2008-03-21 05:19:17 In reply to GriftGFX (2008-03-21 05:04:56)

This is when we lost the war...

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2008-03-21 05:25:28 In reply to TheBeagle (2008-03-21 05:10:46)

2008-03-21 14:16:31

I don't know if you guys know, but, if you have a code you can go ahead and download the BETA right now. I missed this in the email.

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2008-03-21 15:01:39 In reply to TheBeagle (2008-03-21 14:16:31)

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Street Fighter 4... Believe.

2008-03-21 15:04:32

It's useless till the 25th.

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2008-03-22 00:16:13

http://kotaku.com/370694/ea-charging-for-bad-compa...


for fuck sake, this is just too...fucking silly.
ok, i don't mind paying for CoD4 maps, for an early beta is already stretching it a bit but heck, i really want to have an early peek at the game, but fuck, paying for weapons?!??!?!?!
Next, pay for the textures? Or for high resolution models?
Like, whatever...

2008-03-22 00:26:06

Yea we already started bitching about that ^^

Thank publishers, consumers, and Microsoft.

2008-03-22 00:59:58 In reply to Jin187 (2008-03-21 15:01:39)

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2008-03-22 19:51:48 In reply to GriftGFX (2008-03-22 00:26:06)

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Mods, stop changing my SIG! I'm going to end up banning you!

2008-03-22 20:09:28

It makes wonder if Battlefield 3 will follow this pattern of paying for guns that are locked ingame, which pretty much mimics Warrock the only difference being that Warrock is a free download.

2008-03-22 22:39:26

I wanna know what's going through these peoples heads when making these decisions. Don't say money. That's obvious. And, actually, I wanna know what goes through the heads of the idiots who actually buy this shit.

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2008-03-22 22:48:28

They just prey on stupid/desperate they know by doing it they will make money eg people who goto work dont have much time funny thing is people buy this crap. Take WOW and amount of people who pay real money to do all that upgrading crazy bordering ridiculous its for people who just want to willy wave.

At end of day the weapons are in the game to unlock its just defeats purpose of the game totally stupid.

2008-03-25 00:46:30

Haha oh man, if you seriously have to pay for weapons, much less in a beta, that is just too much.

I wonder if there will ever be games that charge your credit card 50 cents per continue.

2008-03-25 01:11:29 In reply to R0oK (2008-03-25 00:46:30)

2008-03-25 02:00:48

Before we kick off, lets actually know what we're kicking off about;
http://multiplayerblog.mtv.com/2008/03/24/ea-expla...

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2008-03-25 03:26:29

It's all bad. It's no better than anyone is making it out to be. Battlefield Presents EA: Bad Company is right. But this is the world we live in.

Sad, aint it?

2008-03-25 03:30:34

do we have to unlock upgrades like cod4?

2008-03-25 04:35:48

It's stuff like that that will keep me from buying a game no matter how good it is. I just don't condone that kind of crap in the games industry. It's not like I need another shooter anyways, more than half my 360 games are shooters >:[

2008-03-25 05:03:37

God dammit. The game looked so good too, but I'll boycott as well.

To think that in only a few years we went from buying $50 games with the occasional free downloadable content to paying $60 per game and then getting nickel and dimed on top of that.

No thanks. R0ok is right, there are plenty of other shooters.

2008-03-25 11:19:27

I don't see why you have to boycott the game if you like it. Just don't buy the guns. It's going to sell a lot no matter what so there's not much point.

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2008-03-25 12:00:20

Boycotts seem perfectly reasonable to me. So what if it "doesn't make a difference"--it's a matter of principal is all and if that's how someone feels than I think that's the right thing to do personally. And hell, if there are enough principaled folks in the world (and maybe there aren't, but so what?) maybe publishers will eventually get the idea.

This industry is treating its consumers like shit in recent years frankly. Simply not buying premium DLC is a start, but it's probably not enough.

But what do I know, I do silly pointless things.. like vote.

2008-03-25 13:12:15 In reply to INDIGO (2008-03-25 05:03:37)

2008-03-25 15:46:27

They already are. Shame the game is basically broken though. I got into one server which had no lag. The rest had mega lag and most of the time I actually can't get into a game at all. The one I did get into was hilarious. People were just shooting the crap out of the environment. They weren't playing the actual game.

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2008-03-25 16:34:15

An effective protest would be to not buy either;-

a) the limited edition (Gold) version of the game
b) the weapon unlocks from Live.

These are both exactly the same thing. Holding back guns or cars from the regular edition for a "special" edition isn't on. By purchasing (or not) the normal edition you're still sending the message that this malarkey isn't on. If the limited SKU does poorly, EA will think twice about producing them in the future.

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2008-03-25 16:39:53

Unfortunately too many people think with their e-penis to do that deft.