Star Wars: Battlefront 2 Battlefront 23's E3 trailer did the impossible — it made The Phantom Menace seem cool.
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Star Wars Battlefront 2Originally released in 2005, Star Wars Battlefront 2 has become a beloved classic to Star Wars fans and video game lovers alike.
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The amount of stuff in Battlefront II compared to Battlefront was such a point of pride for EA it made chart showing this to promote the game.
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First week U.K. physical game sales of "Star Wars Battlefront II" declined 61 percent compared with "Star Wars Battlefront" from two years ago, according to GfK ChartTrack data.
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Star Wars has a long history with game novelizations (look no further than Michael A. Stackpole's X-Wing or Karen Traviss' Republic Commando novels), and Battlefront: Inferno Squad joins the novelization for the original Battlefront game, Battlefront: Twilight Company, written by Alexander Freed, which is set in the midst of the Rebellion.
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Battlefront II will also place more of a focus on space combat, with Criterion — which handled the VR mission for the 2015 Battlefront — leading development on that side of the game.
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The changes the company has made on the multiplayer side — like bringing back the other eras of the franchise, classes, and more accessible heroes — make Battlefront II more like a Battlefront game.
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He said November U.S. physical game unit sales of "Star Wars Battlefront II" declined 2500 percent versus 218's "Star Wars Battlefront" in its first month, according to NPD sell-through data.
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And Star Wars Battlefront 2 saw a massive fan backlash.
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Later that month, Electronic Arts announced Star Wars Battlefront 2.
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The biggest battlefront right now is Trump versus Paul Ryan.
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Warning: Minor story spoilers for Star Wars Battlefront II below.
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Battlefield developer DICE built the 2015 shooter Star Wars: Battlefront.
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But for PiS, the main battlefront will remain at home.
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Just bear in mind: Battlefront II isn't out until Nov.
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A full year after its release, Battlefront finally felt complete.
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"Battlefront 2 MTX likely to return next year," he wrote.
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If there's an overriding philosophy behind Battlefront II, it's that.
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Battlefront: Twilight Company, which was based on DICE's 2015 game.
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Electronic Arts has delivered three "Star Wars" games so far using the exclusive license, "Battlefront" and "Battlefront II," and "Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order," a single-player adventure game that launched earlier this year.
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Part of Battlefront II's appeal is DICE's uncanny ability to nail the Star Wars aesthetic in video game form, and for all of Battlefront II's faults, it effin' nails that part of the experience.
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I'm embarrassed to admit I recently got into a bad way with Star Wars Battlefront II. I don't even like Star Wars Battlefront II but I played it for 26 hours and I know why.
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Star Wars Battlefront II will hit stores on November 17th, 2017.
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Battlefront II is set to be released in a few hours.
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Battlefront II will have been an absurdly expensive game to produce.
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Star Wars: Battlefront II is scheduled for release on November 17th.
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What drives the tactics in Battlefront is the short respawn time.
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Which brings us to Battlefront II' s main problem—its economy.
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Unfortunately, Battlefront II is barely given a chance to explore this.
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Corporate credit is probably the most vexing battlefront from this point.
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Judging by the Battlefront II subreddit, I'm not the only one.
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Players have come flooding back to Pandemic's Battlefront II by the thousands, and judging by Steam reviews and comments across the internet, there's a definite undercurrent among them that this restores the "rightful" Battlefront to its throne.
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The larger battlefront on the horizon: debate over so-called sanctuary cities.
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The Battlefront virtual reality mission is the best kind of fan service.
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But there are still other ways to play Battlefront II's multiplayer online.
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Visually, the game is a pleasant jump up from the original Battlefront.
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The lead up to Star Wars Battlefront II was full of excitement.
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It is just the latest offline battlefront between the two online giants.
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Battlefront II takes place after the events of Return of the Jedi.
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And before then, on November 17th, Star Wars Battlefront II is released.
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Battlefront II is a game designed to make you buy loot boxes.
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That prompted you to make a pink Vader mod for Battlefront II?
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The next sectarian Islamist battlefront is likely Yemen, which possesses significant geostrategic importance.
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So could add-ons to big games like Battlefront or Call of Duty.
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The most intriguing addition to Battlefront II is its new single-player campaign.
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The video game maker's "Star Wars Battlefront" title was among the key factors.
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Star Wars Battlefront II understands that most fundamental of truths about this franchise.
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Star Wars Battlefront II launches November 17th on PS4, Xbox One, and PC.
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Battlefront II appears, or at least appeared, to be guilty of all three.
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If you enjoy Battlefront but feel it's a little too bare — who doesn't?
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Battlefront emphasizes collective effort, rather than individual heroism, as the path to victory.
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Battlefront doesn't just look like a Star Wars movie—it plays like one.
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"The crate mechanics of Star Wars Battlefront II are not gambling," EA said.
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Crucially, that's what could hurt Battlefront II, even after the hero pricing change.
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This fantasy elevates Battlefront, which is at its core an average multiplayer shooter.
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Battlefront MTX relaunch and FIFA World Cup content launch are key 22H events.
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Warning: What follows are minor spoilers for Battlefront II's story, but nothing major.
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Paintings he had made on the battlefront were shown soon afterward in London.
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Regardless, EA's "Battlefront II" is the best-looking "Star Wars" game ever made.
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After the lackluster Battlefront reboot, the PR disaster that was Battlefront II's loot box scandal, and the public collapse of the Amy Hennig-led Visceral Games title, the company hasn't had a lot of luck with the Star Wars license.
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The subject of Reddit's ire was the upcoming EA game Star Wars Battlefront 211.
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It's certainly crude, but it doesn't sound any worse than Star Wars Battlefront 2.
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Battlefront II's questionable implementation of loot boxes sparked an immediate angry reaction among consumers.
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Battlefront II is coming out on November 17th on PC, PS4, and Xbox One.
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Also: Assassin's Creed: Origins, Anthem, NBA Live 18, FIFA 18, Battlefront 2, and more!
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In Battlefront II, players collect "battle points" as they go through a given match.
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There's another Battlefront novel coming out later this year that looks promising as well.
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Inferno Squad is a prequel to Battlefront II, which is coming out in November.
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I would say this is the best way to play Battlefront II in bed.
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More digital action figures and playsets are coming to Star Wars: Battlefront very soon.
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That was a big problem with the first Battlefront from DICE, released in 2015.
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We know Battlefront II is out to address those criticisms, at least in part.
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To override this instinct, the weapons in Battlefront encourage players to get up close.
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The result is that Battlefront tactics work on collective effort rather than individual heroism.
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That didn't appease players, who raged on in the Battlefront subreddit and on Twitter.
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Based on the beta, Battlefront II has tied player progression completely to loot boxes.
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Of course, like everything in Battlefront II, the story exists only to check boxes.
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The analyst estimated cost per hour for a typical "Star Wars Battlefront II" player.
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For starters, it's reasonable to expect a Star Wars: Battlefront III at some point.
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Soldiers from the Kurdish-led SDF abandoned nearby checkpoints to fight on the battlefront.
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The Battlefront II story picks up after the events of Return of the Jedi.
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Tuesday's lawsuit represents another battlefront in the sprawling legal dispute between Trump and Congress.
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While some of Battlefront II's heroes are available immediately, if you want to play as Luke, Vader, Chewbacca, Emperor Palpatine, Leia, or campaign protagonist Iden Versio, you have to unlock them first using "credits", one of Battlefront II's three in-game currencies.
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Up next from EA will be a new installment of "Star Wars Battlefront" in 2017.
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But the UN resolution is only one breastfeeding battlefront the Trump administration is currently fighting.
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Star Wars Battlefront II releases on November 17th for Xbox One, PlayStation 4, and PC.
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The biggest issue, however, has been how Battlefront II gates access to the "hero" characters.
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"The narrow goal is to remove/reform the progression system in 'Battlefront II,'" he said.
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Star Wars Battlefront II will be told from the point of view of the Empire.
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While most Star Wars stories have players fighting the Empire, Battlefront II flips the script.
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The possibilities of Syrian battlefront clashes between the United States and Russia also have increased.
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Anti-drone countermeasures are a growing area both on the battlefront and in the homeland.
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We must strike the right balance between supply reduction and the other "battlefront" — demand reduction.
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We're still early in the hype cycle for the game, but in many ways Battlefront II appears to be the game that Battlefront should have been all along — if it hadn't been fast-tracked to beat J.J. Abrams' Star Wars: The Force Awakens to release.
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The U.S. presidential election this year is shaping up to be a major battlefront on climate.
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It wouldn't have been forced to make such a drastic change to Battlefront II's economy otherwise.
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" Some games will be exclusive to PlayStation VR, including "Star Wars: Battlefront X-Wing VR Mission.
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Discussed: Anthem, Battlefield V, Star Wars Battlefront 2, Unraveled Two, Sea of Solitude, Command and Conquer.
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Battlefront II is also built with an eye toward letting players make their own strategic decisions.
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I've been playing a fair amount of Battlefront II both before and after this week's update.
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Star Wars Battlefront II is arguably the biggest entertainment product that will come out this year.
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Trade war: The U.S.-China conflict has a new battlefront: the $1.6 trillion U.S. travel industry.
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The "Anthem" news comes after the controversial Electronic Arts' "Star Wars Battlefront II" release last November.
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Star Wars Battlefront II is out for PC, PlayStation 4, and Xbox One on Nov. 17.
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"Star Wars Battlefront II" is the newest "Star Wars" game, but it's not exactly the best.
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Developed by Pandemic Studios for LucasArts, the original "Star Wars: Battlefront II" is a cult classic.
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The photojournalist Ivor Prickett spent three weeks documenting the battlefront and humanitarian crisis in west Mosul.
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I can't seem to stop playing Star Wars: Battlefront II and I hate myself for it.
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Star Wars Battlefront II's loot box system sparked a larger loot box controversy across the industry, which led to the country of Belgium's gambling authority to investigate whether loot boxes in games like Battlefront II and Overwatch should be considered gambling, VTM News reported (via PC Gamer).
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There's a new trailer for Battlefront II and it's all about the "star" part of Star Wars.
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Star Wars: Battlefront got more than its fair share of hype when it launched two years ago.
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The company's "Star Wars Battlefront" game was among the key factors in helping it exceed analysts' forecasts.
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Star Wars, which is coming off the poorly received Battlefront II loot box scandal from last fall.
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Lando Calrissian's best not-quite-human pal didn't make the cut in Star Wars: Battlefront II. Sad!
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It's free for anyone that owns PSVR and Battlefront for PS4, so ... you know ... get on that.
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You may be rolling your eyes at the mention of tactics in Battlefront—and for good reason.
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The 2015 revival of Battlefront — from Battlefield developer DICE and published by Electronic Arts — was multiplayer-only.
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They do, however, make one thing clear: Battlefront II's multiplayer does span multiple eras of Star Wars.
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That's a big change after the 2015 Battlefront, which stuck specifically to the Original Trilogy time period.
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When Star Wars: Battlefront II launches tomorrow, you won't be able to play as Darth Vader immediately.
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This upset one potential Battlefront II player so much they made a post on Reddit about it!
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He added that Electronic Arts and Lucasfilm are creating exclusive "Star Wars: Battlefront" content for PS VR.
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Even before the recent social media controversy, other analysts were concerned over "Star Wars Battlefront II" prospects.
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The wireless XBOX controller that steers you through an attack on Jakku in Star Wars: Battlefront II?
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"Star Wars Battlefront II" officially launched on Friday, but portions of the game went live on Nov.
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Even before the recent social media fight, other analysts were concerned over "Star Wars Battlefront II" prospects.
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Battlefront II doesn't come with modding tools, nor does EA actively support modding in any meaningful way.
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Whether that changes when EA introduces its own customization elements into Battlefront II remains to be seen.
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The $20 upgrade contains an assortment of character upgrades and weapons that make Battlefront II much better.
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If it's possible, it's possible for all, simply eliminating this battlefront instead of entrenching one player in victory.
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If you've been following the development of Battlefront II all along, you probably won't discover anything new here.
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You can't trade or re-sell Battlefront II's digital goods; they're for your account, and your account alone.
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The single-player campaign of Battlefront II won't limit players to just the Imperial point of view, however.
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The actual mechanics of Battlefront II, including the weapons and abilities, all function the same way you'd expect.
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The campaign also features the same attention to detail that the revived Battlefront series has become known for.
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A new Star Wars video game launched this week, but Battlefront II isn't on our minds right now.
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God I hope Battlefront 2 is the game that destroys the loot crate concept with it's awful integration.
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That's not the case with most shooters, and it wasn't the case with the Battlefront 2 fauxsports presentation.
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EA provided a statement via email saying that the system in Battlefront II does not equate to gambling.
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EA's "Star Wars Battlefront II" officially launches on Friday, but portions of the game went live on Nov.
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Battlefront II lets you take part in that battle, but gives no context for why it took place.
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It was the battlefront where rebels outside the city were trying to break the siege of eastern Aleppo.
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Battlefront II caught the ire of so many because it was engineered to mingle with the game design.
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"When EA brought loot boxes to Star Wars Battlefront 2, the fan backlash was swift and severe," O'Shea added.
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From a certain perspective, a game like Battlefront II doesn't even have to be good in and of itself.
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In any case, this revival of online support for the original Battlefront II comes at an especially odd time.
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It has plenty of intellectual properties that are ripe for games (as EA has shown with "Star Wars Battlefront").
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The original story follows below: Video game fans anticipating this week's release of Star Wars: Battlefront II are upset.
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What wasn't discussed during the presentation, however, was that Battlefront II will instead try to cash in through microtransactions.
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The only problem was that once that initial thrill of playing on Hoth subsided Battlefront felt a little wanting.
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Now, it appears like trains are presenting a new battlefront for Lyft and Uber to control how consumers travel.
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Battlefront II is risk-averse on two fronts, showing EA's fear of single-player campaigns and in original storytelling.
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Except Battlefront II is a full-price game, and people expect multiplayer games like these to have fair progression.
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That number jumped to almost $36 million in fiscal 2018, which ended this March and includes Battlefront II's release.
