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

To answer your question, when I play the game never has any issues finding a game for me to join in a matter of seconds. So yeah it is at least as busy as you are describing ME3 MP. 

It's not really out long now. Even if it lost 90% of players that could still be lots of people playing when 2 million bought the game. Enough to matchmake. I've played a game that had like 150-350 users playing concurrently and I still found matches. Now that was more niche, but still...

Sounds about right, although I expect those numbers to be steadier.

Now let's see if this will affect anything people want, other than just not doing another Battlefront game. 

It's not going to mean much at this point, I think.

Its one of those little things that require little effort but all the same seems a clear and present message even if it doesn't accomplish anything really.

Don't hate. Appreciate. Besides the writers designed a plot that makes you a villain that actually believes he's the hero. BioWare can learn a lot from them.

If the discount is truly significant.

If you truly are only interested in singleplayer, then I think 15EUR is a hell of a stretch.

Ouch.

That's a big shortfall.

Looks like they're going to stoke that same fire once again. Can't help but start feeling this whole situation is getting to be like this all around:

Eurogamer clarifies some sales mistakes cited in previous articles and talks a little more with EA about... (drum roll)... loot boxes!

Eurogamer: What EA is and isn't saying about microtransactions returning to Star Wars Battlefront 2
www.eurogamer.net/articles/2018-01-31-what-ea-is-and-isnt-saying-about-microtransactions-returning-to-star-wars-battlefront-2

The publication erroneously said Star Wars Battlefront 2 sold 9 million units during the quarter, but EA actually reported closer to 7m sales. EA's head money man Blake Jorgensen said, during the company's earnings call (recording available via EA's investor site, and transcript on Seeking Alpha), "We had expected the sale of about 8 million units [of SWBF2 during Q3] but we fell short of that by less than 1 million units."

On the topic of gambling, Jorgensen quickly added: "I'll just add we do not believe loot boxes and similar mechanics are a form of gambling. There are a plenty of governments around the world that have agreed with us on that - and it's not just us, it is the entire industry. We work very carefully and closely with all our industry partners and the ESA, the industry body, to make sure people understand exactly what loot boxes are, exactly why they're not gambling, and we'll continue to engage in that going forward. We think that's important. There's a lot of consumers who would argue the same thing based on their great experience they've had with fun games with associated live services, which some are maybe misconstruing as a loot box or a gambling mechanism."


- So much for self-regulation...