SarcasticGamer.com EA Boycott
Thursday, April 10th, 2008
In case you’ve been banged up in some Cuban jail for the past 2 weeks or so, here is the lowdown with this story.
For the first time, a small gaming satire blog has come out of the woodwork to speak their mind, and at all but Battlefield Bad Company, a game that EA seemed to have a little too much control over, and were selling extra guns that they said “…don’t unbalance the game.”
Doc Adam’s a founder of Sarcastic Gamer told fans “…what is the point of having to buy a gun if they don’t DO ANYTHING ANYWAY!!!!” in blind rage another founder Lono, decided to start the Sarcastic Gamer boycott. Videos, and endless emails where made to different gaming blogs to spread the word, and even “propaganda” you could say was posted left right and centre all over the website.
Recently after posting, the firestorm of crazy angry and more than that but pissed off users emailed almost every possible source to spread the SG boycott, then after 2 podcasts of dictatorship and screaming to the “9,000 listeners” to go and do something about it, IGN finally found a loose end with EA.
“IGN: So there’s no charge for the Gold Edition guns?
Karl-Magnus: No, there’s no charge for any of the guns in the game. All of the guns in the game can be achieved without purchasing them. All guns are available to everyone. However, we want to give some exclusivity to those who buy the Gold Edition. They will get the five Gold Edition weapons from Day One when they put the disc in. People that don’t buy the Gold Edition can get the five additional weapons by getting to the final rank in the game. There will be a golden, shiny five-weapon unlock when they hit level 25 in the game.”
So that’s a WIN for the little guys of the internet, now those who purchase the Gold Edition will receive the weapons out of the box, while all others will gain access to the weapons by ranking up their online personas to the maximum level.
What do you think this will cause further down the line, EA may have lost some profit, and they would have given the guns away for free eventually.
