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Star Wars Battlefront 2 Weekly Player Count Now Higher Than Jan. 2018, 3XP Now Live

DICE says the Star Wars Battlefront 2 weekly player count has now surpassed January 2018 numbers! Triple XP is now live on all modes, and here's the schedule.

Sniperwithacause1956d ago

Triple xp huh? Might jump on it later, after I do a few races on NFS.

monkey6021956d ago

Same. I'll download it tonight like I've been planning to for the last week ha

Nodoze1956d ago

Maybe the bean counters can allocate more bandwidth as the game has been lagging out quite badly.

ramiuk11956d ago

i bet fallen jedi has boosted numbers.
hows the blance of this anyway?is it still the digital trancastion mess it was previously?

excaliburps1956d ago

You mean The Rise of Skywalker movie boosted the numbers. :)

Pretty sure lots of people are coming in due to the film.

ramiuk11956d ago

didnt even know there was a recent film hahaa

Hungryalpaca1956d ago (Edited 1956d ago )

They’re coming because they always come with a content update.

That movie sucked.

Limitedtimestruggle1956d ago

I actually enjoy it a lot now, even though i completely suck. This game really became better and better! I really appreciate the repair work DICE has done after the initial gruesome launch!

Dovergamer1956d ago (Edited 1956d ago )

Do you know who I thank? The community. They said clearly "EA you can fuck off with your loot boxes and your business strategies." The community told EA that low quality delivery is not acceptable by any standard. Thanks to the community who reacted and managed to put EA in their place only then we have the true Battlefront 2 celebration edition that we where supposed to have few years ago.

With EA no one CAN NOT relax. The community should be jabbing and uppercut'ing EA whenever they try to get greedier than they already are. Lesson learned.

Limitedtimestruggle1956d ago

Oh I absolutely agree! I bought this at launch, and the game had good content. But the fundementals were all based on what EA wanted the game to be..not DICE. And so it was hard to love and appreciate.

snoopgg1956d ago

Just picked this game for $4 , I will have to give it a try.

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The Best Multiplayer Xbox Game Pass Games to Play With Friends

Xbox Game Pass has some great single-player experiences, but nowadays, it's all about getting together with friends and family. Thankfully, there's a surprisingly extensive library of multiplayer titles on Game Pass to bring everyone together.

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Star Wars Battlefront 3: Is There Still Hope For A New Game?

Is Star Wars Battlefront 3 coming? Well, the correct answer is yes, no and maybe. It’s been six years since the second instalment, and fans are still waiting for confirmation of another sequel.

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anast505d ago

Game companies are not mature enough to handle this concept without turning it into a casino.

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shadowknight203505d ago

The remakes of battlefront should have been more simular to the originals. CoD/battlefield reskinned as Star Wars was not the anwser.

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Is Gaming Really Worse Than It Used To Be?

From Xfire: "Stop if you've heard this one before - with all the unplayable buggy launches, rampant monetization, season passes, chunks of games being locked behind DLC paywalls, day one updates, always-online single player games, early access, lootboxes, massive patches, etc, games were so much better back in the eighties, or the nineties, or the oughties (pick whichever applies to your age bracket) right?"

marioJP871438d ago

Most definitely. Without a doubt.
The prices. DLC prices. Short stories. Less split screen gaming. Lesser amount of games are made these days because of the advancement of technology.
Everything is about graphics and resolution.

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FlakyGoose1437d ago

The prices: With subscriptions and sales I feel like games are cheaper than ever.

DLC: I agree 100% DLC and MTX sucks.

split screen: Well... yes but now we have online multiplayer you can game with people on the other side of the world.

Lesser amount of games: This is unequivocally false. More games are made than ever before by far.

Everything is about graphics and resolution: I agree there is too much emphasis on that, but at the same time you can find thousands of pixel art games as well. Modern recreations of retro style games have never been more popular.

CYALTR1437d ago (Edited 1437d ago )

"split screen: Well... yes but now we have online multiplayer you can game with people on the other side of the world."

Yeah, but that really isn't the same thing. Couch co-op encouraged actual human interaction, that is missing on multiplayer. I guess I don't really understand why both aren't able to be included on some games. I miss the old days of being able to sit down next to an actual person and play a game. I can still do it, as long as I have two different systems in the house I guess.

I'm old!! LOL

All that said, I think gaming today is a much more robust landscape. There is a game for just about anyone. As a male, who has seen games progress from Pong to what we have today, I suppose I could hate on the fact that not every game is designed for me. Back in the day, games were for boys, adolescents boys generally, and that's what everything was directed. Being an adolescent boy at the time, I thought that was pretty great! Now there are so many games out there that there is something for everyone, and I think that that is a good thing.

Tacoboto1437d ago (Edited 1437d ago )

The MSRP are stable and consistent compared to the SNES and N64 days ( https://retrovolve.com/n64-... $80 for Star Fox 64 and $60 for Ocarina of Time. That was over 20 years of inflation ago.

"Short stories" - *lists Sony's PS4 output as counterpoint*

"Everything is about graphics and resolution" and yet almost every single new-gen title has a 60fps mode except for Watch Dogs (for a few more days) and The Medium, and most adopt resolution scaling to keep stable framerate.

Lesser games are made, and yet everyone seems to have a massive backlog when the topic comes up.

I think some people like to yearn for the old days because they weren't actually alive during these old days. I'll give you the point about DLC prices (though, in the 360/PS3 era, if you didn't spend the money, you were fractured from the online userbase. Now maps are generally free but cosmetics are worse. Which one is worse for you? I'd say being forced to pay to keep playing with your buds)

Iltapalanyymi1437d ago

Yes, i still play a lot of old games for the first time and they are miles better than some new stuff is.

gold_drake1437d ago

same, some ps2 games even.

i remember a time when i just bought a game on a whim but now .. ill think twice about it.

Rimeskeem1437d ago

I feel like the market is changing a lot these days. Before it was about getting as much into the game as you could without blowing the console/computer up. Now that we have all this power and capability games take longer to make and there are way more steps. Prices go up because games get more expensive, the same thing with movies. But the experiences can be truly astonishing. No one who played Pong would have thought within 50 years they could play something like God of War. Of course, greed causes practices that are not liked by communities of gamers. Some companies have veered into such practices but some companies are maintaining a balance between profit and creativity.

There are pro's and con's but I don't think you can objectively say that gaming is better or worse than before.

MadLad1437d ago (Edited 1437d ago )

Better and worse.

Most AAA releases are trying to figure out how best to nickel and dime you in the background. Even developing the entire game around that practice.

On the other hand, digital storefronts are now a big thing, allowing more smaller budget releases to be had, being they don't have to foot the cost of handling physical releases.

There's definitely more content to be had then ever.

Essentially the AAA space has become cancer in a lot of ways. I'm not talking every release, or even every company, but with all of the season passes, the dlc that boosts player progression in competitive titles, and now the retail price hikes being pushed on people .... it's obvious these companies are getting more greedy, year after year.

Fist4achin1437d ago

Yes and no. Yes in that it's annoying to have all this DLC/microtransactions in games and forced multiplayer that's hot for about a minute before something new and shiny comes out.

No in that, there are a lot of good games coming out and I have a comfortable backlog that should keep me entertained for quite some time. I never have an issue of what to play next.

I think it's a great time to be a gamer and if you don't have anything to play, you're not looking hard enough.

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