Topic: Star Wars Battlefront II

@subpopz Six more years... 2023... That's a long wait.

I think it's people buy their crap no matter what they release. Battlefront 2 is getting a huge amount of backlash right now, but I wonder if the sales will be any different. Plenty of people either don't know about all of this or want to play a Star Wars game more than they dislike EA.

EA has just announced that it's decided to live life as a gay corporation.

So about that supposed dev receiving a bunch of death threats? Yeah...

Played more Galactic Assault today, and I've seen some Vader's and Luke's around. Seems people really took to the slashing of hero unlocks to get the best first. Also got to try out a few more of the maps, including Starkiller Base, Mos Eisley, and Endor. I'm not sure whether it's the skill of the people playing or not, but some of these maps feel very one sided.

I'll pick this up in 12 months time or so, just for the single player campaign.

Apparently there's a daily cap on the amount of credits you can earn in-game, because the developers thought it was ''unfair'', people could grind credits in theory. Yet, you're free to buy as many of them as you want, no cap.

I just watched Jim Sterling's impressions on this game (warning, strong language), and the game looks like a broken, buggy mess.

The game only comes with half the story apparently. The rest is supposedly planned to release at a later date...

A buggy rushed mess that's asking for 60 dollars. Modern gaming at it's finest

@DarthNocturnal The daily cap? No that piece of info was dropped during their Reddit AMA. First they were talking about how Star Cards don't affect the game. You don't win by owning better Star Cards, it was all about the ''skill'', yet later they admitted they implemented a daily cap in order to prevent players from earning too many Star Cards in a short amount of time (which is contradiction #1, because that wouldn't be an issue if they didn't affect the game). On the other hand; however, there's no limit on buying more Star Cards through loot boxes (and that's número dos).

Of course, all of this is giving the players another incentive to buy more loot boxes, because you literally can't keep up with grinding, because there's a limit on how many you can earn on a daily basis without paying.

Going by reviews, loot boxes already ruined Need for Speed Payback (the name's kinda ironic in hindsight), so this isn't the first time EA ruined a game with loot boxes.

@subpopz People are tweeting about Disney and gambling in Battlefront. And since Disney is very protective of their IP, I'm not surprised if they reacted in some way, shape or form.

@DarthNocturnal Either way, it sounds like a terrible practice.

@Octane For the payers.

Earning credits in arcade is ridiculous anyway. Why they put a cap on it, I don't know. It's not like it's based on time like the multiplayer supposedly is. I should know. First thing I did today when I went on the game was boot up a custom arcade game with the troop count set to maximum. Fourty-five minutes I spent playing just that one match. How many credits do I get? 125. Yup, you read that right. 125 credits. And yet there's a block after a certain amount of time? Games played?
Such amazing depths to get more money out of people. Just like GTA Online all over again.

That's what UK trading standards concluded I believe. It only counts as gambling if you can end up with nothing.
EA are obviously hoping that definition will be used universally.
It'd be nice if people just had the self control to spend their money intelligently rather than constantly needing the nanny state to take care of them.

So they've turned them off... but they're planning to turn them back on later on.

Still not buying the game. Even if it's gonna be less pay to win, it will still probably be pay to win in the end.

Oh damn. They got a call from the Mouse.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/disney-ceo-bob-iger-spoke-to...

EA is just trying to save face now. Still not buying it.

https://twitter.com/The_Katbot/status/931367497831366657?ref_...

https://twitter.com/The_Katbot/status/931367813301788674?ref_...

I take it all back. All of it. Battlefront 2 has in fact been extremely entertaining so far.

...what? The actual game? Hahahaha no. I have no interest, and I wouldn't have the ability to play it even if I did. But this consumer REVOLT against it has been one of the best things about the past week. Easily. I am so interested to see where this goes next.

They are clearly just doing this so Battlefront 2's bad image doesn't rub off on The Last Jedi and not overshadow its marketing. My gut told me back at E3 that this would be pay 2 win. No season pass -> Loot Boxes! And EA's greed guaranteed this wouldn't just be cosmetics.

Not gonna support them one bit and I hope many others won't jump on board simply because microtransactions are disabled for the time being.