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Sorry the the long post/rant but maybe some will come to identify with it.
My Uncle, nephew, and myself all got Star Wars Battlefront for Christmas on PS4, and XBox one for my nephew. Between the 3 of us, we spanned the widest breadth of gamers one can imagine. The 60+ crowd, the 40’s lifetime gamer, and the under 13 group. After giving all the single player modes a ton of time, and spending a week in mp modes, happy to have the game being hyped up on Star Wars movie and lifelong Star Wars fans, we came away feeling this was one of the worst gaming experiences we’d ever had. Since there’s nothing but crap for the single player gaming experience our initial wow at dealing with AT-AT walkers in mp gave way to the realization that the majority of people playing were of 3 camps:
#1 - Maxed out players who become nearly invincible to newbies due to equipment and an endless supply of cards.
#2 - People with keyboard/mouse adapter setups giving them an incredible advantage in shooting.
#3 - People who pretty much only play this game or other shooters in all their free time.
My poor Uncle, no matter days of trying, only managed ~10 kills combined in all our mp sessions. Seeing how the only way you can get better equipment is in mp for mp, he was never able to upgrade much of anything, though he did use my options when he could. But coupled with the fact he could only get 1 middle card for a match it doesn’t really help a lot when it was painfully obvious the same people who racked up 90% of the kills in our sessions were constantly using homing missiles that required cards to utilize. We did read reviews, but didn’t think the low 72% aggregate could be justified when looking at the action online. I’ve played Madden online with random people, I’ve played GTA V online with random people, and the experience of what should have been an amazing Star Wars experience was instead made horrible. My uncle and I managed to do every heist and option in GTA V together, yet this was untenable.
To add insult to injury I had hard earned weapons I paid for disappear and ended up in an argument with EA Tech Support after spending half a day trying to find a way to get in touch with a human there. I was very nice and cordial, but the EA rep was an ass. After saying they would refuse to do anything, not even submit a bug report because no one else had reported it happening (yes how do bugs get properly reported if they refuse to log them), the guy said Star Wars was exactly what fans wanted because EA did a survey with the last Battlefront game. A rated M" Battlefront game, and EA in their brilliance decided no kids wouod be getting it for zchristmas that weren’t part of the adult crowd, and no one wanted a single player campaign, and it needed to be this unforgiving to non-pro players. When I told him younger Star Wars fans would not have been voting because their other games are rated for kids 17 and older he said, “Well it’s their own fault for owning a rated T game”. I was flabbergasted that a CSR had the balls to claim that all the reviews were wrong, that EA had done their job by running a lame poll that didn’t include half the fan base for the new movie, that my bug wasn’t relevant. When my family went to the movie, easily half of everyone there was under the age of 13. So at this point I was a bit irritated, I didn’t care at that point about hours of game time wasted losing spent I game points, but the fact EA had deluded themselves into thinking no one under the age of 17 should be playing Star Wars Battlefront. Using logic, I asked why there was no general chat feature, why the only way you could chat was to have a private group of friends, and he told me EA didn’t want kids exposed to bad language.
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