EA closing Visceral Studios -

Ok in regards to your suspicion that it was unfun uk.ign.com/articles/2017/10/19/visceral-star-wars-game-was-fun-and-funny-co-writer-todd-stashwick-says

I mean sure a writer will defend their own project but then I feel like if it was a mess why would they not just say so? We all know how messy Andromeda was during it's dev time because people said so. Nobody has said anything of the sort about this other than Schreier. 

Yes Viseceral was a small time studio who made smalltime but beloved games, EA wanted to turn them into a cash generator, that didn't work out so EA closed the studio. This seems like the most likely explanation. Non of Viseceral's games are Andromeda like in any way other than when it comes to sales maybe? I also don't see a star wars game from EA doing badly even if it was actually bad. I think it truly is what we all think, it wasn't going to generate a steady flow of cash through MP, lootboxes and other nonsense. It was probably going to make a lot of money but not enough money for EA. 

I feel like what I am saying is more likely than the idea that Amy Hennig had some kind of massive off day and is at fault, somehow everyone but EA is always at fault according to a few people on this forum. 

It really could boil down to a lot of things. Could just have been unfun to play by the initial tests or like Andromeda have a hook that didn't work and force a change in development or mechanics.

Or lack of microbuck insertion capabilities. Who knows - rebel devs might have insidiously coded it to prevent microtransactions. And now it needs rework. All speculation.

As usual, I have to point out here that Bio was wrecking games with MP many years before EA came along.

It would be interesting to see how "Bioware" (or rather EA) is going to handle Anthem.

The balance, as usual, will be a financial one.

If the players buying the game and dropping microtransactions outweigh those who are outraged, it will succeed.

These studios must have done the analysis:
Reduction is sales from the upset vs. increased microtransaction sales in the game.

With Battlefront II and Shadow of War, the accountants must have deemed that the balance is in their favor, irrespective of the 'bad PR'.

Or they wouldn't do it?

And in that you would be wrong. The ever so important galactic readiness depended on you playing MP or using the App, if I remember correctly. You couldn't raise it to it's full potential otherwise. They did a half hearted patch that supposedly took care of the issue, since many were complaining, but the fact remains that it was their first attempt at tying MP directly to SP if you wanted the best ending options.