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Now a new film starring "Gone Girl" actress Rosamund Pike tells her story about being fearless on the battlefront.
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But Battlefield 1 is a different story, and that's because it uses what made Star Wars Battlefront so successful.
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It's especially disappointing because the writers of Battlefront II were given a juicy period of time to play with.
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Related: The trade war between the U.S. and China has a new battlefront: the $2000 trillion U.S. travel industry.
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People who boycotted Star Wars Battlefront II because micro-transactions could shift the tides should get equally pissed here.
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A photojournalist for The Times spent three weeks in Mosul, Iraq, documenting the battlefront and the humanitarian crisis there.
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"While "Star Wars: Battlefront 2" was widely criticized for its generic military gameplay and early emphasis on microtransactions, the newly released "Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order" returns to a story-driven experience that's both recognizable and intimate for "Star Wars" movie fans, moving away from the large-scale online multiplayer that defined "Battlefront.
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Bowing to criticism, EA didn't strip loot boxes from Battlefront II, but did remove the option to pay for them.
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Other games in recent years that have included that feature, like 2017's Star Wars Battlefront II, were widely panned.
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When the Star Wars Battlefront II beta landed in October, players complained about the game's frankly ridiculous loot box system.
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TheHotterPotato discovered that, in its current state, Battlefront II gives out credits based on time spent playing, not on skill.
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You can be sure EA will have plenty of details and gameplay footage to show off for its next Battlefront.
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If nothing else, it should hold you over until the release of the next Star Wars Battlefront on November 17th.
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Our first look at the next chapter in EA's Star Wars: Battlefront series is here, a little earlier than expected.
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The in-game economy of Star Wars Battlefront II and loot crates in general have also been highly controversial recently.
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EA did not specify when the progression change will be coming to Battlefront II. Crates aren't going away completely, though.
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EA also teased new cosmetic items and new modes coming to Star Wars Battlefront II, although with no dates specified.
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While many online shooters emphasize squad combat and accurate weaponry, Battlefront is almost gleeful in making players act like Stormtroopers.
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The loot box system in Star Wars Battlefront II does not constitute as gambling, EA said in a statement today.
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In its current form, with so many messy moving parts, Star Wars: Battlefront II still fails spectacularly at doing that.
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There could also be talk about Star Wars: Battlefront 2, EA's mobile games division, and EA's subscription service EA Access.
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At first, the Qataris conducted training far from the battlefront in the western mountains near Nalut, according to Foreign Policy.
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Battlefront II's biggest problem might be the sheer disconnect between what you do in the game and how you progress.
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After a solid weekend of playing Battlefront II my enthusiasm for both the game and the console was significantly dented.
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After it kicked up all this controversy, EA went silent and mostly just updated Star Wars Battlefront II for balance.
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Swedish developer DICE makes some of the best looking, best sounding games out there, and Battlefront II is no exception.
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We wish we could tell you why Luke was there, but we can't because Battlefront II doesn't make that clear.
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DICE is good at developing large-scale multiplayer shooters, and at its core, Battlefront II is another one of those.
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Star Wars Battlefront launched a few years later, and more than anything else, DICE masterfully captured the Star Wars aesthetic.
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But the lifelong Star Wars fan, incensed by the way Electronic Arts handled Star Wars: Battlefront II, was fed up.
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Vallotton was among a group of established artists who were accredited by the French Army to work near the battlefront.
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But the nominal battlefront cuts across them: Whereas Donetsk is under the control of separatists, Marinka is under the government's.
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SO THIS IS NOW THE BATTLEFRONT MOVES TO CHINA, SPECIFICALLY TARGETING AREAS OF ABUSE THERE, LIKE TECH AND INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY.
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All of this represents a big change after Star Wars: Battlefront, which launched in 2015 as a multiplayer-only game.
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Caricatures from satirical journals read at the battlefront figured women as either masculinized or spending wildly on the latest designs.
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Or for a quicker result, spend real money instead, an option which spurred complaints that Battlefront II was pay-to-win.
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Even if loot boxes end up ruining the multiplayer aspect of Battlefront II, at least the single player story seems enticing.
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As such, the criteria for success are a bit different in Battlefront II than they would be in most multiplayer shooters.
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America has already been hit by the leading edge of this battlefront, but every indication suggests there is more to come.
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Originals continue to be the primary weapon used on the OTT video battlefront, extending digital media's "New Golden Age" for creators.
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Both are games that don't look especially impressive up against current titles like Star Wars Battlefront II or Horizon Zero Dawn.
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With the ability to purchase crystals removed for now, all progression in Battlefront II will be earned through playing the game.
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In between, Battlefront released 2010's Combat Mission: Afghanistan, a largely overlooked interlude depicting the 1979–1989 Soviet war in Afghanistan.
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Battlefront II feels like a Star Wars story, even if it is told from an unusual perspective of an Imperial soldier.
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But Star Wars is a franchise built around epic narratives, and this time Battlefront II also has a single-player campaign.
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And by making this change to Battlefront II at such short notice, it seems the company knows it overstepped the mark.
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And the show was shot through with promises that EA isn't going to repeat last year's Battlefront II loot crate debacle.
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The Death Star is just one of several familiar locations that will be coming to Star Wars: Battlefront later this year.
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IS militants who "have suffered defeats at the battlefront are seeking to avenge their losses by targeting vulnerable civilians," Kubis added.
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Greedo and Nien Nunb are the two new hero characters coming to Star Wars: Battlefront with the Outer Rim add-on.
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The Star Wars Battlefront II beta kicked off this weekend and players discovered a problem: the loot box system is horrible.
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EA has been under fire for the loot box progression system in Star Wars Battlefront II since it was first revealed.
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A few minutes later, following the awkward announcement of Jedi: Fallen Order, Battlefront II design director Dennis Brännvall took the stage.
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Which gave us Battlefront I and II, and in-game purchases so sleazy that lawmakers and the mainstream press took notice.
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To explain what I mean, we're going to have to dive into the needlessly complicated upgrade systems of Battlefront II's multiplayer.
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"Star Wars Battlefront II," Electronic Arts' biggest game this holiday season, is the big question mark for the high-flying stock.
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The analyst also lowered his fiscal 2018 estimate for "Star Wars Battlefront II" unit sales to 83 million from 14 million.
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There's a new Star Wars: Battlefront game coming in 2017, Electronic Arts confirmed during its second-quarter earnings call on Tuesday.
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Notice that despite all the anger around its loot box system, players are not exactly rejecting Battlefront II's progression system wholesale.
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I wasn't alone, either; one of the biggest demands for the sequel was a story mode, which Battlefront II definitely has!
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But it signals one of the game's great sins, one it repeats during Battlefront II's brisk, four-to-six hour campaign.
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Zero-rating has become the latest battlefront in the decade-long war over how best to safeguard the internet's open nature.
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Wall Street is worried controversy over EA's "Star Wars Battlefront II" in-game monetization model will hurt the video game's sales.
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Hourigan: I still play Battlefront II, but mostly on PC, so I can have my criminally fashionable pink Darth Vader outfit.
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That brings an immediacy that I once found jarring: the power to FaceTime with your mom, for instance, from a battlefront.
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Electronic Arts "Star Wars Battlefront II" sales will improve after a weak and controversial start, according to one Wall Street firm.
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"The initial catalyst was weaker-than-expected Q3:18 guidance, which suggested sagging expectations for Star Wars Battlefront II," he wrote.
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In the baseline Battlefront II, players start with terrible weapons and have to earn hundreds of kills to get decent ones.
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A new battlefront has opened in the trade war between the United States and China: the $23 trillion American travel industry.
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"gaming micro-transactions for chance-based items," have come under the spotlight due to EA's controversial Star Wars: Battlefront II last year.
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The trailer doesn't specify a release date, but the last Battlefront hit in November 2015, just before The Force Awakens' December release.
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While it's true that private militias no longer rule the battlefront, it's the home front that Kiev needs to worry about now.
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Is the Rogue One-inspired X-Wing mission in Star Wars: Battlefront the best reason to own a PlayStation VR right now?
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These titles are set to compete with EA's "Star Wars Battlefront II" and "Need for Speed" for gamer dollars during the quarter.
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Due, in large part, to the strength of "Star Wars Battlefront," EA handily beat its earnings estimate in its most recent quarter.
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Now, seemingly out of nowhere, Battlefront II's famous PC multiplayer has been restored, thanks to the sudden support of GOG and Disney.
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The backlash against loot boxes reached its peak when EA released its highly anticipated title Star Wars Battlefront II in November 2017.
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Alphabet Squadron is the first of a new trilogy from Freed, the author of Battlefront: Twilight Company and the Rogue One novelization.
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The first thing I thought while in the midst of the space battle was, well, that the whole thing felt like Battlefront.
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There's a mix-and-match feel to Battlefront II's multiplayer that I think is going to overjoy some fans, and infuriate others.
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The game was developed with the Lucasfilm Story Group, so the story of Battlefront II will be considered canon within the franchise.
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It's one of a few recent books exploring the darker side of the franchise, along with Battlefront II: Inferno Squad and Thrawn.
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Where Battlefront II seems to make a misstep is that it doesn't stick entirely with Iden for the duration of the storyline.
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According to early reports from players, though, the amount of credits that Battlefront II doles out doesn't seem to be particularly generous.
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However all this shakes out once the game is actually available, Battlefront II's loot box system is a perfect storm of controversy.
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Star Wars: Battlefront may be skipping the Force Awakens time frame, but Rogue One is fair game and coming this holiday season.
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Your book and Battlefront II span the franchise from the end of Rogue One all the way up to The Last Jedi.
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For E3 2016, EA had tents set up where people could play Star Wars: Battlefront just steps away from the show floor.
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Unlocking "hero" characters in Battlefront II requires credits, which are earned based on the amount of time you spend playing the game.
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Most notably, this developer did not work on Battlefront II. Their crime is also working for EA. What set off this firestorm?
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Among the many divides in Washington, add to the list a new corporate battlefront on how the tech industry should be regulated.
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Leading gaming YouTube personalities believe EA will be forced to change its practices after the "Star Wars Battlefront II" micro-transaction controversy.
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And yet, with enraged Reddit comments still hanging in the ether, Battlefront II became one of the best-selling games of Nov.
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They're angry because, if the beta is any indication, then Battlefront II's progression system is completely tied to the loot box economy.
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But Finn was one character in a movie spinning a lot of plates, which presented Battlefront II an opportunity to dig deeper.
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These titles are set to compete with EA's "Star Wars Battlefront II" and "Need for Speed" for gamers' dollars during the quarter.
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Angry gamers are winning the war against Electronic Arts' in-game money-making strategy in its new "Star Wars Battlefront II" title.
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Star Wars Battlefront 2 is available on PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and Windows PC. It's also available online on Steam and GOG.
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We haven't had many, admittedly—Need for Speed, Star Wars: Battlefront (if we're counting it), Thief, and Killer Instinct come to mind.
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Star Wars Battlefront II puts the Cloud Car front-and-center in a memorable mission that takes protagonist Iden Versio to Bespin.
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The PC version of "Star Wars: Battlefront II" lost online support in May 2014 but the game's popularity led Steam and GOG.
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"Microtransaction implementation, while not nearly as problematic as in Star Wars Battlefront 2, has still been a source of player unhappiness."3.
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It follows the well-publicised controversy over loot boxes which surrounded EA and developer DICE's last release, Star Wars Battlefront II, for months.
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The new Battlefront will be co-developed by DICE, new Montreal-based EA studio Motive, and Burnout and Need for Speed studio Criterion.
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As with the single-player campaign, multiplayer in Battlefront II feels like a refined, optimized, and better-looking version of the first game.
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On one battlefront, Spotify is fighting with Apple for the full rights to its profits, without the additional cut for the App Store.
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In one district of Deir ez-Zor the group has cut the number of religious policemen as it diverts men to the battlefront.
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It started off fine, but slowly changed to favor those who purchased large quantities of their equivalent to [Star Wars Battlefront II] credits.
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Meanwhile, EA does not consider the loot boxes in Star Wars Battlefront II as a form of gambling, and neither does the ESRB.
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That may no longer be in the offing, but Battlefront II just seems to underscore the incredible opportunity inherent in such a project.
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Star Wars: Battlefront may not be perfect, but it's great at bringing all the action figure fantasy wars from your childhood to life.
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Other big name developers have also promised games, with variations on Star Wars Battlefront and Resident Evil both expected in the coming months.
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The Battlefront II story is meant to serve as a bridge between the events of Return of the Jedi and The Force Awakens.
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So we're focused on delivering that in every dimension of Star Wars Battlefront II. We'll have more to share about our plans soon.
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Then, it pops up again in a sequence of shots that suggest it belongs to the unnamed star of the Battlefront II story.
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SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Fresh off a two-year stock rally and a win with its "Star Wars: Battlefront" title, Electronic Arts Inc (EA.
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Electronic Arts—the studio that published Star Wars: Battlefront II—made $787 million from in-game purchases in its most recent fiscal quarter.
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And then Star War: Battlefront, which has three expansion packs rolling out over the next year and is expected to get a mention.
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Entering the holiday season, Activision and Electronic Arts release highly-anticipated content, including new editions of Call of Duty and Star Wars Battlefront.
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Luckily, the folks at Polygon were happy to lend me their review unit and I bought myself a copy of the Battlefront game.
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Publisher Electronic Arts' Star Wars: Battlefront II irritated fans who felt the game was a skinner box designed to nickel-and-dime them.
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With so much attention and money riding on it, it's sad but not entirely surprising that Battlefront II is kind of a mess.
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Battlefront II's story wants to make sure you play a bunch of those characters, too, even if there's little reason to justify it.
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Division within our government encourages enemies to hope to defeat us on our home front even if they are losing on the battlefront.
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While soldiers fought at the battlefront, civilian women and men built their weapons, distributed food and propaganda, and kept the home front running.
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"The (GNA) militias violated the truce on more than one battlefront, with all types of weapons," said LNA commander Al-Mabrouk Al-Gazawi.
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"The (GNA) militias violated the truce on more than one battlefront, with all types of weapons," said LNA commander Al-Mabrouk Al-Gazawi.
