After word got out that EA would offer weapons for Battlefield: Bad Company for sale through PlayStation Network and Xbox Live Marketplace, the publisher has decided not to go ahead with such plans. As previously reported, five exclusive weapons would be available through various free promotional programs, while another five would be given with the Gold Edition of the game and on the Marketplace. That is not the case anymore: “Instead, 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.”

Coming to damage control is producer Karl-Magnus Troedsson, who asserts that DICE is built upon the multiplayer community and that they “do listen to what people say.” He adds: “When we saw this big uprise about people that really felt it was dissatisfying that some people bought the Gold Edition, those five weapons you couldn’t get or that you had to buy if you had the ordinary version of the game, that we just decided that all weapons will be free in the game, and that’s how it is now.”