A few hours later, DICE removed the option to purchase loot boxes with real money from Battlefront II.
Then, yesterday, EA chief executive Andrew Wilson and Disney executive Jimmy Pitaro talked on the phone. Since the beta, the team at Disney that oversees the galaxy far, far away tried to understand why Star Wars fans were so mad, and the sentiment surrounding the game only got worse from that point through the launch. Lucasfilm, who is very involved with EA, wasn’t thrilled about that. What shape they'll take, we don't know, but having the whole loot box fallout crystalise around Battlefront 2 means EA DICE is under enormous pressure to get whatever solution it comes up with right.Three top investment pros open up about what it takes to get your video game funded.īut while fans were focused on EA and Battlefront II, they were also generating a lot of negative buzz around the Star Wars brand. Micro-transactions are still turned off now, although EA intends to reinstate them at some point. When EA bigshot Blake Jorgensen said during a conference people probably wouldn't want a pink Darth Vader skin in the game, guess what someone did?ĮA turned off the ability to buy Battlefront 2 loot boxes, with real money, when the game launched last November and the new Star Wars film The Last Jedi came out.
It's not the first time a modder has taken it upon themselves to send-up EA's response to the loot box situation. 'The intent is to provide players with a sense of pride and accomplishment for unlocking different heroes.'
I only wonder why it took someone so long. It's this "pride and accomplishment" motto modder Dareedevokl has applied, in nice Star Wars film crawl-style lettering, to loot boxes in his PC mod (va PC Gamer). "The intent is to provide players with a sense of pride and accomplishment for unlocking different heroes," EACommunityTeam's answer began, and the floodgates opened to date the response has been downvoted more than 670,000 times.
"Seriously? I paid $80 to have Vader locked?" the Star Wars Battlefront 2 subreddit post asked. The Reddit remark came in response to iconic character Darth Vader being locked in the full-priced game at launch. Those cheeky Chewbaccas! A modder from the Star Wars Battlefront 2 community has turned EA's infamous - and record-breakingly downvoted - Reddit remark about locked heroes, and the loot box furore in general, into a loot box skin.
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