Battlefield: Bad Company MP Beta starts March 25th

Phaethon360 - Mr Pant<s>s</s>ies
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This is when we lost the war...

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Hey, I'm just like you. I put my pants on one leg at a - dammit, I knew I forgot something today.

GriftGFX - He can also<br>ban your ass!
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That is truly disgusting. Is he getting this from the Beta?
Yup. And I know what everyone will say: "FUCK EA!"

But lets face it. If it wasn't EA it would be Activision, and if not Activision than Microsoft or Ubisoft, etc. Post release support is dead, it's gone, it's a thing of the past. So long as people continue to say that "$10 is the price of a movie", or "$10 is the price of a cheeseburger", etc.. the consumer has lost.. to itself.

We can only hope that strong indies continue to fight for what is right. Some developers know that post release support extends the life span of their product, which in turn can actually extend its life at retail as well. But those arguments are hard to hear over all of the excitement surrounding 1 million+ downloads of the Halo 3 Heroic map pack--which will soon be free, but the community decided to donate an extra $10 mil to MS and bungie anyhow.

I wonder how many of them own a $130 toy helmet.
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TheBeagle
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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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Strange memories on this nervous night in Las Vegas. Has it been five years? Six? It seems like a lifetime.

Jin187
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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.
Have you tried it? Is it anygood?
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Street Fighter 4... Believe.

Phaethon360 - Mr Pant<s>s</s>ies
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It's useless till the 25th.
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Hey, I'm just like you. I put my pants on one leg at a - dammit, I knew I forgot something today.

mt_sabao
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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...
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GriftGFX - He can also<br>ban your ass!
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Yea we already started bitching about that ^^

Thank publishers, consumers, and Microsoft.
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TheBeagle
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Posté par Jin187
Have you tried it? Is it anygood?
Yeah, we can't actually play until the 25th. It's just good to download it now so it's ready to play on the day.
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Strange memories on this nervous night in Las Vegas. Has it been five years? Six? It seems like a lifetime.

LEBATO - IS WRONG
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Yea we already started bitching about that ^^

Thank publishers, consumers, and Microsoft.
The main problem is the consumer........
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Dacs
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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.
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TheBeagle
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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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Strange memories on this nervous night in Las Vegas. Has it been five years? Six? It seems like a lifetime.

Bingham67
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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.
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R0oK
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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.
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GriftGFX - He can also<br>ban your ass!
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Haha oh man, if you seriously have to pay for weapons, much less in a beta, that is just too much.
Those weapons probably won't be available in the beta at all is my guess. Not really a big deal, plenty of MP betas have been item or weapon restricted in the past, but it doesn't change how ridiculous the concept of paying for unlocks is.
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deftangel - Hot stuff!
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Before we kick off, lets actually know what we're kicking off about;
http://multiplayerblog.mtv.com/2008/03/24/ea-expla...
Multiplayer contacted Electronic Arts for an explanation, which they provided this morning. At launch, there will be ten weapons available through XBL or PlayStation Network that aren’t in the box.

Before you panic: five will be free. Five retailers offer an “exclusive” pre-order weapon in the months to come. Each of those weapons will become available at launch for free.

Another five, however, will not.

These five will be exclusively bundled with a to-be-announced “Gold Edition” of “Battlefield Bad Company.” Think of “Gold Edition” as another term for the many “Limited Edition” versions of games we’ve seen recently. These weapons are readily unlocked for gamers who purchase the Gold Edition, but everyone else will need to pay.

No prices for any of the purchasable weapons are listed in the beta.

EA told us the pay-to-play weapons will not unbalance the game. “All weapons are balanced for gameplay,” said a spokesperson in an e-mailed statement. “More weapons offer players more choices but do not create an advantage/disadvantage for players who do not opt to buy new item.”

The company refers to weapons already in the box as “core weapons.”
Basically it's the same stunt they pulled with Need for Speed recently. I.e; they couldn't think of anything worthwhile to make a limited edition with so decided to make some "limited" edition weapons the differentiator.

Good idea? Absolutely not but I think most consumers would actually baulk at the idea of paying for weapons in a game. This isn't quite what's happening here. EA are just leveraging another channel to flog the "limited" edition of the game. Depending on what else they put in the "Gold" edition (and going by NFS, it won't be a lot) then if you buy that version, you're essentially doing the same thing and paying for the extra weapons.

As much as I'm not in the hate EA camp, they are the only publisher doing this malarkey with special editions of games which really do not warrant one.
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GriftGFX - He can also<br>ban your ass!
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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?
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Tronzilla
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do we have to unlock upgrades like cod4?
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R0oK
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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 >:[
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INDIGO
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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.
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TheBeagle
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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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Strange memories on this nervous night in Las Vegas. Has it been five years? Six? It seems like a lifetime.

GriftGFX - He can also<br>ban your ass!
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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.
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mt_sabao
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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.
i would do it if i actually was strong enough. but hei, it's just a game, and hell i'm dying for it. but i for sure won't buy the silly guns...

oh, and by the way when today are the servers going to be live, for the beta?
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TheBeagle
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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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Strange memories on this nervous night in Las Vegas. Has it been five years? Six? It seems like a lifetime.

deftangel - Hot stuff!
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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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XBL/PSN: deftangel. Views are my own and not representative of my employers. Boulets aren't the end of the world, you will get over them! Reading and constructive discussion classes are available, enquire via PM :)

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