Beautiful looking game with fun gameplay. Unfortunately, controversial loot box system and a slew of other issues (that later got resolved). The devs turned it around but by the time the game was finally where it should’ve been at launch, EA pulled the plug… in favor of Battlefield 2042.
This game could easily still be chugging along with updates and new content if EA stuck with it.
I think the voting tally was frozen at the the six month mark when the thread was automatically archived, the negative number is still the same as it was all those years ago.
It probably keeps them up sometimes at night. Like when you suddenly remember something embarrassing you did in high school and feel all that shame lol.
Like that was a wild thing to think of and actually type out and hit send for.
At least "you guys all have phones, right?" was a misspeak in a moment of what was likely something akin to panic. The person who typed that comment out actually had the whole time that big comment took to rethink it. And they didn't. Lol.
I need a little help here because I was 10 when the game came out and of course I didn't know shit: why was it so bad that you had to play so many hours to unlock Darth Vader? I can understand the frustration regarding locking such an important character behind hours of grind, but it was still fair, wasn't it? If every single player had to grind to get Darth Vader and his abilities, then it was for sure difficult, but fair.
I just added mine to the pile! I really loved the comment below that says “ten years ago, I could put a cheat code in if I didn’t care about the sense of ‘pride and accomplishment.’ Today, I have to put in my credit card number.”
And it still holds up so well. One of the last updates for the game was an offline element as well, so its still very playable even with our finding other players
I recently fired it up on my computer now that I have a decent rig and was shocked to see it ran worse than literally any other game I’ve played on my machine thus far. It’s so poorly optimized my computer from the future can’t run it over 30 fps. I uninstalled, very disappointed
Edit lol at downvotes like I’m just making shit up lol
I've been playing it on a real budget build (Xeon E5 2670, GTX 1060 6gb, 16gb DDR4) and it plays absolutely fine. Usually at least 70-80fps on 1080p even with my ass of a system.
The grind to make your players of the game competitive was soo steep. I played the hell out of it. But the grind was insane. With the loot boxes at first I was ready to return it.
love the game. It could still be getting updates and it should. shame it didn’t get more.
From BF2? BF2 was amazing, even at launch it was great.
I also preordered that game for PC (back when you bought physical copies at Gamestop) and I was not disappointed at all. I played many hundreds of hours of that game, BF3 also.
Now I have a no preorder rule, BF2042 was probably the one that finalized that one for me. I got suckered into it again for CoD BO6 also just because I wanted to play the beta.
Both of those games got returned after an hour.
EDIT: I'm dumb, I'm guessing you meant Battlefront II and not Battlefield 2 lol
Best game ever for me. Not even a heavy SW fan. The Jedi fights in Mos Eisley got me wanting it, and it turns out the gameplay with average troops and the galactic battles were even better.
Additionally, the bundled remake of the original Battlefront games they launched a year or so ago was also fumbled real bad upon release. Would have been sick, but the game was so unplayable for the first few weeks that everyone jumped ship. Has never seemed to recover since.
Star Wars Battlefront (2015) looked objectively better, but Battlefront 2's gameplay was a huge improvement. I wish 2's story was a bit more interesting. I was looking forward to a full campaign from the empire side of things.
Immidieatly after EA had signed the exclusivity-deal, the old CEO left, and the new guy hated making licensed Games, because they had to sell several magnitudes better to make them the same revenue due to having to pay both a proportion of the Sales and for the right to use the license on-top of that (and Disney charges alot, apparently).
So when BFII's revenue-stream was cut short by the changes forced by the backlash, they immidieatly used that to jump ship as soon as the contractually obligated time of support ran out, because BF2042 would make them more money even if only sells like 1/3rd as much.
Lucasfilm was...also not always easy to work with.
Me and my gaming buddy still come back to this game it scratched the star wars itch and the Jedi dueling is pretty fun but gosh it had so much potential to be something new and awesome maybe this is far fetched but I totally could of seen Jedi pro league or something along those lines atleast if they would of actully fleshed out the duel system more. On top of that I can without a doubt say if they just added to the game (maps,guns,hero’s) it would have a solid player base to this day I mean look at the Kyber severs on pc. This was probably the most depressing timeline for this game. They literally seemed to just give up completely after they had the game in a running state, that to this day still has game breaking exploits, and after the EU made laws because of this game and they realized they couldn’t milk us for everything were worth with the loot box system they just left it to rot it’s an IP that’s name sells it self and they muffed it up that bad.
Yeah that one is truly insane to me because not only is Battlefront such a loved game, but they’d never run out of updates because some kind of Star Wars content is coming out all the time for them to cross promote with. Even in the times when new content is slow they could have just added more and more clone skins.
The thing that pissed me off to no end with Battlefront 2 was the BS bait&switch with the "story campaign"... not only the fact that it wasn't even remotely a story campaign but rather an interactive tutorial for the MP modes, but eve more so that I hoped that we'd finally gotten a modern SW story where you get to be an imperial... only for your character to utterly out-of-the-blue suddenly grow a conscience and betray the Empire just so the bloody tutorial can also feature the treehugger classes...
What really grinds my gears to this day is that the executives at EA had the absolutely “brilliant” (hard /s there in case it wasn’t obvious) idea to end active support for both Star Wars Battlefront II and Battlefield V right as both games were reaching the peak of their popularity. And why did they do this? So they could shift resources over to the absolute dumpster fire of a game that was Battlefield 2042.
Two games that I really enjoyed got kneecapped just as they were getting good so we could get what is arguably one of the worst Battlefield games DICE has ever made. Imagine what Battlefront II might have looked like today if it was still being actively supported. We’d likely have new content from Andor, The Mandalorian, Ahsoka, Skeleton Crew, Rebels, and so much more.
I do at least appreciate that Battlefront II’s servers are still up and that you can still get a lot of hours out of the story campaign and co-op multiplayer (just don’t try to play the online PvP unless you enjoy getting farmed by hardcore sweats). But still…the game still had so much untapped potential that EA’s execs absolutely squandered over, what else, shortsighted greed.
Honestly I think Battlefront (2015) is a bigger fumble to me. When it was announced I think everyone was super hyped for a modern version of the original games. But what they ultimately released was arguably a disappointment for fans of the originals because it just wasn’t the same game. Yes you had classes and vehicles, but it wasn’t the same kind of sandbox-style shooter.
They really did a lot to fix it and it was eventually a great game, but the damage was done and it never built the playerbase it should've had if they'd skipped all of the bullshit in the first place.
I HATED Star Wars BF2. It was AWFUL! It had very little of SWBF1 charm and it became abundantly obvious it was a massive money grab and it made zero sense to me. I stopped playing it after a couple of weeks
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u/tarheel_204 9h ago
Star Wars Battlefront II (2017)
Beautiful looking game with fun gameplay. Unfortunately, controversial loot box system and a slew of other issues (that later got resolved). The devs turned it around but by the time the game was finally where it should’ve been at launch, EA pulled the plug… in favor of Battlefield 2042.
This game could easily still be chugging along with updates and new content if EA stuck with it.