why do i have to pay for premium when i bought the limited edition on the day battlefield 3 came out????????????????

OP the limited edition  explicitly gave you free access to the Back To Karkand expansion and nothing more.  The Premium option gives you access to all of the expansions at a reduced price, early, with extra perks such as double XP, camos and assignments that non-premiums do not get.  Also you didn't have to pay extra for the Limited edition at launch, all first run copies of BF3 were Limited Editions that sold for the same exact price as the later non-limited edition that did not have free access to the Back To Karkand expansion. 

i dont like it, either... as if $60 wasnt enough in the first place, and now its harder and harder to find a good server w/o premium since people with resources for this type of **bleep** can buy in/buy up, but those of us with too many bills that need gas and milk money are left with an almost unusable game! i shouldve waited and bought it for $10 like i do with most titles, but i thought dice was still dice - forgetting they had been bought up by the devil... thankfully, there isnt nearly enough elitist access in the US of A... oh, wait, there is..! total suck! i dont want close quarters - never interested me at all, but im supposed to pay for a package that includes **bleep** i dont want and wont use? what is this, cable television..!?!?

Getting Premium is a choice that you make or not.

The Limited Edition gave you access to Back To Karkand and other unlocks as a bonus.

You can either buy the DLC seperate or get Premium which gives you other benefits like double XP events.

420thairsuffix I honestly don't understand what your problem in your post is or you problem with premium is that makes the game unplayable if you're not premium.  Everybody has access to the same weapons (the ACB90 is just a reskin of the knife and all ACB90 kills are tracked as knife kills), the only things that premiums get that non-premiums do not is 1 week early access to DLC, a small discount on all DLC, weapon and soldier camo, a couple of dog tags and assignments (none of which are for new weapons) and priority queue access - which nobody I know actually waits for they just find another server.    How any of that makes the game unplayable for non-premium members is beyond me.

If this is about DLC now being paid instead of free like in the good 'ole days of early Battlefield that has nothing to do with premium and everything to do with the monetizing of the video game market place - which still does not affect the playability of BF3.  So what exactly do you think makes BF3 unplayable and how does it link to premium since there are no premium only servers?  And what do you mean "buy in\buy up" since as I've demonstrated there is no in game advantage to Premium?

I don't know who can do this but this thread needs locking.

This seems very much like an opinion post and bordering on the OP trolling. He does not seem to be having a technical problems regarding Battlefield 3.

If you do have an actual problem running the game could you gives us more explanation as to your technical problem and post screenshots if you can.