You Want in on the Battlefield 3 Beta? It’ll Cost You 4 Million Microsoft Points

"Xbox players who didn’t obtain a Battlefield 3 beta code will receive a shocker when they try to download it off the Xbox Marketplace today."

[Gamer636]

This story has been on kotaku since very, very early this morning http://kotaku.com/5844982/b... just saying...

[WANNAGETHIGH]

And they wonder why I choose PSN -____-

[joebahrjoebahr]

you have 1 bubble dude, i dont think people really give a shit what you choose. its obvious your a fanboy. Also, psn isn't getting the demo until later today. BECAUSE sony screwed up.

[lociefer]

@joe
its already on EU PS store

[dark-hollow]

like the psn never had issues of its own....

[Trophywhore]

"you have 1 bubble dude, i dont think people really give a shit what you choose."

Thats another problem with the bubble system. Profiling.

"Also, psn isn't getting the demo until later today. BECAUSE sony screwed up."
Oh gee whatever will will we do until later today?

[lorianguy]

@joebahrjoebahr It's been on the EU store for almost 5 hours.

[MaxXAttaxX]

@joebahrjoebahr
No need to be so sensitive about his choice.

[Bull5hifT]

Damn My Little Brother accidently Bought It.. . ;( .. ... I Was saving up to Buy Activision, Ea, Rockstargames.. Ohh well

[RyuCloudStrife]

who cares?

[Kurt Russell]

Not me bro.

[princejb134]

how much money is that in cash? answer a whole lot

[QuodEratDemonstrandm]

It's 4,294,967,295..... so $53,687,091.19.

Yes that's 53 million dollars. Because it's four BILLION points. Author needs to brush up on his numbers.

Edit: he fixed the title. Now he just needs to fix it here on N4G.

[SilentNegotiator]

Hmmmm....I'm either going to get this or horse armor. lol

[playboi28]

Damn, I bought it at full price. I coulda got a falcon...

[Liquid_Ocelot]

xDDD

[joebahrjoebahr]

how is that? im downloading it for free right now. The reason for the screwed up codes early beta codes not going out is because of sony. I have NO reason to be a fanboy ,and if you don't believe me just call the origin phone number or EA help line and ask. Sony NA also isn't getting their open demo today until much later.

[lorianguy]

It's been out for almost 5 hours.

[joebahrjoebahr]

noone believes me huh?
guess i was wrong about the psn demo being released later?

idiots

[SITH]

That is about $49,900. That would be a very nice car. The same exact thing occurred with the halo reach beta. It was visible on Xbox.com at a high price but not visible on your console. Obviously MS loaded the beta on marketplace which we all know in about a week the beta will be accesible by all gamers to participate. The price is just deterring early downloads by tagging an outrageous price on it. Such none news this is especially for those with early access.

[limewax]

Actually the Beta is to be available right at this time today, so yes MS messed up believe it or not, they are capable of such. reference...Windows vista

In fact it is now listed as free, so yes it was MS's mistake

[SITH]

Regardless of when it is available now or later it was blocked until it was to start. The EXACT same way they did the Halo reach beta.

"Bungie previously released a demo on May 24th, 2011, featuring a single player level from the game's story mode, a multiplayer competitive map, and a cooperative Firefight mission.[48] Microsoft later listed Reach as an Xbox Live Marketplace download on August 12, 2010, at a price of 99999 Microsoft Points (~US$1250).[49] A spokesperson confirmed the download was for media review purposes, and that there were no plans to distribute the game to the public through Games on Demand.[49] Four days later, hackers managed to access, download, and distribute the game online;[50][51] Microsoft claimed to be actively investigating the matter.[52] Halo 2, Halo 3, and ODST were similarly leaked ahead of release."

http://webcache.googleuserc...

Microsoft is not infallible. I freaking now that. My point is which I thought was as clear as a sunny day, was that it had a temporary restriction just like halo reach, frontlines fuel of war, and now battlefield 3 beta. Three mistakes with 3 games in similar ways to avoid early beta leaks on Xbox live. Yeah what a mistake. And I am sure many other betas had a price listed temporarily.

[kma2k]

well f it, why not buy two then!

[QuodEratDemonstrandm]

It's 4,294,967,295.....
Four BILLION two hundred and ninety four million nine hundred and sixty seven thousand two hundred and ninety five points. This works out to $53,687,091.19. That's fifty three million six hundred and eighty seven thousand and ninety one dollars, and nineteen cents.
The BF3 beta might be nice, but it's not worth 53 million dollars.
Anyway: BILLION not million. Author is a moron.

Update: the title got fixed. On the article, still needs fixing here.

[thegamefanatics]

Sorry for the error in the title. 'Twas a traumatic experience.

[geddesmond]

Lol seems like MS is pissed of with the 1 week PS3 exclusive DLC deal. Thats sure to do Dice some damage with the Xbox 360 fanbase. Here you can have the beta but pays us loads of money.

[RickHiggity]

I'm starting to think these little hiccups are intentional just to mess with people. lol

[lorianguy]

It's the student intern playing pranks. The same one who tripped over the power cable to PSN earlier this year.

[RememberThe357]

And it was down for a month because everyone else didn't know where the outlet was.

IT WAS BEHIND THE MINI-FRIDGE THE WHOLE TIME!

[khamvongsa09]

Must of been a hell of a power cable for it to take one month to plug it in xD

[OC_MurphysLaw]

hmm... I put in my que and downloaded it at 5am PDT this morning and you know how much it cost me? FREE.

moving on.

[Ranich]

They have that since people are given early access to the beta, such as Kotaku and other websites. They set it at that outrageous price because they don't want random players downloading it, while they give these sites some sort of code and they download it through that.

[TheNocturnus]

I already posted the pictures about this in the Battlefield 3 thread in the forums, at 1:00 am this morning.

[skweejal]

Mmmmm, that PC beta tastes great. 2 days ahead of everyone else and better graphics/resolution? Thanks DICE!

[Ace_Man_6]

lol another Microsoft fail. Mind you, Microsoft IS a fail

[Ranich]

Not quite, but yeah. You're most likely saying that while running their version of an operating system.

[Ace_Man_6]

Funny enough I don't have a single Microsoft product, and I'm also using my iPad 2 and I'm charging it using my MacBook, sooooo yeah lol

[vickers500]

@Ace Man

Lol, an iPad 2 AND a MacBook? I'd say you're the one who fails. Either that or you have WAY too much money on your hands.

[Ranich]

@Ace_Man_6: What are you doing on a gaming website? You're only able to run about fifteen games on the whole market, so I think you're the one who fails. 8-)

[Knightofelemia]

Its a problem nothing new there by tomorrow EA or Microsoft will have it fixed.