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Have microtransactions just been removed from SW Battlefront 2? No, Im serious...
- Thread starter wolgoen
- Start date
Pushing the boundaries of microtransactions to see where they could take them.
Revolutionary
Member
Another article from WaPo regarding this whole situation
https://www.washingtonpost.com/amph...faced-charges-that-it-was-promoting-gambling/
https://www.washingtonpost.com/amph...faced-charges-that-it-was-promoting-gambling/
Unknown One
Member
Great way to do long term damage to a brand.
Catphish
Member
I've held firm, in spite of temptation.
My hatred for their tactics apparently exceeds my love for Star Wars.
DrunkShogun
Member
No chance at this stage. Havent bought an Ea game since last gen so thank you ea for helping me to keep it going. Just waiting on when they will reset to the original system. Expecting first week of the next year.
Danjin44
The nicest person on this forum
After what EA done to Dead Space I wont buying any of their games. Thankfully I don't care for either Star War series or the MP games so its easy for me to ignore this game completely. Also EA, Ubisoft and Activision haven't made any game that I want to play, so I don't really have to deal with their shitty business practice.
Hoya Destroyer
Member
I have to concede, I am tempted to buy this.
Im so bored of Overwatch, the current CoD WW2 setting doesnt interest me and I could go out now and buy this for $60 at the shop (which is cheap here in Aus).
Its just the pay to win mechanic and the possibility of the player base getting split into different groups because of it (splitting an already small local player base is very bad) that concerns me.
Im so bored of Overwatch, the current CoD WW2 setting doesnt interest me and I could go out now and buy this for $60 at the shop (which is cheap here in Aus).
Its just the pay to win mechanic and the possibility of the player base getting split into different groups because of it (splitting an already small local player base is very bad) that concerns me.
DenogginizerOS
BenjaminBirdie's Thomas Jefferson
Its a great game and I have not once worried about transactions or crystals or pay to win. Glad they removed it, but there is a great game here and I would hate for people to miss out. Rent it and see for yourself.
JareBear: Remastered
Banned
Your experience is great but its just anecdotal and only applies to you
Martinski43
Member
The MP progression is still dogshit it seems since you need to grind for lootboxes and open them and hope you get the right stuff for what you are playing.
Yeah no thanks, if it had normal progression i might had gotten it though. I want to level up my weapons and classes by using them in the games. Not using cards i rolled for.
DenogginizerOS
BenjaminBirdie's Thomas Jefferson
And the several friends and others I played with this weekend.
TannerDemoz
Member
Haha, no it is quite obvious to any unbiased person who has played the game.
Can we all take a moment to appreciate that EA has probably made an account just to justify their actions.
That's why he said rent it and see for yourself.
witchedwiz
Member
yep..
sorry but if you want to go for the microtransaction route, your game has to be F2P or very close to F2P..
see for example gw2 a subsription-less mmo that you have to buy just the game in itself..
or other games like lol//dota2//whatever where the game is free and you can pay the optional stuff (skins and whatnot) in cold cash..
but that's that..
any full-priced game with cosmetic lootbox or even worst a full-priced game with game content in lootboxes is a big "nope" for me...
From my point of view, you're (we are) being milked.. and while I'm glad that you can enjoy a game while being milked, but it's not my case..
peace
BANGS
Banned
No they didn't...
BANGS
Banned
So does EA but let's ignore that because bandwagon effect...
amdb00mer
Member
Lots of blaming going on. I read an article that said Disney/Lucasfilm pushed for the microtransactions and for them to be more than cosmetic. This would only be believable if Disney would be getting a cut of the revenue from the microtransactions. Just like everybody else, I'm willing to blame EA due to their crappy history with monetization in their games. However, if it turned out to be true that Disney/Lucasfilm had a hand in the decision of how the microtransactions were implemented I don't know what I would think at that point.
phil_t98
#SonyToo
I would actually be interested in how many where actually going to buy the game and not bought it vs the hype of the moment in "I'm not buying it."
its a good game and hope they take out the pay to win aspect of it
at the moment I play on xbox and can always find full games all the time so it must of shifted a fair few copies, I wonder how quick the drop off point will be if so many are not buying the game.
if all that makes sense lol
its a good game and hope they take out the pay to win aspect of it
at the moment I play on xbox and can always find full games all the time so it must of shifted a fair few copies, I wonder how quick the drop off point will be if so many are not buying the game.
if all that makes sense lol
amdb00mer
Member
What's funny is the people that did buy the game on day one and play it will actually level up and earn cards and such. Then when it goes on sale it will get a lot of new buyers, but they will come into a game with people that are already at a high skill level and have lots of cards. This will eventually lead to people still thinking people did pay to win when it really is just the people that stuck with it and played on day one and have leveled up through normal progression and buying loot crates with earned in-game currency.
lefty1117
Gold Member
The game itself is quite good, jaw dropping graphics and sound, tons to unlock and card combos etc. If they would have just made the crystals usable loot boxes that unlock cosmetic stuff, crafting parts, and credits, probably would have been fine. I think there has been a bit of overreaction on all this if I'm honest - most of the good stuff in game has to be crafted or unlocked via in-game achievements. But probably the right call for them to remove the crystals with all the blowback; now people can just appreciate the game and not have to worry about all that noise. I highly recommend the game itself.
royox
Member
Matchmaking is supposed...SUPPOSED...to match you with people near your rank.
amdb00mer
Member
I know. It will be interesting to see what happens after Black Friday. At least it's not Activision and their new patents, that they swear they are not using.
EA CEO Andrew Wilson stands resolute...
Lol, that's great but that scene is so poorly acted.
partime
Member
I think he meant 'you' as the minority.
Fbh
Member
I mean, it's Star Wars and it had a pretty big marketing budget. Something like this was never going to affect sales to the point of having empty servers (specially early on).
EA isn't worried about not making money from this, they are worried about making less money than anticipated.
As a purely anecdotal experience. The store where I work at also sells games , and compared to other big releases like COD or Assassin's Creed there hasn't been as much interest in Battlefront 2. On launch week we were selling at least 10 copies of Assassin's Creed every day and star wars has been more like 3-4.
Of courses that isn't proof of anything but it caught my attention.
Lol. That is is literally every post he has ever made!