Star Wars: Battlefront II (The villagers are outside with pitchforks and torches)

I expect it will be 'free' in the EA Access Vault within 6 months...

So, Battlefront II's review scores on MetaCritic and OpenCritic (Reviewer and User) fall short of the scores for Mass Effect Andromeda.

Nice to see BioWare leading the way in 2017... (maybe)...

This feels like a move to try to stem pre-order returns and impact on early release sales. There's a lot of conjecture & wishful thinking about what EA might do fix MT/LBs, but they haven't given us any idea of what they're actually looking to do.

It's worth noting that Origin pre-orders can be returned within 7 days of the game's release. So my guess is, regardless of what they'll do, we won't get any solid information on what they'll do until that time runs out.

Honestly, I thing they’re buying time while trying to figure out how to proceed. I don’t think they even know how to respond to this.

Microtransactions obviously exist in the industry for quite some years, loot boxes too. Mass Effect 3 is the perfect example. I've seen a lot of you asking "why the investigation now?" , well obviously due to the heat of the press and the community in general. This wouldn't had happened if people would just "sigh" and accepted the system as it was. A shitstorm happened, every youtuber started making videos about it, gaming press started to look upon it.
All that lead to this Belgium gaming organism to take a look and see what all the fuss was about. So for the record, bitching does indeed work, it just has to be canalized. A lot of time people bitch for the sake of bitching, but when they're right, this is the outcome I guess.

For those hoping that when paid LBs do return to BF2, that they'd cosmetic only...

US Gamer: EA: Star Wars Battlefront 2 Changes Will Balance Those Who Want Gameplay Progression and Those Who Want an "Accelerated Experience"
www.usgamer.net/articles/ea-star-wars-battlefront-2-changes-will-balance-those-who-want-gameplay-progression-and-those-who-want-an-accelerated-experience

Today, EA announced that it will be removing microtransactions from Star Wars Battlefront 2. However, this is only a temporary measure until EA can achieve what the company says is the "right balance" between those who want to progress through gameplay and those who want what they call an "accelerated experience."

In a telephone conversation, an EA representative confirmed that the developers are going "back to the drawing board" in attempting to balance out Battlefront 2's microtransactions. Their ultimate goal is to find a way to balance the needs of their large playerbase, they said.

In saying that they will try and strike a balance for those seeking an "accelerated experience," EA appears to be suggesting that Battlefront 2 will eventually return to offering the opportunity for players to spend money on accelerators—industry jargon for gameplay boosts that can be purchased with real money. Aside from Battlefront 2, Need for Speed Payback is a recent example of EA's attempt to introduce balanced "accelerators" through loot boxes.

And the amount of marketing money being dumped is staggering.

I'm seeing Battlefront II adverts everywhere and repeatedly, as if in an attempt to drown the bad signal...

Think of all ze money spent on the ads! So much money!

Heh.

I posted this a while back (seems like 100 pages back at this point).  Its still a great game, with a recent MP update to it.

I recently beat the campaign again.  And I had a blast doing so.  Would highly recommend to anyone who wants to see how a proper battlefront game should be.

That game had proper local multiplayer support too…. 

The most recent Battlefront 2 can't even be bothered to allow for a single split-screen partner to accompany the host into normal online multiplayer matches.


A 12 year old game: 4 player split-screen capability, fully supported co-op campaign, and online/offline functionality

vs.

A brand new game (with 12 years of technological advancement and improved processing power behind it mind you): only 2 player split-screen in a half-assed throwaway 'arcade mode', and only available offline.