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EA has confirmed to GameSpot that it no longer intends to charge players of Battlefield: Bad Company to gain access to new weapons for use in the game. The publisher will now offer all weapons unlocked out of the box in the Gold edition of the game, with players of the standard edition having to level-up their character to level 25 to gain access to the previously premium content.
“It all started when the beta came out,” said Karl-Magnus Troedsson, senior producer on Battlefield: Bad Company. “The beta is a beta. We had some problems with explanation of the weapons that are available or you can see on the unlocking page. We had some weapons that we were planning to release through various marketing programs, but they were actually flagged there like you were supposed to buy these weapons through Xbox Live Marketplace, and that was a misunderstanding between marketing and us the developers. We clarified that in the last statement that went out, but lately there’s been a lot going on about the Gold Edition weapons.”
Troedsson continued: “I should pretty much start at the end, we listen a lot to what people say out there. I think that’s important to show, because we don’t have time to comment on everything, because there’s so much noise out there, but DICE is built upon the multiplayer community, and we do listen to what people say out there. When we saw this big uprise about people that really felt it was dissatisfying that some people bought the Gold Edition, those five weapons you couldn’t get or that you had to buy if you had the ordinary version of the game, that we just decided that all weapons will be free in the game, and that’s how it is now.”
Despite the turnaround on weapon DLC, Troedsson isn’t ruling out other premium DLC in the future, noting: “We won’t say that we won’t do it, but it’s not something that we’re planning right now. It all depends on the feedback we get and how much people like the game.”
An EA rep added: “There’s other content we’re looking at after the game releases.”
Battlefield: Bad Company is scheduled for release on Xbox 360 and PS3 in June 2008.
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Battlefield: Bad Company
- Platform(s): PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, Xbox One
- Genre(s): Action, First Person, Shooter
