And it appears that the backlash was too much for EA and Disney to handle. According to reports, Electronic Arts has removed the microtransactions from Star Wars: Battlefront 2. The game has just gone live in UK and it doesn’t have any microtransactions.
Crystal packs are also gone from EA’s Origin, as we can see below. Amazon has also stopped selling Crystal packs, so this feels like the real deal.
What ultimately this means is that players can no longer buy crystals with real money. Therefore, all gear and Heroes will be earned via progression. We don’t know whether this will have any effect on the game’s economy, however it appears that microtransactions have been removed.
EA will most probably issue an official statement in the next few hours, so stay tuned for more!
UPDATE:
EA has issued an official statement, confirming the removal of crystals. As such, and at the moment, every gear and Hero will be earned via progression. However, there is a catch. The publisher claimed that it will enable the ability to purchase crystals in-game at a later date. This will be done only after EA has made changes to the game. Therefore, it’s not a big win for customers. Or if you like it, it’s a win for all day-1 gamers!
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good. greedy kikes.
UGH retarded racist…..
lol, your comments are public and i can see your a literal cuck and soyboy. embarassing.
jews are not a race
Mind your power level, autismo.
Nothing better than a sh*tshow with a happy ending.
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you sure? or did you forget it’s EA?
EA of all companies Removed Microtransactions! Has hell frozen over!
IDK if it counts when folks had to break the downvoting record in Reddit 100 times over to make it happen.
dont buy keep an eye on what they do with it
Wasn’t planing on buying in the first place.
read the article……my goodness this is exactly what im talking about. now this person is gonna go around telling every tom and jane that “they removed microtransactions better buy” but this nitwit doesn’t realize they are just waiting a couple months or even weeks before they bring back pay to win!!
Ok first off where in the comment did I say to buy it. I held no interest at all in this game after trying the pre-release Alpha and the micro-transactions sealed the coffin of not purchasing it for me and never preordered either so please F*CK off you self assumptiones c*nt.
not my fault your stupid and don’t read. oh well morons will be morons.
The update to the article was after I commented douchebag.
We may have won a battle, but the war against greedy companies is far from over.
this is why i supported #gamergate
After the update I’d say we won absolutely nothing. EA is waiting for the dust to settle, playing the good guys, just to later re-enable the microtransactions, when everybody is less pissed off. They’re trying to make fool of us, AGAIN!
not really, they are already tweaking player reward and hero cost to become a hell of a grind…
the players didn’t win the battle, they just stunned their opponent and think they won.
Aahahahahahahahah take that EA! Greedy bast***!
No way! This has been one heck of a year 🙂 , crazy.
Microtransactions will be back after EA makes some changes to the game. Players will probably be able to buy cosmetic items in the future.
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Man they still want to dance around the micro transaction thing after everything that went down, just let it die and salvage the companies reputation and the game at this point jeez.
If it really is only cosmetic items then that would be really cool and good on them but I seriously doubt it. Will see hey, their future is in their hands will see what they do with it.
They are NOT going to sell cosmetic items….Its god damned Star Wars and its chained by cannon….There is literally a negative Pi chance LucasFilms approves funny colored Trooper armor or not Star Wars looking blasters
they mite sell cards and guns out right.
Totally get ELEX it is an amazing RPG.
I also highly recommend Assassin’s Creed Origins, it’s a favorite of mine.
I’ll get AC:O when it’s Double down DRM and bad performance is removed.
pay 2 win sp since you can buy ability points and weapons.
P2W single player doesn’t really matter… just don’t buy anything? It’s not like a mp game where if you don’t buy anything and others do then you’re at a disatvantage.
yes it does the grind you saw in swbf2 will be in sp games.look at the end of shadow of war that should be a huge tell where its going.
Well sure, if the developer decides to make the single player annoying to beat without buying something like they did with the third act of Shadow of War. But if we’re staying on topic, single player micro transactions are inherently less bad since, as I said before, not buying them isn’t putting you at a disadvantage. I’m not disagreeing that some devs design single player with the intent to force people to buy upgrades, but that’s a separate conversation.