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Electronic Arts' shareholders are relieved after strong in-game purchasing results from its sports game titles offset disappointing "Star Wars Battlefront II" sales.
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Nunes' investigation into alleged FISA abuses is poised to become the newest battlefront over the FBI, the Department of Justice and Mueller's investigation.
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Battlefield games and Battlefront II specifically tend to feel like meat grinders, where players spawn, die within a few seconds, respawn, and repeat.
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Electronic Arts (FIFA 16, Battlefield 4, Star Wars: Battlefront, Dragon Age: Inquisition)Like many others, EA didn't respond to my requests for comment.
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You can see all the action here (the Star Wars stuff starts about 1 hour and 15 minutes in): The developers at DICE promised that they listened to both positive and "constructive" feedback (read: negative) from Star Wars Battlefront players when developing Battlefront 2, leading to things improvements in the diversity of weapons and customization options for hero characters' abilities.
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After a vocal and negative response from players, which included the most downvoted comment in Reddit's history, game publisher Electronic Arts and developer DICE announced that they're removing microtransactions from Star War Battlefront II. Oskar Gabrielson, general manager at the game's developer DICE, said that microtransactions will return to Battlefront II, but only after DICE has made changes to the game.
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It's a shady practice, and — as Battlefront II demonstrated — it has the potential to blow up in the creator's face, in a bad way.
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Pressure from customers this year persuaded EA temporarily to remove the ability to spend real money on loot boxes in "Star Wars: Battlefront 2".
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While EA has yet to announce any details beyond a vague 2017 release window, there's a sequel to Star Wars: Battlefront in the works.
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A trip to the battlefront by Reuters journalists, one of the first visits into Mosul itself, showed the scale of the battle they face.
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A Battlefront Season Pass, which amounts to a pre-order for all planned add-ons, costs $49.99 on PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One.
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The fourth and final Battlefront add-on brings four new maps and two new heroes — Jyn Erso and Orson Krennic — inspired by the Dec.
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We may not have a name yet, but the next Star Wars: Battlefront adventure looks like it focuses on yet another strong lady warrior.
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Battlefront II came out only seven months ago, and somehow, EA was retconning one of their critical mistakes into rallying cry for the faithful.
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You don't know who made the decision to include loot boxes in Battlefront II, or whether that person could have done anything about it.
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I've been enjoying playing Battlefront II's starfighter assault mode, which lets me fly around in an X-Wing and dogfight with enemy TIE fighters.
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Analysts looked to the release of a second "Star Wars" action-adventure game, "Star Wars: Battlefront II," to drive growth for fiscal year 2018.
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EA's comment on a Reddit thread about "Star Wars: Battlefront 2" set a Guinness World Record for the most downvoted comment of all time.
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Politicians are joining the angry gamer rebellion against Electronic Arts' aggressive in-game money-making strategy inside its new "Star Wars Battlefront II" title.
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Star Wars Battlefront II isn't out until November, but publisher Electronic Arts gave fans a chance to play the beta this weekend for free.
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This next sentence is going to sound bad: The Elite Trooper Deluxe edition is Star Wars Battlefront II as it's meant to be played.
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When Star Wars: Battlefront II launches this November, it's going to have steep competition—not from its fellow holiday releases, but its decade-old namesake.
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But just from a narrative and storytelling perspective, Battlefront II has the opportunity to break some really interesting ground in the Star Wars canon itself.
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Jyn Erso and Orson Krennic fight as heroes for the Rebellion and Empire, respectively, in the Rogue One: Scarif add-on for Star Wars: Battlefront.
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Now that the franchise is rolling again, however, Battlefront II is hoping to entice players by letting them play as Battle Droids and Clone Troopers.
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Games like Star Wars Battlefront II, Battlefield V, and Forza Horizon 4 run well over 60 frames per second at 4K resolutions and ultra settings.
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EA does note, however, that it plans to bring back crystals at a later date after making balancing and tuning changes to Battlefront II's systems.
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At one point, my connection froze for a crucial few seconds, but even in the hectic multiplayer space battles of Battlefront II, things just worked.
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I had a similar issue with Star Wars Battlefront II's single-player campaign every time it would cut away from the story of Iden Versio.
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The announcement came during the "Level Up" gaming panel, which also included updates about Star Wars: Battlefront II and Insomniac Games' upcoming Spider-Man game.
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The unparalleled outcry from players, fans, press, and politicians about loot boxes in Star Wars Battlefront II signaled that we were at a breaking point.
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Checking out the Battlefront 2 beta, and it's already abundantly clear that the loot box Star Cards are going to be a huge problem. Pay2win.
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The company said its "Star Wars Battlefront" game, which was launched in November, sold more than 14 million units for the year ended March 31.
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That said, the controversy around loot boxes and in-game purchases sprawls far beyond Battlefront II and it's been an ongoing conversation for some time.
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Andromeda will be using the Frostbite engine, which also powered Star Wars: Battlefront, Battlefield 1, FIFA 17, and the new Mirror's Edge, among other titles.
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" Post added: "We see recent controversies as a potential risk for unit sales vs buyside expectations, although EA has conservative estimates for Battlefront Live Services.
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Gamers livid over Electronic Arts' in-game moneymaking strategy in its new "Star Wars Battlefront II" title are overreacting, according to one Wall Street firm.
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But a sustained public backlash against the practice formed in late 2017 after a particularly egregious implementation in Star Wars: Battlefront II rose to infamy.
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Characters from the movies appear in "Battlefront II's" hero assault mode, where they can use special abilities to take on large groups of regular players.
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I did not observe a line between cosmetic economies, such as Overwatch, and economies that influence progression such as Battlefront II and Shadow of Mordor.
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Star Wars - The Complete Saga [Blu-ray] [29.99] - £49.99 Star Wars: Battlefront II (PS4) - £20.00 See Details If you own a console, you might want to spend your Friday night joining the First Order or fighting for the resistance with Star Wars Battlefront II. The game links the events between the films "Star Wars: Return of the Jedi" and "Star Wars: The Force Awakens".
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The numerous photos from the battlefront of Amiri with Soleimani in military fatigues, embracing and looking euphoric after evicting IS fighters, have personalized an old friendship.
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As with the rest of the game, the mode's Battlefront II appearance spans all the timelines of the Star Wars series, from the Prequel trilogy on.
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Ironically, FSW—developed by California's Pandemic, the studio also behind (the original) Star Wars: Battlefront and Mercenaries —was originally inspired by the most outlandish Hollywood fantasy.
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Perhaps you played Star Wars: Battlefront when it came out back in 2015, and perhaps you don't have any really precious lasting memories about the experience.
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Set in the aftermath of Rogue One and A New Hope, Battlefront: Inferno Squad will explore the backstory of the unit and its commander, Iden Versio.
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Battlefront II will hit stores later this year, and once it does, players will take the perspective of an elite Imperial unit known as Inferno Squad.
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Many were surprised that EA will not release a new "Star Wars" game this holiday, especially given the strong performance of last year's "Star Wars Battlefront".
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EA's 2015 reboot of Battlefront was missing many of these features, disappointing fans of the classic titles and causing them to ignore or abandon the game.
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The new canon does have its share of combat novels, such as Battlefront: Twilight Company, and the novelization of Rogue One, both authored by Alexander Freed.
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Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare includes a free VR add-on called Jackal Assault, and Star Wars Battlefront has the recently released X-Wing VR Mission.
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Now, with Battlefront II, EA has listened to the feedback and is bringing back a whole bunch of things from the original iterations of the game.
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Story problems shouldn't detract from the technical execution of the game, however, and Battlefront II is a remarkable improvement over the original on almost every level.
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In some games, like Overwatch or Destiny, the items are largely cosmetic, while in others — like Battlefront II — they have a more direct impact on gameplay.
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And of course, Wyatt (Matt Lanter) and Rufus (Malcolm Barrett) are on her tail, chasing the Mothership back to the battlefront to rescue Lucy from Rittenhouse.
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Meanwhile, Battlefront II is getting expanded with material from the Clone Wars, including playable versions of Anakin Skywalker, Count Dooku, General Grievous, and Obi-Wan Kenobi.
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Since then, the EA-owned Criterion has instead focused primarily on other series, like Need For Speed, and helping out on blockbusters like Battlefield and Battlefront.
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The "boots on the ground" side of the game is immediately reminiscent of the previous Battlefront, though Iden has a few special toys of her own.
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Star Wars Battlefront II, which was also dragged for its greedy loot boxes, announced four months after launch that it was completely revamping its progression system.
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The rest of the story feels underdeveloped and tacked on—an afterthought meant to appease the fans, which complained that the last Battlefront was multiplayer only.
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Though EA hasn't announced a sequel to Battlefront II, it's hard to imagine they won't make another one, despite the controversy the game's courted so far.
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Make no mistake, I'm not excusing Electronic Art's clear and present money grab with Battlefront II, especially how they allowed it to undercut its design principles.
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With the sequel, EA hopes to change that, and this morning it offered a glimpse at what players can expect when Battlefront II arrives on November 17th.
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While all of the new narrative additions are welcome, Star Wars: Battlefront was a multiplayer game, and EA DICE has revamped that aspect for the sequel completely.
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The sequel to Star Wars Battlefront looks to improve on the original in a number of ways, most notably by (finally) adding a robust single-player campaign.
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From what I was able to play, there's no doubt that Star Wars: Battlefront II is trying to address most of the issues from the original game.
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Source: FactSet "Star Wars Battlefront" was an especially strong franchise, selling more than 14 million copies and expanding the company's user base by more than 15 percent.
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When Battlefront came back to consoles, Alexander Freed came in to write a novel based on the game, much like the X-Wing and Republic Commando books.
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You can grab everything from the seminal RPG Knights of the Old Republic to shooters like Dark Forces and Battlefront II for just a few dollars each.
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State television broadcasts from the government-controlled side of the battlefront showed dark grey clouds of smoke billowing from several places across a landscape of shattered buildings.
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Battlefront II also puts a time limit on how often you're able to earn currency in some modes, earning unflattering comparisons with free-to-play mobile games.
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The final add-on for Battlefront in 2016 will arrive in the fall, and astute Star Wars fans can probably guess where it's set: the Death Star.
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We'll bring you more news about Battlefront II this weekend at Star Wars Celebration in Orlando, Florida — which is likely when this ad was meant to run.
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The least familiar name to most is probably Iden Versio; she's the hero of Battlefront II's story mode, brought to life by The League star Janina Gavankar.
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Star Wars Battlefront II is finally getting a new progression system after its loot box system caused a massive outcry from fans and critics in late 2017.
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It's hard to pick a favorite among Sony's E3 2016 onslaught of PlayStation VR titles, but Star Wars: Battlefront - X-Wing VR Mission is a top contender.
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People online are really, really not happy about the pay-to-win loot box situation in the upcoming Star Wars Battlefront II. And they're not standing down.
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Another of EA's Swedish studios, DICE, is more shooter-focused, having put together Star Wars: Battlefront and currently developing Mirror's Edge Catalyst, which basically leaves EA Canada.
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In Battlefront II, loot boxes granted access to perks to make characters better, and the fastest way to access more loot boxes was by paying for them.
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In desperation I tried Star Wars Battlefront, possibly the most visually advanced game out there today and one that I've been playing on Xbox One for months.
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Last year the publisher released a rebooted — and very successful — version of Star Wars Battlefront from Battlefield studio DICE, and a sequel is due out next year.
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The uproar centered on in-game purchases in "Battlefront II" that allow players to save time by paying to "unlock" characters like Luke Skywalker and Darth Vader.
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EA has temporarily scrapped a controversial money-making feature in its "Star Wars Battlefront II" video game which was released on Friday, following backlash from fans online.
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Electronic Arts announced Thursday it temporarily turned off all in-game purchases in "Star Wars Battlefront II" in response to the negative sentiment from the gaming community.
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In this episode, they find themselves alongside Marie Curie on the French battlefront during World War I, as she attempts to save as many lives as possible.
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In 2017, thanks to Battlefront II and a few others, loot boxes became the latest skirmish in a larger fight over how to make money selling games.
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We got our first thorough look at Star Wars: Battlefront II's single player mode with a new trailer today, and it looks action-packed and filled with emotion.
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EA's comment eclipses these by a mile with 263,000 net downvotes and counting, likely more people than are currently running the open beta of Star Wars Battlefront 543.
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A PS4 copy of Star Wars Battlefront II, if you even still want to play it, is A$39 on Amazon compared to JB Hi-Fi's A$59.
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EA will offer a "Battlefront" add-on that's built for Sony's Playstation VR this fall Virtual reality is an area of growing interest for the company, says Wilson.
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EA later updated Star Wars Battlefront II's progression to become "linear," meaning any item impacting the game can only be earned from gameplay, and wouldn't available for purchase.
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LucasArts and Pandemic's Star Wars: Battlefront II is nearly 12 years old, and it is still widely regarded as one of the greatest Star Wars games ever made.
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The follow-up to multiplayer shooter Star Wars Battlefront is coming later this year, and according to EA it will feature a number of improvements over its predecessor.
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In many ways, books like Alphabet Squadron and games like Battlefront II have had the cumulative cultural experience of recent, real-world conflicts bubble in around the edges.
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This might be bad news for Star Wars: Battlefront II, which is the game at the center of a loot box controversy that's been gathering steam all year.
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For the second iteration of Battlefront, however, that restriction in eras has been lifted, with everyone from Darth Maul to Rey and Kylo Ren appearing as playable characters.
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The 216 PC game Combat Mission: Shock Force by Battlefront depicts a US invasion of Syria four years before a different but very real and terrible conflict erupted.
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It's not clear how involved the game is, but Battlefront is a multiplayer-focused game and there's plenty of precedent for space combat shooters in virtual reality already.
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In order to convince people to subscribe right away, EA is adding deluxe editions of Battlefront II, Fifa 18, Unravel Two, Fe or The Sims 4 right away.
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Star Wars: Battlefront II's creative director confirmed something we'd been hoping for in an interview before today's announcement: there's no season pass for the game this time around.
