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darconi on 21 March 2008

Microtransactions itself is a bad enough thing IMO because it encourages companies to skip out on adding features/polish that would add to the base game but this is just insane.

"Word from the Battlefield: Bad Company beta test is that several weapons in the game's arsenal are locked, with "Available for purchase on Xbox Live Marketplace" notations next to them. In total 10 weapons are listed as for sale, with five of them also available in the Gold Edition of the game. What this basically means is that people willing to drop a little extra cash, be it in the store or on Xbox Live, will have more weapons to choose from than someone who scrapes together just enough to pick up the game itself."

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



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IllegalPaladin on 21 March 2008

Reminds me of the set of weapons and a map (or more?) with the booster packs in Battlefield 2.



NJ5 on 21 March 2008

Game development costs are skyrocketing (especially on the 360 and the PS3), so I guess they have to find a way to survive in the business...



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akuma587 on 21 March 2008

That's pretty gay of EA, but it doesn't surprise me.



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outlawauron on 21 March 2008
darconi said:

Microtransactions itself is a bad enough thing IMO because it encourages companies to skip out on adding features/polish that would add to the base game but this is just insane.

"Word from the Battlefield: Bad Company beta test is that several weapons in the game's arsenal are locked, with "Available for purchase on Xbox Live Marketplace" notations next to them. In total 10 weapons are listed as for sale, with five of them also available in the Gold Edition of the game. What this basically means is that people willing to drop a little extra cash, be it in the store or on Xbox Live, will have more weapons to choose from than someone who scrapes together just enough to pick up the game itself."

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


You should see their NFS: Pro Street model. They've been the same with it. $1.99 per car that was already made into the game.



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skip on 21 March 2008

they also charge for making your sports character max stats in tiger woods golf

for virtual money in godfather  for weapons in godfather

to unlock cars early before you earned them in nfs

 



Yakuzaice on 21 March 2008

Hmm, and I had actually planned on buying this.  O'well, plenty of other games to get this year.



foxhounder on 21 March 2008

Well, we are talking about EA here. What do people expect?



Griffin on 22 March 2008

With the ways EA are doing things now, i'm surprised there is anything on the disc for the $60. And EA will continue to do it, just look at Rockband, each week they have about 3-5 different items to buy.



Naum on 22 March 2008

It's EA, enough said



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