It appears that the first official details about Star Wars Squadrons have been leaked online. According to the leaked press release, Star Wars Squadrons will release on October 2nd. Not only that, but the game will come out on all three major digital stores (Steam, Origin and Epic Games Store).
Star Wars Squadrons will be a first-person space dogfighting game set after the events of Return of the Jedi. The game is developed by Motive Studios and will include both single-player and multi-player campaigns. Furthermore, the game will support cross-play between PC, Xbox One and PS4.
Electronic Arts has also confirmed that the PC version will support VR from the get-go.
The publisher will release a brand new trailer for this new Star Wars game later today. Moreover, EA will release a proper gameplay trailer/video at EA Play 2020, on June 18th.
We’ll be sure to update this story once the official announcement trailer is available!
Star Wars Squadrons Announcement Trailer
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Anyone know how much Disney has invested in Epic Games?
No
It can’t be much. Tim Sweeney has controlling interest of Epic. That means he owns at least 51% of Epic. Tencent owns 40%. There are other minor investors as well. Epic is privately owned so they are not required to divulge financial info.
Word on the street is…It’s heavily multiplayer focused. Don’t expect a meaty SP experience.
sigh, sad, anyone got any leaks? Screnshots? Trailer?
Absolutely lost as to how anyone still gives EA money. It is one of the great mysteries of the world. One of the most anti-customer corporations out there, and yet, the abundance of stupid morons of the world, continue to keep funding this machine. Well done, humanity.
Because gamers by and large are not very bright, and EA knows how to take advantage of that
haven’t paid them a dime since forever.
Right……..
Blanket boycotting is pretty dumb, tbh. If everyone boycotted a game publisher or studio that did some shady sh*t then they would be relegated to some indie titles and that’s about it. Boycott the bad sh*t and support/encourage the good stuff. If you do this, then the financial incentives start to show up for the company and they’ll realize they can make just as much or more by not being sh**ty.
A good example of this would be MW2019. COD had been on a steady and consistent downward trend for nearly the entire Xbone/PS4 generation. Then MW did away with map packs, loot boxes and also brought back and modernized the old COD gameplay people loved and missed. MW2019 has been their most profitable and highest selling COD of this entire generation and then some. Now their plans to sustain that new model are solidified because sentiment is very positive and so is revenue.
Wat
Um… no, blanket boycotting gets their attention much quicker, and their actions have to be far more consequential to regain public support.
Attacking only the worst s**t they do, simply enables them to do the lesser of the s**ty things they do. That’s how we get garbage like pre-order dlc, post-release transactions, fifty different “editions” of each game which strip out basic things like “unlockables” to gouge more money out of people like yourself.
That’s how all that garbage became “normal” today. That’s why everyone shrugs their shoulders at all those things, because they were allowed to become “normal”.
Why I would have to explain this to you? That is the ultimate question.
In an ideal world blanket boycotting works. In the real world it does not. At least in this particular scenario. The large majority of revenue made from lootboxes and micro-transactions is from a very small percentage of the overall playerbase of any game. This is a pretty well known fact by now. That percentage of players aren’t the type who boycott. That revenue is mostly protected/expected.
Initial sales don’t make up a terribly significant portion of overall revenue for any game with forms of recurrent spending. This is why it’s so commonplace nowadays to see $60 AAA releases receiving 10%-25% discounts prior to release on completely reputable 3rd party websites like GreenManGaming, Fanatical, etc. You’ll typically see 40%-60% discounts within a year’s time max. That goes for official storefronts like Steam, Xbox or Playstation stores.
You could have a relatively respectable percentage of a playerbase boycott an entire publisher’s library but ultimately that doesn’t do much to the bottom line. If it does do enough negative damage to their revenue they’ll just find new ways to monetize within those games.
Your thought process operates on the possibility that the games industry will eventually, if enough people boycott, revert to a time before pre-order bonuses, special editions, season passes, microtransactions and lootboxes. The reality is that will never happen. These mega corporations are not going to leave that kind of revenue on the table. The only reason we’ve seen them pull back on lootboxes is due to the looming threat of regulation. Make no mistake it had very little to do with customer complaints.
You might bring up Battlefront 2, but there’s always an exception and there were a lot more moving pieces in that situation. Namely the house of mouse, who is very careful with how products they’re tied to are perceived by the general public. I’d say it’s pretty obvious EA got told by daddy mickey to cut the sh*t.
Ultimately I think we agree that all of the above mentioned things are a detriment to the experience. The difference lies in our perception of the world. I’m a realist who more often then not gets called a pessimist. I’d wager you lean more on the optimistic side judging by your belief that if we all just banded together we could make video games be like the good old days. We can’t. The industry would undoubtedly move in the opposite direction if that happened.