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Star Wars Battlefront 2—Xbox One—for $133 ($17 off): This story-driven shooter game already offered a lot of bang for your buck, even before this discount.
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The year also saw the release of several high-profile Star Wars games, including multiplayer shooter Battlefront, toys-to-life game Disney Infinity 3.0, and mobile RPG Uprising.
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The numbers weren't officially reported for the first Battlefront, but estimates pointed to 12 million copies sold during the game's first two months on shelves in late 2015.
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The company has also teamed up with development company EA Sports and Lucasfilm for a Star Wars Battlefront game that will be released as a PlayStation VR exclusive.
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That doesn't mean PSVR will have a bad catalog overall, and there are still titles we don't know much about, like Star Wars Battlefront: X-Wing VR Mission.
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It's like starring in your own action movie Battlefield 1 is also easily as intuitive as Battlefront, which is a huge improvement over recent games in the series.
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The top-voted comments were based on the sheer economics of EA's ploy, as outlined by user thesomeot: Comment from discussion Star Wars Battlefront II DICE Developer AMA.
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I decided to try the Sony PS4 first, mainly because Star Wars Battlefront II had just been released and I felt I deep visceral need to shoot blasters.
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As for the Battlefront 2 hero costs controversy, EA indicated the original hero costs were established based on targeted rate of game play progression and balance (not economics).
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"Star Wars: Battlefront 2" was embroiled in controversy for featuring "loot boxes" that got users to pay for access to key characters like Princess Leia and Darth Vader.
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Gamer outrage over Electronic Arts' in-game moneymaking plans in its "Star Wars Battlefront II" title will hit the company's bottom line, according to one Wall Street firm.
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That said, the early confirmation of a Battlefront follow-up and the number of copies shipped so far suggests a blockbuster performance for the 2015 game so far.
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The company said on Thursday that sales of "Star Wars: Battlefront" had already surpassed 13 million units, the number of copies it had expected to sell by March.
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The company announced Thursday it is temporarily turning off all in-game purchases in "Star Wars Battlefront II" in response to the negative sentiment from the gaming community.
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The result: Star Wars Battlefront II has nearly three times the content of the previous game, with more heroes, maps and vehicles, as well as redesigned space battles.
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When Electronic Arts announced Star Wars: Battlefront II, people were excited for a few reasons, including the addition of a much requested single-player campaign and space battles.
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In addition to a 18-mission long campaign, "Star Wars: Battlefront II" is packed with multiplayer game modes, and players can select from a range of playable characters.
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Successful implementation of an "actor-centric" hybrid threat finance (HTF) detection strategy will help prevent regulatory enforcement, negative media, and the proliferation of Sunni fighters to the next battlefront.
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Another weakness in the last Battlefront was the vehicle handling and space missions, and EA appears to be tackling this issue by adding Criterion Games to the creative team.
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However, the original Battlefront II has been without its official online multiplayer component for years; it was one of the many casualties of GameSpy's servers shutting down in 2014.
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Things got worse for EA last week when an enterprising Redditor played Battlefront, did some math, and made a spreadsheet showing how long it would take to unlock items.
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Their "go for broke" motto was for more than just the battlefront in WWII — it was also a fight for a better future in the US for their families.
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Nvidia is releasing these special Star Wars cards in mid-November priced at $1,200 each, and strangely there's no copy of Star Wars Battlefront II bundled in the box.
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It's also easy to see how her story could continue even further, in the inevitable Star Wars Battlefront III, or in some future novel, TV show, or movie reference.
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While I was there, I also picked up two books that I've been really looking forward to: Andy Weir's next novel Artemis, and Christie Golden's Battlefront II: Inferno Squad.
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" KATSUTOSHI INADOME, SENIOR FIXED INCOME STRATEGIST, MITSUBISHI UFJ MORGAN STANLEY SECURITIES "The impression is that the BOJ is starting to pull back some of its troops from the battlefront.
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While I didn't get that sense from what I played of Battlefront II, it's happened often enough in the past that you should go in with both eyes open.
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Before its wide release, EA allowed members of its EA Access program to play the game early, where they got a first good look at Battlefront II's progression system.
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Show people why it's interesting, why it's exciting, and specifically for a Battlefront-style game, show the kinds of emergent story moments folks can expect while playing with friends.
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Deir Ezzor is a strategic town in the southeastern Syrian desert, widely expected to become ISIS' final battlefront after the group's imminent defeat by US-backed forces in Raqqa.
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Electronic Arts will reinstitute in-game purchases in its "Star Wars Battlefront II" title despite recent wavering by one of its top executives, according to a Wall Street firm.
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There are lots of moments like that scattered throughout Battlefront II's campaign, and they're the big reason I've continued to peck at the story mode even after finishing it.
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Like the modern "Battlefront II," the Pandemic Studios release included 64 player matches online, a mix of space and ground combat, and split-screen cooperative play for two players.
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The company's shares came under pressure in late 2017 on bad publicity after video game players accused its "Star Wars Battlefront II" game of aggressive pay-to-play tactics.
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The limited Western intervention, far from any contested battlefront, has shown no sign of having any impact on the ground, where Assad's forces have pressed on with his offensive.
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On the Battlefront AMA Overview, user Zacharuni took one of the developers' answers (Dennis Brannvall, the design director, who received the most applause for the relative candidness in his answers), and used it to point to how Overwatch has a pretty clear model for how to make loot boxes into something that doesn't exploit players, but rather empowers them to make fun cosmetic choices: Comment from discussion Star Wars Battlefront AMA Overview.
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And before you complain about the lack of games you can pick, there are some surprisingly awesome titles available like Fallout 4, Overwatch, Star Wars: Battlefront II, and Destiny 2.
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After buying $90 worth of loot boxes in Star Wars: Battlefront 2, a YouTuber proved that the game is still pay-to-win, despite EA's updates after the community's complaints.
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As a result, it never truly built up the sense of community and competition that made the original so special—something that EA's upcoming Battlefront II will have difficulty correcting.
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Though the beta for Star Wars: Battlefront II just started, it's only added fuel to the fire for a conversation that's dominated the last few weeks of games: loot boxes.
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For those unfamiliar with the franchise, players spend most of their time in Battlefront taking the role of a regular grunt on the ground — say, a stormtrooper or battle droid.
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Its predecessor, 2015's Battlefront, was slammed for a lack of content and its $50 season pass that was essentially obligatory for anyone who wanted to continue playing the game.
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While Battlefront II has allowed you to play as a clone trooper, it's largely focused on the latest series of films: The Force Awakens, The Last Jedi, and Rogue One.
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In addition to the updates with Battlefront 2, Titanfall developer Respawn teased its own Star Wars game, which will be set between Revenge of the Sith and A New Hope.
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It can handle daily workflow needs easily and can push demanding AAA games like Star Wars Battlefront II over 60 frames per second at 1080p resolution and medium detail settings.
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The original Battlefront went without a Star Wars tale, because "very few people actually play the single-player on these types of games," EA courageously foolishly said at the time.
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In gaming, Star Wars Battlefront II is getting the campaign treatment its 2015 predecessor never had, and the narrative is being led by Spec Ops: The Line writer Walt Williams.
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In Battlefront II, it was some of these iconic and powerful characters that would not only allow players to fulfill fantasies, but also to level up their play in multiplayer.
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The Observatory said rebels had been forced to withdraw under rocket fire from some of the positions they had occupied, but mutual shelling in parts of the Hama battlefront continued.
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The earlier, much-maligned Reddit comment was a major misstep, but this tangible change does help to cut down on what was looking like Battlefront II's most laborious grind. Now.
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They ate Vader-shaped fudge and played Star Wars Battlefront and learned to bake Wookiee cookies, then watched firework-laden shows that ran tributes to the late, great Carrie Fisher.
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"This is the big test of whether or not we're willing to accept these kinds of things in our games," TotalBiscuit said in his video about Battlefront II's loot boxes.
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It's a perfect example of everything that's wrong with big budget video games today: Battlefront II is safe, boring, and seemingly exists only to justify what it cost to produce.
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In 1979, on the occasion of a hit Broadway revival of the show, he wrote a moving letter to Rodgers, recalling a moment on the battlefront in Sicily in 1943.
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Yes, we've been blessed with plenty of games to keep us going, but nothing that has really exploded onto the scene (with the possible exception of Star Wars: Battlefront 2).
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U.S. politicians have been asking for more consumer protections from the gaming industry's aggressive monetization practices, specifically calling out the "Star Wars Battlefront II" loot box system as an example.
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Their arrival raises the specter of wider escalation on Syria's northern battlefront, which includes the Syrian army, allied Iran-linked militias, Kurdish forces, rebels, Turkish troops, and Russian and American forces.
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The release of the Star Wars: Battlefront II is still days away from release and there's time for EA to change the formula and—despite fan backlash—it's engaging the community.
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Electronic Arts kicked off E3 2017 with a brand new Madden NFL story mode starring Mahershala Ali and ended with a very, very long look at Star Wars Battlefront II's multiplayer.
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During the Second World War there was no Kurdish government in any of these countries, so there was no way they could have assisted the US in Normandy or any battlefront.
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Given the bumpy track record for Star Wars games of late — which includes multiple canceled games and the many struggles of the Battlefront series — anticipation for the new game is high.
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Their arrival raises the spectre of wider escalation on Syria's northern battlefront, which includes the Syrian army, allied Iran-linked militias, Kurdish forces, rebels, Turkish troops, and Russian and American forces.
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It's not clear how larger battles like Walker Assault will play out in the tight confines of Cloud City, but at least it's a location that vanilla Battlefront didn't explore already.
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He wrote Battlefront: Twilight Company and the novelization for Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, as well as a handful of short stories for Star Wars Insider magazine and several comics.
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It doesn't matter if your game is Call of Duty: Black Ops 3, Star Wars Battlefront, Destiny, or even The Division — it doesn't even matter if you play shooters at all.
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Star Wars Battlefront Rogue One: X-Wing VR Mission, a free mission for developer DICE's first-person shooter designed for the PlayStation VR, has all the makings of a killer app.
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Much of the presentation's audible thud could be attributed to the extended Battlefront 2 multiplayer demonstration, which came complete with Influencers™ and esports commentary from people with actual media training.
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Star Wars: Battlefront made a splash by recreating locations, characters, and moments from the original movie trilogy, but the final piece of DLC will focus on a new film: Rogue One.
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In Battlefront II, every class and hero character has a variety of equippable "star cards," which are modifiers and upgrades that players can choose to equip when they run into battle.
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I was actually surprised by my reaction to it, especially as I am fully aware that Battlefront II is extremely tame compared to other first person shooters like Call of Duty.
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"The impression is that the BOJ is starting to pull back some of its troops from the battlefront," said Katsutoshi Inadome, senior fixed-income strategist at Mitsubishi UFJ Morgan Stanley Securities.
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Given the many interesting pieces it's playing with, it's not hard to play Battlefront II and wonder if the writers had a more intricate story planned, but it didn't pan out.
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Battlefront II hides chests for you to unlock in story missions, but mysteriously punishes you if you decide to engage in the act of exploring in order to actually find them.
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The Cloud Car is having a moment in Star Wars Battlefront II. These goofy-looking atmospheric vehicles first popped up in The Empire Strikes Back, but they've never been a hit.
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Even after the game's creators removed the micro-transactions, the game was criticized for its lack of content compared to the original "Star Wars Battlefront II" released by LucasArts in 2005.
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The company's other big launches for the year are in the third quarter, when EA is expected to release its highly anticipated "Star Wars Battlefront II" and "Need for Speed Payback".
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Angry gamers are now victorious in the war against Electronic Arts' aggressive moneymaking strategy in "Star Wars Battlefront II" as the publisher announces major pro-consumer changes to the game Friday.
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That, plus the First Order imagery in the trailer, would indicate that Battlefront II will flesh out the Empire's downfall — a process still being hammered out in Star Wars books and comics.
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It's also important to note that microtransactions are coming to Battlefield V and, much like the ill-fated Star Wars Battlefront II, the future of the game likely depends on their success.
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More pushback from local authorities The arrests of undocumented immigrants at courthouses is just one flashpoint between local and federal authorities, and points to the larger battlefront over so-called sanctuary cities.
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Electronic Arts Inc offers subscriptions to its games - which include FIFA 18, Madden NFL 19, The Sims 4, Star Wars Battlefront II and more - for Microsoft Corp's Xbox and Sony Corp's PlayStation.
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DICE's own Battlefront II is less than two months away, and while Disney probably intended to drum up hype for the new game with this gesture, the idea seems to have backfired.
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The Battle of Scarif reminded me of playing 2015's Battlefront, the multiplayer shooter set in a hyper-realistic re-creation of the Star Wars universe that combines ground and vehicle combat.
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Now it's time for the sequel, and judging from the push here at E3, the sole purpose of Star Wars: Battlefront II is to address the many concerns of fans and gamers.
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Battlefront then shifted to a series of Combat Mission titles set in World War II, before starting work in 2012 on a game depicting a war between NATO and Russia over Ukraine.
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If you're thinking that the Battlefront II single-player isn't as straightforward as "play as a bad guy" for eight hours, you're right, and that brings with it both upsides and downsides.
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Battlefront II passes that test across the board; whether I was stalking through a Star Destroyer or the platforms of Bespin, the sensation was simply of being inside Star Wars, full stop.
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Last year, we already knew about the likes of Destiny 22, Far Cry 5, Star Wars Battlefront 2, and the Xbox One X (then still known as Project Scorpio) before the show.
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Instead, Battlefront II was embroiled in controversy, thanks to what many saw as an overly aggressive use of loot boxes and microtransactions, tied to a progression system that incentivized spending real money.
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Of course, Battlefront is just one of many games to come out of a massive publisher like EA, and aside from it, the company has seen a lot of success of late.
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Electronic Arts today announced a revamped progression system for Star Wars Battlefront 2 that pledges to be more linear and fair, following the heated controversy last November when the game first launched.
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The hype for Star Wars: Battlefront II has been slowly building, and today EA released a new behind-the-scenes clip detailing the making of the game's eagerly-anticipated single-player campaign.
