{"id":5700,"date":"2010-04-01T10:44:00","date_gmt":"2010-04-01T08:44:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T22:00:00","slug":"dice-doesn-t-don-t-ever-want-to-charge-for-maps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/5700-dice-doesn-t-don-t-ever-want-to-charge-for-maps","title":{"rendered":"DICE doesn\u2019t \u201cdon\u2019t ever want to charge\u201d for maps"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Speaking to Xbox World 360 magazine (via CVG), DICE&rsquo;s senior producer Patrick Bach says that the company doesn&rsquo;t &ldquo;ever want to charge for our maps and insisted to EA that this attitude was crucial when it came to keeping our community happy and playing together&rdquo;, adding that &ldquo;generous&rdquo; amounts of DLC were scheduled for Bad Company 2.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, Bach slyly avoids mentioning that this really only applies to gamers who&rsquo;ve bought the game brand new and redeemed a single-use VIP code (and PC gamers, of course). Anyone who decides to pick up Bad Company 2 for Xbox 360 or PS3 secondhand will have to hand over $15 to get the same VIP status. That&rsquo;s the price of freedom, boys and girls.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;We&#8217;re owned by EA,&rdquo; says Bach, &ldquo;but we&#8217;re still very much DICE.&rdquo; It&rsquo;s just that DICE&rsquo;s DLC model also looks exactly like EA&rsquo;s, obviously.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Battlefield: Bad Company 2 dev loves you, wants you to have free stuff<\/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-5700","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5700","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=5700"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5700\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}