This will be a day long remembered.

@Valar81MorghulisIndeed they did not put the resources to keep more than a smaller team on for support. I would argue they did an amazing job turning the game around. They brought Conquest gameplay back with Supremacy and Instant Action. They gave us a co-op mode that imo is the best going. That's something no one expected or saw coming. So the imagination was there, but clearly they were limited by manpower and the basic framework of the game.

That said, EA clearly did not deliver bringing only 4 Star Wars games to market.

As for Ubisoft, I have mixed feelings.  Their open world games are known for being very formulaic and basically following the same pattern from game to game.  But it is Star Wars this time, so I'm not likely to be picky about it.  If they can deliver something on the level of Assassin's Creed Odyssey then that would be excellent.

Different companies are good at different things, so it makes sense to break this up.  Let EA continue with Jedi Fallen Order and Battlefront 3.  Let Ubisoft do an open world ARPG.  If they want to do another MMO, give it to maybe Blizzard and Activision. 

Dice isn’t the problem, it’s EA. Dice is my favorite developer because they make quality FPS games. EA was the one that forced microtransactions when the game first came out. EA is the one to blame how crappy the game was. Also, blame EA for ending support for this game. I’m sure Dice wanted to continue adding to the game but EA said no.

What happened today ?

The only thing i have seen in game is that all servers are filled with BOTS now in multiplayer in supremacy and also galactic assault and more.

This is horrible for me as i have just levelled up and now iam ready to go, but there is no more anyone i can play with? Except those bots and i dont want to play Bots. ☹️

And what is really weird is that BF2 still dont even has a simple server browser like in other battlefields, that was standard even many many years ago. To find a server with playing persons and not bots.

@soapy_catuses im referring to the Bad Company games and Battlefield 3/4

@thieves1988You say, "Dice isn't the problem?" Riiiiight. Dice wouldn't know what an effective algorithm for team balancing was even IF a world renowned mathematician readily provided them with one.

The scapegoat Microtransactions were only a problem for ALL of those whiny complainers who blew it out of proportion. The true dilemma was the initial progression system being purposefully designed to be flawed and slow. This was done to force the hand of impatient individuals, and cause instant gratification laser brains to spend real $ to advance more rapidly.

The rest of us, just played the game and exercised patience. But yeah, go ahead and give Dice another pass for their joke of a game at launch, and the joke that it still is at this point in time (i.e. going on 4 years later).

Heroes & Villains alike still get stuck on random objects like trees, vines, and rocks on quite a few maps in GA. Abilities still fail, & some H/V are still prone to being unable to use abilities or even defend as a result of poor coding.

Yeah, so how exactly Dice is not at all the problem for THEIR poorly designed game is beyond me.

EA and Dice were truly incompetent on this game. They spent more time on designing the lame BB droids (which I never have, and I never will be playing as) than all of the other characters combined. Meanwhile, they could have easily made over $100,000,000.

Dice is lazy on level designs, like how on the Kamino Barracks there are dead spots that will automatically take Grievous out of Claw Rush ability. You see, Dice never bothered to polish up their maps. They only did the absolute bare minimum required regarding certain bugs/glitches, & yet many people sit there and pretend that Dice are a quality gaming company.

Well, you’re at a loss for not playing those droids. They’re fun.

@Valar81MorghulisAre you telling us that random lootcrate stuff was actually any good? I didn't feel that way.

I think most people agree that the later variant of unlocking it by playing the classes was better in all ways. I don't see anything great in a potentially eternal grind that rewards me with stuff I already have and won't give me that starcard I need for another year. 

Unlocking random stuff one after another would've been fun probably, but the duplicate loot card stuff made me nope out. Glad that it was entirely removed when I returned. I prefer to unlock stuff based on my play time with that certain class, XP and skill, not luck.

They included BB-8 for the same reason as they included the caped Kylo and Palpatine's eternal Sith skin, the movie launches just seemed too good to miss out the opportunity to get new players because of the movies and hype players for the movies in return. That's the whole mystery I guess.

Upon removing the lootcrates, BF II was basically a dead cow for EA because how are they supposed to get any more great money from it after the desastrous launch and microtransactions reduced to cosmetics? It's not like they included another monetization concept, all these new content updates were free DLCs and they probably let DICE made their thing to polish up the image, which kinda worked.

For real, if they had left the game in launch state with lootcrate progression and no supremacy mode I would've never returned.

Mind that DICE had to cluster together all that new stuff in that time, probably knowing that EA was counting downwards on the life of the game.

This game could've been improved much more with continued support, a pause for new content and focus on bugfixing instead, but well, it was in fact EA's decision that this isn't something needed to be taken care of any further. Mind the articles and youtube videos praising the redemption of BF II.

DICE was clumsy and there still has been work to do all the time, yes, but good luck when time and money work against you.