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Players who spend money on loot boxes in Battlefront II can unlock better weapons quicker than those who don't, which makes this progression system very similar to a pay-to-win game.
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The StarCraft Twitter account turned up the heat on Tuesday, throwing shade at games with microtransactions and pay-to-win systems, likely alluding to the recent controversy over Star Wars: Battlefront 2.
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Integrating with outside apps is a major new battlefront for ride services, a way for companies to get both new riders and recapture prior customers who might have wandered to a competitor.
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Little mention was made, however, of the third known Star Wars VR property: the PlayStation VR exclusive Battlefront X-Wing VR Mission, announced at E3 2016 for a release later this year.
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Kurdish forces have sustained nearly 11,000 casualties in the fight against ISIS; now, they prepare for a new battlefront against a Turkish invasion into Syrian territory they control, while the US watches.
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The uproar centered on in-game purchases in "Star Wars Battlefront II." They allowed players to save time by paying extra money to accelerate the "unlock" of major characters like Darth Vader.
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Without official servers, not only are gamers denied the chance to relive their glory days playing SOCOM or Star Wars: Battlefront, the industry is deprived of an important part of its history.
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The war for the south has opened a new battlefront that risks further fragmenting Yemen and threatens to complicate U.N. efforts to end the multi-tiered war, which contains conflicts within conflicts.
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In its most successful episode, Chester confronts a Japanese prisoner of war who taunts, threatens, and ultimately bonds with him over their shared love of baseball and their exhaustion with the battlefront.
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Pinned down on yet another battlefront, Isabel must grapple with where her political allegiances lie and, at long last, gauge her true feelings for Curzon, her longtime companion in adventure and woe.
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But the vast majority of games in the franchise — including the popular Battlefront shooters and the acclaimed Knights of the Old Republic RPGs — haven't let players hack off hundreds of body parts.
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For all the controversy that's engulfed Battlefront II as it's careened toward release, don't forget that there's still a delightfully geeky and fan service-heavy Star Wars story waiting to be discovered.
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Letter To the Editor: Re "The Microbe Wars," by Michael T. Osterholm and Mark Olshaker (Op-Ed, March 25): Combating infectious diseases is a global battlefront, but the fight starts at home.
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" He added: "[Star Wars Battlefront II] has pretty clearly significantly underperformed expectations and remains without a live services revenue stream, while Destiny 2 has at the least suffered some unwanted engagement attrition.
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The gaming community was outraged over the company's pricing of in-game purchases for the "Star Wars Battlefront II" game, with many complaining that the option gave unfair advantage to the well-heeled.
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The hotly anticipated first-person shooter game, "Star Wars: Battlefront", was launched in mid-November, halfway through the third quarter and a month ahead of the release of "Star Wars: The Force Awakens".
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YouTuber XfactorGaming tested Star Wars: Battlefront 2's new progression and loot crate systems by purchasing $90 worth of loot boxes, allowing him to unlock and upgrade different abilities and weapons for multiplayer.
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But visual trappings aside, the actual rebooted Battlefront was an online-only shooter that lacked a lot of the depth of the earlier titles, and quickly shattered its user base with expensive DLC.
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All of which brings us to the massive effort that is Star Wars Battlefront II. Three different gaming studios collaborated in an attempt to address all of the weaknesses of the original game.
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As a persistent online game, Anthem will likely have some kind of in-game purchases, and Söderlund says that, following Battlefront II, EA is looking at this area with more scrutiny than ever.
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Before the Rogue One pack arrives, Battlefront fans will get to visit the Death Star in a fall add-on that introduces ground and space combat in and around the Imperial battle station.
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Like the Death Star, EA's loot box disaster loomed over the release of Star Wars Battlefront II. Now, the day before the game's release, it looks like the rebels have won ... for now.
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While the details of Star Wars: Battlefront II's post-release life remain vague, we can confirm one major change: the Season Pass — which amounts to a discounted DLC pre-purchase — is no more.
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The heaviest hitter to release since Star Wars: The Force Awakens is the multiplayer first-person shooter Star Wars Battlefront, which is published by Electronic Arts and developed by its Battlefield team DICE.
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"The impression is the BOJ is starting to pull back some of its troops from the battlefront," said Katsutoshi Inadome, a senior fixed income strategist at Mitsubishi UFJ Morgan Stanley Securities in Tokyo.
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By simply including loot boxes, you've opened yourself up to endless criticism, regardless of implementation, and in the case of Battlefront II, there appears to be plenty of reason to criticize both fronts.
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Ms. Jackson is the first British woman to play the part this century in a major production, and she does so at a moment when gender is a battlefront for Shakespeareans in Britain.
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When the discussion turned to loot boxes, a topic that EA's Star Wars Battlefront II caused legislators worldwide to pay attention to and compare to gambling, Hopkins refused to call them loot boxes.
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Following in the footsteps of The Force Awakens, Battlefront II puts a woman front-and-center, and opens the door to an interesting angle of storytelling: stories of those inside the murderous Empire.
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BMO Capital Markets upgraded EA's stock to outperform Monday, arguing that investors overreacted to gamer outcry over the company's attempts to monetize in-game content in its new "Star Wars Battlefront II" game.
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The initial uproar centered on in-game purchases in "Star Wars Battlefront II." They allowed players to save time by paying extra money to accelerate the "unlock" of major characters like Darth Vader.
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To learn more about why he's still playing Battlefront II, what it means to mod as protest, and more, I recently spoke with Hourigan, a mass media major at Georgia's Valdosta State University.
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Battlefront II proved a firestorm for a variety of reasons: the Internet has a hard on for tearing EA down every few years, Star Wars is as big as they come, and while other games in 2017 had included loot boxes, few were aggressive as Battlefront II. Middle-earth: Shadow of War and Forza Motorsport 2 focused the debate in October, prompting me to write a piece arguing poor and especially exploitative implementation of loot boxes was poisoning them forever.
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Iraq's Prime Minister, Haider al-Abadi, said it was "unacceptable" to ferry more jihadist fighters from another battlefront in Syria to the edge of Iraqi territory, prompting a statement from Hezbollah defending the move.
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At today's PlayStation VR press event, Sony CEO Andrew House teased onstage that PlayStation will be partnering with EA to bring about my (and everyone else's) fantasy of Star Wars Battlefront in virtual reality.
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It's unclear what, exactly, about EA's comment prompted the unprecedented negative reaction, but a since-deleted tweet from a member of Battlefront 275's community engagement team may have added fuel to the fire.
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Sony has released a new video for Star Wars Battlefront II, in which the game's creators talk about how the story came together, and how it'll provide new insight into the Star Wars universe.
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Star Wars Battlefront II spent a long time in the limelight during EA's E3 press conference today, showing off intense multiplayer battles on the planet Naboo and teasing a new single player story mode.
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Battlefront II will feature battles that span the entire series including the battle of Naboo from The Phantom Menace featuring Darth Maul and a fight between Rey and Kylo Ren from The Force Awakens.
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The original Battlefront — itself a reboot of the Star Wars shooter series — was developed by Battlefield studio DICE, but the increased scope of the sequel means more teams will be working on the project.
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One of the most anticipated elements of Star Wars: Battlefront II is its single-player storyline, but judging from the latest trailer it may be the multiplayer mode that gets hardcore fans most excited.
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This should help alleviate player concerns that Battlefront 2 rewarded players for spending money with a competitive multiplayer edge, as such pay-to-win systems are almost nonexistent in big-budget console video games.
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The heroes and villains in Battlefront give even halfway decent players the opportunity to be a wrecking ball for a few minutes, but in the hands of a truly great player, they're nearly unstoppable.
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A mathematics student turned volunteer paramedic Hasna had opened the ambulance door after loading injured rebels from the battlefront in Khan El Shih when Bashar Al Assad's Syrian military forces had shelled the area.
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Then at 2PM ET / 11AM PT it will be time for games, as the creators of Star Wars: Battlefront, The Old Republic, and other upcoming EA titles will be revealing some of their plans.
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"After the communal and political backlash EA received over Battlefront II, the industry at large is going to have to walk back its loot box plans a little," Jim Sterling wrote in an email.
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Those attacks have also led Trump and Republicans to attack the FBI and Department of Justice and the memo will likely be the next battlefront over whether the bureau has an anti-Trump bias.
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Creutz said the outrage over the initial money-making strategy in EA's "Star Wars Battlefront II" likely hurt the title's sales by 3 million to 4 million units versus the company's 14 million guidance.
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In an ideal world, the upgrade would have been included in every version of Battlefront II, and I know that paying for it makes me part of the problem, but I don't regret it.
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There is quite a bit to look forward to: there will be news from The Last Jedi, season 4 of Rebels, and Battlefront II. If you can't make it to Florida, Lucasfilm has you covered.
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If you're a fan of the Star Wars (many people are) then you may also be a fan of this trailer for Star Wars: Battlefront II, which just popped up a bit early on Vimeo.
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While we got the first trailer for Battlefront II today at Star Wars Celebration, EA Games dropped another bit of news: Christie Golden's previously announced novel Inferno Squad is a tie-in for the game.
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But in recent years, larger studios like Blizzard and Electronic Arts (EA) have begun to attach similar mechanics to popular titles like Overwatch and Battlefront that cost anywhere from $30 to $60 on their own.
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"We're looking at the results daily and will be continuing to tune this to ensure that players feel a meaningful sense of reward for the time they spend with Battlefront 2," the EA rep said.
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Lawmakers and regulators across the world have started to take a closer look at loot boxes over the past year or so after Electronic Arts' (EA) release of Star Wars Battlefront II in November 2017.
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"It wasn't something we initially were looking to do, but we agreed," says Mercer, whose voice work in video games such as Overwatch, Destiny 2, and Star Wars: Battlefront informs his colorful D&D narration.
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When EA bought back the Star Wars Battlefront franchise in 2015, much ado was made about the significant work that went into making the game look and sound like a movie-accurate Star Wars title.
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And with roughly 30 years of Star Wars history unexplored between the end of Return of the Jedi and the start of The Force Awakens, there's plenty of room for Battlefront II's story to unfold.
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The incident has opened a new battlefront over the city's relative freedoms compared with mainland China, as pro-establishment figures demand tough new national security laws that would likely curtail freedom of speech and association.
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Vehicles were never a high point of the first game, and in the single-player campaign Battlefront II is eager to show off just how much work Criterion Games put into crafting the space battles.
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This is the first time that Battlefront II players will be able to play as characters from the prequel era or visit the planet Geonosis, where the Clone Wars began in Attack of the Clones.
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The incident has opened a new battlefront over the city's relative freedoms compared with mainland China, as pro-establishment figures demand tough new national security laws that would likely curtail freedom of speech and association.
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The Western Desert, which spans Egypt's more than 1,200 kilometre (745 miles) border with Libya, is a new battlefront for security forces, who have been fighting Islamic State militants in the Sinai Peninsula since 2013.
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While regular customers will still get access to these deals, PlayStation Plus members will get even better discounts in many cases, getting more money off games like Overwatch, The Witcher 3, and Star Wars: Battlefront.
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The armed forces were so hollowed out that when pro-Russian rebels invaded eastern Ukraine in 2014 the Ukrainian soldiers were sent to the battlefront in sandals, borrowed uniforms and hopelessly useless weapons and equipment.
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American officials said they were increasingly uneasy that the campaign against the Islamic State would be seriously undermined by the newest battlefront in a country that has been ravaged by war for nearly seven years.
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The officers there are coordinating with Iraqi Army combat forces on the ground and their U.S. military advisers embedded just behind the battlefront to hit ISIS targets as the Iraqi Army begins its push west.
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"The (GNA) militias violated the truce on more than one battlefront, with all types of weapons," said LNA commander Al-Mabrouk Al-Gazawi, adding that forces were waiting for further instruction from LNA general command.
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With matches allowing up to 64 players at a time for a mix of space and ground combat, the epic scale of "Battlefront" makes it worth a try if you're a fan of the franchise.
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Battlefront II has suggested she's the child of random Imperial parents; it's pretty weak as hints go, but it would explain why she was dumped on the planet of Jakku, site of a major Imperial battle.
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Just hours before the full launch of Battlefront II, Electronic Arts has announced that they're removing in-game micro-transactions entirely from the title for the time being as they look to rethink their pricing strategy.
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The only time the fans really do spin up to audible levels is when I play a demanding AAA game like Star Wars Battlefront II or import or export large batches of photos from Adobe Lightroom.
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As a response to the outrage that followed Battlefront II, the Entertainment Software Rating Board (ESRB), which was established by the ESA, announced that it would begin to disclose games with microtransactions with a new label.
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The game will also get a tie-in novel, Battlefront: Inferno Squad, which is set in the aftermath of A New Hope and Rogue One, which shows off the close-knit nature of the new canon.
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All three of these novels ask you to empathize with characters on the wrong side of Star Wars history: fan-favorite General Admiral Thrawn, upcoming Battlefront II soldier Iden Versio, and First Order enforcer Captain Phasma.
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He name-dropped the companies involved with Star Wars Battlefront II because of the controversy surrounding the recently released game, the loot boxes for which contribute to at least a portion of the game's progression system.
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This piece is going to solely focus on the single-player campaign of Battlefront II, and as my colleague Chaim Gartenberg wrote in October, it is built around the same basic mechanics as the first game.
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He voiced a younger version of the old smoothie in Season 2 of the Star Wars Rebels animated series, as well as a plastic version in The Lego Movie and the EA game Star Wars Battlefront.
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There's a compelling argument that Battlefront II would have been better received if EA had just given the original PS2 and Xbox versions a new coat of paint, some new heroes and abilities, and more maps.
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Söderlund started his career as a developer at Battlefield studio DICE before it was acquired by EA, and when speaking to him it's very clear he's passionate about the games the company makes, Battlefront II included.
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Star Wars: Battlefront II brings back the fantasy, wish-fulfilling online action that the 2015 game nailed so well, but it also fixes a major drawback of that earlier game: the lack of a story mode.
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Other games, even ones released in 2017, used loot boxes, but since Electronic Arts, a company (at times unfairly) seen as the embodiment of consumer exploitation, was the publisher, Battlefront II became a thunderous flash point.
