Unbelievably, a Battlefront II developer retweeted this. Someone who either didn't learn from the shitstorm the "armchair developer" comment stirred up at launch, or embraces it wholly and believes we are unworthy of giving criticism.

I don't need to be an electrician to know my power is out. I don't need to be a chef to know when food doesn't taste right.

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I'm paraphrasing.

But I am nearly ready to cast off Battlefront 2's ground game entirely, due to the sole fact that I am ten times better at Starfighter Assault. Criterion seriously needs to be allowed to spin it off into a separate game.

I am consistently in the top five, MVP every few matches or so, and that has never happened on the ground for me.

Modders have put the oft-requested "Matt the Radar Technician" Kylo Ren skin into Battlefront 2.

Kudos.

Alright, first off, let me explain.

Shut up, I said I'm going to explain.

In case you didn't hear, sometime Thursday, the Disney CEO made a phone call to the Electronic Arts CEO, and a few hours later, all microtransactions were temporarily removed from Battlefront 2 pending re-working. While the contents of the phone call aren't being made public, I like to think that our Mouse Overlords threatened to pull EA's Star Wars license if they didn't get their heads out of their asses.

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Not only is Battlefront 2 going to be the first mainstream Star Wars game I will not purchase in over 14 years, but EA is set to buy Respawn Studios for $400 million.

Rest in peace guys. As far as I'm concerned, all of you are now on borrowed time. Titanfall 3 will be infested with loot crates.

Vince, the reason you went off and created Respawn was because you got absolutely screwed over by a big publisher when you headed up Infinity Ward.

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After today's community update, I have uninstalled Battlefront II. 70 GB of space is worth more than that.

The update is Season 2, the Han Solo season, split over the next two months.

We get a UI tweak, 1 recycled map from Battlefront 1, and two new skins.

That's it. After teasing for months that they were going to "break the dam", that's all we got.

Seven months later, this is where we're at.

If this is "Games as a Service", EA can shove it right up their ass.

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...I'm confident that the price of a new game needs to go up to $90.

And here's what we get in exchange.

NO loot crates
NO non-cosmetic microtransactions
NO Season Passes
NO "Shortcut" bundles
TWO YEARS of post-launch month-to-month support at no extra charge

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If so friend me.

If not, friend me anyway

Also, Season 6 hype...!

Okay, so I recently picked up a copy of 2 for rent. Now, my thoughts on it. More after the break.

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Afternoon Everyone

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Morning everyone

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Not much for looks, but I bought a PS2 at my local GoodWill, and a copy of the original Star Wars Battlefront before the EA butchering. Needless to say, it's still great,but I won't lie that the game probably needed better balancing (damn droidikas and their shield), and it's sequel did solve it's other,though minor, problem of having an actual campaign.

Hoping to get the ACTUAL Battlefront 2 (if it was made for the PS2), and other classic PS2 games, with a fairly nice looking stand.

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...I have made my decision.

No more consoles. No more new games. No more upgrading my PC.

I'm going to play what games and platforms I've got and run them into the ground, while I save up for some very significant purchases to upgrade my photography kit.

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Awesome, I have this weekend off, just in time for the Battlefront beta.

I'm just wondering how to approach it this time.

On one hand, we had Battlefield 4, which had a super-smooth beta, but one of the most bumpy launches of this generation, so much that games like Battlefront were put on hold while BF4 was fixed.

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I got the original Battlefront 2 on my PS2 a week ago and have been having SO much fun with it. It's interesting how it was more focused on the Empire, I.E., how the Clones became Storm Troopers, over EA's 2nd Battlefront game. But I've had a lot of fun with this sequel, seeing it as an improvement over the 1st in many ways, though, I won't lie, it doesn't exactly hold up well, and that's not just for the graphics. Still, I've been having fun, and I've been brainstorming an idea for a

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Hello and welcome once again to the corner of my mind where all the cool stuff sits rent-free. In keeping with the last post, today I'll be showcasing the Anime that have been particularly impactful to me. As usual, a lot of what I show here has been an almost direct inspiration for most if not all of my work, and you'll no doubt see the parallels in it. First up is...

Mob Psycho 100

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