Star Wars Battlefront II

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This game must be boycotted. Disgusting shady greedy practice.

Boycott no used one cause the whales would still support dip dip as $$$ ish never an issue to them. Moi do know a few whales in RL, trust moi that most of them bo chap and will continue to support such practice cause to them spending thousand of dollars on a gacha\lootbox game really ish nothing. :(

Beside this time EA temporary cave-in ish not really because of the backlash from prayers and SW fansee, history had shown many time that EA never give a damn about prayers nor their own reputation one. The only language EA know how to speak ish $$$ language. Don't think even the stock value drop really matter to them cause ish only short term effect nia.

Moi believe the real reason ish mainly the pressure from Disney side cause it's no secret that Disney ish one of the most if not the most brand and image conscious company in the world. To see one of their company name and their biggest IP getting associated with chewren gambling confirm make them very tu lan especially when the release of episode VIII ish just around the corner nia. Moi die also won't believe Disney behind closed door never threaten EA will take away this golden goose IP from them if they don't do damage control fast fast. :(

That why better don't keep the hope up yet, the move ish not really for the prayers, just for disne so they can continue to keep the golden goose to lay more golden eggs. :(
 

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Boycott no used one cause the whales would still support dip dip as $$$ ish never an issue to them. Moi do know a few whales in RL, trust moi that most of them bo chap and will continue to support such practice cause to them spending thousand of dollars on a gacha\lootbox game really ish nothing. :(

Beside this time EA temporary cave-in ish not really because of the backlash from prayers and SW fansee, history had shown many time that EA never give a damn about prayers nor their own reputation one. The only language EA know how to speak ish $$$ language. Don't think even the stock value drop really matter to them cause ish only short term effect nia.

Moi believe the real reason ish mainly the pressure from Disney side cause it's no secret that Disney ish one of the most if not the most brand and image conscious company in the world. To see one of their company name and their biggest IP getting associated with chewren gambling confirm make them very tu lan especially when the release of episode VIII ish just around the corner nia. Moi die also won't believe Disney behind closed door never threaten EA will take away this golden goose IP from them if they don't do damage control fast fast. :(

That why better don't keep the hope up yet, the move ish not really for the prayers, just for disne so they can continue to keep the golden goose to lay more golden eggs. :(
Disney/Lucasfilm Side With Fans in 'Star Wars Battlefront II' Cash Grab

you are right. Disney pressured EA to shutdown MTX.

then again, no one knows what actually happened behind the scenes. it could be Disney throwing EA under the bus. After all can you believe Disney didn't know about the MTX business model of the game?
 

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semi related:
EA fired the original creator of PvZ because he refused to make his game a pay to win
https://www.reddit.com/r/gaming/comments/7ebds7/ea_fired_the_original_creator_of_pvz_because_he/

How powerful are the heroes?
https://gfycat.com/BigheartedClosedAquaticleech

They can't even get the TIE fighter cockpit right
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Reviews:
Giantbomb 2/5
"The end result feels like a game that was created in a boardroom, its DNA formed by focus testing and market research."
https://www.giantbomb.com/reviews/star-wars-battlefront-ii-review/1900-778/

destructoid 5/10
https://www.destructoid.com/review-star-wars-battlefront-ii-473576.phtml

Star Wars Battlefront 2’s Starfighter Assault is outstanding, but cards are killing the fun
https://www.polygon.com/2017/11/20/...t-2-starfighter-assault-star-card-unlocks-fun
"There are three classes of starfighters in the game: fighter, interceptor and bomber. Each of those three classes has three card slots, each of which can be filled with unique power-ups available through the game’s Star Cards.

But, when you start the game, only one of those card slots is open. In order to unlock the additional two slots you have to increase the level of your Star Cards. Not the level of your main account, mind you, but the level of the random cards you get from the game’s loot crates.

You’ve got two options for leveling your Star Cards: either buy more loot crates or craft higher level cards. But you can’t craft higher level cards until you reach level 10 on your main profile!"
 

