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

They just removed the refund button on their homepage because too many people were refunding it.

Edit: Seems like now you have to get in contact with the customer service.

https://www.reddit.com/r/gaming/comments/7cv8hc/ea_removed_the_refund_button_on_their_webpage_and/

https://www.reddit.com/r/gaming/comments/7ct7j5/at_least_ea_customer_service_knows_the_score/

I'm admittedly pessimistic when it comes to the industry, but my suspicion is that the microtransactions and content paywall will end up successfully paying for the losses and then some.

That having been said, it obviously wasn't enough to keep ME:A MP plugged in, so here's hoping that I'm wrong.

Sound like the campaign mode is pretty short, about how long does it run in terms of hours? Any good set pieces to play around in at least?


Also, how's the reviews looking; after the whole debacle with the loot boxes and hero locking I can't imagine it's going to be good.

I like how you try to seperate bad actors from the gaming community when they are one in the same most of the time. The criticism is towards the community for such complacency of that behavior by their own members.

It's bad enough that people in the community act like idiots to begin with, but the sort of circling of the wagons to protect them by a large portion of the crowd is so maddening to me. There is already an over sensitive sort of streak going on with people as it is, for whatever reason folks have a chip on their shoulder when it comes to games.

Events like this just exacerbate that behavior, and like clockwork it seems that the community encourages it by being silent 9 times out of 10 or worse, by joining the bandwagon in the most negative ways possible.

Bains criticism is more than just companies responding to trolls, it's the fact that the community is full of them and they are the face of us all. Maybe that should stop, as with this "bad actors" shtick. We need to own that and act accordingly, meaning cutting them put as the face so to speak, and not pretend they are outsiders looking in.

I believe the writer was the same guy who wrote Spec Ops: the line.

6? That's better than I would have expected to be honest. 

So with an 'average' review does this mean that EA is going to cut any and all DLC plans for the future of this title as well? 

I don't think I've played that game. Or maybe, if it has anything to do with Dubai and someone rabbiting out of his mind. I never finished it. Whatever.

There's no meat in the story and chars of SW BF II. The lack of context is ridiculous. They just can't be bothered to set things up properly. You're being herded and dumped from one pew pew pew to the next pew pew pew (x 100) That's what SW BF II is, pew x 1000.

I've been loving it so far. Love the story, love the characters, love the gameplay.

Actually by my logic, the town would be able to get their point across with the toxic chemicals without becoming psychopaths.

Plus the way you worded that is like saying the behavior of people threatening to kill folks over a video game is because the game company itself caused it to happen. that's almost victim blaming in a weird, perverted way. 

See, i'm glad they disavowed such actions, that's good. But here's the problem: they still are the face. They still get the headlines, the clickbaiting, and attention. It doesn't matter if it's one or one-hundred in that way. And while many condemn it, others are very blase about it for their own reasons which gives it more power. 

That is what I have a problem with. We should be more of a hive mind on that behavior and make it unrelated to the problems. But we shouldn't be afraid to call the spade what it is. These are people in our community, regardless of how we disavow them we need to own that to change that. 

For heaven's sake, shinobiwan just finished saying two people were psychopaths and you interpreted that to represent the whole town becoming psychopaths?

Well, at least it provided a measure of insight into how you see the world. O.O

Wait, isn't that exactly what you want?  To separate the "bad actors" from the rest of the community with legitimate grievances?  The trolls are the minority, the loudmouths who take things too far.  They are not the gaming community as a whole.  All terriers are dogs, but not all dogs are terriers.

Until and angry crowd of demonstrates wearing pink hats appears outside EA headquarters, I'm not going to get too worried over the community embarrassing itself