“The intent is to provide players with a sense of pride and accomplishment for unlocking different heroes,” the post read. This initial backlash led to EA itself taking to Reddit to explain the decision – but that did not go as planned as the post quickly became the most down-voted in Reddit history.Īs of Tuesday afternoon it had more than 667,000 down votes – the previous record was fewer than 30,000 down votes. Players can circumnavigate this, but to do so means buying the credits with real money.Ī gesture not appreciated in some quarters because of the £54.99 price tag already required to buy the game itself. However this time around, early players have accused EA of pricing many out of those hero characters – with some number crunching from Reddit users claiming that given the pace credits are handed out, it would take around 40 hours of gameplay to gather the 60,000 credits needed for the top tier characters. The main thrust of the frustration has been over access to the big name characters of the game, such as Luke Skywalker and Darth Vader, who must now be unlocked using credits before they can be used in multiplayer mode.īattlefront sees players spend most of their time as a regular soldier – a stormtrooper or battle droid for example – but they can collect points to call in support and play as the likes of Luke, Vader and others from the movie series. The controversy began when gamers took to Reddit to show their discontent over EA’s plans for the credit system in Battlefront II, which launches this week. EA now has the least popular comment in Reddit history thanks to Star Wars fans 9 months agoĮlectronic Arts has confirmed it is changing the new Star Wars: Battlefront II game after an explanation on in-game purchases became the most down-voted comment in the history of Reddit.
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