Star wars battlefront ultimate edition ps4 review

#Star wars battlefront ultimate edition ps4 review free

#Star wars battlefront ultimate edition ps4 review free

Heck, MOBAs like League of Legends and DOTA 2 are free to play, with some grindable perks and cosmetics available through microtransactions. Some games are free just because they need people for multiplayer. We already expect these mechanics in mobile games and in some free to play games. Things could be worse, and thatвЂ™s part of the problem. (I still contest that the worst boxes of the year were from Shadow of War, since you could lose the contents if you werenвЂ™t careful.) Imagine if NFS were time-gated. EA was far from the only company to do this, but itвЂ™s debatably the company that started the trend, and while Overwatch is famously credited for bringing loot boxes to prominence, EA and other companies took the ball and ran away with it with increasingly predatory box schemes. Loot boxes were the buzzword of 2017, but they were a late onset symptom of a greater problem вЂ“ games that charged for admission, then had DLC and microtransactions afterwards. The recurring theme of EAвЂ™s sins has been the microtransactions in next to all of their games.

HereвЂ™s some reasons why I think EA isnвЂ™t going down any time soon: Out of the fire, into the frying pan While itвЂ™s a stretch to say that theyвЂ™re too big to fail, theyвЂ™ve positioned themselves in a way that they can recover from the Battlefront II backlash. Is EA finally going to get karma for all the abusive schemes theyвЂ™ve been pulling on their customers? вЂњHit them where it counts!вЂќ is the latest mantra, with people pulling their pre-orders as the news spread. ThereвЂ™s been a lot of joy and schadenfreude in that governments across the world have started cracking down on loot boxes, and that EAвЂ™s been forced to reevaluate their practices (at least where Star Wars is concerned) because of their latest mishap. EveryoneвЂ™s heard of the Star Wars Battlefront 2 AMA, and EA pulling microtransactions from the game not long thereafter.