On to the next big beloved franchise to milk.
I can't wait for harry Potter battle royal with lootboxes or something equally as horrible.
Poor F8RGE. He's been the community person man for the Need For Speed subreddit before he chose to do the SWBF subreddit instead and he was actually pretty good, especially with dealing with the negativity.
Guy jumped from the pan to an absolute hellpit.
They release the game in a fucking shambles, then try to backpadel extremely hard, damage having already been done, then they decide to just straight up stop giving a shit, like, really EA, really?
Can you honestly say that you are surprised?
They milked it for as much as they could and now they're bailing out.
Like scavenging aliens that drain planets of resources and then leave.
Extraterrestrial Assimilators?
fuck them though, i still wonder if they're going to put out a third title just to milk it, because the masses will almost certainly drown them in cash anyway
It's not about being surprised, it's just annoying that they do this stupid shit.
Shame, decent game buried behind all the bullshit.
And here I thought they were going to make a third one worth buying. I didn't want to buy the first two because of lack of content/price/general BS.
For some reason I thought this was about the old BF2 and some promise about that EA might've walked back on. Oh boy, what a mess.
So effectively like the Combine?
You have to be a competent studio to accomplish that though.
Wow, the one positive about the game was the free dlc it was promised...but here we are.
Don't know. Ubisoft somehow managed
It's a shame because I find the game quite enjoyable despite some bugs and obvious other flaws.
DICE literally just needs to make a carbon copy of Battlefield with a Star Wars skin. That's all people have wanted. Apparently that is too difficult to manage twice in a row now.
Let it be known that EA is not the only party at fault here; Disney and LucasArts are responsible for every iota of content that is to be shown, revealed, and otherwise discussed. From what I've read, not a single bit of information is allowed to go public without both Disney and LucasFilms go ahead, making it much more difficult for the passionate developers at DICE to actually implement their ideas.
The game will probably last throughout the rest of 2018, and by 2019 it will be fully abandoned.
It's funny to look back on how much they were hyping this game up when they were showing it at E3.
Watch as they abandon this and announce BF3 at E3.
like a criminal with no intention of atone
is anyone even remotely surprised?
like, they get called out for predatory bullshit, they make some half-assed apology, claim that they'll be better, then quietly abandon the game (presumably to move onto the next thing they can unethically monetize the shit out of)
they do unethical bullshit, and if they don't get what they want, instead of improving, they ditch it and move on
At this point Star Wars just needs to cool the fuck down...
The disappointment that was the 8th film, aggressive advertisement, fanatical star wars fans, countless "Star Wars Update" channels and what not.
I'm completely burned out on Star Wars. Its not even fun anymore, tbqh.
And it was free because they were offloading the money-making onto the lootboxes that got promptly fucked right before release, pretty much ruining the economic model they were going for.
They bet on lootboxes for this game to make them money and with that gone they don't give a shit anymore, that's just EA for you, remember these are also the guys that shut down the multiplayer servers for highly-acclaimed games, they give no shits about maintaining games.
that's EA's high risk business model. they release as soon as physically possible and take the risk that their slave labor has ironed out enough bugs and balanced things enough that they can begin to recoup their costs, if it works hurray! if it fails, well they can tailspin
I cant imagine being a developer on the Battlefront 2 team.
I am just software developer but whenever I find out client disliked something I made - it's kinda sad.
Cant imagine being artist or something - making animations and models of characters/weapons/scenery and then being told - that's it, no more work on it, that would definetely tilt me.
This is Mass Effect: Andromeda all over again. What a pile of shit...
Dinsey should really take aways EA's exclusivity rights. There are loads of other companies who could make far less manipulative and ultimately better games.
EA is a profit driven corporation. They don't care about games, art, players, developers, and people who pour their heart and soul into it. They only care about getting revenue from their products. Once a guy in Sales says they're not making their expected returns they axe it without consideration. It's not worth the money to fix it. They'd rather move on to the next thing. Find another way to get into your wallet.
I remember someone from the industry predicted this on SWBF reddit months ago, right after the initial lootbox scandal blew up. Not in the least bit surprised if it happens. Hopefully this will convince the people that bought into EA/Dice's promises of 'change' and 'fixing' their mistakes that they cannot be trusted after they have your money.
EA has been a bunch of greedy cunts for at least 20 years. They're not going to change unless all of the higher ups get fired and replaced by decent human beings.
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