After a huge outrage regarding Star Wars: Battlefront 2’s microtransactions, EA decided to take some steps towards the right direction. Today, the publisher announced that it has reduced the credits needed to unlock Heroes in Star Wars: Battlefront 2 by 75%.
As Electronic Arts noted:
“There’s been a lot of discussion around the amount of in-game credits (and time) it takes to unlock some of our heroes, especially Luke Skywalker and Darth Vader. Unlocking a hero is a great accomplishment in the game, something we want players to have fun earning. We used data from the beta to help set those levels, but it’s clear that more changes were needed. “
Now this is your typical PR nonsense. We all know that EA set those levels so that it can profit from microtransactions. That’s the truth. But hey, we don’t expect EA to go ahead and admit that it was forced by the outrage to reduce the amount of in-game credits. Because make no mistake; if there wasn’t any outrage, EA would not reduce them.
But anyway, right now, Luke Skywalker and Darth Vader will be available for 15,000 credits. Emperor Palpatine, Chewbacca, and Leia Organa will be available for 10,000 credits. And lastly, Iden will be available at 5,000 credits.
Electronic Arts concluded that it will going to keep making changes to improve the game experience over time.
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Yeah, sadly this isn’t even true. They’ve lowered the amount of credits you get for certain things (conveniently also 75% like the price cuts). Sadly there probably will be people who will now buy BF2 again because of not researching enough. https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/7ccd364ab42e274d0b32f7f7cf5447d85af92742e66c12e61a3947446b3aea71.jpg
I was legit just about to type that too. I’m glad other people are privy to this info as well. Such horses**t from EA. Hey we cut the prices by 75% aren’t we great? But also f’ you bc now you earn 75% less credits. Sneaky a**holes
People have short memories.
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Priceless.
Bingo.
Its not certain things, its only that one-time reward for completeing a campaign.
Still thou.
They did it because of articles like this one. It’s not even the first time they do this with this game. It even seems to have a name, “making the outrage outdated”.
It leads to people acting in their defense by saying “they made changes”, they didn’t fix it but they made changes so people’s complains become outdated. With people going “Hey man, they made changes. They can’t please everyone.”. It is both sick and ingenious.
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This is why i move more and more away from the AAA industry. Beside a few excessions i don’t buy AAA games unless they are 75%/+ of discount, one that i am really excited for is MHW, since its finally getting a PC version but i’m also keeping an close eye on Capcom. Anything strange and i can easily wait 1 or 2 years to play it.
BOYCOTT! Nothing has changed. EA “Listening to fans” is PR for Okay we’ve pissed off the actual thinking people with our scamming – again – so we will keep an ear to the ground to fine tune and roll back the scam just a little bit to get those on the fence who need to be told what to like back on our side to acceptable PR levels.
When are we going to learn that the AAA Mafia’s real goal is to make the most effortless, cheapest, and least innovative themed slot machines year after year to slowly get consumers addicted on digital gambling? When are we going to be done with our weak-willed “Lets wait and see when it’s out” passive aggressive addiction garbage (which is really everyone just pre hype preordering and buying the games “for my own review” anyways). Slowly the fire is turned up until it is too late. We are boiling frogs.
The AAA Mafia has pushed the boundary far beyond $60 with Season Passes/DLC, Special Editions, and MTs – and now this Loot Gambling crap.
I think it’s obvious by now to everyone beyond any doubt that EA has no idea what they are doing anymore.
Just let people buy your game, and let them have fun playing it. Pretty simple.
I hate the way online games have gone, it all started with Battlefield 2 where they added ranks that unlocked new guns. It’s all spiralled down since then, adding more and more crap that just ends up being behind a pay wall to unlock what you’ve paid for.
F*ck EA
I was just reading over at Techpowerup that EA is being accused of allowing faster progression unlocks for reviewers which is misrepresenting the game and making cancelling pre-orders harder. Instead of clicking on cancel pre-order as in the past you now have to speak to a live agent and because so many are cancelling the backup is making some people give up. Not sure if all of this is true but for anyone interested it’s in their News section if you want to have a look.
I have a dream that one day we go back making games and not money systems. Back to the days where good games sold well and had rich stories that i could enjoy. I’ll praise some companies who till this day can make meaningful games without adding micros. I have to hope that theese newer companies learn from their bigger counterparts and shall not lose their way. CD Projekt Red, 4AGames are some of my favorite developers show us the way out of darkness. New Digital publishing age means that more developers can be more independent and don,t have to fall under the Rule of Mega companies. But as i am afraid it’s all a never ending cycle where big will eventually fall and Smaller companies grow to replace them. And money, money never changes. I still remember when i could play games as equal with other, but now i have oppressed to lose, because i don’t have that much money to spend. So my brothers and sisters rise and fight back, because only together we are strong. Only by our actions today we can change things. So no matter on what platform you are on we are all gamers and we want to enjoy our games alone or together as we can see it doesn’t matter who we are once we have a common enemy. But the hardest part is that our enemy used to be our friend, but don’t be fooled the friend you used to know is long gone. Take your wallets and put them back to the pocket because these kind of products don’t deserve your money.
#GamersUniteAgainstMicrotransactions
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The refund button was removed a few months ago. It did not happen yesterday.
Apparently not everywhere. I’m not sure though. But thanks for letting me know that 😀