Star Cards provide too much advantage
Just putting this out there so the Dev's might see it and think on it a bit. I believe the Star Card system as it is implemented alienates casual players. I just had a daughter, I don't have time ...
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In war there are privates and there are generals.
But to be serious it is way too late to rehaul the system. And progression is a legitimate way to keep your player base engaged.
Honestly, it isn’t that hard to grind enough crafting points to set your favorite soldiers up the way you want. There are plenty of achievements that can be done in just a couple matches and there is the campaign and arcade mode that pays out fairly well.
If you want to set up all the heroes and all vehicles then yes you are going to have to grind, but if you can be content to be a grunt on the ground you can setup your character in just a handful of hours.
The battlefront series has ALWAYS been this way. The original is no exception.
If you don’t like the progression system you should find a different series to play rather than changing a series with a following to accommodate you
But to be serious it is way too late to rehaul the system. And progression is a legitimate way to keep your player base engaged.
Honestly, it isn’t that hard to grind enough crafting points to set your favorite soldiers up the way you want. There are plenty of achievements that can be done in just a couple matches and there is the campaign and arcade mode that pays out fairly well.
If you want to set up all the heroes and all vehicles then yes you are going to have to grind, but if you can be content to be a grunt on the ground you can setup your character in just a handful of hours.
The battlefront series has ALWAYS been this way. The original is no exception.
If you don’t like the progression system you should find a different series to play rather than changing a series with a following to accommodate you
"too late to rehaul the system" -I am not so sure @Peligrad . Not in terms of implementation, but it may annoy some people though. That sort of stuff tends to be defined in script files so design but no real recoding is required. I think all of that could easily be done with little effort.
The following video which I also posted somewhere obscure says that what seems to be a credible EA insider states that the preasure is really effecting EA and they are planning reworking the microtransaction system to be either only cosmetic based or cosmetic+cards but no gambling. So we may get most progression stuff earnt in game. The video is pretty long but you just need to watch from 24 mins 30 secs until 29 mins:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bhwOAsyZGDk&t=329s
As Micheal Jackson the "king of pop" and aleged kiddy fiddler said "If you wanna make the world a better game take a look at yourself EA and make that change.........wwwoooooooooaaa!!!!!"
- ApprovedDisney definitely put the screws to them but after the movie launch next month Disney isn’t going to care anymore. This was all about protecting the Star Wars brand. EA isn’t breaking under the pressure of the gamers. If they cared what gamers thought of them they would have changed their policies a long time ago. They have series that have a faithful following regardless of their cash grab tactics and they know it. Mark my words, a month after the movie releases micro transactions come back the way they were. And by then it is old news and no one cares anymore
Consider that the audience Disney really want to get invested in their newly aquired franchise is not the over 30's but younger people.They are the future of the business. If loot boxes become regulated as gambling by government then anyone under 21 in the USA would not be able to play EA games. EA would have excluded the demographic that Disney most want to capture from all Star Wars games. If EA dont remove gambling then Disney may take away EAs "exclusive" right to make Star Wars games. Years ago Disney withdrew from a promotional deal with McDonalds worth 1 billion dollars to Disney cos McDonnalds were starting to be associated with childhood obesity and that is not good for Disneys child friendly image. Being associated with child gambling is worse. I doubt the fuss will end after The Last Jedi. EA dont care about gamers but they do care about Disney. So far Belgium, Sweden, France and the UK are looking into whether loot boxes are gambling. If one decide yes they will push for it in the entire EU, Belgium have already stated that intent. Hamaii have already decided it is gambling and are consulting with other states so many of then will fall too.
If EA are forced to remove loot boxes due to this from BF2 that will set a president for other games and gamer presure.
- Approved
The whole loot box gambling "debate" is completely asinine.
Similar loot distribution practices have been used for years and years over countless games.
Anyone who knows what they are doing in this game knows that buying a loot box is not a gamble.
You will always get crafting parts. Crafting parts are all that really matter.
The occasional blue card reward that you get out of loot boxes barely mean anything unless you are new to the game. You have about a 1 in 5 chance of that blue card being even usable.
You earn credits to get loot boxes to get crafting parts to upgrade specific cards. The only part that is uncertain about the loot box is how many credits you will be reimbursed for the duplicates which determines how many credits you must grind before your next loot box.
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