Hey, the gaming community bitched enough to instigate actual change. That's genuinly something to be proud of.

KingOfKarp i hope it loses everything i mean have u seen need 4 speed?!

lightsinx Need 4 More Money is more like it

fucking me too, i wanna be able to enjoy star wars games again, what the fuck both this and the last battlefront have been skips, fucking imagine a 2017 where fucking battlefront is now no longer a renowned name in the star wars lineup

I hope they get bought by a bigger company and gets sucked dry and closed like EA does to other studios.

I hope the entirety of EA burns to the ground so that the dev teams and studios they have locked up can be set free.

Goodvillain 101 i second this, if you have an itch for star wars, may i also suggest republic commando a swat shooter for star wars

rikacomedyletsplays A good choice. One of my favorite FPS games to holds up to this day.

also it's was better game

Jedi Academy with the mod Movie Battles 2.

Goodvillain 101 yeah, they’re also basically all the same. And all dlc will be free.

dice isnt a company, its a studio that just makes whatever EA tells them

+Joseph Lien Keep in mind that DICE is not completely innocent in this matter. They are also to blame this time.

Sometimes the developer does get fucked by the publisher being a bunch of scumbags, though, and that does suck. Bandai Namco is turning into Japanese EA -- or at least Japanese Activision -- and they hose their developers regularly.

+Yal Rathol Let's all put our hands up in the air for Belgium! Please help us remove this toxic that has hurt the gaming world for far too long!

I love the fact Pat goes from 'What did I just say?' to 'Fuck yeah, I'm owning it!' in like half a second.

this isn't as good as you might think it is, quite a few games survive on loot boxes as their main income. for a game like overwatch, people who pay for loot boxes basically subsidize all future content and blizzard makes all new heroes and maps free due to the costs being covered by loot boxes so they dont have to split the player base through expansion packs or dlcs. for something like dota 2, it is very possible that they go with a model that forces you to unlock characters by grinding or cash if they didnt have such a lucrative crate system. so if loot boxes were to go, you will begin to see a lot more dlc and a lot more straight up buying power albeit not locked behind an rng box

All of what you described doesn't really negatively affect players, though. Heck, Rocket League makes a fuckton off of its loot crates, but it also sells a shitload beyond that, and its DLC for flat-out buying stuff is super reasonably priced, no more than a couple of bucks for a different car. They also allow you to trade for the keys other people buy with actual money, so you're not locked out of that content if you don't want to pay, as long as you're willing to play the game's secondhand market. On that note, I haven't given 'em a dime, and my cars are tricked out with tons of dumb cosmetic nonsense just by -exploiting- trading with those that did. Granted, with a couple of exceptions, none of the cars available in the DLC is available though crates, but I sure as hell wouldn't mind it all becoming DLC if it's similarly reasonable in price. It's not like they won't sell; it's just that it's more lucrative to prey on the dopes that'll drop hundreds of dollars to make a stupid skull come out when they score a goal. And even ignoring my "fuck loot crates and the people that employ them" stance, don't act like these developers will suddenly go hungry. Again, the loot crate system doesn't exist because they wouldn't make money otherwise; it exists to make them more money than it should.

+MiaowGaiGar Haha. A very interesting view I agree on. I was one of the dumb people who thought "Lootcrates/boxes are fine if they only contain cosmetics because if it doesn't affect the gamplay it won't affect me" and oh man I deserve to be called a retarded piece of shit for thinking like that. Of course it hurts and affects me and everyone else even when it only contains cosmetics. Of course it does. And the big thing about it is that lootboxes is a form of gambling. The game is advertised to kids and the game encourage everyone to gamble which is illegal. Other than that, this bullshit affects the quality of games too. I'm glad EA went FAR BEYOND our threshold. It really forced people to finally do something about this. I really hope this will be considered as a form of gambling and honestly it is gambling so it should, and then I want it to get banned completely from gaming. The game industry have had this toxic for far too long. It needs to be removed.

It's a form of exploiting the consumer; it's as simple as that. They wave crap like "it's cosmetic only!" or "you don't HAVE to buy them!" just to prevent outrage like this game ultimately caused, because either way it exists just to make certain kinds of people pay shit tons that they simply wouldn't if you could buy it outright. There's no value whatsoever to the player; it's a practice that serves _solely_ to benefit the developer, and it's one of the dirtiest practices out there. There are plenty of ways they could make it _less_ dirty -- being allowed to pick from the pool of items after trying a _reasonable_ amount of attempts, for instance, or being able to trade in for an item you want, and less fucking robbery in terms of pricing regardless -- but again, the aim isn't to benefit the player, as such a thing might get them to stop spending money after a point, so they won't do it unless they're backed into a corner. Some people get off on gambling; I get that. Look at the videos of nerds overreacting to getting something from one of these things for proof of that. But they're also a fraction of the playerbase, and lootboxes/gachas are designed to target and profit from them; those of us who don't want to put up with that crap shouldn't be the collateral damage. You shouldn't be subject to a lesser experience solely because you don't want to waste your money on a dice roll, and it _is_ a waste of money. I hope this is the start of these shitheads finally getting some regulation clamped down on them.

Jayness If your business is reliant on loot crate horseshit to stay in the red then you deserve to go bankrupt. There is *no* reason that, say, Blizzard couldn't just sell people credits to buy skins they *actually* want besides that it causes their customers to waste less money. (And it does not cost them a billion dollars a year to maintain that game, they're making teenager gambling money hand-over-fist with that shit.)

D.E. Belton this is the funniest mental image you could have suggested

I had to just stare at walls sometimes during my first Blight Town run just cause the frame rate drops were hurting my eyes. Stuff like that usually doesn't bother me much, but that time it did.

Anthony Gutierrez Is BF2 *still* that bad?

