Battlefield: Bad Company demo arriving June 5 ... for some
by Justin McElroy 
{ May 21st 2008 at 6:00PM }
But EA, adamant that there must at all times be division in the gaming populace, is giving early entry (like May 29 early) to those people who pre-order the game. Oh, and you'll also get the QBU88 Sniper Rifle. ... Anybody starting to long for the "I give you $50, you give me a game" days of yestergeneration?
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
NATO_Duke @ May 21st 2008 6:04PM
Played the beta and gotta say that this one is not on my buy list. Its just the same old stuff to me.
Canoftin @ May 21st 2008 6:23PM
I was on the beta too. Agreed on the pass. I played three times, and went promptly back to COD4. Granted, it was a beta... but loose weapons and funky graphics send to stay...
343 Guilty Fart @ May 21st 2008 7:26PM
That screenshot looks so similar to CoD4 it's not even funny.
ThePremierAssassin @ May 21st 2008 6:06PM
I'll wait for June 5. Fuck EA and their pay for special shit tactics.
Why should I have to preorder a game JUST to get early access to something we should all be getting at the same time?
Plus after the beta debacle I'm not sure if this game will be good anymore. Even with Conquest added in (after all the screaming).
voodoo_craig @ May 21st 2008 6:06PM
I will probably buy this game and enjoy it, but it doesn't stop me hating it!
Do EA actively go out and try to p!ss us off?
BrokenAbacus @ May 21st 2008 6:08PM
"all the pay-for-weapons rigmarole"
I really haven't been following this game. And I'm too lazy to search the interwebs to figure it out. Anybody know what he's refering to? is it real world money or ingame money?
DangerMouse @ May 21st 2008 6:09PM
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http://www.joystiq.com/2008/04/08/yes-there-is-a-boycott-of-battlefield-bad-company/
BrokenAbacus @ May 21st 2008 6:28PM
F that!
Chase @ May 21st 2008 6:08PM
The more EA decides to act like fucktards, the less I want to buy their game (and this started off as a game I wanted to buy).
Bleu @ May 21st 2008 7:06PM
fuck battlefield and fuck EA. I never freakin heard of paying for weapons.....not even maps motherfuckin weapons....ARE YOU KIDDIN ME??? I dont support EA so I will never buy a game from them again. FUCK EA FUCK'EM!
Ally @ May 21st 2008 7:25PM
Have to agree here, although i was looking forward to this game at first, after all the crap im really not bothered about it anymore.
Shame, had a lot of promise as well. :/
Ally @ May 21st 2008 7:25PM
Have to agree here, although i was looking forward to this game at first, after all the crap im really not bothered about it anymore.
Shame, had a lot of promise as well. :/
ronald.raygun @ May 21st 2008 6:24PM
i dont know why all you guys are griping. I just bought a Sobe extreme energry drink and under the cap it says i got a free pair of orange plaid fatigues in the upcoming ea: battlefield bad company game!!
dabamf @ May 21st 2008 6:26PM
It's too risky to pre-order games anymore. There are way too many Turok's, Haze's, and LAIR's out there that instantly flop.
BrokenAbacus @ May 21st 2008 6:29PM
agreed
Vegeta (aka Ska Oreo) @ May 21st 2008 6:56PM
bleh don't care about shitty pay to play weapons. As long as the game is good, I'll give it a chance.
JangoGod @ May 21st 2008 7:00PM
For the love of everything cute and fluffy, YOU DON'T NEED TO PAY ANYTHING to get the weapons.
At rank 25, which for cod4 players, wont take near as long. You then unlock ALL 10 weapons. No money.
To make it more awesome, they are coming out with conquest mode which will (Of course) be free.
Now this demo pre-order is just complete crap on EA's part. I will not defend this.
Chameleon @ May 21st 2008 8:20PM
"For the love of everything cute and fluffy"
classic ....
