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EA Clarifies Battlefield Pay-to-Play Weaponry
by Aaron Linde, Mar 24, 2008 11:45am PDTSpeaking with Shacknews, Electronic Arts has clarified reports of pay-to-play weaponry in the upcoming release of EA DICE's Battlefield: Bad Company (PS3, X360).
Responding to reports that ten weapons in the Xbox 360 multiplayer beta of the title were marked as purchasable from the Xbox Live Marketplace, a representative explained that some of the weapons would be made available as part of pre-launch promotional programs.
"Battlefield: Bad Company will release five unique weapons free of charge through five different promotional programs prior to launch," the rep noted. "EA will again make these weapons available to players free of charge after launch, in case anyone missed the pre-launch promotions."
The other five weapons will be made available to players who purchase the Gold Edition of Battlefield: Bad Company, which will be released alongside the standard retail release this June. "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," the representative continued.
"All weapons are balanced for gameplay," they added. "More weapons offer players more choices but do not create an advantage/disadvantage for players who do not opt to buy new items."
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The latter option is bad for the customer's in-game experience, so most likely they will be "balanced" which means you'd be paying to get a "cooler" weapon skin over the same stats as weapons that are already in the game. Since very few people would pay for this in-and-of-itself, they'll be used in promos and gold edition purchases to give them an "exclusive" air.
Pay for more weapon options = paid advantage = paid cheating = no game purchase
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This is important. Perhaps they learned a thing or two from the competition difference that the weapons in the Battlefield 2 expansion(s) made.
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http://youtube.com/watch?v=OiBkuaoaqyQ
lol!
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I guess I'll find out tomorrow.
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I call bullshit on this. EA have to say it, but they said the same thing about the addons for BF2 being usable on stock servers. P90 anyone?
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Though if they are priced above $2.50 or something that's a bit much.
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