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Disney/Lucasfilm Side With Fans in 'Star Wars Battlefront II' Cash Grab

you are right. Disney pressured EA to shutdown MTX.

then again, no one knows what actually happened behind the scenes. it could be Disney throwing EA under the bus. After all can you believe Disney didn't know about the MTX business model of the game?

Don't think Disney benefited directly or getting any of the pennies from EA lootboxes greed, they just licensed their SW IP to EA nia so don't think Disney got involved directly in the development of the mechanism in the game, think Disney's lucasfilm involvement if any maybe more focusing on supervising the lore\story side nia so it could kept within the canon of Disney's SW universe.

But Disney not an angel of cause. Moi suspect Disney may indeed have know about it but underestimated the magnitude of the backlash from this. After all lootbox had become such a norm in AAA titles liao so they may have thought no issue for EA to include them or maybe EA didn't inform them in full that this time the lootbox ish no longer just cosmetic but tied to progression. (which ish a norm to "gamers" in mobile gacha games to P2W but such practice ish still largely considered as a stigma among the real gamers especially the PC gaming community)

Personally though moi ish too weak willed and tend to fall prey to such lootbox\gacha system too (just simply cannot stop gambling with lootboxes and gacha, only have enough will power left to control moi self to gamble within moi budget and not resort to ah long and house mortgage nia) and had become addicted to gambling. That why moi don't think ish just boogeyman claim to say such lootboxes\gacha system may harm chewren if sexpose them to the practice.

But despise being an addict moi do believe that this kind of system will eventually destroy gaming for gamers. As without any regulation and checks, it just matter of time nia when all the gaming companies join in to prey on consumers and sooner or later games will become less and less fun since all the development efforts will be on how to make gamers spend more $$$ than necessary than to make the game fun and enjoyable for gamers like you and moi. :(

That why if this backlash can indirectly help to raise more awareness and even stop these greedy ba$tards from pushing the envelope further, moi think it may end up being a good thing to the gaming world. Just hope Disney don't just wayang nia and will take some hash actions against EA. Even better if they would take back the exclusive rights of SW IP from EA, then finally we may be able to see more real SW games being made instead of just cash grabs. Imagine if companies like Obsidian Entertainment ish able to get SW IP rights to make a SW RPG, a KOTOR3 spiritual successor may finally become a reality. (KOTOR3 basically dead under EA since they already make it very clear that they don't want anymore single prayer games)
 

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hi all...not disccussing of the loot box but the game..

what's the command to make the player 'run'?

using xbox controller on pc ver

thanks
 

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https://twitter.com/EAStarWars/status/931332890717143040
EA will bring microtransactions back later.

Anyway SEA players always get high ping servers and no proper anti-cheat mechanism. See both BF1 for history.

So still your choice to make the purchase but I know personally I won't step into that pit along with 20+ other players.

It's all a psychological manipulation by EA to distract us all. Never believe Evil Always.

i thought u not gonna buy? then spend 4000 on trooper crate? am i missing something? :s22::s22:
 

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I think TitanFall 2 will be my last game from EA. :s13:

I can uninstall Origin tonight if I have the time.
 

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Hawaii next in line to potentially ban the game due to gambling links




Do we know if SG is even looking into this? Should we start?
 

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Ho ho. After Belgium even US govt also start to take this kind of thing seriously liao. Hope the momentum continue. This kind of predatory gacha and lootbox system should at least be regulated mah. Even though as gamers would hate to see politicians mangling with gaming industry unnecessary but lootbox and gacha really ish a cancer to the industry and future of gaming so if it have to take another lesser devil to get rid of this bigger devil then so be it.

If this turn out well, EA might finally did something great for the gaming society. Finally, something great they did.
 

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the next thing they ban games due to the 'violence' factor...

its good that the lootboxes and microtransaction getting attention..but meddling by politician...thats always worse
 
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