Sony and EA have reneged on a promise to include Battlefield 1943 with all PlayStation 3 copies of Battlefield 3.
The move was announced at Sony's E3 press conference in July, where Jack Tretton said that making use of the extra storage space on Blu-ray discs meant the PS3 release of Battlefield 3 would represent "one of the most exciting games of the year bundled free with one of the most popular PSN games."
After gamers in North America - where Battlefield 3 was released yesterday - noticed that Battlefield 1943 was conspicuous by its absence, a tweet from the official Battlefield account said that the free game had been replaced by early access to DLC, which was announced last month.
"In lieu of 1943 being available on disc," the tweet reads, "EA has made all BF3 expansions available early to PS3 customers."
The news follows reports overnight of server problems on the Xbox 360 version. Battlefield 3 will be released in Europe on Friday.
Source: Twitter
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4Sounds like something sony & ea would do.
Is this really surprising? No. Fable II was very similar in its disappointment as the collector's edition was whittled away down to nothing. The difference? We knew in advance rather than popping in the disc and finding out and having a reactionary statement from the publisher/developer/console manufacturer.
In the grand scheme of things I am not sure how much value is in having DLC ahead of time of the XBOX crowd. At the very least they could have included a code within the box or even a way to have the game added to your download queue via the EA Online Pass system for the first 6 months at least.
This is sad day as I was looking forward to playing 1943 for the first time.
Literally only announcing that it's not on there after people have already bought it seems very very low to me. They obviously knew it wasn't on there since (at the very least) the disks were printed. It should really have been announced then.
the exclusivity they've offered to ps3 users instead of bf1943: it's only a week before xbox and pc.
a fucking week!!
does that sound worth it to anyone here? i dont think so. EA being dicks again.