Battlefield 1's premium pass owners are known for getting quite a few benefits, but now they'll be able to share some of them via a brand new feature revealed by developer DICE, who has shared what they call the "Premium Friends Program".
The program's function is very simple: when a premium Pass owner joins a party, everyone else in the party becomes "Premium Enabled," which will let them play every maps premium pass players have access to. The only downside to this is that those without a premium pass won't earn experience points when playing on the otherwise inaccessible maps, however, if you decide to purchase a premium pass afterwards, the experience points will be retroactively rewarded to you.
DICE will be testing out the program during the Battlefest event that started today, so it'll be interesting to see how players react to this. Many others developers, and even EA themselves with Titanfall 2, have decided to make future maps free, but it doesn't seem like the Battlefield series is going in that direction anytime soon.
Should every game's DLC maps be free, or is it fair to have a few exceptions?