The reality, Blake, is that gamers loathe being nickeled and dimed for content that’s been made artificially difficult to earn by slashing payout rates while keeping prices high. No offense to pink, but I don’t think that’s right in the canon.” Not to mention you probably don’t want Darth Vader in pink. Darth Vader in white probably doesn’t make sense, versus in black. So if you did a bunch of cosmetic things, you might start to violate the canon. “It’s an amazing brand that’s been built over many, many years. “The one thing we’re very focused on and they’re extremely focused on is not violating the canon of Star Wars,” Jorgensen said, as reported by. Here’s EA’s CFO, Blake Jorgensen, speaking at the 21st Credit Suisse technology conference: And now it’s defending that decision, claiming that it only wanted to respect Star Wars canon. But being EA, it decided to double down on the worst aspects of game design.
It could bring its microtransaction ideas back, but use them for cosmetic upgrades that don’t affect gameplay. The company could announce it was redesigning the progression system so that early players didn’t have a huge advantage over those who bought the game later. There are a lot of ways that EA could deal with its Battlefront 2 program. This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page.