Star Wars: Battlefront 2 releases in a few days and a lot of players have criticised EA’s decision to include microtransactions. As you’d expect, the publisher has responded to the criticism, however its answers may not please you. According to EA’s community team on Reddit, microtransactions have been included in order to create a compelling progression path for all of players.
“There’s a lot of content at launch with even more coming via live service, and we’ll continuously adjust our progression mechanics to give players a sense of accomplishment as they explore all of Battlefront 2.”
In case you didn’t know, the game will not offer its Heroes from the get-go. Players will have to unlock them and according to reports, they will need 60K credits in order to unlock one Hero.
‘The intent is to provide players with a sense of pride and accomplishment for unlocking different heroes‘ wrote EA’s community team and continued:
“We selected initial values based upon data from the Open Beta and other adjustments made to milestone rewards before launch. Among other things, we’re looking at average per-player credit earn rates on a daily basis, and we’ll be making constant adjustments to ensure that players have challenges that are compelling, rewarding, and of course attainable via gameplay.”
Regarding credits, EA claimed that it is looking at the results daily and will continue to ‘tune this to ensure that players feel a meaningful sense of reward for the time they spend with Battlefront 2.’
In another post, EA stated that it chose the cost (for unlocking Heroes) based on the data it received from the Open Beta phase.
“As for cost, we selected initial values based upon data from the Open Beta and other adjustments made to milestone rewards before launch. Among other things, we’re looking at average per-player credit earn rates on a daily basis, and we’ll be making constant adjustments to ensure that players have challenges that are compelling, rewarding, and of course attainable via gameplay.”
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I don’t understand why people buy these games. I don’t understand the psychology of spending hundreds of hours running around a map and shooting people and finding value in that. I can only guess it’s similar to the endorphin drip people get from playing slot machines. I don’t know.
Problem is you could say that to just about anything in life!
What ever floats your boat I guess, Just make sure you are buying the full boat with a motor and not some oars that require spending more to upgrade.
Play indie games. They are truly fun and you wont need new 1080ti every year because of planned obsolescence and invisible tesselated oceans
I recommend ori and the blind forest. And playing steamworld dig was a blast too
Ori was amazing glad I bought it, What a gem of a game I almost missed.
Had more fun with it than many AAA games, Was quite impressed with the visual art as well as game play and story.
Usually I avoid indie like the plague, Too spoilt on big studio games to make use of my overpriced hardware. lol
That’s why I brought ELEX instead of AC Origins as much as I’m really tempted by the Egyptian theme, love Egyptian history and themes, ELEX has turned out to be great so far, nearly 20 hours in.
it’s the usual “WE HEAR YOU BUT WE JUST DON’T CARE!” routine, people buy those loot scams so of course it’s here to stay no matter what how many complains they get. We have come a long way since the “it’s just a horse skin! you don’t have to buy it!” arguments, i hope those who defended that BS are happy now.
With EA as with any company money talks a lot louder than complaints on the web. These microtransactions are here to stay indeed. For every gamer complaining about them there are hundreds spending money on them. Just look at League of Legends. They took in 1.7 billion dollars from microtransactions last year alone. That is an incredible amount of microtransactions. Of course EA wants a slice of that pie.
I don’t spend any money on microtransactions and if you have to spend money on microtransactions to progress in a game or otherwise endlessly grind away to get anywhere then I just skip the game. I play games for fun, not work.
“For every gamer complaining about them there are hundreds spending money on them.”
Not really. F2P works because chances are there’s 1 person in every 10 willing to pay enough to cover for the other 9 and then some. There’s whales out there spending thousands which more than make up for the people who don’t ever spend a cent.
Only difference is League of Legends doesn’t try to go for the pay-to-win, unlike EA, so most people don’t complain about them in LoL because it’s a trade-off; free game, but with a pay-if-you-want financial model. By comparison, EA wants your money & then some. Yeah, good luck selling that to most people…..
And I’ll continue to not buy their games.
“According to EA’s community team on Reddit, microtransactions have been
included in order to create a compelling progression path for all of
players.” Please don’t stoop to this level. That’s not what it says.
EA games = buyer’s remorse.
Incidentally, that last reddit post you linked now has over 300k downvotes, making it by far the most downvoted comment in the entire history of reddit, the second most downvoted comment of all time barely has 24k downvotes.
Hilarious. Once again EA sets a record. Probably the most despised Publisher in gaming history.
They are the only company to ever win two golden poo awards for “absolutely worst company in America”.
Edit: correction, Comcast also won two, but they weren’t consecutive. So they’re tied with Comcast.
It has close to 450k down votes now.
Yoi can have a progression system with sense of acomplishment without microtransactions, so it’s EA classic BS
The real sh*tstorm will come once the next Battlefield will be released. If they tie the weapon’s progression (weapons, parts, plus cosmetics) into a crate loot system…Imagine playing assault all the time and not getting any weapon or upgrade for assault class by opening crate after crate after crate…Oh boy.
They better don’t even think of doing this for Battlefield…they can use that crap for cosmetic stuff alone (yet the idea of having random drops is the most retarded thing ever, whoever pay for loot boxes knowing the random nature of it…is beyond stupid) but for the actual progression it will be the biggest mistake ever made in a video-game. (it is EA after all…they love to mess with their customers)
EA=Cancer
EA really want that mobile gaming cancer in there games 🙂 It’s time to uninstall that virus called Origin from my HDD.
I remember how i used to get excited to play a new Star Wars game, how times have changed.
So long as EA hold the sole rights to Star Wars games, i’ll not buy one again
Microtrans*crap*tions