AC Origins is a piss poor console port as far as performance is
concerned. The combat is f**king awful but for some reason the setting
makes you carry on.
“piss poor console port as far as performance is
concerned” really what is your PC specs? I have almost solid 60 FPS @ 5760×1080 on Ultra with no AA and shadows lowered two notches. I do have a single 1080 Ti though(the latest drivers this week seemed to help).
The performance is easily way better than all the other AC games like Black Flag and it is even pimped out with PC extras not on the consoles.
Combat sucks hey, so I take it you hate Dark Souls type combat for the melee portion of combat? The rest plays exactly like a normal AC game with the assassination stuff. I use a bow a lot it is my spec and it owns, same with my sleeping darts. To me it is cool to be able to block with a shield and dodge and not just smash the button like a child and win all the time(like other AC games). I have no beef with it at all.
All well you can always get Star Wars: Battlefront 2 LOL 🙂
PC Specs – 3770k @ 4.5, 32GB RAM, 1080Ti FTW3, couple of SSDs, couple of HDDs. Unable to maintain 60FPS @1440p. Hence piss poor console port. Perhaps acceptable to you as you sound more of a mobile moron.
I really don’t care how AC Origins performance relates to previous AC games as it has nothing to do with the PC optimisation.
Combat is f**king awful as all you need to do is spam attack, hence out of boredom you end up using the bow. Not sure what you mean by ‘owns’, but guided arrows is hardly a challenge.
Why would I get Star Wars Battlefront 2? I’m certainly not ‘cool’ enough, sounds more suitable for someone like yourself ‘LOL’.
Wow. You’re a Wrinkly D*ck Head. Too many A*s Hats on here. LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL
Cool, get ELEX for sure.
Damn dude I had to look up what WE WUZ KANGZ meant, WTF? Maybe I read the info wrong from Google or what the deal is, so you don’t want to play ACO because you think it has black people in it and not middle eastern real Egyptians? I have not finished the game yet but I have not seen one black person in it yet. Everyone talks with a middle eastern accent or real Arabic(which is really cool btw) and look middle eastern/Egyptian to me.
Anyways I am not up on all the lingo and politics I stick to video games. It is your choice so do what you got to do, the game owns and I love it the world in ACO looks Egyptian to me and not African like RE5 or FC2.
well its not we wuz kangs, its ok. But yeah elex is the best rpg of the year and it doesnt even appear on game awards.
isnt assassins creed pay 2 win sp?you can buy weapons and ability points isnt that pay 2 win?
ELEX is garbage and so is AC We wuz kangs witcher style
wait for kingdom come deliverance for that authentic elements with heavy doses of realism
The shroud of the Dark Side, has fallen. Begun, the Consumer Backlash War has.
…..
Well, sh*t.
zatara!!!!!!
where have you been friend, it’s ages since i seen you on oneangerygamer
I haven’t integrated it into my daily routine yet, so I keep forgetting about it 😀
Good stuff.
Keep spamming them we dont need those crystal things in the game!
Power to the gamers!
This is one of the rare occasions that people complaining on the internet really accomplished something positive
hold off on buying until you know what they are going to do when they bring microtransactions back in its still ea.
good job tho guys.
Ea is so sith lol pure evil, they are luring you out in the open so they can kill you all.
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It’s still a full price game. Don’t accept this victory, cause it’s not. They will just return more obscure and more accepting.
Once enough people bought the game we will switch it back, in short it’s a trap. from now on they won’t announce microtransactions until after the game launches. they never change.
its a trap!!!!!!!!!!
“publisher claimed that it will enable the ability to purchase crystals in-game at a later date” – Well ofc they will
People power ?
drm power
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He is a known shill in these parts. Just ignore him or block him 🙂
This is just so they can get sales for the game during the holiday season. Don’t fall into their trap, don’t buy this game. Show them that this is not ok.
Sounds like a major Bait n’ Switch – no thank you.
Who cares. The games boring anyways. I thought the Beta was ultra casual.
