has a tutorial ...