Proof?

When's my Old Republic: Revan anime guys?

Why would you want a show in which you know the major plot twist before it's even made?

MiaowGaiGar I think he means the mandolorian war, Revans backstory. If that is it, I'm totally down. If he means a kotor adaptation, no need, kotor is fantastic.

Ufotable...?Really...that's your default studio? Oh boy....

That would indeed be awesome. I second this motion.

"It like EA threw down 500 different loot boxes, mixed them up, and told you to unbox them all in under one hour, or else EA would lock you into a freezer filled with flesh eating cockroaches."

"59 MINUTES"!

*A battalion of Highlanders playing Scotland the brave look angary at you*

Matthew Meyer (THAS) hey, I'll defend bag pipes till the day I fucking die. They are not as bad as EA.

*plays the Clan Buchanan anthem* :P

Josh Bouman Depends on how complicit Disney were in the negotiations and what kind of contract they made

Josh Bouman even if they couldn't, they still have the money to try it and ruin EA for good.

Most people who are going to watch the next Star Wars don't give enough of a fuck about a Star Wars video game's PR to let it influence whether they watch it. Hell, most people who are _into video games_ don't give enough of a fuck.

It would be more likely that they could sue EA for damaging the reputation of the Battlefont IP as opposed to the film franchise. As this story is "big" but at the same time it's not that big, like general movie audiences would be completely unaware of this situation as you need to be into gaming to have this on your radar.

I fucking hope last jedi underperforms, maybe disney'll stop whoring out star wars and we won't get one every fucking year

It's actually really fun, not super well balanced, but fun.

*IF ONLY IT WAS NOT LABELED BATTLEFRONT*

Just pirate the game. Don't give EA your money. Shame about Dice but EA was going to toss them out no mater what. That's what they do with all their developers

Or you know, you buy the game and not the microtransactions. Pirated copies of games usually can't do multiplayer.

You wouldnt download a car!

Also, loot-boxes are totally gambling and any money made from such a grimy and predatory practice as gambling shouldn't be counted on or collected.

+Hasan Abdul-Jabbaar Yes precisely but let's not stop there. Luckily Belgium is working on tackling this problem and it may end up with lootboxes/crates being completely banned from games. That is exactly the goal we need to achieve. Not buying the game isn't gonna fix it if we don't remove the problem.

That actually is the case for once. After its release, even on Black Friday, there was still a significant amount of BFII games left on the shelves. Their whored out and abused cash cow didn't sell out on Black fucking Friday. If that isn't a message I don't know what is

Erik Williams By trying to ruin it, so they don't get credit, but I appreciate this turn of events.

+Erik Williams Yeah. Ironically enough the worst gaming company ever created may have done exactly what the gaming industry badly needed which is to have its toxic removed, *unintentional* though. I will never praise EA for this but I will see this event as a positive thing if Belgium manage to mark this as gambling and bans it from games having it.

"I will become the villain that the world must unite against." - EA Uchiha

EA sacrificed itself to save gaming

Upper-decker style.

EA has become the Candy Crush.

I know because I'm a games developer and have worked for EA in the past in their Texas office. Fock the upper management and owners of EA cuz they treat their employees like shit for a video game company. Most video game companies are decking amazing to work at but EA is easily the worst game company I've ever worked for and I've worked for quite a few over the past 10 years

And thank God for him

June 2021 and they STILL are a thing that exists.

Bob Iger actually called EA and completely shit down their throats about the microtransactions, that's why the whole apology happened

"no other developer went this far with microtransactions before". dungeon keeper mobile. disney isn't some paragon, but i can promise you, they didn't invent these practices. at worst, their involvement was "yep, alright, plan approved, when's lunch?"

Should have added --- In a triple A game that you have already paid at least 60.00 for. You can promise that? You don't think Disney loves money just as much as EA? Call me a tinfoil hat wearing guy but it seems odd that EA completely lost it's mind and went all in on microtransactions in BF2 while other developers had been smart about 'spinkling' it in the games avoiding major scandals. EA ruined it for everyone ---- so in some ass backwords manner they actually may have ended up improving gaming due to the fallout of there greed.

Matt Graham that's exactly what happened. and the problem is, you're giving EA far too much credit. most game publishers don't plan, they react and flail. don't get me wrong, disney is scum too, but similarly to apple, disney is elegant in its use of the corrupting iron fist. this isn't disney, this is a publisher seeing what they can get away with. and remember, since EA has a proven history of doing this kind of thing with dungeon keeper mobile, there's no reason to assume they wouldn't fuck up a $60 game all on their own. EA has a history of ruining games without assistance, or did you forget about sim city being "always online", having less space and fewer options than previous titles?

Remember when video games were games and not services? You could buy a complete video game off the shelf and didn't have to worry about DLC or unlocks or microtransactions or loot crates or bullshit? I do. I remember it.

joyce hayes mobley dice is the developer, and they're not at fault for the shit ea is pulling.

K. Flynn let's be real here, you're almost completely exempt from blame if EA's attached to your game in some way. they're like a virus, they just corrupt and necrotize anything they touch.

He stopped training to be the strongest trashfire.

Because it's a super transparent move. They're going to bring it back once the heat has died down and everyone will forget what they're mad about.

They even stated that they weren't dropping them, they where temporarily disabling the microtransaction to get the currency to buy the crates.

people's breaking point was learning that your options to play as darth vader in a star wars game were: grind for 40 hours, cough up more money or get a lucky random drop. and since nerds are nerds, you touch their precious star wars and they will rip your world asunder.

They knew what they signed up for... but when it happens, it hurts anyway.

Nightweaver1 Yeah it's a stone-cold bummer that the game ended up how it did. But it's exactly the sort of thing that people have been warning against since the dawn of minibuys. It was kind of inevitable.