Customer Reviews

Battlefield 2 Booster Pack Collection (Euro Force & Armored Fury)

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The Battlefield 2 Booster Pack Collection has a ridiculously complicated registration process. I regret having made the purchase. Potential purchasers should just say "NO" to Electronic Arts for treating software customers like this!

I will never buy another product from EA. This "booster pack" is nothing more than a few mediocre maps with recycled guns to go along with it. If that was not bad enough, no one actually plays the new maps anyway. You'll be hard pressed to find a game with more than 25 people in it.

and to top it off, you need to log onto EA's website to register the packs to ONE ALIAS you have from BF2. So if you and your siblings play, or you have more than one Alias, you can only play any of the bonus content on one of them.

Not to mention, EA's website has some serious problems, and out of all of the games I've registered, this one has been by far, hands down, the WORST. It took several tries attempting to get EA to recognize the CD-Key I entered.

EA is the devil and gamers should boycott their games.

The new maps are great and are definitely worth the price. I just have a couple of issues...

One, which has been mentioned in almost every review I've read (here and elsewhere), is that it most certainly IS a pain to register. I just thought the complainers were a bunch of stupid newbies who couldn't figure out how use a mouse, but now that I've been through it, you all have my sympathy and I'm confident that even the most die-hard gamer would have trouble with this.

A few things I learned that might help others: be sure you type in your Battlefield 2 name correctly because you can only do it once before you have to attempt to contact EA's tech support if you make a typo. That might be obvious, but it'll save you a lot of time and heartache if you just make sure you type it right.

Also, if your name doesn't work (because of the seemingly prevalent "this name is already in use" problem), unfortunately, like me, you'll have to create an entirely new BF2 name and start from scratch. Pretty irritating when you've got a nicely decorated soldier. I'm sure not everyone will have that severe of a problem, but it's the only thing I got to work after four hours of tinkering and no response from EA's support.

One other thing to keep in mind if you get frustrated is that they have this bizarre setup that "reserves" screennames from AOL and other IM services, so if you get the "this name is already in use" message even if you already have that name as your own, it's probably because of that. I think that's what's causing them a lot of trouble. It was a nice concept, but I didn't get to use my standard name that I always use and nobody else ever thinks of because I had used the name probably ten years ago on AOL and couldn't remember my password if my life depended on it. So, I had to add a couple symbols to it when I started over with a whole new soldier name.

If you keep having trouble, just do a search for Battlefield 2 Booster Packs Collection registration, especially on EA's forums, you'll probably find the help you're looking for.

Something else to consider: You HAVE to use an online BF2 account to play the new maps and you can only use one. Also, forget practicing offline, you also HAVE to be connected to the internet with your online account to play the game in SINGLEPLAYER. Registering Battlefield 2142 was a little irritating, but this is downright frustrating. It's the goofiest attempt at copy protection I've ever seen. I can see having to register your online account to play online, but honestly, who is going to try to steal this game to play singleplayer? I guess even EA forgot that they designed it as a multiplayer online game...

But if you mostly play online and use your online account to practice in singleplayer anyway, the new maps are well worth the bizarre maze of circular logic that is EA.

This pack works by attaching itself to your online account, which is different from your screen name. If you don't have it all straight, it won't work. An example of anti piracy punishing the paying customers.

The booster pack is a must-have for BF2 enthusiats, although on the whole it doesn't offer as much of a gameplay change than it does some small new content. That's not a bad thing necessarily, but with the lack of servers that even run content from the Booster Pack, you might want to consider getting BF2: Special Forces instead.

A warning - the install process is VERY tricky. I have read nightmares of those who tried to install the game after having Special Forces installed, or even updated their BF2. The way I bypassed all of this trouble was half-way through the install, the Booster Pack will try to 'update' your BF2 files. You will have the chance to 'Cancel' this process, which is exactly what I did. After that I had no problems playing the game.

To call the registration process a nightmare is an act of extreme kindness. I am an IT professional, yet have spent several hours just trying to get the expansion pack to work, without success. Unless you just have nothing to do all day, find a different game.

Bought the expansion pack with the hopes of playing some new maps with new weapons and vehicles... but instead I'm been doing the run around trying to register my product. Customer service is trying to be helpful but I still haven't it gotten to work which is crazy. I'd say skip this expansion. You only get a few more weapons and some small maps. I don't see that it's worth the hassel of registering the product.

When I bought this title for 39.99, the original without all the expansions was right next to it for 9.99. If I had known that the expansions require
an internet account to access, I would have saved 30 bucks. I paid for the original and the expansions and can only access the original due to their
short-sighted copy protection scheme. I bought this game for the SP, my connection will not work for MP. I feel cheated. Never fear though, I WILL
find a way to access what I paid for ;)

There really just wasn't enough added to this to make either of these booster packs worth anyones while, sure there is a new army and you get to fight on American turf but really what does this add to the series? The answer is "Nothing."

So when I got this game I was thrilled. Yea until I tried to install it. First was the normal instalation. Then was the registering(which you have to do is order for it to be competely instaled). First they make me get an EA account for there web site and then ask me for my code that came with game. REWIND "code". What freaking code. After a few minutes of looking I found a long number in little print. Above it it said proof of purchase. So I tried this code and after many tries it didn't work. Then I noticed that the space for the number was much bigger than the number. So, I thought that maybe the were looking for a CD key. Guese what. Suprise suprise, that was what they were looking for. Now I have my booster pack installed but I can't find any of the FREAKING!!! "Armored Fury" vehicles.

Well on the bright side I would like to say that the "Euro Force" expansion is wouking fine except I can't find any servers that are using it.

P.S. The CD key is on the top of the back of the little manual.