I recently purchased battlefield: bad company gold edition.  since it comes with 5 guns i'm thinking i would get the five guns from the demo.  which if you don't know are unlock as follows:

1. pre-order bad company (sniper rifle)

2. become a battlefield veteran (prove you've played 2 or more  previous battlefiled games) (assault riffle)

3. check your stats online (semi-automatic shotgun)

4. sign up for the newsletter (heavy machine gun)

5. reach level 4 in the demo (smg)

Easy enough right?

Wrong!

First off, it gave me 5 guns I could have unlocked eventually on my own at level 25!!

Secondly, since i didn't  pre-order (-1 gun). can't prove i'm a veteran (-1gun).  checked stats online (+1 gun). reached level 4 in demo (+1 gun). and finally the newsletter. got an error during sign up (-1 gun).

So lets add it up we start with 5 and end up with only 2!!! 

Now wouldn't it have made more sense for EA to just give everyone who bought gold edition the guns from the demo instead of giving me guns i could have just unlocked myself?  Oh wait sense and EA. right, enough said!