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It will be interesting to see weather they go back on the “all future titles will have micro-transactions” statement. TBH though, I dont think this will last.
The game is getting a poor reception everywhere and the Micro-transactions are only half the problem with it. I wonder if Respawn are regretting throwing their eggs into this basket, especially after the Activision charade.
Between this and the new Need for Speed tanking in reviews I can’t help but feel that EA has been pushing to see where consumer tolerance snaps, and now they’ve crossed that boundary. But unlike the developers of Evolve they actually have the cash and influence to recover from it.
One thing that a lot of people seems forgetting, that IT will have Free DLC packs. So it needs some kind system to earn money. Pay to win was totally wrong way to do it because its still a 60-80 dollar game. So they should make cosmetic stuff i believe ton of star wars fans would play Leia in Slave outfit for money. And it would not bother me if they have bought that stuff. But then again i would be distracted and get killed, and i would be mad that it’s still basically p2w then. And they could more Old Leia, Padme skin for Leia, Queen Padme(from episode one with freaky shoulders). And there could ton of options for other characters too. They could make Sword colors, the possibilities would be endless without destroying canon.
#EAImBetterThanYourTeamHireMe
They shouldve gone with the classic Battlefield Premium system, if there is no other way for them how to monetize this.
Better than this clownshow. Yes it didnt work for the first Battlefront. Maybe datadisk times are coming back?
Yeah i have to agree game seems to be better and and more people would play it. Pay for DLC is far better than P2W. Because you dont have to buy DLC to win. But I like the idea of unified playerbase but not like this. “I don’t like EA. It’s coarse and rough and irritating and it gets everywhere.”
Coming soon as “Mr Christensen best acting scenes” DLC with a special themed lootboxes set full of sand.”
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Yes, it is still racist…
Everyone over the age of 5 should know that…
You know what else is racist? 5 year olds in sweden being told that being white and male is wrong and cops having to prioritize traffic tickets over serious crimes so it makes criminals from third world countries to look good.
After all we wouldnt wnat to push any harmfull narratives that immigrants are criminals..
ITS RACIST!!!
There is plently of videos on what Sweden is like nowdays, actual video evidence, it seems you’re willing get into arguements about such things or dismiss them but not do any research.
Youtube “sweden immigration problem”, no doubt you’ll say it’s right wing propagander, not normal everyday people dealing with a problem.
At least you admit there ‘is’ a problem.
facts and truth cant be racist
im a race realist. i only deal in facts and truth. keep tipping that fedora though kiddo.
#cuck
#soyboy
You can’t expect much from this site, sadly, It has a terrible comment section now.
not really, but we occasionaly say the things that pc gamer and the likes wont allow us to say. John (the guy above not the site owner) goes too far for me, but having been here since 2011, i gotta say with the exception of the last 6 months, the comments were fine. I blame game journos being sjws for unleashing the fury of the commentators.
Why are you here then? I notice you’re here when this sort of think kicks off, so if you don’t like freedom of speach, p*ss off somewhere else, you don’t police speech here. We don’t care about your offence of over words either, go cry in a corner or something.
they dont give a crap what customers say. they are under investigation in Belgium under suspicion crates are simply gambling. anyone who thinks its because whining on the net is rather naive. they wouldnt give up so easily on such moneygrab
Do you see what consumers can do if they b tch enough? So b tch more, because sure as hel the “game journalists” dont care about consumers
Massive cancelling of pre-orders, bad reviews, angry gamers all over the web. EA has gone into defense mode for now. They can’t sell you microtransactions if you don’t buy the game to begin with. That’s all they are concerned with at this point is salvaging the initial game sales. Later will come the cash grab (microtransactions) imo.
It is true that blacks are over represented in crimes, white people should do more crime, because we dont want to push a “harmful” narrative.
sjw logic.
Damn it…
It’s anti semitic, not racist, I mean you can’t even get that right, you just assume everything is racist, I suppose you think Muslims are a race as well like all the other mor*ns because your government told you so.
It doesnt matter if either its racism or anti semitic…targeting a whole group does not make it right.
Saying all jews are greedy is like saying all muslim are terrorists.
