Battlefield Bad Company: Free vs Paid Weapon Stat Comparison

Omegasyde - 643 days 13 hours ago

Are effing kidding me, they already have Downloadable Content already done? The game hasn't even game out yet.

Does anybody see whats wrong with this picture?

THE CONTENT SHOULD OF CAME WITH THE GAME.
EA is really releasing a 90% complete game saving the extra 10% for future profits. Wow.

I can't wait until EA starts charging for Patches, PS3 rumble upgrades, 1080i upgrades...etc.

Boycott EA.

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HighDefinition - 643 days 13 hours ago

This is just wrong. Plain and simple. You pay for this, next game you`ll be paying for helicopter use and vehicals, grenades etc.

**If** I do get this, I will not be D/Ling the weapons.

I would advise you to do the same.

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socalfreek - 643 days 12 hours ago

After playing the beta, you do earn your way up the ranks, unlocking items like COD4, so it does require some gaming skills to play. The weapons really don't help you a lot considering your getting blown up all over the map by tanks and mortars. Being a battlefield fan since day one the gold edition will be worth it. Can't see any other FPS games that will compare to this experience for the rest of the year..

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tony - 643 days 6 hours ago

i won't simply buy it.

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gEnKiE - 643 days 5 hours ago

I was really looking forward to this game untill I found out about buying weapon packs....... I heard that both free and bought content will be equal though, so who knows, it could work. Still, its stupid....

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I Call 9MM - 643 days 5 hours ago

Microsoft should not allow EA to do this. Simply the thought of this ruins the general idea of what DLC should be on the 360. Horse armor in oblivion was bad enough, then EA came along and has a sleu of terrible DLC. These "microtranscations" and "content already on disk" are just slap in the face to gamers everywhere. DLC isn't something that is meant to be made available the day the game ships. It meant to be something to add on into the game months after it ships, to extend it's life and add some more variety. Sure, some of it is overpriced for the content you get, like the Halo 3 map packs (oohh, three maps for 10 dollars, ya), but at least they make this premium content freely available later on. All of these little packs just keep fragmenting the player base. So, 10% of players have packs A and B let's say, another 10% only have A and another 10% only have B, while the other 70% didn't feel like paying for a few extra maps which should have been made freely available. Guess which maps you are going to end up playing most of the time. You guessed it, the stock maps.

Now, this weapon deal is just bogus. Charging players for new weapons to use against other players without this content is a big scam. I for one will not be buying this game simply out of principle, which is a real shame since it looks amazing. EA's greed is just getting to be too much for me.

The only time I don't really overly mind DLC released on the same day is when it is made freely available, like what GRAW 2 did with that throwback level. Sure, it could have been made available on disk but it introduces gamers to the idea of downloadable content, which in itself isn't so bad. You need an HDD, but whatever.

Here's my opinion on what should be made free and what they should charge for.

Free
- small, bonus items like new weapons and the like
- small map packs
- small side quests in main game

Charge
- large map packs (like 6-10 new maps, not just 3, jeeze)
- expansion packs (like you see on the PC, like C&C 3's new one)
- that's about it
- all those picture packs etc... that I think should be included with the game but I won't buy anyway so I don't really care

Should not be allowed on XBL (not free)
- unlocking ANY CONTENT THAT IS ALREADY ON THE DISK YOU CHEAP BUGGERS (I love CAPS, that means you EA)
- unlocking in-game cheats (I'm talking to you EA)
- small, microtransactions (one new plane for 400 MS points, gimme a break ACE Combat guys)

Microsoft, raise your standards. XBL is starting to get a little ridiculous.

PS (and we need cheaper, larger HDDs so people can actually have the free content).

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jkhan - 643 days 5 hours ago

Gamers should definitely protest against this. This is simply not acceptable. Next thing we know we will be charged for sex in Mass Effect 2.

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ForTheFallen - 643 days 10 hours ago

that those weapons are all in the original BF:2. So, they're just including regular content. I'll buy the game, not the weapons.

They're lucky, had this not been Battlefield, I wouldn't have even given this one a second thought...

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