Battlefield: Bad Company is coming to the PS3 and Xbox 360, but carries with it a somewhat troubling DLC plan. EA and DICE are making certain weapons available for purchase.
Five weapons will be available free through pre-launch promotions (and after the game releases), but another five will only be available through the "Gold Version" or paid DLC.
SarcasticGamer is calling for a boycott of the game and is trying to start a campaign to put a stop to DLC like this.
DLC is great when it's true bonus content like additional multiplayer levels, extra story arcs and locations, or new characters. When we're talking about weapons that even EA admits "do not create an advantage/disadvantage for players who do not opt to buy new items" we run into an ideological problem.
EA wants you to buy these weapons to customize your character to your playstyle, but then admits that your money doesn't buy you an advantage. We agree with that aspect, but then question why we're paying for these weapons.
Would you pay for new weapons in a multiplayer game?
SarcasticGamer: BF:BC’s DLC is just plain BS. Boycott this game.
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Morne
Now if you are selling an advantage, then that is bull. I paid for the game, I shouldn't be hurt cause I can't afford more.
They offer you weapons to buy and then they dont give you an advantage
Congratulations EA, your guns have become the new horse armor
They are holding back content that you should get for your $60.
True DLC should be extra content that was created or finished after the game was released.
I support the boycott. Developers always say that the consumers vote, buy buying or not. I say we vote no.
I am not paying you 60 bones for half a game!
"Waaaaaaah!!! EA's releasing guns that are comparable to ones already in-game but they don't give me super stats! I actually have to play the game to unlock the good guns!! EA only wants my money and won't give me anything for it!! WAAAAAAAH!!!"
I am so sick of the BS that gets thrown around just because it's EA doing it. Boycott a game because they're offering guns for sale that DON'T completely screw over players who don't buy them? THIS is getting complaints?
Anyone bother looking into what it would cost you to buy all the DLC offered for Ace Combat 6? Yeah...over 120 bucks but no one says a damn thing because this time it's EA. Hell, they're selling you missions that were supposed to be IN the game at $3.75 PER MISSION and no one's calling them on it.
This is just pure "it's EA so we HAVE to have them" crap. Open your eyes people.
reminds me of SONY, remember thats what they planned to do with Gran Turismo 5, you would basically buy the menu for 50 bucks and then dish out pretty much another 60 or so for tracks and cars
"You don't tell me, or anyone else, what to do."
I will not be buying this!
1. I'll just continue to play COD4
2. Then GTA4
3. Then GOW2
4. Continue to play GOW2...
RB downloads are diff, you Like that song, you get that song, But these weps, I have no idea what they are, you why should I buy em?
THATS the worst news out of this! Geez... man, some one prove me wrong please.
This is the WRONG way to go about DLC though. Yes, we have the option to ignore the petty greed of EA and not buy it...but the fact remains that they PURPOSELY left out those weapons to hit their gamers with an extra charge per capita if they want the content.
Way to cater to your audience, EA, kudos do not go to you...I steal your kudos and fart on them!
This is the WRONG way to go about DLC though. Yes, we have the option to ignore the petty greed of EA and not buy it...but the fact remains that they PURPOSELY left out those weapons to hit their gamers with an extra charge per capita if they want the content.
Way to cater to your audience, EA, kudos do not go to you...I steal your kudos and fart on them!
I can see that it's getting tougher for your average developer to put all that extra work into a game and if it's not a huge hit, then it's all for nothing. and not a huge profit. so they do this to try and squeeze a little extra profit out of it.
I still think it's lame, though.
well i guess since you're like THE person that actually plays that game then it's your job to call them on it. maybe it looks liek everyone is always ragging on ea because theyre so freaking huge!
they produce a rediculous amount of the market and are in a position to literally set the trends of gaming. we're not even talking about whole missions here... it's some guns... literally just guns now you have to go out and buy for your game! imagine what you'll have to pay ea for an actual mission... twice the guns?
why not it took way more than twice the time to create?
This is total BS and someone seriously needs to give EA a very huge reality check.
oh you wanted bruce willis to say yipeekiyay mother f'er? oh and more than once? yeah that'll be 5 bucks per f.
i guess that makes EA a cheap whore(and just as dirty as one)
I can tell you never bothered to read anything with that statement of "literally just guns now you have to go out and buy for your game!" line. Does someone have to beat it into your skull that it's *drum roll*:
A) 5 guns
B) They have identical stats to the starting guns
The guns that are better are not bought from XBL, they are UNLOCKED. As it stands there are 20 starting guns (4 for each kit), 5 DLC guns (with the same stats as the starting guns and the ones people here are whining about) and 5 guns that are only available to Limited Edition buyers OR regular buyers who want to purchase them piecemeal.
The good guns, the ones you apparently think are the ones offered for DLC, are all unlockable and you earn unlock credits as you go up in rank.
0.o
0.o
Perhaps you should write what you mean rather than going "nuh uh!!" after someone calls you on it later.
um... seriously though what did you think i meant buy now you have to buy them? "yes, now you have to buy the guns to NOT have the entire game."? WAT.
and why would i be leaving room for options? unlike some people(apparently you) i just have one meaning per sentence, usually along the lines of what i actually freaking say.
again: 0.o.
oh just to clarify what "0.o" is since you obviously won't be able to figure it out on your own... that's an attempt to show my facial expression through text.
the right eye is larger than the left eye as if to say WTF
Anyway,a game with only five guns??What a bullcrap is that,CoD4 has more than that,and nobody had to pay for it,and that's a stand for games,but if you pay for those 5 guns on EAs game,you soon start to see more of that bullcrap on all games,and than you're gonna up paying more and more for less,so open you're eyes and don't fall for that crap!!!!
Training people to pay more for a product.
"literally just guns now you have to go out and buy for your game! imagine what you'll have to pay ea for an actual mission... twice the guns?"
You can't even get one meaning out of a sentence, let alone multiple. If you were half as intelligent as you're claiming to be you'd have figured out how to actually say something rather than make with the weak insults and sad sad emotes.
Don't let that stop you though. Let that unfounded EA hate just flow through you. Thump your chest proudly and declare yourself the e-victor as you decry a company for doing something that countless companies have done before it and claim that only EA is the bad one here. Ignore the past, only your baseless e-rage of today matters!
while it is true i was talking about ea(as this game produced by ea is the topic of conversation)... did i say it was only ea that i frowned upon for this? according to you in your alternate little world im sure somewhere i did... but in earth 0, no. i never said that it doesnt drive me insane to have to pay 5 bucks for a car in pgr. i think thats entirely bs as well. not that you care as im sure you will no doubt create some alternate meaning for everything ive said... omg i just realized what you are.
you = retardomondo(defined by urbandictionary.com as "Super retarded. Like a living fart with no education and self-inflicted brain damage.")
oh and 0.o ownz ur base.
For instance the pkm compared to the rpk. rpk wins every time etc. unlocks in these games get over rated because people like to blame their own noobieness on them.
You're lying as you're running your mouth off about making your point when you haven't made anything but a load of gibberish whose sole consistent backup is lamer and lamer insults.
Keep up that hard work, Internet Tough Guy. The rest of the netspeaking window lickers have your back. Maybe.
Nip this DLC idea in the bud. Join the boycott now.
I'm with VinDali, join the boycott guys!!!
This will explain what EA is doing and why the Boycott is pointless. Read the 3 or 4 posts I added then come up with a reason to complain.
And if you are under 18, I don't expect you to comprehend.