Has EA Taken Preorder DLC Too Far?

IIRC, EA has already said the extra stuff isnt unbalancing, so chalk this up to another bunch of whiney sad nerd ragers with an internet petition that will go nowhere, just like the MW2 and L4D2 boycotts.

Precisely. They're a bunch of wusses - skill will still win the day. I play BFBC2 running through all the different weapons to get platinum stars on them, and I still woop total butt on the points board, and am usually on the winning team, regardless of what I'm using (except snipers, I'm a horrible sniper, no patience). These guys just need to man up. And trying to convince me to cancel my pre-order to boycott getting bonus pre-order ****? Fat chance! What's the point of pre-ordering otherwise, it's not like amazon or gamestop is going to run out of copies!

Daniel, the map pack is the only thing exclusive to the limited edition, and the controversy happened for Bad Company 1 as well. Warmaster, some times it works. Developers actually do pay attention to those kinds of things and do care, there are complex reasons for why they can't always do what the community wants- some should be obvious.

The cold hard fact of the matter is that in both occasions when they tried to force exclusive weapons on people the active community was almost completely united in opposition to it, and in at least the first case their cries won out (i totally forget the outcome of the second incident). It would be foolish to let this be a sole indicator, but if you go to the EA Battlefield 3 forum and look at the very top poll about this subject you will see that 2000+ people plainly stated NO, an overwhelming margin, this could possibly be a rigged poll, but there is no proof so take that poll with a grain of salt.



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EA's reputation and past attempts will only make this time around more intense.

I personally am against making exclusive items which have a purpose that affects the core game-play. It doesn't matter if its balanced, what ever that means in Battlefield 3s context. If this was just some vanity thing like the skins in Bad Company 2, I could care less, but we're talking about something that actually has an impact in the game environment, and its only for those who buy from certain places.

You have to maintain a constant vigil against these kinds of practices regardless of whether its a big deal or not, because publishers are CONSTANTLY gauging what they can get out of consumers. This being one such event. This is a boundary that they're violating.

Thats how I think about it right now.