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theturtle363 @ May 21st 2008 7:02PM
It may represent a total loss of customer service and respect, as well as the total greediness of modern corporations, but it does let me blow up EVERYTHING. Which is exactly what I've always wanted in a game
Jhongerkong @ May 21st 2008 7:50PM
"Anybody starting to long for the "I give you $50, you give me a game" days of yestergeneration?"
Hell yes! I miss buying a cartridge and knowing its jam packed with awesomeness. Nowadays, its buying a cd with some awesome, but the rest of the awesome goes into DLC which in turn, makes it not-awesome.
Chameleon @ May 21st 2008 8:21PM
i affectionately refer to them as 'the good ol days' ....
RastamanD @ May 21st 2008 8:30PM
you can buy a disc full of awesome....when that awesome starts to get stale you download some more awesome.
you just have to avoid shit like horse armor and most EA games.
Joel @ May 21st 2008 10:15PM
Geez there is so much freakin hatred....this game is going to kick ass...they fixed all the glitches from the beta, they are adding conquest, its going to be fun. You don't have to pay for anythign extra, you don't need to pay for the special edition for hte weapons you unlock them. Everybody needs to get over themselves....anyways you can unlock weapons before the game even comes out! just playing hte demo on the 5th unlocks a smg for you! the pre order a sniper rifle, sign up for news letter gets you a lmg.
SoCoolCurt (PSN: KillaKornbread) @ May 22nd 2008 3:07AM
dude screw that noise. i was kinda interested in this game after watching the trailers and on the PSN but i could care less about it now. whatever happened to paying for a game and having to unlock the extra weapons by getting good at said game. now you just have to straight up buy them or jump through hoops. i hope no one buys this shit so companies stop trying to screw us over.
Joel @ May 22nd 2008 10:17AM
dude you can unlock the weapons by leveling up. You don't have to get the gold version or jump through hoops! you can level up to level 25, it doesn't take to long took about 2 or 3 weeks of play about 2 or 3 hours day on the beta to get up there. The game is going to be great!
Duncan @ May 22nd 2008 10:05AM
Isn't the point of demos convincing people to buy your game?
nickp @ May 29th 2008 3:37PM
I pre ordered the damn game a week ago and today, teh 29th, i called Ga,stop which participates in the early demo shit and they said they have no idea and ill have to wait til Jue 5. I have nothing from them or xbox in my email about how to get the early demo so wtf do i do. Ill be a SOB if i pre ordered it and cant get the early demo when i KNOW hundreds of kids are sitting on it playing right now. How do I go about getting acess to this early demo after i preordered it??????
Ghost132603 @ Jun 2nd 2008 6:30AM
The Battlefield Bad Company Beta contains 20 locked guns, 10 can be unlocked through playing the game, while 5 of the other 10 will be unlocked in free promotions before and after release. The remaining 5 unlockable weapons will only be made available through purchase of the Gold Edition of the game or by achieving the final rank (level 25) in the game
dvntsvnt @ Jun 2nd 2008 12:13PM
those last five will be available to all users after they reach max level (25) in the game.
http://www.joystiq.com/2008/03/24/ea-explains-battlefield-bcs-pay-to-play-weapons/
Furze @ Jun 4th 2008 10:05AM
Battlefield Bad Company is a big let down so far. I've played the demo and there are some serious things wrong with the game. For one whats with the health? if you get wounded and you don't have a health jab then you have to play the game squinting because the F##King screen goes all hazy, why not just have health regeneration? Also why cant you lay the f##k down, you can only crouch, what good is that if you're trying to dodge bullets. Don't get me wrong the graphics are stella, and so is blowing a hole through a building, even the sound is amazing, but the gameplay is terrible, you move like an idiot, with a response time of a snail, and the aiming for most weapons is useless, and why oh why must you come out of the scope view for sniping evrytime you reload your bloody rifle. Thats bull!!! Thats it i've named a few things, there are more but i can't be bothered. nothing like Battlefield 2. I'm dissapointed DICE.