Battlefield 3 Premium Member Exclusives for August

Battlefield 3 is still one of the most played games on Xbox LIVE as well as PC and PS3. The introduction of their Premium service, similar to Call of Duty ELITE, has the hardcore paying a subscription fee upfront for exclusive benefits and a free pass for all the DLC.

I have some friends who play BF3 on a regular basis and they had already bought the first expansion before the service came out, which they would of gotten free otherwise. It’ a bummer, but I think the service has a lot to offer and is still worth the price because of exclusive digital goods like weapons, double XP, and videos.

DICE and EA wanted to give Premium members the low-down on what they’ll be getting this month:

Premium video: Exclusive Armored Kill gameplay

Release date: August 29
Where: Battlelog Premium video section
Our third Premium exclusive video features all-new gameplay footage from the upcoming expansion packBattlefield 3: Armored Kill. Prepare yourself for all-out vehicle warfare!

Premium bonus content: Exclusive artwork booklet

Release date: August 29
Where: Our new “Bonus content” section on Battlelog
The August bonus content drop for Battlefield 3™ Premium members is an exclusive high-res artwork booklet (electronic) with 24 original concept artwork from the development of Battlefield 3. The majority of these have never before been shown to the public. To download your artwork album, head to Battlelog and the new “Bonus content” section that will appear on August 29.

Premium event: Pitch your Battlefield map concept to DICE

Start date: August 31
This is your chance to submit your level idea and have it judged by the creators of Battlefield 3! Pitch your most awesome idea for a Battlefield map, and you can win an extremely  limited edition Battlefield 3 lithograph signed by the DICE team. Full details on how to enter will be posted on Battlelog on August 31 when this competition is officially opened. Stay tuned!

Premium exclusive Double XP weekend
Dates: August 25-26 (or longer! See below)
Rank up faster by joining this Double XP event, only for Battlefield 3™ Premium members. This month’s Premium exclusive double XP weekend takes place Saturday-Sunday, August 25-26. Start times below. You can alsocheck this handy event announcer to see the time in your city.

Don’t forget that we are running a community challenge on Facebook that extends the time of this event based on the number of shares we get! Join the sharing at our Facebook page to increase the number of hours you will get double XP.

Double XP event start times:
Los Angeles 00:01:00 August 25
Stockholm 09:01:00 August 25
Paris 09:01:00 August 25
New York 03:01:00 August 25

So to sum it up, you’ll get an “exclusive” video of Armored Kill game play, a chance to pitch a map concept to DICE, double XP, and an electronic art book. Not a bad batch of goodies for free if you’re Premium.

Source: BFBlog