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So here's the simple(-ish) explanation for how things work now: The online multiplayer mode in Battlefront II is filled with things for you to unlock, including weapons, abilities, and cosmetics like emotes and victory poses.
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It's been known for some time that Battlefront would have four different DLC packs, with the first two focusing on the Outer Rim — think Jabba the Hutt's palace — and Cloud City from The Empire Strikes Back.
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Again, I've been really enjoying the gameplay of Battlefront II, but there's nothing in it that has me saying "I'll try one last round" to do better or work toward something, because it's all so disconnected.
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Afghans willing to join the battlefront in Syria are offered up to $600 a month and if they return they receive full Iranian citizenship, or their families earn full citizenship if they are killed in battle.
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"We were underwhelmed by sell-through for Star Wars: Battlefront II (EA) over the Black Friday weekend, which follows a controversial launch for the game," Stifel analyst Drew Crum wrote in a note to clients Sunday.
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Battlefront II, which is set in the time period between Return of the Jedi and The Force Awakens, tells the story of Inferno Squad—an Imperial special operations unit—led by competent hard-ass Iden Versio.
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EA revealed on its January earnings call that "Star Wars Battlefront II" sold roughly 7 million units during the December quarter, tracking below its guidance in July for 14 million lifetime unit sales for the title.
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The company revealed on its earnings call that "Star Wars Battlefront II" sold roughly 7 million units during the December quarter, tracking below its guidance in July of 14 million lifetime unit sales for the title.
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One year after the Federal Communications Commission approved the strongest open internet protections in US history, zero-rating has emerged as the latest battlefront in the decade-long war over how best to regulate internet service providers.
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DICE's Battlefront was generally panned by fans of the original games, and it's hard to imagine them forking over $60 for its sequel when they can return to the newly revitalized classic—assuming those servers get fixed.
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In addition to telling a brand-new story, Andromeda also sees BioWare shift to a new game engine called Frostbite, the same technology used to power other EA-published titles like Battlefield 1 and Star Wars Battlefront.
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Series like Star Wars Battlefront, Titanfall, and Call of Duty have at various times eschewed a single-player campaign entirely, while Bethesda's attempt to turn Fallout into a connected multiplayer world with Fallout 76 largely fell flat.
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In November Belgium's gaming commission announced that it had opened an investigation into "Star Wars: Battlefront 2" and "Overwatch," a pair of shooters published by Electronic Arts (EA) and Activision Blizzard, respectively, that both feature loot boxes.
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The loot boxes of Battlefront II seemed to presage an industry that produced lavish video lottery machines, where all art had been sublimated into mere backdrops for mechanics whose sole purpose was the extraction of maximum profit.
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I learned two things: Star Wars Battlefront looks a lot better on a good PC than on the Xbox One, and the Predator 2599 handles it pretty well on ultra settings with the odd frame-rate drop.
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Of particular note is the recently released Gears of War 4, which joins last year's Star Wars: Battlefront as one of the few AAA games to include split-screen cooperative play across all of its game types.
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Wadi Barada, a mountainous valley northwest of Damascus, has become a major battlefront in the Syrian war, and the damage to the facility has caused severe water shortages in the capital since the beginning of the year.
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When details about how microtransactions would work in Battlefront II emerged, it led to a series of late-minute changes that culminated in EA temporarily removing microtransactions entirely from the game the night before it hit stores.
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And if the only way to get that kind of advantage is to get ludicrously lucky, or sink hours upon hours to grind your way toward it, then Battlefront II likely won't have a long-term lifespan.
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In October 2017, a month before "Star Wars Battlefront 2" was released, EA announced it would shutter the development studio Visceral Entertainment and revamp development on a single-player "Star Wars" game the studio was working on.
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When pressed on why EA had Battlefront II's loot boxes alter a player's damage count, rather than sticking to cosmetics, Jorgensen argued the company was limited on what it could do with the Star Wars franchise—i.e.
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You have blasters and ships, you have families, you have faith and the Force," said Bernd Diemer, creative director at DICE on Battlefront II. "But for me what really ties it all together is this hero's journey.
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Wadi Barada, controlled by rebels since 2012, has become a major battlefront in the Syrian war, and the damage to the pumping station has caused severe water shortages in the capital since the beginning of the year.
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Earlier this week a teaser trailer for the upcoming Star Wars: Battlefront II leaked online, but here at Star Wars Celebration EA has revealed the real thing — and it includes quite a bit more than the leaked version.
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The promise of Star Wars Battlefront II, EA's second game in the revived series of multiplayer shooters, is the same as any other Star Wars videogame: It wants to turn the story of Star Wars into a place.
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Keep yourself entertained during commercials with the limited edition Playstation 23 Star Wars Battlefront Console, Nintendo LABO Robot Kit and Variety Kit, the Nintendo 2DS Pikachu Edition, Acer Windows VR Headset, and multiple gaming desktop PCs from Dell.
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Several states were so freaked out about the concept of loot boxes that, after the release of Star Wars Battlefront, senators threatened to regulate them (much like in 1993, the video game industry decided to regulate itself instead).
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But it's the single-player story that takes those basic pieces and transforms Battlefront II from merely being a reskinned multiplayer shooter that happens to have Stormtroopers and Rebel fighters, and gives it its own Star Wars identity.
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While the new Battlefront has lots of elaborate options in the multiplayer mode, single-player is streamlined and straightforward, but that's also the point: it's about moving through the narrative moment by moment, set piece by set piece.
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EA response to 'Battlefront II' complaint is the most downvoted comment in Reddit history The report, instigated earlier this year by an Australian parliamentary committee, was conducted by David Zendle and Paul Cairns, of York St. John University.
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Battlefront II will flip that on its head by putting players in the shoes of Iden Versio, an Imperial Special Forces officer who sees the destruction of the second Death Star while on the forest moon of Endor.
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EA received a lot of heat for its convoluted progression system in Star Wars Battlefront II, which gave people who purchased crates with a real money a noticeable advantage over players who didn't buy those upgrade-containing crates.
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Hodeidah is part of a broad battlefront where forces loyal to Yemeni President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi, backed by the Saudi-led coalition, are fighting the Iran-allied Houthi movement, which controls most of northern and western Yemen.
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Loot boxes in Battlefront II are how players obtain new abilities and crafting materials to make and improve weapons, although it takes hours of playing to get a single loot box and the items inside are completely random.
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It was a conscious decision to put the onus of explaining Battlefront II's monetization—and EA's loot box pivot as a whole—on the developers who work for EA, instead of the executives who often drive such decisions.
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With the NUC 8 hooked up to my ultrawide monitor, I was able to run titles such as Star Wars: Battlefront II and Battlefield 1 at 1080p resolution with frame rates between 60 and 90 frames per second.
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It makes sense for some characters to make a cameo in a Star Wars game, but too often, they're done at the expense of the story actually driving Battlefront II, and walk the game into fan fiction territory.
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And it has animated high-profile conservatives — including Vice President Mike Pence, Senator Ted Cruz and Donald Trump Jr. — who have risen to the movie's defense, seeking to turn it into the latest battlefront of the culture wars.
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Though the concept of loot boxes came from free-to-play, their application to big-budget games like Battlefront II dance around a real problem: games are expensive to make, with no sign they're going to get cheaper.
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But story-driven Star Wars games have taken a back seat in recent years as EA, which obtained exclusive Star Wars publishing rights from Disney in 2013, put its focus on more mainstream multiplayer titles, including its Battlefront reboot.
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After the Belgian Gaming Commission announced it would be investigating loot boxes in connection to gambling a week ago, Battlefront II's publisher EA came out with a statement saying that its loot boxes are not a form of gambling.
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After the success of Paradise, which included a solid year of post-release support, the studio moved on to the Need for Speed series and most recently helped out on Star Wars Battlefront II, crafting the game's vehicular sequences.
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When Star Wars Battlefront II hits stores in November, it will present the Star Wars universe in a way that's seldom seen: from the viewpoint of the Empire's soldiers, who are fighting against the characters we usually root for.
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The capture of the Ithriya-Rasafa road also shortens the Syrian army's route to its battlefront with Islamic State south of Tabqa, a possible route for its multi-pronged offensive to relieve the government's enclave in Deir al-Zor.
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Information control is now the party's main battlefront in shaping and responding to public opinion, says Nicholas Bequelin, East Asia director of Amnesty International, a human-rights group, in what he calls "the grand bargain between state and society".
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But when I played Star Wars Battlefront II on the PS4 I realized that to all intents and purposes this is pretty much as real as it is going to get and I actually didn't like it at all.
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As of this writing, the top three threads on the Star Wars Battlefront subreddit and the top five threads of the /r/games subreddit are discussions by fans upset about the presence of loot boxes in a $60 game.
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Walt Williams, a writer who has worked on titles like Mafia II, Star Wars Battlefront II, and most famously, Spec Ops: The Line, has published an excerpt of his book about working in the games industry over on Polygon.
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LOS ANGELES — Ashley Judd sued Harvey Weinstein on Monday, opening a new legal battlefront for the disgraced film producer by claiming that her career withered because he spread lies about her in Hollywood after she rejected his sexual requests.
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Last year's "Star Wars: Battlefront II" game from Electronic Arts drew the anger of gamers for a system that incentivized paying to unlock characters like Darth Vader or Luke Skywalker over unlocking them more naturally through the game's progression.
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It's also likely to be particularly embarrassing for EA, which has already seen such an incredible backlash to Battlefront II's model that it's in the uncomfortable position of tanking a flagship Star Wars game in the middle of a rebooted franchise.
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But when I tried to play games on the Laptop 3, it quickly hit its limit, and couldn't provide playable framerates at even low resolutions and detail levels in games like Battlefield V, Star Wars Battlefront II, or even Overwatch.
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And while the 2015 edition of Battlefront focused on locations and characters from the original trilogy, EA says that the sequel will span "multiple Star Wars eras," though there are no specifics yet as to what those eras will be.
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On December 6th, anyone who owns both a PlayStation VR headset and Star Wars: Battlefront for PlayStation 4 will be able to download and play the free X-Wing VR Mission, a new chapter based on Battlefront's normal dogfighting missions.
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Surprising no one, the first installment of DLC for Battlefront II will be for The Last Jedi, and will bring both John Boyega's Finn and Gwendoline Christie's Captain Phasma to the game as playable characters, along with the planet of Crait.
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At this year's show, we can expect EA to show one new Star Wars title at the very least — Battlefront II, the sequel to 2015's big reboot of the shooter franchise, is slated to come out later this year.
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That said, with the EA Vancouver project no longer in the works, fans are looking to Respawn to deliver what they hope is a strong, story-focused Star Wars game, given EA's focus in recent years on the Battlefront franchise.
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Given that Shadows of Valentia costs $39.99, that makes either DLC option more expensive than the base game, something that even games with price $50 season passes like Star Wars: Battlefront, Call of Duty, and Battlefield 1 have yet to accomplish.
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Originals continue to be the primary weapon used in the premium subscription streaming video battlefront, extending media's new "Golden Age" for creators and further skyrocketing content-related development and production costs (including the price tags for A-list marquee talent).
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Disney's smallest division, consumer products and interactive media, reported operating income of $860 million, a 23 percent increase, helped by "Star Wars"-related retail items and the release of the game "Star Wars: Battlefront," which sold about 13 million copies.
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You only need to look at the lackluster receptions of recent big-budget gaming sequels that have dashed themselves to pieces on the rocky shores of fan expectations, like Destiny 2, Star Wars Battlefront II, and Middle-earth: Shadow of War.
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While Assad has increasingly been shown traveling around Syria in recent years, it is unusual for him to visit areas close to the battlefront, as he did on Sunday, meeting cheering soldiers as well as civilians who had escaped the fighting.
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They could flicker like candlelight when you're hunkering down in a tavern in Witcher 3, or flash red when you get ganked in Star Wars: Battlefront II.That's the kind of extravagance I imagined when I bought my eight Hue lights.
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On Sunday, Assad drove himself to a newly captured battlefront in eastern Ghouta, a demonstration of his seemingly unassailable position in a war that has been going his way since Russia sent its air force to help him in 2015.
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Guest stars included Charlie Cox ( "Daredevil"), Kevin Smith ("Clerks"), Lillard ("Scream, Scooby Doo"), Janina Gavinkar ("Star Wars Battlefront II"), Simone Missick ("Luke Cage") and Sam Richardson ("Veep"), each playing a different character that aided the core group during their quests.
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On a promotional page for the upcoming Battlefront 2 (which looks all kinds of badass), GameStop Ireland drops a look at Ren and Rey in a slide that promotes a Last Jedi-theme expansion pack for pre-orders of the game.
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Electronic Arts is fronting both a major battle royale, Apex Legends, and an ongoing Star Wars multiplayer shooter, Star Wars: Battlefront 2, both of which could be seen to be, in some ways, in direct competition with a game like Fortnite.
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Cut to the Battlefront II level in which Luke Skywalker is on the coral reef-like planet of Pillio, flailing wildly at annoying alien spiders while helping some side character get into a secret vault of the late Emperor Palpatine's stuff.
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Palpatine's secret cave is the Star Wars Holiday Special of Battlefront II. It looks like the Luke you know and love, but suddenly he's bouncing off the walls like a Beyblade and talking to goofy characters you've never heard of.
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But the news of Father Suganob's freedom suggested that the militants could be fleeing the battlefront to escape a punishing ground and air assault assisted by the United States and Australia, which have been flying spy planes over the scarred city.
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As our sister site Polygon points out, Criterion has actually spent its recent years as a support studio for EA's other franchises, creating the Star Wars: Battlefront series's much-loved space battles and Battlefield V's epic Firestorm battle royale mode.
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Just pull up the Microsoft Store on your console or shop online to take advantage of discounts as high as 95% on titles from popular franchises like Star Wars Battlefront, Far Cry, Tom Clancy's, Apex Legends, and even The Sims.
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There's also a step-up "Elite Trooper Deluxe Edition" that — in addition to The Last Jedi stuff — comes with upgrades to every trooper class (Battlefront II takes a page from Battlefield here) and three days of early access to the game.
