User blog comment:LittleNemo/Physical warfare?/@comment-3232746-20110617010451/@comment-28584497-20110617014021

I believe what that meant is that the items were already in the game, and as such it would be like how people who got the LE version of BC2 got several weapons early.

So no, I don't think your boycott did anything. I think it just annoyed the devs and they decided to come out and debunk the (rather paranoid) idea that they're actually "exclusive" items.