Currently tracking at 60% down compared to 2015’s Star Wars Battlefront, it doesn’t seem likely digital sales will be able to account for the shortfall. That’s why we support EA’s decision to temporarily remove in-game payments to address fan concerns.”ĮA has stated that this is a temporary removal until they manage to find a solution that works for everyone.ĭespite EA backpedalling on microtransaction costs, and then completely removing them, it seems physical sales of Battlefront 2 aren’t great. “Star Wars has always been about the fans,” a Lucasfilm spokesperson stated, “and whether it’s Battlefront or any other Star Wars experience, they come first. The Wall Street Journal reports that call was to “express Disney executives’ unhappiness at how the outrage ‘reflected on their marquee property'”.įollowing this news, Star Wars creators Lucasfilm chimed in on the matter, saying to The Washington Post that it supported EA’s decision to remove microtransactions. VentureBeat reports that Disney CEO Bob Iger dropped a call to EA boss Andrew Wilson only hours before EA made the call to pull all microtransactions from the game. In fact, the controversy has been so bad that Disney supposedly forced EA’s hand and made them remove transactions entirely. Star Wars Battlefront 2: Microtransaction debacle, as it happenedīecause of all the loot box and microtransactions controversy surrounding the launch of Star Wars Battlefront 2, it didn’t go down too well on day one.

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