Mixed feelings about this.
Obviously change for the better, especially from EA, is a good thing. Good to see that BF2 wasn't the hill they wanted their future to die on, and good on them for removing paid loot boxes almost entirely.
On the other hand, the damage has already been done. EA's stubborn attitude at the beginning made their brand of Star Wars a pariah to players, investors, mainstream media, and even governments. Sales numbers a shadow of their predictions, a fact unlikely to change no matter what decisions they make now.
It's a shame, too. The multiplayer game actually looked like a lot of fun, space combat in particular. Sure, the story was mediocre, but even a mediocre story is an improvement over BF1, and their audio/visual design teams hit it out of the park as per usual.
Would hate to be a developer at EA. You could do the best possible job, and have it all be for nothing thanks to executive meddling and excessive greed.
Games can always come back strong from a rocky start. If Dice actually commits to consistent, free expansions and provide free weekends and sales, I'm sure they can get some good numbers.
This can't save the game now.
They'll have to live with their garbage decisions unfortunately.
y'all act like no shitty games have ever turned it around
siege, division
let time tell
Battlefield 4 for a DICE example. Though it was their LA team that took over not Sweden.
The game is almost 5 months old at this point.
I feel like the damage is done.
Took The Division longer IMO
That game's backlash wasn't nearly as huge as this
I still have fun playing it. I never spent any money and had everything I wanted pretty quickly.
To be fair (if you're talking about BF2) they turned off micros-transactions at launch, so only those who had the week long early access actually had the chance to buy anything.
As long as you're not expecting much from the singleplayer campaign I'm pretty sure this is the case.
Single player is a joke
Galactic Assault is ok
Starfighter Assault is worth the cost of entry (on discount)
I'd be willing to give the game a chance. I dunno why everyone's acting like it's ruined forever.
If they drop the price from $60 to a permanent $40 and throw up a short sale to make it somewhere between $20-30 I'd be willing to actually pay for the game.
Because your money is going to EA, who wants try try and whore out their games so badly that they're willing to make their games worse as a way of making their bullshit lootboxes look good.
It's unfortunate because I was really excited about this game.
I'd Blame EA not DICE.
Yes DICE is owned by EA, but I doubt the developers had much say in what the corporate execs wanted.
Oh I thought you meant sorry as in 'I'm not falling for it' or something like that.
My bad.
it was just on sale for less than 30 bucks
I want to reward good behavior, so I'm going to buy the game at some point soon after these changes are made.
I'm conflicted, I love star Wars and I love Battlefront. I own the originals on all platforms I could get it on. I even bought the special edition Darth Vader PSP. I had my hopes up for these games but was disappointed each time. This update does look appealing but I feel like it's too late even though the game isn't even that old. It just leaves a bad taste in my mouth. Am I being irrational here? I want to like these games but I just feel so jaded towards them.
If they actually straighten out the game, the only way to tell their bean counters that they did something right is to buy the game. We told them we aren't going to buy their game because of the loot boxes; they bent the knee and removed them.
Makes me think this is all a ploy by EA management to say, "See guys, our games fail when we DON'T add microtransactions!"
:tinfoil:
Dang, you guys make a good point, I guess I never really considered that angle. Don't get me wrong, I want them to succeed, but I also don't want them to drive the property into the ground.
Or you are both secretly EA shills trying to make me buy your game.
somehow i don't think EA would shoot themselves in the foot that way
that being said, they did keep mentioning that removing lootboxes wouldn't cut into their margins, but i feel like that was later made untrue
I really hope this mess happened in time for Anthem to not be shat up by scummy microtransactions, that demo (which is still pretty much all we have to go on) looked so cool and I want that game to deliver, which so far none of these "shared world shooters" have managed to do at launch
You could wait for a sale.
There probably will be one once the update hits.
hey i might actually get it now. the gameplay itself looks fun honestly.
I'd reckon the investors will either be pissed or not, depending on how much cash the new system will give.
The way i take this, it seems they may be trying to prod a bit with this new system, see if it'l be a viable way to monetize in the future, a test if you will.
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