A fierce backlash from the gaming community has prompted Electronic Arts to scrap its plans to sell downloadable weapons for the Xbox 360 version of Battlefield: Bad Company.
The controversy began during the game's beta, when players realized that certain weapons would only be available to those who bought the Gold Edition of the game, or who paid to download them from Xbox Live. Forums began buzzing with outrage, while website Sarcastic Gamer called for a full-on Bad Company boycott.
EA couldn't help but notice the furor, and quickly decided to make all weapons free of charge, but players willing to fork out the extra $10 for the Gold Edition will still have the edge, reports GameSpot.
Anyone buying the Gold Edition will have access to the five weapons in question immediately, but everyone else will have to earn them by achieving rank 25, the highest rank in the game. In effect, this gives
Gold Edition players a timed exclusive on the weapons.
This certainly teaches a valuable lesson about what is and is not considered fair game for downloadable or premium content. What do you think of EA's solution?
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EA Scraps Bad Company weapon DLC [GameSpot]
