DICE: "How To Avoid “Mapathy” Without Paying!"

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Dan Webb

You know when there are those surreal moments and you're not sure whether you're dreaming or not. I literally just had one of those moments. What triggered this lucid state was a blog post on DICE's Battlefield blog, titled, "How to avoid “mapathy” without paying!"

The blog post was obviously a little tongue-in-cheek reference to Infinity Ward's recent map pack announcement for Xbox Live and in the blog post, DICE announced that they were releasing their second VIP map pack for free to VIP members.

The map pack will quite simply bring Conquest mode to the Arica Harbor level, whilst at the same time giving us another Rush map, this time, the Laguna Presa. Two maps already on the disc, but tweaked for the two classic modes.

To get access to the VIP member's area with free content like this, you need to have either purchased the game brand new and inserted the code, or purchased the VIP pass from the in-game store.

I assume this is more of a jokey vibe to the IW reference, rather than a malicious and competitive jibe. You know, because Swedes are usually fun loving people. Plus, it's not how DICE rolls... is it?

The second VIP map pack for Bad Company 2 is coming March 30th.

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  • Please make Mirror's Edge 2, DICE
  • Exactly the same day as MW2's new ones are out, lol.
  • @ 2: man they're stupid, if they would have planned it a week earlyer they whould get a lot more sales.
  • So pretty much, no one is going to be paying for the pack. Since every Bad Company 2 copy is the Limited Edition...
  • "Plus, it's not how DICE rolls" ... You'd think I'd be used to bad puns by now, but here I am still facepalming at one. But don't worry, you're still one of my favorite writers, Webb. =P
  • Awesome! Way to go EA DICE. I havent picked up MW2 in weeks! And it will stay that way with new maps.
  • damn i have to get bad company 2! As to the Mapathy just some harmless teasing from DICE hehehe
  • Now if they would only fix the in game store. :/
  • No, I've seen sales of the regular edition now. And the patch to fix the store should be out soon, since they gave it to sony on monday...
  • I love the references that the single player campaign makes about MW2, to quote one "a bunch of douche-bags with their pussy heartbeat sensors"(or around there lol), still it made me laugh
  • obviously EA thinks they'll have the in-game store up and running by the 30th... we'll just see about that.
  • haha i love this. bad company > mw2
  • stoked! My game is coming in 2 days, i'm sick of MW2 its way too boring now
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