Battlefield: Bad Company boycott is born

Based on the widely reported news that EA has confirmed that Battlefield: Bad Company will not ship with all of its weapons available to players, opting instead to charge players for extra weapons, it appears at least a few people are upset enough to try and do something about it.

From the article: "How, in good conscience, can EA take more money out of fan's pockets, who have already spent 60 bucks on the game. EA has said that the game's weapons are appropriately balanced and that the new guns won't unbalance a game. If that's the case, then why buy them? What value do they even have? I'm not buying what EA is selling and you shouldn't either.

It's time to boycott EA's Battlefield: Bad Company."

[LGFreedom]

The beta is good, no doubt, but unless they change their DLC, I agree with the guys from sarcasticgamer, I will not buy this game.

I'm voting with my wallet.

[Drekken]

after the crap they put together for AoT, EA is on my Shiit list. I am done with this garbage company.

[gamesR4fun]

ya i wont either but lots of stupid peeps out there already holding their collective ankles for the ol EA ramrod

[bumnut]

it will be a dry ramrod too!!

[cellypower]

EA you $***.

[shadowghost752]

Not buying it, wouldn't get it even if it was being given away.

EA always rip us, the consumer, off no matter what console we own

[shadowghost752]

EA recently are producing shoddy games (i.e. Half Life 2 on the PS3) and they now dare to charge us for downloading a few guns, pathetic.

Not buying it

[JSA-Gamer]

The Beta is great fun, too bad EA is screwing the long time faithful with bonus guns you have to buy.

I'm voting with my wallet too. I vote boycott.

[Tyetan]

EA is a producer of crap for the most part and to charge extra for that crap is just criminal. So I agree, boycott the sorry SOBs.

[Voozi]

I'm just annoyed that there's no prone feature...unless it's going to come in a future update and we're going to have to pay MS Points in order to be able to prone lol...(I kid I kid...but does EA!? XD)

But yea kinda dumb they took out prone considering you prone to take cover & fire your gun...

[bumnut]

no sh!t?

my friend told me about this but i just assumed he did not know the controls well enough.

screw ea, spend the money on extra maps for cod4.

[Relcom]

Haven't bought EA since Madden 08, so i'm doing my part

[RitzDaGC]

Seriously, f*** EA and f*** this game!

[BeaArthur]

I'm still bitter that I couldn't access the beta last night because their servers were messed up. If I really like the beta I may pick the game up but there is no chance that I would ever buy extra weapons for it.

[GamerSigma]

I don't support blatant nickel and dime schemes in regard to DLC. If something is worth it to me, I'll buy it. If it's not, I won't buy it. But if I feel it's a blatant attempt to work money out of my pocket "because they can", I get soured to the whole game completely.

I will not be buying Battlefield: Bad Company the game _or_ the DLC. Nice move EA.

[SKUD]

WHEN WILL THE MADNESS END!!!

[Lord Vader]

You know what this has been coming for along time...

Maybe it is time to standup to getting nickel & dimed like this...

$60 is too much to pay for these games, much less our European friends that pay $70-$90 U.S. for games...

Besides, after playing the beta, it's pretty much the same thing as COD4 with vehicles.

I'm voting with my wallet too. I vote boycott.

[bumnut]

they did the same with the godfather, i found a cool looking gun, went to pick it up and a message appeared saying this gun costs 150 ms points!!!!!!!!!

wtf? it was already in the game!

people can talk about boycotting the game, but the sad reality is that most 360/ps3 owners won't know until they buy the game. then it is too late.

[BeaArthur]

haha, I remember that in the God Father. The first time I came across one of those weapons I just kind of looked at it for a second and then said "you're kidding right". I don't mind shelling out money for extra maps and DLC like the kind in Mass Effect but I will never pay extra money for weapons.

[Rob4Vendetta]

It's always the same with this company...trying to rip off the consumer...As one of the largest gaming companies, how can you put out such crappy games all the time?? how is that possible?? madden??? please....Anyways i've been boycotting EA for a looong time now, eversince madden 06-08 were the same *&^%

[shadowghost752]

i no man, i was looking forward to playing Half Life 2 on my PS3 but because it was a crappy port i failed to enjoy it, thanks again EA

[VanDamme]

Shadowghost isn't a very girly name. You sure you're no man?

[Salvadore]

I'm really a fan of Dice because they are great developers with a lot of passion and it really hurts me to see them being stranglehold by EA's lucrative ways. I was looking forward to play Bad Company, but I shouldn't be forced to pay an additional amount of money for weapons with no value. I hope this really teach them a lesson as it's hurting their image and their talented developers.

[VampHuntD]

The devil that is microtransactions rears it's ugly head yet again....I'm with sarcastic gamer, down with this nonsense. If the game has content already created befroe release it should be on teh disc. If the content is created afterwards as a thought of the developer to expand gameplay (like Halo 3, COD4 Maps, Warhawk Dropship) then they deserve to be paid for that extra time put into it. EA is smoking something good if they think people should pay for stuff that should already be in the game.

[Nameless]

A boycott wont work. The average consumer will buy the extra weapons. In the end the fan boys dont matter

[Lord Vader]

I disagree. It may not "work" but it will send a msg to EA. All we "hardcore" gamers have to do is msg all of our friends & support articles like this, & dont buy the game. Every copy that doesnt sell WILL HURT.

I quit buying Madden every year along time ago even though I'm a big football fan. Every copy that is not sold will hurt EA. Also, if they had any sense, they should be trying to get away from this kind of shady business practises they have been doing for YEARS. They continue to tarnish their image in the gaming community.

[Forbidden_Darkness]

no matter what you all think, i'm going to buy the games and might even buy the guns also, i'm not going to miss out on a game just because you have the option of buying new weapons later. this makes absolutely no sense! EA doesn't make you pay for the guns just so you can play the game, you can still play the game and have loads of fun and not buy the weapons!!!!!!!

[bumnut]

with thinking like that you could get a job at ea (joke)

i understand what you are saying but ea need to be tought a lesson.

and the only way to do that is with not buying the game.

the ea statement does not make sense, you can buy the guns but it won't make a difference?!?!? why buy them