I’d rather have an experience like MW2019 than something like RAID, Clash of Clans, etc. This kind of monetization will not go away, but it can be improved to be less toxic to the experience.
Frankly CoD MW 1-2-3 and BFBC 1-2 were too Anti-Russian CIA “propaganda”. But suddenly it’s not OK with CoD MW4.
MW4 is s**t in many things but russophobia is not one of them.
according to this trailer i can see its gonna be multiplayer focused with the single player being an afterthought…guess ill go back to rogue squadron on dolphin emulator
how can modern devs suck so bad at making games? HOW? They grew up with the best games ever in the 90s and early 2000s cant they draw inspiration from there?
thats why gog and emulators should be supported and why people are making fixes/mods to make old games run on modern pc,
there is less and less games made with passion and originality nowadays that gamers that grew in the 80’s-90’s are going back to old games.
gog should not be supported.
Why not?
They are drm free and bring old games and “fix” them to run on modern pc’s.
because they are cowards
While they fix for modern OS, they may drop support for older. First XP and later 7. So even if you bought game on Win7 times, it’s installer may not be launching in 10-20 years when “updated to support newest WIn10 version”.
“s, there’s no game in these 2 years which had any beautiful women in the games, except Japanese or a few AA titles (Terminator Resistance) ”
yes if the game has a pretty woman in it its made in japan or eastern europe….cd projekt doesnt count 75% are foreigners.
Also kingdom come deliverance and sniper ghost warrior also have good looking women.
“DOOM Eternal’s Hugo was mentioning how Whiplash was the first female demon (wrong, because Summoner was first and she looked like a woman more)”
dont think he said that but the spider mastermind was always female.
At least japanese devs and manga/anime artists are not caving in into “wokeness”
The sjw agenda is a western world bullshit phase that will pass just like every stupid phase
And if it dont,well according to physics “For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction”
Downvoted for picking Rogue Squadron over Tie Fighter.
Rogue squadron are arcade
Tie fighter are simulation
They are both great series and you cant go wrong with either, but i prefer arcade gameplay so downvote as much as you like because i dont prefer the game you like very mature.
“Rogue squadron are arcade
Tie fighter are simulation”
Yep, precisely my point.
So according to your logic people should play dcs world and not play ace combat games, gtfo with that elitist mindset simulations are not for everyone
Rogue squadron games aged better btw and are more recent, x-wing and tie fighters are very primitive in term of visuals
Look, it was a half-joke, ok?
I didn’t actually care about reading your long-winded sperg-out.
Also, Rogue Squadron doesn’t hold a candle to any title on the X-Wing series. Its only merit is being a pretty looking and rather shallow arcade
No microtransactions at launch. Will probably be added later.
Blah, more multiplayer crap. EA, how do you manage to do so little with this franchise?
I wouldn’t pirate it even if it was a single player game, only autists like flying/driving games.
Couldn’t agree with you more.
I don’t think once in my entire life I have ever been excited for a video game by watching a cgi cinematic trailer with no gameplay.
Oh look, more EA garbage to fuel the demographic which constitutes the sub-human intellect portion of society.
Funny to see some people out there try and claim that “EA has learned from its mistakes, and is getting better”. Yes, you are right about that. What you are wrong about is, “what” they have learned and are getting better at.
Don’t give this cancerous company the time of day, much less your money.
they have the right to make star wars games and they make a game for bunch of autists who are into this boring shet.
As an autist who is into boring shet, I have to say I’m thrilled.
1. Wait 1-2 years till all the content is released and all the BS with loot boxes is gone.
2. Buy for $5 on sale
Watch the trailer, there’s a female character,all of them are pretty and attractive,suddenly wake up. Damn its just a dream…
Except in real life, a woman wouldn’t be able to accomplish that, even in a regular fighter.
Google “women slower reaction times”. (and “slow visual reactions”, “slow reflexes”, etc.)
We women actually know this better than the manginas who work on such BS games and movies.
Women are slower than men in every way possible and therefore, 99% of recent movies showing you strong women who are better than men are pure fantasy. It’s physically impossible, unless she has a hormonal disorder.
I could accept a strong female character who uses her brains instead, but it’s very rarely the case, since SJWs INSIST that women have in movies and games the exact same physical abilities than men, which proves that SJWs don’t have the same MENTAL abilities as normal people.
Some people just have to much free time and spend it pushing an agenda that doesn’t even make sense:
https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/51ff426691783737dfff0b78f4fee448f0a27242c4df5d130904d2666e4505a1.jpg
I believe it was Hillary Clinton who started that phrase in one of her speeches.