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Buy one video game and get a second one half off at Best Buy It's been a great year for video games, with terrific titles like " Call of Duty: WWII", " Star Wars: Battlefront II", and " Destiny 2" leading the charge.
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Other EA games featured in its publisher sale include titles from the Star Wars Battlefront, Battlefield, and Apex Legends franchises, plus The Sims 4 and a bunch of its expansion packs: Star Wars Battlefront II — $12.49 (save 503%) Star Wars Battlefront Ultimate Edition — $4.99 (save 75%) Apex Legends - Lifeline Edition — $10.99 (save 45%) Apex Legends - Bloodhound Edition — $10.99 (save 45%) Battlefield V — $15.99 (save 60%) Battlefield 4 Premium Edition — $4.993 (save 75%) Battlefield 1 Revolution — $9.99 (save 250%) Battlefield Hardline Ultimate Edition — $24 (save 224.99%) Titanfall 250: Ultimate Edition — $229.99 (save 250%) FIFA 753 — $275 (save 28.99%) Madden NFL 270 — $23.99 (save 60%) NHL 20 — $23.99 (save 60%) The Sims 4 — $8.993 (save 75%) The Sims 4 Bundle - Cats & Dogs, Parenthood, Toddler Stuff — $24.99 (save 50%) The Sims 4 Bundle - City Living, Vampires, Vintage Glamour Stuff — $24.99 (save 50%) Need for Speed Heat — $29.99 (save 50%) Need for Speed Payback — $4.99 (save 75%) Mass Effect: Andromeda Standard Recruit Edition — $8.99 (save 70%)
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On its face, Mass Effect: Andromeda (out this week for PC, PS4 and Xbox One), isn't far removed from blockbusters like Battlefront and Halo: You'll shoot some dudes, blow stuff up, and romp around in a rover that never quite feels right.
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Fight the First Order as Finn or destroy the Resistance as Captain Phasma when The Last Jedi characters come to Star Wars Battlefront II. Released on Wednesday, the game's new DLC content features a single-player story called "Resurrection" alongside new multiplayer goodies.
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EA is scheduled to formally show off a new look at Star Wars: Battlefront II later today, but we now have a close look at what the gameplay will look like, thanks to a leaked gameplay video that surfaced earlier this morning.
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So many games today have incredible sound and music, whether it's the booming beats in God of War or whizzing laser bolts in Star Wars: Battlefront II, the right headset can suck you deeper into the worlds you're exploring on the screen.
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Battlefront II's single-player mode is being developed by Motive, one of three studios working on the game (along with Dice, which is in charge of the core gameplay systems and multiplayer, and Criterion, which is handling the "starfighter assault" and arcade modes).
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You shoot, you throw thermal detonators, you crouch, you take sniper shots; it's the meat and potatoes of any game of this ilk, but those that were frustrated by the first Star Wars Battlefront will immediately notice and appreciate the difference in feel.
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Setup was as simple as installing a driver for the Xbox One controller and logging in with my Microsoft account, and I was up and running with a game of Battlefront II. Performance was pretty good, but resolution would occasionally glitch out.
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After working on the Need For Speed series for some time, the studio most recently contributed to EA's Star Wars Battlefront II. Thankfully, it won't be long before players can revisit Paradise City: the remastered game is launching on consoles on March 16th.
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Loot boxes have become a controversial topic of late, thanks to Star Wars Battlefront II, but Blizzard has largely been able to avoid the internet's rage by only offering up cosmetic items that are optional and don't influence the game at all.
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This is not unique to this one EA game (though Battlefront 2 has dropped pay-to-win features in the time since its release), and it encourages people to spend more and more money in order to have a better chance at winning.
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"I'd be lying to you if I said that what's happened with Battlefront and what's happened with everything surrounding loot boxes and these things haven't had an effect on EA as a company and an effect on us as management," he explains.
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Fallen Order is publisher Electronic Arts second attempt at a story-driven Star Wars game, after 2017's Star Wars: Battlefront II. Though in that earlier example, the story mode was added to a game that is fundamentally built around competitive online play.
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EA's pre-E3 (pre3?) press conference came and went with all the fanfare of a trip through a Wendy's drive-through, despite Janina Gavankar's valiant efforts to hype the audience for Star Wars Battlefront 2's probably-gonna-be-fine campaign mode.
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On the eve of the latest Star Wars Celebration — which unfolds April 13-16 in Florida — we got an unexpected early look at Star Wars: Battlefront II. We already knew a Celebration reveal was happening, but this makes the wait easier to bear.
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Amidst a deluge of complaints against EA for installing a loot box system that is clearly designed to drain players' wallets into the publisher's forthcoming Star Wars Battlefront II, the devs at DICE went on Reddit today to partake in an AMA.
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Moore's candidacy -- and the attempts by the establishment to end it following a series of allegations from women that Moore pursued relationships with them when he was in his 30s and they were teenagers, which he denies -- is the next battlefront for Bannon.
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"Even factoring in the shift to digital units, it seems pretty likely that initial total sales will wind up being 20%-30% behind the pace of the original Battlefront, with bigger-than-normal price cuts also likely needed to move inventory," he wrote.
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Today with the walkie-talkie, battalion headquarters can direct units over wide stretches of battlefront the way a quarterback sends his team plunging into action, and in addition the headquarters will know all the time what is developing in each area of operations.
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The time when there is still a trickle of big releases—like Star Wars: Battlefront 2 on the 17th, for example—but most of the big hitters and hidden gems and everything in between is already out there, begging to be played.
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ADEN (Reuters) - Talks to end a violent power struggle in south Yemen have stalled and both sides appear to be preparing to resume fighting, officials said on Friday, suggesting more turmoil lies ahead on a new battlefront that risks further fragmenting Yemen.
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Barring a couple of exceptions like Gears of War 5 or Star Wars: Battlefront II, the overwhelming majority of modern shooters — Halo 5, Destiny 2, Titanfall, Battlefield — have all been limited to a single player, despite these games increasingly relying on multiplayer experiences.
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The recent outcry grew out of widespread displeasure with a series of high-profile games released in 2017 (including "Star Wars: Battlefront II" and "Middle Earth: Shadow of War") that angered gamers with what they perceived as a particularly unfair loot box mechanic.
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EA's stewardship of the Star Wars license has also been rife with controversy, extending beyond the fumbling of single-player games to the microtransaction mess of Star Wars Battlefront II. Asmussen recognizes this, as well as the immense weight Respawn shoulders with this game.
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Photo: APElectronic Art's Star Wars Battlefront II, one of the biggest video game titles of the year, debuted to disaster in recent weeks after both consumers and the gaming press revolted against the $60 game's reliance on microtransaction-fueled, pay-to-win loot boxes.
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Outside of Battlefront, EA also revealed that Mass Effect studio BioWare is working on a brand-new property that the publisher believes "has the potential to fundamentally disrupt the way people think about an action title, bringing friends together to play in exhilarating new ways."
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The game isn't out until November 17, but media outlets have their review copies and anyone with EA Access—a subscription based service that gives EA fans discounts and free trials—can try out Battlefront II for 10 hours before the game's official release.
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Loot boxes got on the Belgian Gaming Commission's radar amidst the controversy surrounding Star Wars Battlefront II, which has a progression system for abilities and weapons based around loot boxes that players can either unlock through gameplay or by purchasing them with real money.
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At a demo event, I got the chance to play the first three levels of Battlefront II's campaign, which puts players into the shoes of Iden Versio (voiced by Janina Gavankar), a new character who leads an elite Imperial special forces group called Inferno Squad.
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According to Mark Thompson, game director at Motive, the campaign is built on top of the three pillars of Battlefront gameplay: playing a trooper on the ground, being an ace starfighter pilot in the sky, and stepping into the shoes of iconic Star Wars heroes.
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On the tape, Reagan seems to state his intention to use Europe as a battlefront to show the Soviet leaders the US's resolve during a potential nuclear war, and Thatcher admits that HMS Sheffield was deliberately sacrificed in order to escalate the Falklands War.
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Not only does it highlight many of the best attributes of the new Battlefront, it also comes tantalizingly close to actually being the riveting, standalone Star Wars story the marketing hype has promised — if only that pesky spectre of nostalgia didn't get in the way.
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At E3 today, Dice revealed several big updates to Star Wars Battlefront II. Players will be able to play during the Clone Wars era, and the game will introduce several new playable characters, including Anakin Skywalker, Count Dooku, General Grievous, and Obi-Wan Kenobi.
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Unfortunately, the ESRB's solution is only a new "in-game purchases" label that seems as if it would apply to a vast majority of modern games, from story-focused Nintendo classics like The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild to EA's bungled Battlefront 2.
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The GPU company broke the news to its investors in a conference call on Thursday, and said that video games such as Star Wars: Battlefront II and Playerunknown's Battlegrounds as well as the unprecedented success of the Nintendo Switch led to the record profits.
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From single-handed team aces (that means killing every single person on the enemy team) in Rainbow Six Siege to Luke Skywalker decimating entire armies of players in Battlefront, we've got some of the most awe-inspiring plays and kill streaks from today's hottest shooters.
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You could also levy some serious criticism toward Bungie making some of the most coveted items in the game hidden behind microtransactions, a fine line the company has walked thus far but an approach that may backfire given the recent Star Wars Battlefront II mess.
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Hadi's government, which had recently made some small gains at the battlefront after months after a long stalemate, has threatened to attack Hodeidah, where most of Yemen's food and humanitarian supplies enter, unless the Houthis agreed to turn the facility over to neutral observers.
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The analyst estimates the company will sell 16 million units of "Battlefield V" in fiscal 2019, an incremental $150 million in sales versus the previous year's "Star Wars Battlefront II." He also forecasts 4.5 million unit sales for EA's "Anthem" game this fiscal year.
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The leader of an elite Imperial ground-and-space commando unit called Inferno Squad, Versio and her journey tap into exactly the sort of rank-and-file soldier-turned-hero story the Motive Studios team — which is handling Battlefront II's campaign — wants to tell.
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The concept of disguising matériel and soldiers to blend in with their surroundings originated in the 1800s and was further developed during World War I. In May 1917, a New York lawyer who visited the French battlefront wrote about it for The Times's Magazine section.
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The just-released Star Wars: Battlefront II has been making headlines for much of the past two weeks because of the way it locks online progression — which is to say, the guns and gadgets you unlock — behind random loot boxes that can be purchased using real money.
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Today, that dislike is slightly more quantifiable thanks to a comment on Reddit from the account "EACommunityTeam", which sought to defend the company's decision to shield popular characters from being immediately available to users who purchase Battlefront II, which has its worldwide release later this week.
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From classic titles like Knights of The Old Republic, kid-friendly games like Lego Star Wars: The Complete Saga, to the original 2005 release of Star Wars Battlefront II, there are plenty of games for fans of all ages to get the fix on the Force.
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It's the nature of early previews like this to only give off a hint of a game's potential, so that shouldn't come as a particular shock — but it seems somewhat unique given the marketing message of Battlefront II. Not that it will matter all that much anyway.
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Electronic Arts' E3 press conference today was light on announcements, but delivered a large chunk of multiplayer gameplay from its upcoming Star Wars title, Battlefront II. It will introduce a single-player storyline where its predecessor did not, but expect the game's multiplayer to expand as well.
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Electronic Arts kicked off the year's biggest week in gaming news with a handful of announcements on new games, as well as footage from the highly anticipated Star Wars: Battlefront II. Though it ended with a strange, lengthy multiplayer match and an ad for a mobile game.
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We've learned a lot about the next couple of years of the franchise: we got our first looks at The Last Jedi and Battlefront II, learned the fate of Star Wars Rebels, and heard a bit about Disney's ambitious plans for its Star Wars-themed parks.
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Other big games competing for consumer dollars this holiday include Electronic Arts' "Star Wars Battlefront II" and the previously released "Destiny II" (which, in one month, outsold every other game this year in September) and "Mario + Rabbids: Kingdom Battle," a real time strategy game from Ubisoft.
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As in previous games, Battlefront II players earn guns and mods by playing, but now players earn credits towards the purchase of boxes after every match and have a chance to get scrap from loot boxes which they can use to buy specific cards and guns.
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Clearly, Battlefront II is relying on players to have information that's in the upcoming movie, or perhaps its novelization, but as a standalone story it is incoherent to point of absurdity and so far the most embarrassing cog in the Star Wars machine as reborn under Disney.
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The way Iden quickly moves past the psychological horror at the destruction of the Death Star proves to be more about how Battlefront II needs to move from one story beat to the next as fast as possible, without giving the characters motivations for their actions.
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On the pure trade battlefront, I left China feeling that there's a decent chance a limited deal — rolling back some American tariffs in exchange for a resumption of certain Chinese purchases, particularly of agricultural products, from the United States — can be reached in the near term.
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The "industry plans to further expand live services revenue appear to have run into some roadblocks with gamers sounding off against some recent titles, notably EA's "Star Wars Battlefront II" and Activision's "Destiny 2" (though the issues with the latter go beyond just MTX)," he wrote.
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The upcoming game Star Wars Battlefront II and the recently released Middle-Earth: Shadow of War both feature loot box systems that offer players improvements on their weapons and abilities, meaning that loot boxes have a chance to give you something that gives you an advantage in the game.
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When Star Wars: Battlefront was released two years ago, it received a lot of praise for the way in which it faithfully re-created props, vehicles, and worlds from the original film trilogy, but it took a hit when it came to the lack of a single-player campaign.
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Thus far the news is promising, but we still haven't spent any time with the game, seen gameplay footage, or gotten a sense of what the gameplay mechanics and vehicle handling will be like — all problems that revealed themselves pretty quickly once people started playing Battlefront in 2015.
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The company started working on Oculus Rift support for its Frostbite Engine (whose latest version powers Battlefront, along with games like Mirrors Edge Catalyst and Battlefield 1) all the way back in 2013, and X-Wing VR Mission is the first VR experience that's confirmed as using Frostbite.
