One can only hope this means less game crashes and more sessions that are actually joinable.

It’s the end of an era! More than two years since it launched, Electronic Arts is finally ready to draw the curtain on Star Wars Battlefront 2, with a slice of downloadable content that will make the game “complete”.

Star Wars Battlefront 2 had just been released and something was rotten in the state of Denmark. Loot boxes were out of control, the chances of unlocking a character to use in a multiplayer game required a grind of note and in a spot of damage control, EA’s mystery community manager of reddit left a comment that had players fuming. A comment that would go on to make history.

It was revealed that the monolith AAA games publisher has been doing at least something to make it up to the hundreds of workers in their employ

Providing testimony to the UK parliament regarding the implementation of blind loot boxes, EA has shared some rather choice words in its attempt to rebrand.

Over the years, video games have given birth to plenty of these moments outside of the confines of a digital download or a physical disc. Here’s a bunch of them…if you dare to read them.

Star Wars: Battlefront 2 has been marred with controversy since its release and rightly so, as the game introduced some truly microtransaction systems that almost forced players into spending money on lootboxes. Despite the game’s good sales, the backlash from fans was massive. The game’s systems even prompted investigations from governments. And it appears that developer DICE realized that they …

EA may have had a ton of controversy on its hands thanks to greedy business practises within their games, but the publisher and developer still made mad bank in 2017.