Star Wars Battlefront II

House · 13 Nov 2017 at 13:10

Vader and Luke are 60,000 Credits, you get around 400 a game so yeah its going to take a long time to unlocked them, and if your trying to get loot boxes as well to level up your guys then its going to be a long time till your actually spending your credits on that.

That said there is something to be said for longer term goals, just strange that the put the bigger names behind those locks.

Spikey · 13 Nov 2017 at 14:18

Been playing this on PC and the fact they've locked luke/vader etc behind that ridiculous system is just moronic. I hope this flops saleswise and someone else gets the franchise. I won't be buying it after my 10 hour trial ends unless they make big changes.

Soulja · 13 Nov 2017 at 14:46

I really enjoyed the beta but the loot system is very disappointing. I'll probably buy the game second hand next month for £20

enfo · 13 Nov 2017 at 14:58

You could let them off ( slightly ) if they didn't charge full price for the game

VincentHanna · 13 Nov 2017 at 15:47

I just had a conversation with my 40 year old sister.

My 11 year old nephew rang her up and wanted his £10 pocket money in advance (he gets £10 every Saturday, so he's only just had the last lot)

He has his own bank account with debit card and his mum pays the money in to his account.

I asked what he spends his money on. Turns out that literally every week he spends all his £10 pocket money on FIFA. That means over the course of a year EA are making £50 for the game and then potentially another £500+ from a kid over the course of the year! I then explained the 'lootbox' furore online.

Anecdotal - but it wouldn't surprise me if kids are the main ones spending money on microtransactions.

signs · 13 Nov 2017 at 16:39

better than fags ,drink, and drugs i suppose

G-MAN2004 · 13 Nov 2017 at 18:38

If you care about the state of gaming in any way, then you wouldn't buy this.

https://www.reddit.com/r/StarWarsBa...ously_i_paid_80_to_have_vader_locked/dppum98/

That comment though...

The most downvoted in Reddit history.

Dannyb01y · 13 Nov 2017 at 18:55

VincentHanna said:
I just had a conversation with my 40 year old sister.

My 11 year old nephew rang her up and wanted his £10 pocket money in advance (he gets £10 every Saturday, so he's only just had the last lot)

He has his own bank account with debit card and his mum pays the money in to his account.

I asked what he spends his money on. Turns out that literally every week he spends all his £10 pocket money on FIFA. That means over the course of a year EA are making £50 for the game and then potentially another £500+ from a kid over the course of the year! I then explained the 'lootbox' furore online.

Anecdotal - but it wouldn't surprise me if kids are the main ones spending money on microtransactions.

It's just the modern day equivalent of when kids used to by premier league sticker books really when you think about it. No one would buy one for £300 but 50p a packet of stickers is addictive. If you venture into the fifa thread many adults spent £100s on FUT too.

I'm tempted to get this game but no way if I have to play 40 hours to get the best characters.

signs · 13 Nov 2017 at 18:59

I’m fast going off the idea of getting this

Nodiggidy123 · 13 Nov 2017 at 20:43

signs said:
I’m fast going off the idea of getting this

Any chance the huge point requirements for carder etc could be because it's not on general release till the weekend?

VincentHanna · 13 Nov 2017 at 20:57

I played for 30 minutes earlier on early access and played two rounds.

I already have 6000 credits, so I'm not sure this 40 hours is correct. I did get 3000 credits in one of the free daily loot crates though

Also there was a 70mb patch to update, so maybe they already changed the rewards?

RedStarRiot · 13 Nov 2017 at 21:43

Fan power worked:

https://t.co/H6m6ywGMAh

75% reduction.

Highlights was total c bombs they are by ripping off customers to that extent in the first place.

ak22 · 13 Nov 2017 at 22:51

Meh still not buying this, I may get it used later on I not giving EA any money.

Battery! · 14 Nov 2017 at 02:50

I don't know.. Forza 7 now this... EA no less...

Hopefully the message will get across now, this will only happen more now imo.

RedStarRiot · 14 Nov 2017 at 07:25

Yeah it's not going to stop it.

I tried to cancel mine today but it's too late. I may return and pick up 2nd hand just to stick it to EA.

The whole situation has done nothing for their PR

V F · 14 Nov 2017 at 08:24

VincentHanna said:
I just had a conversation with my 40 year old sister.

My 11 year old nephew rang her up and wanted his £10 pocket money in advance (he gets £10 every Saturday, so he's only just had the last lot)

He has his own bank account with debit card and his mum pays the money in to his account.

I asked what he spends his money on. Turns out that literally every week he spends all his £10 pocket money on FIFA. That means over the course of a year EA are making £50 for the game and then potentially another £500+ from a kid over the course of the year! I then explained the 'lootbox' furore online.

Anecdotal - but it wouldn't surprise me if kids are the main ones spending money on microtransactions.

Dannyb01y said:
It's just the modern day equivalent of when kids used to by premier league sticker books really when you think about it. No one would buy one for £300 but 50p a packet of stickers is addictive. If you venture into the fifa thread many adults spent £100s on FUT too.

I'm tempted to get this game but no way if I have to play 40 hours to get the best characters.

I remember those days. Cannot remember how long it took to complete the book. It certainly was a long time including the World Cup 90 coin collection.

40 hours is nothing though if you’re really into any game. I have maybe 120 hours on Quake Champions with over 200,000 credits. Things can be done if you’re prepared without spending money on loot.

iv-tecman · 14 Nov 2017 at 09:44

Battery! said:
I don't know.. Forza 7 now this... EA no less...

Hopefully the message will get across now, this will only happen more now imo.

I don't know what is going on with gaming right now... I'm just not really finding the new wave of games and this loot box, ingame transactions all that appealing - I just want to buy a game with a good single player progression and the game you buy is the full game, I don't buy a movie and get to the end for them to say now give us another £1 per minute to view the rest...

I'll wait to see if they release a ultimate version, wait for that to drop in price so as I can at least give the single player and bot system a go.. I think I can just try the 10 hour version on the PC actually..

Plainsong · 14 Nov 2017 at 09:55

I'm not buying into this **** again. I used to really get hyped for DICE games. Shame.

iv-tecman · 14 Nov 2017 at 10:07

the thing is about these credits though, GT games on the PlayStation locked cars behind credits, you have to earn credits in game (mostly career etc) to then have enough to buy the cars.

So have DICE allowed BOT mode in maps to earn credits to unlock the content? Say for example a person buys the game but never touches the online, and only plays the campaign, and plays the bot AI modes, how does that person unlock Darth Vader?

signs · 14 Nov 2017 at 10:36

iv-tecman said:
So have DICE allowed BOT mode in maps to earn credits to unlock the content? Say for example a person buys the game but never touches the online, and only plays the campaign, and plays the bot AI modes, how does that person unlock Darth Vader?

would you need to if you don't play online ?