Bad Company 2's Onslaught mode deploys June 22 for $10

If anyone here needs more reason to be annoyed with EA/DICE, you should check this out, straight from their web site:

"Also this month, Battlefield: Bad Company 2 Kit Shortcuts will be available on Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 for those players who don't have time to spend leveling up to unlock all the kit specific items but still want to be competitive with those who have unlocked everything. The Kit Shortcuts will give you the unlocks available for kit each kit while still allowing you to progress through the ranking system as normal and will be available for 560 MS Points/$6.99 individually or if you want the whole bundle of kit shortcuts including the 7 available vehicle unlocks, 1600 MS Points on Xbox Live and $19.99/17.99€."

http://blogs.battlefield.ea.com/battlefield_bad_company/archive/2010/06/10/prepare-for-the-onslaught.aspx

Why have people EARN stuff when you can just CHARGE them for it??

What I want to know is if this is EA's doing, Dices, or a little bit of both. Just seems a little hard to believe that a developer would do this to it's fanbase of its own free will.

I was really thinking of picking up this game since MW2 is getting terrible so is it worth the buy or not?

So now that everybody hates this I guess Dice can just mosey on over to Mirror's Edge 2, right?


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Good thing I'm hooked on Red Dead Redemption.

Wait, wait, wait....you're pissed because you have to pay money in order to add points to your e-peen?

Seriously, who gives a damn? The achievements dont do anything for you. They dont make your character stronger, and arent exchangable for real world money, or even MS funbucks. Yeah, they can be fun to get, but getting those SPECACT acheviements means that you had money to blow on stupid shit. Nothing else, not like those achievements require work.

By the same measure you should get pissed off at ALL DLC and expansion packs that ever add any new achievements to a game.

You paid $60 (or $50) for the single player, multiplayer,the promise of new maps in the future, and 1000 obtainable achievement points. You got your single player, your multiplayer, your 1000 achivement points, and (sort of) new maps. I can get being pissed off about the new maps not really being new, but its not like not getting this SPECACT stuff harms you in any way. The actual in game advantage is minor at best.

Damn people are spoiled these days. Does anyone play games for...you know...fun anymore? Or is it all "OMFG NEED MOAR GAMERSCORE NAO!"

this is the $10 of DLC VIP's should be getting!!! oh and that other stuff wasnt DLC its just modes for existing maps that they should have included with the game in the first place!

shame on u dice

this is the $10 of DLC VIP's should be getting!!! oh and that other stuff wasnt DLC its just modes for existing maps that they should have included with the game in the first place!

shame on u dice

I am loving BFBC2 so I am in on this, no matter the 10 dollars. Also, the fact that it will help my stats, which stink right now, gives me hope to get in the positive and out of the negative.

way i see it anyone that paid $30 for the MW2 maps can stuff it, EA you can have my $10. anything for some more battlefield, yummy!!!!

What exactly did the VIP ever get?

Two pathetic "map packs" that just had slightly reworked versions of the exact same map included in every retail game?

At least the Mass Effect 2 Cerberus network had some worthwhile, quality content in it for the 10 extra bucks of buying it new.

If DICE keeps going this way, they're going to be absolutely crushed by Call of Duty and whatever it is Respawn is working on.

Now they're charging money for a mode? I'm disgusted.

I think the mode should be free and not cost $10. I probably won't buy it not that I am against the price or anything. I can see them charging $10 for maps but $10 for a new mode? I know EA/Dice want to make money off DLC and I have nothing against them doing so. I wonder how many people will be buying this when it comes out in the next couple of weeks?

I don't know 3 other people who will buy this, so... no thanks.

I never bought the MW2 maps. Didn't care to spend my time over analyzing the situation either. It's a consumers market. Why is that still so hard for people to understand? There shouldn't be any shock nor disgust any longer. This isn't years ago. This isn't horse armor.

Buy the DLC or don't. Move on.

Be using your free time to ACTUALLY play the games you like instead of complaining.

Resist all urge to engage in anonymous dick slapping competitions over the internet too ... unless you want to be briefed on the definition of poetic justice and to be asked repeatedly how egg on the face tastes.