{"id":12355,"date":"2011-06-13T14:03:00","date_gmt":"2011-06-13T12:03:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T22:00:00","slug":"battlefield-3-limited-edition-causes-boycott","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/12355-battlefield-3-limited-edition-causes-boycott","title":{"rendered":"Battlefield 3 Limited Edition causes boycott"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&rsquo;s boycott time again, and this time Activision is not on the receiving end. EA <a href=\"http:\/\/www.battlefield.com\/uk\/battlefield3\/blog\/battlefield-3-limited-edition-physical-warfare-pack-available\" target=\"_blank\">recently announced<\/a> that people who pre-order the Battlefield 3 Limited Edition: Physical Warfare Pack will get special in game items.<\/p>\n<p>Those items include the Type 88 light machine gun &ldquo;with bipod for superior firepower and total zone control&rdquo;, &ldquo;the SKS sniper rifle flash suppressor that provides increased stealth abilities for Recon soldiers&rdquo;, and the &ldquo;lethal armour-piercing flechette ammo for the DAO-12 semi-automatic shotgun that is sure to tear through anything in its path.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>These items will be exclusive to customers who pre-order the Limited Edition version of the game. On top of these items, players will get the Karkland digital expansion pack for free, which unlocks four recreated Battlefield 2 maps.<\/p>\n<p>The problem is that if you don&rsquo;t pre-order this special edition version of the game, you will not be able to access all the same weapons as those who do, which makes for a great incentive to pre-order, but also raises questions about multiplayer fairness and balance.<\/p>\n<p>As a result, gamers are calling for a boycott of the game unless EA changes its mind about the Limited Edition exclusive content.<\/p>\n<p>Incidentally, EA tried to pull the same stunt with Battlefield: Bad Company, but a boycott started by Sarcasticgamer ultimately lead to EA scrapping the idea.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Update<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>We have confirmed with EA that the Limited Edition: Physical Warfare Pack edition of Battlefield 3 will be available exclusively through BTGames.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/14679-Battlefield-3-being-boycotted-over-Limited-Edition-exclusive-items?p=456007#post456007\" target=\"_self\">Discuss Battlefield 3 boycott <\/a><\/strong><\/span>in the forums<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gamers protest the inclusion of exclusive weapons for Limited Edition pre-orders <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":161,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12355","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12355","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/161"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12355"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12355\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}