X3F TV -- Battlefield Bad Company: Free vs Paid Weapon Stat Comparison

Yep, thats what we should do , people have to remember that EA has no power , we have the power , we choose not to buy it till its all free , this so pure bullshit, EA has to stop this crap, for NFS they had down loadable content even tho , the data/information was in the disc a;ready that u already spent £40/$60 on WTF?

"i'll be picking up the standard issue though, and maybe purchase the one powerful weapon off marketplace. "


...And therein lies the reason why we will continue to get raped on DLC by game publishers. Bravo retard.

@steve

How so? Last time I checked, even if you buy the game, you don't have to buy the dlc.

thanks for the plug Saccia. Fight the power. Stop the DLC BS ASAP!

i heard you say "only five weapons" both on here and on GTR's podcast. This is completely false as the game ships with 10 weapons unlocked initially.

As you play, you can unlock up to 10 more weapons. This is similar (in concept, not execution) to COD4 and how you have to level up and earn the other weapons and attachments. In COD4, you initially only have access to 1 weapon per class. Pretty much the same thing.

It is, as the kids these days say, "teh suck" that they are charging for unlocking content already on the disk but I think most/all people can live without these pay-to-play weapons. I don't see why a complete game boycott is necessary. How about a boycott on buying the weapons?

I'd also put blame on people who buy things like this and horse armor for Oblivion. Not solely on EA. EA is doing it because they know people will dish out for it.

It's five weapons per each playable faction. If I'm wrong, I'm wrong, but that still doesn't make me not want to bring this to the forefront and say that I'm tired of being sold an incomplete game by EA.

It's not right and I know I'm not the only one that feels that way.

Word up. What Xav said.

the difference here is that the car packs you download for Forza2 are brand new content vs content already on the disk.

I can not imagine how you were feeling when horse armor was released...

It's not a big deal COME ON GUYS HAVE U EVER IN UR LIFE OF GAMING HEARD OF A HUGE FPS GAME LIKE BF CHARGING U MONEY DAY ONE 4 GUNS ALREADY ON THE DISK, NO U HAVE NOT. We r the test mice 2 c if gamers now a days r goin 2 let unheard BS like this fly. Of course this messes up the balance of the game all guns have their role if these guns have no role 2 play or r useless therefore dont unbalance the game then why do they even exisit. WHY MAKE GUNS THAT R USELESS THEY MUST BE USEFUL THEREFORE BREAKING THE BALANCE OF THE GAME. This is the lowest thing I've ever seen 4rm a dev I would luv 2 pay 4 new guns that r part of a update 2 the game in the future NOT GUNS ALREADY ON THE DISK I JUST SPENT $60 ON. People wake up EA & other devs the do this again & again if we let them get away with it. BOYCOTT

Oh yeah, one more thing.... If the guns suck and don't unbalance the game and are worse than the guns that come with the game, I just have one question:

why sell crappy guns? EA's talking out of both sides of their mouth.

First of all, you clearly don't listen to our podcast, in which we completely lambast EA for this. Just because we're not screaming to the hills for a boycott doesn't mean we're against it (or for it, for that matter). Second, as bloggers for the Joystiq network, we *never* dote on publishers. If we think something is shit, we'll say it. In fact, I think our opinions are expressed quite clearly in our coverage of Bad Company so far:

http://xbox.joystiq.com/2008/03/24/ea-confirms-bad-company-weapon-purchases/

Frankly, one of the only reasons I've stayed away from the boycott is because internet boycotts (and petitions) don't work, especially regarding EA games. There are too many clueless EA fans who will happily buy guns (and money, and cars, and cheat codes) off XBLM. That is why EA sells them, because they know they can. Also, I wasn't going to buy Bad Company anyway so I couldn't care less.

Finally, it just so happens that the boycott video is in our queue; it just hasn't been blogged yet (along with eight other stories we haven't gotten to yet). Once published, it will be the fourth story we've published about the issue (not to mention our very long discussion during the most recent Fancast). I think that probably covers it, mmkay?

If we're being frank with each other, You know as well as I do that your blog is a great friend to SG and while I did post this comment on X3F, I was directing the criticism generally at All of the major blogs and not specifically yours.

Second, to ignore or dismiss a boycott simply because you don't "believe it will work" is defeatist at best and lazy at worst. People using the internet to discuss video games do, whether you believe it or not, have a voice in these matters. Publishers recognize this, as I find it hard to believe that they would spend any $$$$$ on advertising on said blogs if they felt it was throwing the money away.

Finally, if you did talk about the boycott in your podcast, I'll definitely have to check that out.

Fair enough. I was speaking to my personal reasons more than X3F as a whole anyway. Like I said, it's on the queue, just not up yet. And the podcast discussion was about how stupid the DLC is in general, not the boycott specifically (just to clarify).

I still personally believe that a boycott against an EA game won't work. It's a wonderful idea, and I'm all for it, but it would have to *drastically* reduce sales before EA would even think about considering lowering the price of the DLC, let alone make it free.

I realize that we have a voice, otherwise my job is fairly pointless. But I don't think the number of informed internet savvy gamers is very substantial in comparison to the rest of the unconnected gaming audience. That's going to change, but I don't think it's there yet.

Who knows though, maybe DICE has some say in this. Maybe they'll be good and let the DLC become free eventually (a la Bungie).

I have no beef with Sarcastic Gamer, either. I think the video is hilarious, personally. I just get riled up when someone even hints at us being in a publisher's pocket.

No hard feelings, then.

Never had any hard feelings man, you know we love you! ps. (listening to podcast now)

Thanks for the feedback.

You clearly don't know what you are talking about. DICE has had a majority of it's original developer team since they started creating games for EA. You don't have to buy the downloadable content, I won't but that doesn't mean I'll blindly hate and boycott a favorite developer of mine just because there is a shiny EA logo on the box, you are ignorant. Judging games based on their publisher is as ignorant as judging a human by the color of their skin.

We're not boycotting the developer, we're boycotting the game itself.

Just to clarify...