What do they say when they cut out most of the maps and sell the base maps from the first game in the second game as DLC? I want to hear what their PR-speak for that is, actually no this is EA I want to put them on a hotplate and watch them dance so I'll ask them "do you really think that POS first game was worth the money you were charging for it?"
Battlefront's Campaign Was Cut so it Could Launch With Episode VII
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But Pandemic's Battlefront games were released to coincide major Star Wars events. The first one mimicked a specific edition of the original trilogy on DVD, while Battlefront 2 came out the same time as Revenge of the Sith.Squilookle said:
It just wouldn't be a Battlefront game if it weren't rushed to meet an artificial deadline based on something completely unrelated to the game at hand. That's one thing DICE did right about Battlefront.
You know what? Fine.
I get it. Releasing a game concurrent with a movie makes sense. People are on the high of the movie or the game when they get the other.
But what doesn't make sense is why they had to release concurrent with episode vii. Why not release concurrent with Rogue One? Because episode vii was the first new movie? Because Rogue One isn't going to be a main series movie? We've known there's going to be one movie a year for quite a while.
I get it. Releasing a game concurrent with a movie makes sense. People are on the high of the movie or the game when they get the other.
But what doesn't make sense is why they had to release concurrent with episode vii. Why not release concurrent with Rogue One? Because episode vii was the first new movie? Because Rogue One isn't going to be a main series movie? We've known there's going to be one movie a year for quite a while.
To be fair, Obsidian had LucasArts themselves making the demand to rush it for a Christmas release. If they hadn't agreed to it, there was no way the game get published. It was a case of "do what the publisher says", or "have the game get cancelled, wasting the time you've spent on it".Daymo said:
In other words, probably exactly what happened here, with the exception that DICE is actually owned by EA, while Obsidian was independent, but published by an outside company that held the rights.
The reason is probably because "the first new Star Wars movie in 10 years" gets a lot more hype than "A spinoff story filling in a gap that fans have been fine with not being filled for almost 40 years".Xpwn3ntial said:
ETA: I'm not saying that what EA did is right, because it freaking sucks, and was probably not a good move. There were reasons beyond "Muahaha, gamers suck and my monehs", though.
Well that fucking bullshit. I mean, from a sales standpoint, it makes a lot of sense, but this isn't just any IP, this is goddamn STAR WARS. That shit was gonna sell like hot cakes, regardless of whether or not it came out before, at the same time as, or after the film.
Cutting a pretty sizable chunk of content for that reason is just stupid. That being said, though, it does make me wonder what they replaced it with, if anything at all.
Cutting a pretty sizable chunk of content for that reason is just stupid. That being said, though, it does make me wonder what they replaced it with, if anything at all.
You're saying Pandemic's Battlefront games seemed rushed? II was anything but, and while 1 had a few rough edges, I'm inclined to think that was more about the studio coming to grips with a kind of gameplay they'd never done before rather than a tight schedule.Anomynous 167 said:
I could be wrong though. Essentially my point is that EA's Battlefront would have been fine if it sold later than the movie, perhaps even as someone suggested- alongside Rogue One.