So Battlefield 3 is using an online pass system. If you didn’t see it coming, a game focused primarily on multi-player, used games taking up unpaid server space and EA using this trick to feed some money off of the used market, then you can at least be attributed to being somewhat more innocent than the rest of us.
However, among a slew of other problems Battlefield 3 has had at launch, one of these problems that the mainstream media seems to strangely be letting EA get away with, their reputations unmarred, is that often, the online passes included with new copies of Battlefield 3 simply don’t work. At all.
The same thing happened with Driver: San Francisco and Ubisoft had taken the online pass system away (or to be precise, made it entirely free ) and let the gamers off the money leash.
EA refuses, however, and have insisted that if players want to get online, they must go to their retailers to receive another. That’s all. This leaves many having to shell out an arbitrary ten bucks to get to the main event without any form of compensation.
But at least they sympathize.
“We are aware of the invalid code issue and we apologize for the inconvenience.”