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A new version of Star Wars Battlefront II is the big thing that we can expect from Electronic Arts this year, but there are other projects on the way as well: a new FIFA game for the Switch, a Madden story mode, and a new Need for Speed.
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EA had nothing to say about its long-rumored Star Wars open-world game, but the developer did have quite a lot to show from Star Wars: Battlefront II. The sequel to the 2015 action title will include characters reaching back to Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace.
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As a special forces team, Battlefront II's Inferno Squad is meant to help bring those fantasies to life, by offering a jack-of-all-trades group that lets players fulfill multiple roles, instead of the traditionally pigeonholed Stormtroopers that exist in the movies to only do one thing.
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As for that narrative, it's to the credit of both Motive and writers Mitch Dyer and Walt Williams that I find myself thinking of Battlefront II not as a game with some narrative connective tissue, but as a Star Wars movie that I was actually able to play.
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The console is printed with First Order and Rebel Alliance logos as well as the logo for the Inferno Squad (the special forces unit you command in Battlefront II.) The Dualshock4 controller included in the bundle also has a First Order and Rebel Alliance logo on each grip.
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Star Wars Battlefront II is not the first Star Wars game to be told from the point of view of a bad guy, but it is the first since the newest slate of films expanded the boundaries for what kinds of stories the universe could tell, in serious ways.
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An advance by pro-government forces around the only remaining supply route into the eastern sector this month enabled them to fire on it at close range, making the battlefront Castello road too deadly to use and putting at least 250,000 people in rebel-held districts under siege.
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You'll also be given exclusive discounts to the biggest games available in the PlayStation universe, cloud storage to store your saved games and character profiles, and connections to a vast network of gamers to play against in classic titles like Star Wars: Battlefront, Uncharted, and a whole lot more.
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This week, EA rolled out the first of what the company promises will be larger and more drastic changes to the in-game economy of Star Wars Battlefront II. It's a game that has been plagued by fan outrage over loot boxes and progression systems since just before launch.
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Things came to a head in 2017 when two of the year's most anticipated video game titles, Electronic Arts' "Star Wars Battlefront II" and Warner Brothers' "Middle-earth: Shadow of War," faced backlash from gamers due to the inclusion of micro transactions in exchange for so-called loot boxes.
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Developer DICE lowered the amount of credits needed to purchase characters such as Darth Vader and EA froze in-game microtransactions entirely, but the damage was already done and Star Wars Battlefront II's loot box scheme gained so much attention, both lawmakers and the mainstream media took notice.
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That's not the story this game decides to tell, but even when Battlefront II makes a not-so-shocking pivot to Iden realizing she's on the wrong side of the conflict, after the Empire exacts cruelty on her home planet, her journey of understanding could have been equally worthwhile.
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Loot boxes have been prevalent for at least a decade, mostly in free games, but the Battlefront controversy was "the first real big punch in the gut," said Christopher Hansford, the political engagement director for Consumers for Digital Fairness, which wants randomized in-game transactions regulated as gambling.
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There also appears to be a greater emphasis on space battle, something that was fun in the last installment, but never received much attention other than some DLC content and the VR expansion pack for the PlayStation VR. Star Wars: Battlefront II is expected to be released later this year.
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A team-up between EA DICE, Motive Studios, and Criterion Games, Battlefront II will let players take on the role of Iden, member of the elite Inferno Squadron, who Motive game director Mark Thompson described as a "TIE Fighter [pilot] / commando hybrid" with an array of special skills and leadership abilities.
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The multiplayer title League of Legends can be locked to 275 fps; EA's Anthem runs at a steady 282 fps; Call of Duty: Black Ops 250 cruises at 20703 fps in battle royale mode; Fortnite hovers around the 22070 fps mark; and Star Wars Battlefront II reaches a playable 22060 fps.
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Walmart and video games go hand in hand this Green Monday: Save $2003 on the PlayStation 4 ITB Pro console, $200 on the PlayStation VR with Gran Turismo Sport and Camera, $50 on the Xbox One S Halo and Assasin's Creed bundles, and $20 on Star Wars Battlefront II for PS4.
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The video was first shown during the "Level Up" gaming panel at Disney's D23 Expo, which also featured Janina Gavankar - the actor that plays the lead role in Battlefront II. Most Star Wars stories have focused on the "good guys": the Rebel Alliance, or the Resistance in the newer films.
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Loot Boxes Are Designed To Exploit UsThe influx of randomized loot boxes into games like Shadow of War and Star Wars Battlefront II has…Read more Read"Inherently manipulative game features that take advantage of kids and turn play time into pay time should be out of bounds," Markey said.
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A massive gallery of Kennerly's Vietnam-era masterpieces — from the home front, to the battlefront, to the war's final days — filled the Kennedy Center lobby during a D.C. screening of "The Vietnam War," an 18-hour documentary series by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick that premieres tonight at 8 on PBS.
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At the end of the day, loot boxes are a moneymaking mechanism that rely upon a simple premise: The big-spending "whales" provide the bulk of the post-release income, while the rest of the player community — for Battlefront II, the folks that don't buy crystals — keeps the whales interested.
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But today denizens of Democratic war rooms are more likely to have a computer science background than experience on a big Senate campaign, and the main battlefront after a big debate isn't Johnny Apple's front-page interpretation of the event but whether fringe disinformation penetrates the mainstream social media conversation.
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The Belgian Gaming Commission declared that loot boxes in video games like Star Wars Battlefront II and Overwatch should be considered a form of gambling, Belgian news outlet VTM News reported Tuesday (via PC Gamer), even going so far as saying that they should be banned in Belgium and Europe at large.
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And while iOS may not have titles like Battlefront 2 or Destiny 2, both of which have drawn fire from gamers for loot crate tactics over the past few months, Apple's policy would seem to include popular games like Hearthstone, with its randomized card packs that players can buy as in-game purchases.
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The company's profitable business model is now at risk after angry gamers revolted over its aggressive in-game moneymaking strategy in "Star Wars Battlefront II." EA's stock is down 8.5 percent month to date through Tuesday compared with the S&P 2.83's 2 percent gain, wiping out $3.1 billion of shareholder value.
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With the holiday season on its way, the games industry is pushing out a diverse lineup of titles, from new installments of long-running franchises like Activision's Call of Duty and Ubisoft's Assassin's Creed to EA's long-awaited Star Wars Battlefront II. But the real crowd pleasers this year may be in hardware.
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That's the topic of discussion in the first episode of The Game Makers: Inside Story, a 10-part series that sits down with a diverse lineup of industry luminaries, including: Amy Hennig (Uncharted series), Jenova Chen (Journey), Jade Raymond (upcoming Star Wars: Battlefront with EA Motive), and Neil Druckmann (The Last of Us).
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One of the world's most prominent video game makers, Electronic Arts, was hit by bad headlines last year when Wall Street analysts expressed concern over its latest game, "Star Wars Battlefront II." People were unhappy with EA's attempts to add so-called micro-transactions — a form of in-game purchasing — late last year.
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The original Star Wars: Battlefront II, which came out in 2005 (and was the sequel to a game that in turn set up a 2015 franchise reboot), was pure fan service, welded to a set of cleverly tuned game systems that borrowed liberally from some of the best multiplayer shooters out there circa 2005.
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It's an old storytelling adage that everybody thinks they're the hero of their own story — even classic villains — and while Battlefront II appears to be exploring that idea in the most literal sense, it's a sentiment that has seemed to creep into much of the new Star Wars material that Lucasfilm has been generating.
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Electronic Arts and Disney, which signed an exclusive deal to make Star Wars games in 2013, are already working on a Battlefront sequel and have intrusted two new AAA games with high profile talent: the developers of Titanfalland the developers of Dead Space, now led by Amy Hennig, who previously directed PlayStation's Uncharted series.
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Five games feature in the chart: FIFA 16 at number two with over 2.5 million sales; Call of Duty: Black Ops III at three with a tickle under two million; Fallout 4 at five (1.12 million); Star Wars: Battlefront at eight (just over a million); and Grand Theft Auto V at ten (just under a million).
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The letter, which was signed by the Center for Media Justice, the Open Technology Institute, Free Press, and dozens of other groups, increases the pressure on the Federal Communications Commission to address zero-rating, which has become the latest battlefront in the decade-long war between policymakers, industry giants, and consumer advocates over how best to ensure internet openness.
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I haven't done enough reporting on Battlefront II to say who demanded loot boxes be so deeply embedded in the game, but decades of covering the industry suggests it's at pay grades far above the people making the game, a reliable tug-of-war between a game's design aspirations and the folks who sign the checks.
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To make matters worse, Battlefront II's producer Paul Keslin told YouTuber Angry Joe that the team doesn't know the math behind how long it'd actually take to unlock everything for free (although Reddit user thesomeot referenced a couple links in his above post that attempt to work out the math to about 4528 hours or $2100 to unlock everything).
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After four months of being in limbo on the issue, publisher EA has finally announced that it will remove paid loot boxes from Star Wars Battlefront II. In an official blog post, the publisher announced it would completely revise the progression system for the multiplayer shooter that caused so much controversy during its release in November.
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Loot boxes are a common way to monetize in dozens of games, including Fortnite, League of Legends and EA's Star Wars Battlefront II. While Apex already offered loot boxes for cosmetics before, players took issue that the game didn't offer any other way to obtain most of these Iron Crown cosmetics, such as spending time completing missions.
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The fact that Wilson — the president of a nation more than 3,000 miles removed from the closest battlefront, a nation directly involved in the war for less than a year at that point — presumed to dictate conditions for peace at all was remarkable, and it presaged the outsize role the United States would soon take on.
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But things get murkier when real-money upgrades impact the way the game actually plays, especially for multiplayer experiences, as was the initial structure of Battlefront II. Many players saw the game's loot boxes — where you could spend real money for a randomized item that could directly impact multiplayer competition — as a way of encouraging spending cash on in-game success.
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Star Wars Battlefront II for $24 (Was $60) Assassin's Creed Origins for $36 (Was $60) Tomb Raider: Definitive Edition for $8 (Was $30) Tekken 203 for $30 (Was $60) Deux Ex: Mankind Divided for $8 (Was $30) Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus for $30 (Was $60) For Honor for $20 (Was $60) Doom for $20 (Was $30) Fallout 4 for $20 (Was $30)
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The Real Deal: Those who have seen The Last Jedi repeatedly know that there's a lot in there, but it took an official Lucasfilm video to reveal just how many Easter eggs were hidden in plain view during the movie, including references to the Star Wars: Battlefront videogames, Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, and the comics and novel spin-offs.
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And one particular moment with Lando had me howling: But there are other issues undermining Battlefront II's ability to tell a convincing story, too, such as the random times the game will tell you to not "leave the mission area," even though the only thing I wanted to do was to walk down the stairs and see if a collectible was hiding.
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Though criticisms over loot boxes has gained fiery momentum in recent months, buoyed by sloppy integration in games like Forza Motorsport 7 and Shadow of War, everything crystallized over the egregious nature of Star Wars Battlefront II, a game where the loot boxes seem to go well beyond merely providing an additional revenue stream, and negatively impacted the game itself.
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Fledgling Jedi are no match for him, because obviously: And playing as Vader in Star Wars: Battlefront really gives you the feeling of how much of a beast he is on the field: But there's a marked difference between seeing his exploits in comic form, in an animated series, or a game, and watching actual human beings face a monster's murderous wrath on the big screen.
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Belgium has been one of the earliest countries to investigate loot boxes, following the release and subsequent outcry of how EA had implemented the random reward system in Star Wars Battlefront II. While the commission did investigate that game alongside the others mentioned above, it found that with EA's recent changes to how the loot system works, it doesn't fall under the "games of chance" classification anymore.
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And not only would Williams need to improve of the shortcomings of Spec Ops: The Line to get there, he would have to be allowed to tell a story that commits to the oppressive nihilism of the Sith order in a way that cuts against the action-driven focus of the Battlefront and Battlefield franchises—which by their nature tend to have a sympathetic stance toward militarism.
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Garmin Forerunner 35 Watch/Fitness Tracker (certified refurbished) — $111.99 (list price $139.95) Moto X unlocked smartphone (4th gen) with Amazon Alexa — $279.99 (list price $399.9) Anker 4-in-49.993 USB Port 3.0 Data Hub for Macbook — $6.60 (list price $9.99) Buy an Xbox One X console, save $299.99 on an enhanced game (Assassin's Creed, Fortnite, Star Wars Battlefront, and more) The Kasa smart plugs with the Amazon Echo Plus.
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We got glimpses of a number of titles, featuring some gigantic names franchises, including VR experience offerings like Star Wars Battlefront: X-Wing VR Mission, Batman Arkham VR and Final Fantasy XV. The company will likely be showing off a few of these in more detail, so we'll be sure to report back as soon as we get some quality hands- or head-on time with the hardware.
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Battlefront II seems to have been conceived from the ground up to be a title that multiplayer game lovers will actually enjoy playing, and it starts with the new class system: players can choose between four different types of player, including specialists (for those that love to snipe or set trip mines), infantry (for those that like the blaster and thermal detonator approach), or heavy infantry (for fans of much bigger guns).
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Sony didn't give us a ton of details beyond that, but it did announce that there would be a VR version of Star Wars: Battlefront that will be exclusive to the PlayStation VR. Modest resolution, but 120 frames per second gaming and very little lag Unlike the Oculus Rift, which we've seen grow from a duct-taped Frankenstein's monster of a device to something that actually looks consumer-ready, not much has changed since PlayStation VR was announced two years ago at GDC.
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What stands out about From a Certain Point of View is the number of big names included in the table of contents: newcomers to the Star Wars universe, such as Meg Cabot (Princess Diaries), Adam Christopher (Empire State), Polygon's Griffin McElroy, Ken Liu (Grace of Kings), Nnedi Okorafor (Binti), Daniel José Older (Half-Resurrection Blues), and veteran franchise authors, such as Alexander Freed (Rogue One novelization / Battlefront: Twilight Company), Paul Kemp (Crosscurrent / Riptide), John Jackson Miller (New Dawn / Kenobi), and Christie Golden (Inferno Squad / Dark Disciple).
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