Star Wars: Jedi Fallen Order and Jedi Survivor

So, I do like what I see so far. The trailer looks very cool, the time after Ep3 is one of the most interesting IMO and the info we got so far all sounds exactly like what I wanted. Kinda a bit like a spiritual successor to the Jedi Knight games, maybe with a bit tactics needed in the combat and a little more open environments (though still a linear game).
If Respawn does a good job, it could be just the Star Wars game I've been waiting for since the early 2000s. Fingers crossed.

*reinstalls Jedi Knight II: Jedi Outcast*

Intriguing trailer, and if I remember correctly, Respawn already delivered a highly acclaimed but sadly underselling SP campaign in Titanfall II, so they definitely have the skills to pull this off.

Will be keeping a close eye on this game.

What color is the robot? They would still find something to be outraged about.

And frankly that would just amount to letting them win. The best thing for companies to do is to ignore them and make the game they want to make unapologetically.

Jedi Outcast and Jedi Academy. I am really hoping this new game looks more similar to then than to Force Unleashed when it comes to combat. Plus this time period is a treasure trove for story telling.

Its publishers in general doing that, Blizzard is still releasing them with Hearthstone, Activision with Call of Duty requires you to buy the Season Pass instead of individual DLC packages, Ubisoft had a microtransaction in Assassin's Creed Odyssey that people claim was required and cost $10 to make the experience better, even Rockstar hid the online component of Red Dead Redemption from reviews by releasing a short time after release which the money costs seemed to upset players enough they have changed it multiple time.  Even now CDPR has talked about adding an online social hub post release as well with Cyberpunk.

The first game from EA without lootboxes is Anthem so its one game and probably more along the way, I can see the sports game continuing to do the Ultimate Team idea for now as well.  Games as a service aren't just EA look at any game now especially one that is online they are all games as a service you could even make the argument with The Witcher 3 being games as a service because they released additional digital downloadable content for the game with their "DLC" which was just glorified minor content for the majority of it.

EA isn't the only one responsible even if the internet wants to believe their favorite publishers won't do it, but they already have.  I would say EA went too far with Battlefront 2, but looking at the costs of Hearthstone over the years I am not sure why people aren't more upset about that for that can be thousands of dollars people have invested to build the decks they want for they have to hope they gets the cards then need based on RNG.  Besides Rockstar made hundreds of millions of dollars with Grand Theft Auto 5 and their game as a service model for that game and people kept lining up to give them more and praise them at the same time.

So anyone that doesn't agree with you is trying to have an argument? Instead of having a different point of view which can part of having a conversation.

EA is not the source of all these problems, they probably have come up with one or two on their own, but as an example  DLC was created by Bethesda with Horse Armor for Oblivion.  I don't understand why people are so afraid of Games as a Service, everything I have seen is that it gives continual updates to a game to keep people interested in playing and most of the time its all free. There has not been any official claiming of what it really means aside from adding more content into a game post-release which has been happening since the original Xbox and it having a hard drive.  I also remember playing Total Annihilation where I could download additional units for the game off the internet for free which functions a lot like Games as a Service as well.

Yet if you take all those publishers and then look beyond the narrow scope you put them on you get things as well.  Blizzard was the first company to have their lootboxes banned by a Government specially China and they worked around the law so they could still profit out them.  Activision Blizzard was also targeted with having gambling in Europe and Valve is also on that list.  CDPR is doing dumb things so its not paper thin, they are a crunch studio and former employees are claiming that they have been in crunch mode for months if not years.  Not to mention CDPR put a trademark on "Cyberpunk" and that was also attempted by King for their "crush" games and even Bethesda did that with "Scrolls" and I don't recall EA ever taking someone to court over word that was trademarked.  Ubisoft doesn't have lootboxes in the games I have played, but they have also said that "lootboxes were a boon for the industry" so they supported them being in their games they do have microtransactions in games like Assassin's Creed: Odyssey that seemed to upset players.  So saying well these people didn't do this, doesn't mean they did other dumb things.

I am not saying that EA is innocent of the troubles they have gotten themselves into, but putting all the blame on them is shortsighted.

The majority of game publishers engage in predatory practices but EA's historical abuse of loot boxes with BF2 resulted in a response from the EU of all organisations, and pissed off King Mickey something fierce. At the end of the day, regardless if it was intentional or not, EA are scumbags/dumbasses for using a child friendly IP to get kids hooked on gambling.

The problem is if you are going to look at one IP to get kids hooked into gambling that isn't the entire picture.  Hearthstone is aimed at children just as much as Star Wars both were rated Teen and both required purchases to progress further unless you sink a lot of time into the product.  Depending on the parents some might have more concern over a Star Wars game then a card game.

Star Wars in terms of fame >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Hearthstone which is why it caught flack the way it did. Now Hearthstone? I never played it so my knowledge about it is close to nil, but if it exposes kids to gambling with irl currency then it should be taken to task too. About BF again, spending 60 usd then potentially hundreds of usd for a preferred prize with no guarantee you'll ever see it is exposing, and getting kids hooked to gambling. It's no different than selling virtual lottery scratch-off tickets to minors.

I wish the protag permitted customization, but the trailer's nifty enough.