EA, Please Do Not Ruin Star Wars: Battlefront

10 Years In The Carbonite Chamber

One of the most beloved franchises to miss the last generation of consoles was the excellent Star Wars: Battlefront series, the franchise is considered by many to have two great outings on the PS2 in addition to solid PSP titles

[ArchangelMike]

5 things you already Know EA will do with Star Wars Battlefront:

1) It will have 'Premium'
2) It will have a Season Pass for all the DLC map packs
3) It will have separate micro-transaction for guns and vehicles
4) It will be casual friendly (auto-aim, perks, big hit-boxes)
5) It will have console exclusive content

[jamal1000]

While I do hope for better, I totally agree. It is a shame really.

[carlingtat]

Isnt premium just another word for season pass? I dont mind it having DLC as long as the dlc isnt ripped from the original game. What makes you think it will be casual friendly?

[ArchangelMike]

1) It's a Star Wars IP
2) It's a Disney property
3) It's published by EA

In other words, mass market appeal will be the undelying marketing strategy.

[carlingtat]

@ArchangelMike

Fair enough with it being Star Wars and EA but I dont think it being Disney property will matter unless they make it E for Everyone which I cant see happening with a shooter. Hardcore is always an option anyway.

[starrman1985]

6) It will, despite all those points, be awesome

[iSuperSaiyanGod]

Why is there a dislike? Must be the anti dlc nazis

[ArchangelMike]

Agreed. Sonce DICE are the devs - Yes it will be awesome. I can wait for that trailer. Only 2hrs to go as of time of writing this :)

I have to say though, we do have a long history of devs claiming bullshots and CGI target renders are "actual gameplay", should I dare to believe that DICE are telling the truth this one time???

[starrman1985]

I can feel the EA dislike, I have to admit - I don't really like a lot of their practices, but they deliver good games!

And as this is DICE I'm confident it will be great.

[Allsystemgamer]

Pay for premium to get increased non movie like accuracy as a stormtrooper

[Ristul]

7) Grind for like 30 hours to get anything good or just pay us money and we will give you these cool weapons and shit on the spot.

[hkgamer]

im gonna do an even bigger prediction and go for fuel and ammo(?) DLC.

on a more serious note, it will probably have consumable/currency DLC. its hard to think that EAwouldnt take advantage of microtransactions for such a high profile brand.

[AngelicIceDiamond]

So its EA"s usual practices that will ruin the game, go figure.

[jukins]

Eh I'm thiking it will be a star wars skinned battlefield which is OK imo.

[Sgt_Slaughter]

But that is nowhere near the point of Battlefront...

If that's the case then people could have just made a Battlefield 4 mod and called it a day.

Same goes for Hardline.

[cmazza]

Battlefront originally ripped from Battlefield when it first came out anyway

[zsquaresoff]

Ea will make a good game.

Its the dlc and micro transaction packages in game is what I'm worried about.

1. Buy 10x batteries to keep you light saber charged for 2hrs in game.

2. Buy 1 cylinder of oxygen for 20$ to breath in space.

3. Buy fuel in actual market price to make trips.

[Ark_]

DICE will make a good game. EA will fuck up the rest ... propably.

[annoyedgamer]

EA owns DICE.

[pompombrum]

It's just a case of taking the rough with the smooth. DICE plus the license to create a Star Wars Battlefront game is a dream pairing, I'm expecting a quality game and they'll certainly deliver. EA will do everything they can to milk everyone for everything they possibly can though and I guess we all just have to cross our fingers that they do it without impacting the experience for those of us who are content with just buying the game.

[Chard]

As long as the base game is fun then count me in for the standard edition. I don't buy dlc of any kind, even for my favourite games.

[Der_Kommandant]

One hour people...

[loganbdh]

Just don't make it BF4 but reskinned.

[Cliffjumper2012]

Thanks EA for ruining battlefront. No single player or space battles. Seriously WTF! Multiplayer gets annoying sometimes and I enjoy single player story mode as well. Let the consumer have what they want which is a better graphic battlefront not another call of duty advanced warfare (which was good but this is battlefront). How about a mission ro destroy the death star with an xwing in single player. How hard would that be?

[gledr]

I'm pretty sure that it was confirmed that you could fly up to space or down to the planet so that implies space battles. if not and they don't have space or single player they should just sell it like pvz garden warfare cause i might buy that over battlefront if they both only have multiplayer. especially if theres no galactic conquest.