EA does it again! If you haven’t already heard, EA is planing to sell gamers Battlefield: Bad Company with the option to buy more guns through DLC. So help us, and our friends @ Sarcasticgamer, and join the boycott. Please go to all the major gaming blog sites (N4G.com, Kotaku, etc.) and make your voice heard.
It was rumored that EA was going to have additional weapons available in a gold addition of Battlefield: Bad Company. And for those that choose not to purchase the Gold edition, the weapons would be available on Xbox Live through DLC at a price for each individual item. Here is the response from EA that Kotaku released…
“…Battlefield: Bad Company features numerous weapons in the core game. In addition to the core set of weapons, Battlefield: Bad Company will release five unique weapons free of charge through five different promotional programs prior to launch. EA will again make these weapons available to players free of charge after launch, in case anyone missed the pre-launch promotions.
At launch, EA will release a Gold Edition of Battlefield: Bad Company which will feature an additional five new weapons. For players who do not purchase the Gold Edition of the game, they can still buy the five weapons at a small individualized price per item. All weapons are balanced for gameplay. More weapons offer players more choices but do not create an advantage/disadvantage for players who do not opt to buy new items.
Currently, the menu in the Battlefield: Bad Company beta notes all ten weapons; the five available free of charge pre-launch as well as the additional five available in the Gold Edition.
We will have more details on the pre-launch campaign and Gold Edition of Battlefield: Bad Company in the next few weeks.”
Our friends at Sarcasticgamer have decide to start a boycott of the game. We have decided to join them. Yes this is some what of a small issue, for now. But where does it end. 10 to 15 years ago paying $59.99 or more for a video game would have sounded crazy, today it is a reality and very few people even blink at it. Now we are going into an era where if nothing is done, gamers will be paying that much for starter game and then have the option (if they can afford it) to ‘add’ to the game. This is not a customizing feature like themes and pics, this is a expansion pack that will be coming out the same day as the game (complete with 5 weapons). What is the point EA? Why not included the weapons in the game? How far are we as gamers willing to allowed to be pushed? I say enough is enough. Leave my nickels and dimes alone.
I’d like to give EA something and I wouldn’t charge them one penny for it!
grrr
I love the “nickels and dimes” thing. Thats funny.
NICE Sam!
well I have no plans to buy this game, nor any of the downloaded content.
As a gamer and a software developer, I might have a different point of view. I see this as simply a way to make the game more expensive. MSFT says, and enforces via license, that a complete game for the XBox360 costs $60.
But why should it? Why shouldn’t a developer charge what they think that the market would bear? Is this just a creative way to charge $66 for this game? If this game costs $66 are you going to buy it? and it may actually cost more because if you go to your friend’s house (or your xbox360 red rings) your wife and friends can’t use those weapons
For me, I’ve seen nothing that makes me feel this game is worth $66, or even $60, let alone $72. The price is more than this particular market will bear.
So count me in the boycott if you like. I’ll be playing Rockband, Rainbow 6, GTA IV or any of a number of other games that I actually am excited about. If it wasn’t for this DLC fiasco I wouldn’t have paid any attention to this game.