EA significantly reduced the prices for heroes at Star Wars Battlefront II after the scandal on Reddit

The day before Electronic Arts The Reddit has no longer angry and set an amazing record: a commentary of the company about dear heroes in Star Wars Battlefront II won minus 620,000 points and continues to fall below every hour. The effect was so cool that EA And Dice seriously revised the price tags in a not yet released shooter.

Recall that the central claim Reddit is the wrong cost of the Skywalker and Darth Vader Luke. To earn each of them, it would take about 40 hours of pure gameplay. And even if you consider all tests with awards that are available in Star Wars Battlefront II At the moment, this was still not enough even for one of two characters.

EA did not pull the cat by the tail and announced the discharge of prices by 75 %. Now Luke Skywalker and Darth Vader cost 15,000 loans instead of 60,000, Emperor Palpatine, Chubakka and Leia organ – 10,000 instead of 40,000, and Eden Versio, the main character of the plot campaign – 5,000 instead of 20,000.

Changes should already be available in the game. EA And Dice They say that they listen to reviews (in particular on the thematic branch of the Reddit forum), are ready to conduct a dialogue and make appropriate amendments to Star Wars Battlefront II. Moreover, on Wednesday, the key persons from the developers team will hold the so -called AMA – “ASK Me ANYTHING” on Reddit, that is, they will answer questions from visitors to the site.

But, as always, there are nuances. Editor Game Informer Andrew Reiner (Andrew Reiner) on Twitter stated that in the version that he took place for the review, there was another reward for the passage of a single campaign. Then he was awarded Lutbox, where there were 20,000 loans. Now the award has been reduced to 5,000.

EA answered this comment. According to the company, the developers immediately decided that the passage for passing should correspond to the price of Iden Versio in the multiplayer – they say that you could complete the plot and immediately unlock this character. EA assures that no other sources of earnings were adjusted in the last update.

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The REWARD FOR FINISHING THE CAMPAIGN IS meant to be enunch to unlock Iden – Which Has Been Lowered to 5000 Credits. That’s the only area of ​​the game What the REVARDS WERE LOWERED to Match the Changes.

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To the game on one of the most famous and popular franchises in the world, it is necessary to attract people with black PR in Reddie? 🙂

Here it is, the https://gamesnotongamstop.co.uk/lottery/ power of the community, because 600k people do not agree with such a policy, and in fact, many people would simply refuse to buy a game due to such a bestial attitude

There were a lot of refusals from the pre -order. I will definitely not name the figure, but due to this post on Reddit, about 70,000 people returned money. EA, of course.

The future of the game industry largely depends on the further development of events. I think everyone has noticed that recently cases began to appear in almost every AAA-Igra out of the. Moreover, not only to appear and be used humanly, affecting only the visual aspect (overwatch), but to be introduced in the most arrogant way, giving tangible advantages, and squeezing money from the players by all ways, turning the usual microtransactions In the real ones transactions, Because “micro” from calling the language will not turn; So, even at a 75% discount on the heroes in BF2, according to the calculations of the guys from Reddite, you still have to spend somewhere $ 70-90 to open the hatch and Vader. The question is whether this is a transaction, if for two heroes you need to pay more than for the game itself?

The task of EA and this game as a whole was not to force players to grind 40 hours for the hero, but to probe the soil and evaluate how modern gamer is ready to come to terms with a similar Lutbox system in the game. Yes, now EA is in every possible way, they say, we are listening to the feedback, we are ready to change the system, although they are actually just trying to create from the current dissatisfied the image of “capricious gamers, who are not satisfied, although we, EA, go towards them”. In fact, it was originally planning people to play the game for the full price, in which there will be a real system from any free or mobile game. And while this will remain in BF2, the players will be on the loser, and the game industry as a whole. Because other, more modest publishers and developers will go for EA.

The bottom line is that you can change and reduce the numbers as much as you like, but the fact of the presence of such a system remains in place. And buying Battlefront II, you make people from EA understand that you are not opposed, and that you can handle you as a resource, and not as a consumer.

It still seems to me that the ZV has a huge audience without people who, for some reason, managed to skip such a pillar of modern culture. You need to be completely divorced from reality so as not to know what a light sword is, who are the Jedi and not to recognize the symbols of the ZV at all.

Only for informing does not need black PR. Would we have some HATRD-there, yes, for a little-known game, such a scandal would play into the hands. Such and such virality from scratch! And SW Battlefront with viralism is all right due to the strength of the primary source, PR catastrophe for her use.

In addition, the Reddit scandal affects mainly hardcore gamers, and EA is not very interested in such a long time.

In my memory, Ea resorted to black PR only for her relatively unknown games. Like Dante’s Inferno, when allegedly offended Christians staged a rally in protest against the game.

What is all this. No need to look for the invisible hand of the PR people in any scandal 🙂 Shit can happen on its own, without cunning plans.

I love when any companies (not necessarily gaming) try to heat their own communities, and when the incident goes abroad and threaten with serious losses, they begin to correct their own d … RMMs, immediately turning this into a self-patient. Like, check out, we listen in the opinion of the buyers and everything is only for you, you love our wallets))

There is a great statement for this case. Hanlon’s razor.
In short, then "do not attribute to the evil intent what can be explained by simple incompetence". Something like that, yes.

And the funny thing is that this is not in the news, now it is impossible to cancel pre -order, if not through those support.Go to the EA ass, I hope Disney will call their license

And for me, still loot – power. It is more believed that the changes contributed to a large number of refunds, not diesel.

And you play multiplayer games in order to open content? Opened the last gun and that’s it, you can throw?

The Internet is power! And with the power of public opinion you need to reckon. And this applies not only to Igrodelov, Gygy (everything, I finished until I started politically. agitation).

Of course power. One post on the forum can attract such a crowd of people that no expensive advertising can be compared. Heyp it is like that.

I’m not saying that everyone should give out everything that can be given out from the start.
I say that receiving the characters must be untied from currency for consumables/pumping, and all the same the main characters for which everyone came to give out all for 8 hours and completely untie them from everything that happens using microtransactions, leaving them only for cosmetics.

Given that there, on Redd, they already calculated how long it is to open all the nishtyaks in the multiplayer even at a discount on the heroes. Chot about 3700 hours. That is, in fact, the players did not achieve anything.

“Listen to reviews. "Not to reviews, but to the ringing of coins, which suddenly disappears. EA really has already marketer played.

4 times? That is, now you need 10 hours and at the same time do not use boxes to save the currency faster?
This is exactly what we all wanted from a paid game!

No of course (not even close)!
They need to pick up the game for a month for revision and cut the system in general, only so.