well, selling online cuts a lot of costs and seeing expansion packs rarely sell as good as full games, it's an obvious choice. Also, EA can now drop the price on the booster packs quite a lot. (selling through retail would make them a lot more expensive...)

A valid point indeed... but (there's always a but) what about people who, for whatever the reason may be, don't want to use an online shop? I'm one of those people as I'm not really willing to go credit card yet, especially for online purchasing... Call me a dinosaur, but I'm not really convinced yet that the whole online shopping thing is secure.

By all means, go online with content, but offer the customers another - be it more expensive - choice. I'll gladly walk into a store and pay some more for packaging and a manual. (but hey, that's just me :-) )

This 'expansion' should be free. Boycott the moneysuckers at EA!

they should sell it both online and in stores imo.
In europe there alot of gamers who dont have a creditcard. And even if they have, they dont always use itto pay trough the internet. A big group is not going to be able to buy these expansions. And i dont think most gamers will care if they have to pay more in store than online.

"I'm not really convinced yet that the whole online shopping thing is secure."

Mmmh AlterEgo I think its time to step out of the seventies, its a whole new century outhere!!

Alterego wrote:
I'm not really willing to go credit card yet, especially for online purchasing... Call me a dinosaur, but I'm not really convinced yet that the whole online shopping thing is secure.

I am afraid my friend the world you live in and the world most of us live in seems to be 2 different places. It seems you have always used cash and therefore if you give cash to someone who rips you of you are out of pocket. But if you use a credit card it is not your money it is the credit card company’s money and therefore you are not alone when you get ripped off, that’s assuming you do get ripped off. I can assure you my friend when a credit card company gets ripped off it’s not a pretty site lol. All I am trying to say to you is that with cash transactions you are on your own if it goes wrong but with a credit card company behind you it is a whole different ball game. Even offline shopping is better using a credit card you have far less hassle from a store when you try to return something if you have used a credit card.

The world will wait for people like yourself to catch up but it will never even consider going backwards for you.

I've shopped for 10's of thousands on the internet over the years, everything from computer hardware, to books, movies, games, and music. Never had a problem with it, never got scam, it is more secure than using real money or cheques for sure.

If I ever got a faulty product, all I had to do was return it and get the money back or a new product.

The world isn't waiting for people to catch up, they have to catch up themselves.

Considering I use a card daily while shopping, and use online banking, I hardly think I need the "get out of the seventies" & "agressive Visa employee" treatment :-) Believe me, I understand what you are all saying...

Fact is that credit card fraud happens on a daily basis, and the biggest supply of credit card numbers is to be found... on the net. Yes, there are certain promises made that when you're victim of fraud you get your money back. While I use my card in stores very carefully, I don't believe in everybody having tight secure computers handling transactions online and big companies get hacked on a daily basis... Yes, I've opened up the alley-way to "why online banking and no credit card?", it's a question of the contract I have with the bank, one - last time I checked - is more secure than any I've seen for a credit card (and maybe I should check again... who knows).

Plus, my other motivation for my comment in the post is that I'd rather go into a shop and buy things. I get to inspect the product on site, and if I don't like it, I can ask for a replacement / refund. It's just a matter of offering choice. On top of that, maybe where you are living (and considering I can't check where you are from, so I'm making a wild assumption now) credit cards might be a common thing, it isn't in a large portion of that same world we all live in.

PS: the card I'm referring to is my bank card.

ure all fucking lamers ,EA = GayCamper

indeed im not able 2 buy the booster pack cuz i live in holland

kinda lame if u make europe exspencion and most europeons are not able 2 play it in the end. greedyness 2 en and 2 go gaming

I also think the expansion should be free. EA knew about faults in the game but did not fix them until they had the patch ready for the expansion packs. Basically they give a little here and there when ever it suites them. What really gets me is the choice they made to not to be able to recover claymores, and c4. I think they are saving the for the next expansion pack they want to sell.

The main point is some of us want a Disk or hardcopy so if your system fails you have the disk there and don't need to download again if they let you

You cant sell a download either can u!

I buy loads of stuff online but not downloads they should be free,
Its only worth paying for if you can hold it!