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Back at E3 in June, Sony was happy to tout the exclusives that the PlayStation 3 versions of several multiplatform EA games would feature this fall. Among them was one for Battlefield 3; with Call of Duty being associated with Xbox 360 thanks to a timed exclusivity deal on DLC, those who opted to buy BF3 on PS3 would receive a free copy of Battlefield 1943. With the much-anticipated game finally released yesterday, those who purchased the game on PS3 are finding themselves confused as the promised 1943 bonus has been quietly replaced with something else.
Last month DICE revealed a deal had been signed with Sony similar to Microsoft's Call of Duty deal, albeit on a lesser scale: all BF3 expansion packs will launch on PS3 a week early. It simply seemed like another nice perk, along with the free copy of 1943, for buying the game on PS3. Little did we know at the time that this expansion pack early access was actually meant to replace 1943 as the PS3's exclusive bonus.

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