Hey everyone, the Internet won!

Matt Hawkins Contributing Writer, Video Games

Remember the stink about all those pre-order exclusives for Battlefield 3, and the pending protest? Well, it’s over. The war has been won! Kinda.

bf3b Hey everyone, the Internet won!

The news broke just a few hours ago via Twitter: “We will unlock the Physical Warfare Pack to all BF3 players later – for free. Full details on the blog.”

And author of the blog post kicks of the explanation wit: “I would like to start by clarifying that the Physical Warfare Pack is a time-based exclusive.” Sure whatever… maybe it was, who really knows at this point. Guess it doesn’t matter.

What does is that everyone will soon have equal access to the extra guns and bullets. Eventually. But in the very beginning, those who pre-ordered with have first dibs on the extras, and we’ll see if they really do have zero impact on the final game.

After the “we’re still cool, right?” comes another last ditch attempt at shopping at Gamestop or whatever (the DLC was only announced for a UK retailer, but you know the same deal is going down here), we are reminded that the Back to Karkand DLC comes free, which will not be available for day one for the rest of the world either, plus… most important part… it’s not already on the disc. Just to cover their asses completely.

But yeah, I don’t even like Battlefield and this is fantastic news. I was really afraid of EA not listening and all those protestors buckling at the last minute, which would have looked retarded and proven to the powers that be that gamers will basically bend over at the end of the day. It also demonstrated that online bitching and moaning CAN work. Though it remains to be seen if Hollywood’s version of Akira will have all white dudes after-all.

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