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The problem with multi-tiered game packages.

When Activision first announced Call of Duty: Elite (their premium service for the Call of Duty franchise) there was an avalanche of criticism. Many felt that the service was taking advantage of the series’ loyal fans, some even going far enough to boycott the iconic shooter altogether. Since then, much of the hatred and anger that originally spawned form the Call of Duty: Elite announcement has subsided. Seeing the service in action, a large portion of fans have rescinded their original protests, with many now claiming that the service is actually a great value.  

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Battlefield 3 might be getting a subscription service in the vein of Call of Duty Elite.

Electronic Arts may have a subscription service in the works for Battlefield 3 similar to Call of Duty's Elite service. A "reliable source" has told website Battlefieldo that EA plans to release a premium service for the wildly successful FPS on June 4, 2012, the day of EA's E3 2012 press conference.

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EA really wants you to like Origin.

UPDATE: For reasons unknown, EA has suspended the promotion and removed all evidence from the Origin site, aside from some small text that reads, "Important Note: ME3 pre-order does not include a bonus copy of Battlefield 3."  Those that already preordered Mass Effect 3 on Origin will still have their code emailed to them sometime around March 8, 2012, but new preorders will not get this code going forward.  As originally reported on March 15th below, the promotion was scheduled to run through March 5th.

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Also, Star Wars: The Old Republic has 1.7 million subscribers.

Electronic Arts made public its financial results for the third fiscal quarter of 2011 and it's reporting that both Battlefield 3 and FIFA 12 sold 10 million copies each across their respective platforms. It also reports that Star Wars: The Old Republic has 1.7 million active subscribers and has sold more than two million units in just a little over a month.

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PS3 owners get a week long head start on the online mayhem.

Battlefield 3 will be getting its first major DLC pack soon, but if you own it on PlayStation 3, you’ll get it even sooner. That’s part of EA making nice with PS3 owners who didn’t get their promised free copy of Battlefield 1943 with their new purchase of BF 3. The official release date for “Back to Karkand” is December 13, with the PS3 version launching on December 6.

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