EA to add loot boxes to Star Wars: Battlefront II again this March
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lucidus
Meh.
Cave Waverider
To be clear, random loot boxes have never been removed from the game. Only the options to purchase currency to buy them for real money has been removed. Sadly, that's now coming back, but they have reworked the loot boxes which will no longer include star cards but only cosmetic stuff instead and the ability to purchase currency for them for real money will be re-enabled with this.
The good thing is that the progression/ability system will no longer have anything to do with random gambling loot boxes going forward.
Still, I would have liked it if random gambling loot boxes had been removed altogether. I hope gambling/loot boxes for real money will one day be banned from games by law.
Also, there should be no microtransactions for full priced games either. I get it for free to play games as people need to make money, but if you buy a game, it should come with everything, and not just parts. I'm okay with paid "classic expansions" in single player gameslike we have recently seen from games like The Witcher 3, though. In multi player games such things just segregate the community.
cowie
ho hum...
gamers walk around with Ky around the anus area at all times they are ready for anything.
CalculuS
Weird, its okay when Valve does it but bad when EA does it.
I'm not defending EA, just pointing out hypocrisy.
EDIT: There is no specific hipocrisy of this in his post, but i'm pointing out the hipocrisy that when EA makes a lootbox with purely visual effects its "bad" and when Valve does it in a pay for game (e.g. dota 2, team fortress 2 or portal 2) it's "alright".
I was not talking about the gameplay altering loot they had previously.
Hope this clears some confusion up.
fantaskarsef
Well, it makes little sense actually... sure they brought a progression based star card system, but just wait for them to release short cut bundles like with Battlefield so you once again can buy those skillsets, one for every class and one all to gether with a discount etc. Doesn't change much in terms of paying to get it faster, if I understood how they implemented it now.
RealNC
Well, it's hard to feel sorry for the people who buy this game. Serves them right, IMO.
KissSh0t
The excitement never stops.
nevcairiel
And so does Battlefront 2 now, only cosmetics in loot boxes or for puchase.
fantaskarsef
I think @CalculuS was referring to having to buy lootboxes for visual improvement, as he might have misunderstood / read @Fox2232 comment. Just taking a guess here as to what you 4 people are actually referring 😀
schmidtbag
I can't help but laugh at how EA's quote was in Comic Sans. Whether that was intentional by Hilbert or not, it really helps set the mood in such an enjoyable way.
schmidtbag
For me personally, gambling is only half the problem. I refuse to buy these games because if I paid full price for a game, I expect a complete product with a justifiable amount of content. That, and pay-to-win is a total killjoy - it's nothing more than cheating permitted by bribery.
RealNC
Show me the $60 Valve game that does this. I was only able to find two free games, and a dirt-cheap one.
The cheap one having loot boxes and transactions is still bad though. But not as bad as a full-price game doing it.
Fender178
Well by them removing the Loot boxes in the first place really broke the game as it left with a huge gap that made no sense at all. Not surprised that they are putting them back in because the game was made with them in mind. What's next EA pulling a 2K and start putting Mircotransactions in their Sports games. Also I feel that any PC game that has a form of gambling such as loot boxes and you need real money to purchase it should have an automatic Adult only rating by the the Software rating board that does for each country such as the ESRB for the States because in some places the legal Gambling age is 21.
fantaskarsef
Have you seen the latest FIFA? 😀
Fender178
No I haven't but I am not surprised. Madden might be next.
schmidtbag
I would argue all they had to do to fix that was make it so you had to earn the loot boxes via achievements. Get 15 kills in a game, get a lootbox. Be on the winning team 3 times in a row, get a lootbox. Single-handedly defeat a hero while you are not playing as one, get a lootbox. These are the kinds of things that make games fun, and pushes players to get better or else get left behind. It's the sort of thing where people see your equipment and respect you for it, rather than feel like "might as well give up at this point".
But....
The problem is it's too late to do that for this game. It would anger the people who already paid for their heroes, since they may have had a better chance of earning them for free.
That, or M rated. Good idea though - for some games, such ratings will cripple sales. Some companies will go as far as to change the color of blood just to bring the rating down a notch. If gambling automatically sets a game to M as a minimum rating, we'd likely see gambling disappear in most games.
phatbx133
Just don't buy any games that require microtransactions etc...
TheDeeGee
Not much left to play then 😛
JamesSneed
Back by popular demand. /s
JamesSneed
I agree games with gambling aspects should be held to higher standards like a minimum age of 21 and the algorithms that reward random loot for real money should be certified by a gambling commission along with posting the percentages of receiving items. If they want to do this im fine with it but it should be tightly regulated when you are gambling with real money.
