Star Wars: Battlefront Will Have a $50 Season Pass

[FirstNameLastName]

It's times like these that I'm glad I'm neither a Star Wars fan nor online shooter fan. Christ, this game just gets worse and worse the more I learn about it. Not that I expected anything else.

 

[Atmos Duality]

I haven't bought a single EA game since Hellgate: London.
*shrugs* Just another lame duck game flying under my radar.

Though the people losing their shit over it amuses me.

Remember 5 years ago when EA spat Project 10 Dollar at us?
Well, it's now inflated to five times that.

EA never changed, because they don't want to change, and their market gives them little reason to actually change.

 

[Godhead]

$120:
-A concert ticket for that really popular band you like

What musicians charge that much for a ticket? I could buy 4 or 5 tickets with that kind of money, hell I could buy two pit tickets for a Maiden concert with that kind of money.

OT: I have already determined that this game is just a bad dream, and when I wake up I can play some Battlefront 2 to destroy the bad dreams.

 

[Sigmund Av Volsung]

$120:
-A concert ticket for that really popular band you like

What musicians charge that much for a ticket? I could buy 4 or 5 tickets with that kind of money, hell I could buy two pit tickets for a Maiden concert with that kind of money.

OT: I have already determined that this game is just a bad dream, and when I wake up I can play some Battlefront 2 to destroy the bad dreams.

Life in London makes you accept high prices for certain venues >_>

Hence "really popular", a la Imagine Dragons, or an artist like Taylor Swift.

Point being that there's loads of other, less iterative things to spend it on.

Also I think I saw one of my posts in your avatar.

*grumble* copyright infringement *grumble*

 

[Politrukk]

What's that flying out of the window right there you say?
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It was my interest in this game

 

[mrdude2010]

Welp, that's a shame. Was seriously considering buying it. Oh well.

 

[Lightspeaker]

If they're doing this, it's because they know the market exists. I don't doubt it either.

Heh, I quite agree, of course the market exists. Its a new Star Wars game that's coming out around the same time as a new Star Wars movie.

Even if it was literally a Battlefield 4 reskin it'd still shift enough copies for EA to start work on their own real life Star Destroyer, easily.

 

[Dragonlayer]

So I'm guessing every single person whose commentated in this thread so far does not live in Australia then, where this is the default price for new and often second-hand titles as well. As Yatzhee once said, "WELCOME TO MY WORLD MOTHERFUCKERS!"

But yeah, without actually detailing what the DLC promised by the pass is, that's a very hefty investment.

Kiwi here, I know that feeling, we get shafted on price as well. The game is going for $110 NZ, with $70 I saw for this season pass, so thanks but no thanks.

It's even worse when you consider I am a filthy Englander, and I still remember going into town on the weekend to pick up several brand new games for thirty pounds for the lot. I don't think I'm ever going to get used to the merciless prices over here....

 

[Dragonlayer]

The difference being Lando was always strong-armed into the deal, while gamers have been 100% complicit in the practices that constitute the "deal." Oh, and Lando eventually did something, aiding the Rebellion and helping to strike a decisive blow against the Empire, while gamers continue to be complicit.

So I'm guessing every single person whose commentated in this thread so far does not live in Australia then, where this is the default price for new and often second-hand titles as well. As Yatzhee once said, "WELCOME TO MY WORLD MOTHERFUCKERS!"

But yeah, without actually detailing what the DLC promised by the pass is, that's a very hefty investment.

Well, except now there's going to be an additional cost incurred to anyone in Australia. Oh, and something about Australian spending power vs US spending power, meaning you're more likely to be able to absorb the financial hit than we are. But it's a totally fair comparison.

Mmmm, Capitalism....

Oh wait, I meant the opposite of that.

GRARRGH.

 

[Something Amyss]

Absolutely! If Star Wars fans could just mix their enthusiasm with a modicum of discrimination the franchise might be a in a better state now. I don't think they've realized yes, as a group anyway, that complaining AND buying everything is the same as just buying everything.

Even though I am a Star Wars fan, I always wanted Lucas to go full troll or something. Like "I'm sorry, I can't hear you over these mountains of cash." or make Jar-Jar the star of Episode 3.

 

[Something Amyss]

Hey, the future is full of infinite variety, so fingers crossed!

Episode 3: The Jar-Jar cut! Coming to iMax.

I can't wait for the Lucas cut of this game. Maybe he'll add in some actual content.

 

[Something Amyss]

Maybe we'll get really lucky and he'll slip into some kind of glorious senility, and still have total creative control. What if Indiana Jones used a lightsaber, and what if he were actually a Hutt?

He'd have to get control back, first.

However, your "senility" idea sounds more entertaining in the long-term than Battlefront.

We need a buddy cop series where Chewbacca and C3P0 clean up the mean streets of whatever planet they're on. And then we can get a co-op shooter out of it.

 

[Something Amyss]

Starring:
Dick Van Dyke as the voice of C3P0 (first read is it, no second takes, and the day he shows up he has to do it all cold. Ideally, he's not a Star Wars fan, and so the dialogue is largely gibberish to him.)

Ronda Rousey as Chewbacca (it's just her, in a fur bikini) and all of her dialogue is "Roooar"

Special guest star Cee Lo Green as Darth Vader's Force Ghost.

Oh dear god, this needs to be made!

 

[Something Amyss]

Stranger things have happened. For example, Trump.

I'm not convinced he isn't one of Lucas' creations. Perhaps his campaign if viral marketing for The Farce Awakens.

 

[Something Amyss]

Trump, being a bombastic rapist, makes me want to say "Sith" at first. Really though, at best he's a Hutt, more likely he's Jar Jar Binks' species.

Someone should ask him his opinion on Sand People. I hear there was a raid on a hard-working moisture farm recently.

 

[Something Amyss]

99.99999% Sure that if you asked Trump about "Sand People" he would assume that you meant Arabs, and go on a racist tirade.

Yeah, I had a joke lined up before but decided it was in poor taste and went for the New Hope ref instead.

 

[Something Amyss]

What is this "Poo aaar Taaaysssttt" you speak of?! I know of it not.

*makes terrible jokes, off color, falls flat, seppuku, funeral*

It's a prequel thing. Like Midichlorians and Jar-Jar. Hopefully it won't be in the NT.

 

[Setrus]

I liked the beta. While it clearly had some balancing issues, even those weren't so major once people got a little experience under their belts. I also feel an itch to play now after the beta, which I guess is a sign that they did it right.

So I'm still considering buying the game, yes.

The season pass though? No, not even remotely interested.
Worst part is that it might divide the player-base, which isn't too smart in a multi-centric game. If I can't play because everyone playing the Clone War dlc or whatever, then what? So the season pass here is not only unattractive to me, it's discouraging the purchase of the game at all.

Still, I managed to play battlefield 4 without any extra dlc's (although it sometimes was a bloody pain) so I guess battlefront is still on the table. Heck, if any of the future dlc's seem fun, I might buy them later on.

Of course, this was the opposite of EA's aim. This leads to no sure money from me. It leads to a maybe on the base game and then a maybe on every thing they might produce next to it, it leads to no pre-order (truly no reason to do that) and so not the assured income they wanted. Ah well, their loss.

 

[MCerberus]

Me before beta "Well we'll see what it's like"
Me after beta "Maybe we'll see how much content it launches with"
Me now "Welp, this got EA'd. I can't wait until they announce the 1000 preorder packages that auto unlock stuff for the game with the broken servers."

 

[stormtrooper9091]

it will be paid with daddy money anyway so what's the fuss

I'm gonna pass until it's reasonable, of course. Highway robberies are not my thing