Why Star Wars Battlefront 2's Microtransactions Are A Huge Problem

Very good conversation. However, the overuse of the word "like" is incredibly annoying. Being that these people are supposed to be journalists, didn't they take a speech class?? Like, they would like, sound like, smarter or like, something.

This game focuses too much on PVP. They need an online Co-op mode. Haven't they learned from the huge success of Horde mode in Gears of War or zombies in COD?

F*ck EA is all I have to say.

https://www.change.org/p/andrew-wilson-remove-the-cancer-of-micro-transactions-from-aaa-budget-games

After reading the article, lots of the comments, and watching the vid., I felt I needed to share my own take on this.

I know DICE felt the biggest mistake they made with the first game was not providing enough end game content, but I for one feel the progression system they used was nearly perfect. I'm still playing, and at rank 72, there's still some things I want to unlock and a lot I could. The only thing I would add is a few more bodies/outfits than the few they included. But to me, there was absolutely no need to nearly overhaul the whole system.

The other point I wanted to make has to do with someone else's comment about EA targeting casuals even more with Battlefront II. I don't know if that's the case but I do know by implementing this stupid random loot system, they've ultimately turned off a lot of their most important audience -- Star Wars fans. And I'm a big one. It doubly hurts because I very rarely play multip. games; they're usually too cut throat for my tastes.

If user RenFairReject's claims that all the pay to win elements have now be removed turn out to be true of the final product, then that will obviously make a lot of people happier. Since nothing official verifying this has been posted online, yet, I can't help feeling really frustrated, let down even.

Loot crates are fucking everywhere now...every game I play has a fucking loot crate problem in it. It's an epidemic that has gone too far it needs to stop, it was a good idea once, but when they are in every game and get worse and worse everyone starts to hate them and people stop playing the games with them. Get rid of the loot crates go back to how games were meant to be and how they were, level up rewards are so much better and achievement rewards as well. loot crates are shit.

I just wish they wouldn't say "like" so much. Vexing.

LOL, the Taco Bell metaphor was so spot on. Very funny.

I'm a casual adult gamer and here's my take. I've played the Beta and its fun, but anytime there is a multiplayer element then chances are its going to be unfair. Either you are going to have people cheating, people who spend 12+ hours a day upgrading or people that buy their way to the top. That's just the way it is. I see people that have 12+ hours to spend gaming (like college students) with an unfair advantage to me anyway.

So, there's only 2 real questions for me. 1) Is there a way I can play it, not die every 10 seconds and have fun. 2) Will the Single Player campaign be good.

We'll see. I'll wait until the game is on sale for 50%+ off the original price anyway, so I'll re-evaluate it then. I find that single player games are far more to my taste as dying continuously and waiting for new matchups gets pretty old pretty quick.

StarWars BattleFront 2

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Remember earlier this year when the news emerged that Google had been fined $8.1 billion for manipulating their search results to put their Shopping results first?

They were not fined at all and thats the wrong message to give the reader. They were simply agreeing to pay a tiny portion of their billions and billions in tax evasion in order to keep on doing it.

And to this day they still avoid paying tax and i think most people have a pretty good idea of their annual turnover.

And the reason? Because governments are not powerful enough to do anything to this corporation and it was just a minute settlement of what is already owed.

So if government do not have the power to affect their business who does? Well that leaves the consumer and in the case of the gaming industry if you don't agree with their actions you are the only one who can change it by saving your money and not buying.

Just remember you are actually supporting a publisher when you buy because the developers have already been paid for their work and its very likely they have now been downsized to a smaller team who deal with patches and updates.

By not buying the product you force the Publisher to rehire the development team so they can remove what is preventing people from buying and presto. We have ourselves a real game :)

Another battlefront game I was excited for, that now I refuse to touch. EA is so greedy

I am going to assume that Developers do not want what publishers want and that would be the reason why lootcrates and RNG in general is massively buggy.

It's a great way to make the morons in the publishing industry think you've done what they told you to do because how would they know any better? I'll bet none of them are coders. :P

The result is outrage on payments being made and lootcrates not delivered as well as incorrect contents of opened crates.

It's EA they want to make money, and by bringing F2P mechanics and progression systems to retail games they can sucker people in to giving them more money. Notice how they said DLC was free now but they are going to charge you for loot boxes. This is just the world we live in now. No longer can we pay one price and get the whole game anymore.

The first one wasn't like this. Looks like they ruined this franchise.

I played the beta a lot, enough to have all three card slots unlocked on every class including fighters. An important thing to keep in mind about the beta is that they gifted you an extra 4 weapons in those trooper "starter crates." Basically if you tried a class for a few matches then they unlocked the next gun for you. There's no way to know if those starter crates are going to be part of the full game. If you need roughly 840 scrap for one gun (plus it's two mods) then it's going to take you about 42 crates to get enough scrap to unlock that ONE gun. That's 294 matches of Galactic Assault to unlock one gun. That's nuts. That's 294 matches and you haven't even bought a star card yet.

Quickly losing interest in this game.. I can’t stand progression based loot in competitive multiplayer games.

Regarding the loot box situation I've seen many defending this and thinking it's ok but I just want people to think about something, I've been working a few things out and the maximum credits earned in a match was 180 credits and the lootboxes were 1100 credits so it's roughly 7 matches in order to gain 1 box now say it's £1 per loot box and someone spends £50 buying them it means I have to do around 350 matches just to catch up and get the 50 boxes myself which is an insane amount of games to do and even at £2 a box it's going to be around 175 matches which for people who have jobs or kids or just don't have the time that's a number few people will get to.

if Star Wars sells a lot which we all know it will it would mean that games like battlefield and titanfall will likely follow and that's something that is very worrying when it comes to online gaming and would mean an end to multiplayer gaming for a lot of people. I don't mind lootboxes if there purely cosmetic but in the case of star wars it's progression based and that's why there has been so many complaining.

The scope thing is ridiculous. You can get a scope for a weapon within the first match or two of most FPSs that have that kidn of customization.

Also: the problem with ESRB's pack of cards comparison is that you buy a pack of cards and get what's inside. With Battlefront 2, you pay $60 to then pay more to get loot boxes. Essentially it would be like paying $60 for the pack of cards, and then when you open it realizing you have to pay more money to actually open the cards inside the pack.

RenFairReject Posts so much on here it's hard to imagine he/she isn't getting paid for it. Regardless if they removed this or not. They thought it was a good idea in the first place. Which speaks volumes. Don't buy this game and send a message before this stuff truly gets out of hand.

It makes me very happy that so many websites and YouTubers are focusing on this because it IS a problem. If enough people buy loot boxes because of how DICE/EA set up the progression system, you bet we're going to see other franchises adopt this horrible system. I was actually impressed with the gameplay part of the beta, but I can't get behind this P2W practice. If EA has the balls to infect the Battlefield franchise with this crap, I'll drop the next Battlefield game instantly.

why theyre not really: because all of the pay to win aspects of the loot crate system were removed after they got a bad reception from fans. which btw is WHAT A BETA IS FOR.

Damage and health/healing cards are gone. the only thing left are side-grades, which replace existing abilities with other equally powerful ones, quality of life cards that help whenever youre OUT OF COMBAT (such as healing you a little on melee kills, or increasing cooldown speed slightly), parts so you can make the cards/guns you want and cosmetics.

this happened DAYS AGO. where's your update gamespot?