Its like saying all black are gangsters and and so on…
Ignorance,lack of education and primitive thinking leads to those conclusions any mature human being that still think like that in the 21 century should be excluded from society.
Call it sjw or whatever you want…i dont care
Do not buy this game, they wil ladd it later. just boycot this game so other company will understan that we gamer do not like this sh**ty microtransactions bs
wow ea even lies in their satatement by saying it was never our intent to give an unfair advantage.who do they think they are fooling?dont buy it until you know what they ar doing with the lootboxes.they could just turn them back on in a month with ZERO changes to it.
So this is only temporary? SMFH….
Not buying it.
When a AAA company has their sights set on a money making scheme, they will never ever let go of that dream. They want to make more money over the years via crates, they aren’t going to let it go.
Not sure why everyone misses the point it’s not the companies that are bad for adding the microtransactions it’s all the braindead sheep who buy them that are the problem, if “we” didn’t make them so lucrative they wouldn’t exist.
what a cuck. too bad sweetie, hillary lost. get over it.
“And I’m not even American so it’s not like I voted…”
yet all your comments are supporting democrats and degeneracy,hhmmmm….. let me guess. your from israel.
*edit* lol so you figured out how to make your comments private finally, too bad i already know your a shill or troll.
just buy okami. ELEX is erm… well, made by the same folk that made Two Worlds 1/2.
even worse.
it was all due to social media pressure
people tweeted to disney about underage gambling addiction using their property (star wars)
so Disney said to them “we don’t want star wars to be associated with that negative PR”
so EA turn off the money switch on the MT but will likely turn it back on once people star buy the game again
what makes me roll my eyes is that cucktubers and shill-journos are payed to promote that game and say “hey it worked, now we can buy the game” f**k no.
the game is now a grind to win, they haven’t modified it enough so it’s still requires you 40 hours to GRIND just to buy a single hero, speaking of which
how the F are you gonna play Heroes vs Villians when you need to BUY the heroes before playing?
That’s probably true about Disney not wanting to be associated with kids gambling. EA is in the news for being under investigation for gambling in Belgium. Disney is family oriented media and entertainment. They don’t want any dirt on their brand.
I disagree about the journalists giving the game a pass though. IGN gave the game a 65, Gamespot gave it a 6/10. Rock Paper Shotgun, Kotaku and Destructoid called out the progression system. And I just read PC Gamer’s review. They gave it a 63 and summed it up as this:
“A spectacular, occasionally very fun tour of
Star Wars battles that disappoints with a boring story, crappy
progression system, and endless grenade spam.”
This game is a f*cking train wreck for EA. Especially if it doesn’t sell well and they can’t re-introduce microtransactions later on. I know how EA thinks. They won’t put the blame on themselves and try to be decent with the next Star Wars game. They will just decide to make less Star Wars games in the future if sales aren’t very high.
a 6 is way too generous for this abortion of a star wars game
you literally have to buy the heroes in order to play Heroes Vs Villans
they managed to make this game WORSE than the previous battlefront, which is a goddamn achivement in publisher douchebaggery
i’ed give this “game” a 3, 4 out of 10
it literally has no value, has content locked behind paywalls/grindwalls
and the campaign is so bad it’s literally a chore to go through it
the only thing this “game” has is the graphics
the graphics and the star wars IP, that’s it, no replay value, no production value, nothing.
weather it would be enough to make disney take the rights elsewhere, that is the billion dollar question (since now their brand stained with EA’s children’s gambling design)
Agreed. As the game is now I wouldn’t even consider buying it and when the anger passes with gamers EA is likely going to try to pull some more sh*t. Like I was saying on another article about this game. EA may allow DICE to patch the progression system but there is no patch for “boring”.
Not that I put any weight on what Metacritic users have to say because they generally pass out zeroes like candy on a lot of games but they have a rating of 0.8 out of 10 right now with the users. I don’t think I’ve ever seen a rating that low from Metacritic users. It’s pitiful. I almost feel sorry for EA………nahhh, the scumbags deserve it : )