Battlefield: Bad Company 2 includes 'VIP code' for free day-one DLC

by David Hinkle on Feb 17th 2010 1:39PM

John Riccitiello's "Project Ten Dollar" endeavor -- in which EA looks to combat used-game sales by offering free DLC goodies with new purchases -- has another game marching under its banner: Battlefield: Bad Company 2. Just like Mass Effect 2, the game will ship with a code that enables access to free DLC. The first batch of add-on content for DICE's shooter will be a set of new multiplayer maps, MTV Multiplayer reports.

"In the future you will get more content, for free, if you have this VIP code," noted producer Patrick Bach, describing a free content delivery mechanism similar to BioWare's Cerberus Network. Also of note: the VIP code will be attached to your EA.com account, so make sure you keep potential hazards in mind if you buy Bad Company 2 when it launches on March 2, 2010.

[Thanks, Michael]

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Tags: battlefield, battlefield-bad-company, battlefield-bad-company-2, dice, dlc, ea, Electronic-Arts, fps, Microsoft, project-ten-dollar, vip-code, Xbox-360

Reader Comments (56)

Awesome. So if I want to let my friend borrow the game, or play the game on another account, or let another member of my household play the game, they wont get access to any of that content?

As EA continues to take away value from its products in order to combat the 100% legitimate second hand market that's present in nearly every consumer product out there, I'm going to continue to go out of my way to buy their products second hand or just not buy their products at all, even if I would have bought them brand new on day one.

While some of you may be okay with this system now because you can't see the problems with it, your support of it will only make it worse. When these codes start being used to redeem major parts of the games then you'll be up in arms about it and you'll only have yourselves to blame for letting it get to that point.

sweet deal

Backstab and A Bridge Too Far from BF2:MC. Confirmed.

Ii just bought the ganme today and tried to put the VIP code and it didn't work!

How in the hell does this make u buy new instead of used when u can BUY the damn code anyway as soon as they fix the store.

hey if any of u get a code and cant use it plea email it to me it gives me 700 battlefunds on battlefield hereos. please send me one at taylor.michaels@ymail.com

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