Battlefield: Bad Company - Xbox 360 Multiplayer Beta Announced

norm · 13 Mar 2008 at 19:14

http://www.mcvuk.com/press-releases...or-Battlefield-Bad-Company-Shipping-June-2008

IGN Founders’ Club and IGN Insider will offer keys to members and the public in North America and Europe to participate in the multiplayer beta test starting March 17 provided by IGN’s popular game download site FilePlanet (http://www.fileplanet.com).

In addition, keys will also be available through IGN Entertainment’s gaming Web sites including IGN.com, GameSpy, TeamXbox, Planet Battlefield and Voodoo Extreme.

Anders0n · 13 Mar 2008 at 19:20

Tasty, might be a little hard to get a key though.

Morrey360 · 13 Mar 2008 at 19:21

sounds promising hope i get chosen less than likely though

BassPunk · 13 Mar 2008 at 20:05

A 3day weekend is in order

RoachycaL · 13 Mar 2008 at 20:26

That should be cool... however how do we "get" a key?

andshrew · 13 Mar 2008 at 20:31

RoachycaL said:
That should be cool... however how do we "get" a key?

How it normally works with fileplanet.com beta's is that their paying members get priority access to their key supply (but not guaranteed access) then a week or so later they release another batch of keys for the regular non-paying members.

yaboy · 14 Mar 2008 at 01:02

Do you have to be a subscriber to enter? :|

cheets64 · 14 Mar 2008 at 01:19

yaboy said:
Do you have to be a subscriber to enter? :|

Yes as IGN Founders’ Club and IGN Insider subscription based, doubt they will give many on gamespy etc. its all about IGN paying money to EA to get the keys intern for a massive sign up of subscribers.

Same happened with Crysis, just wait and don't get reeled in.

NokkonWud · 14 Mar 2008 at 02:39

IGN insider is really cheap anyway IIRC.

yaboy · 14 Mar 2008 at 03:03

oh id rather not then

Kyle009 · 14 Mar 2008 at 10:47

They should learn from the success of the CoD4 beta and entice people into buying the game.

cheets64 · 14 Mar 2008 at 11:05

Kyle009 said:
They should learn from the success of the CoD4 beta and entice people into buying the game.

This is EA, any chance to make a quick buck.

ScarySquirrel · 14 Mar 2008 at 11:21

Awesome. I like how they announce it a few days before, rather than 6 weeks before. Stops all the waiting around.

So, how do we deffo get a key?

Wiggis · 14 Mar 2008 at 11:24

I've just watched the promo for this, and laughed my a*** off. Very original!

ScarySquirrel · 14 Mar 2008 at 11:31

Wiggis said:
I've just watched the promo for this, and laughed my a*** off. Very original!

Which promo? The old one where they are following the two guys asking questions?

Wiggis · 14 Mar 2008 at 11:32

yea, thats the one, where they are blowing stuff up at the end

Kyle009 · 14 Mar 2008 at 11:40

cheets64 said:
This is EA, any chance to make a quick buck.

Ahh of course. My bad.

Hyper · 16 Mar 2008 at 16:25

Anyone know if there is any chance of getting hold of this without being a FP subscriber then :confused:

ScarySquirrel · 16 Mar 2008 at 17:44

I haven't heard anything more about this. How will we download it, through XBL?

Wyrdo · 16 Mar 2008 at 17:44

ScarySquirrel said:
I haven't heard anything more about this. How will we download it, through XBL?

Probably, just like the CoD4 beta.