That's easy to explain. EA has an actual monopoly on Star Wars content, and will only generate titles that follow their greed-driven endeavors. There is no real creativity to these games anymore. The new Battlefront was, in its sole purpose, a flashy DLC platform, and still is. The new SWTOR content is good, as long as you pay up a greater-than-small amount of money to access it (but good luck playing the game if you aren't a subscriber).
Outside of DLC for SWTOR, I wouldn't expect any Star Wars game from EA that isn't a shooter.
EA's checklist for games:
- Push Frostbite engine onto everything, regardless if it's a feasible for the game.
- Listen to only focus-testers that want dumbed-down, instant-gratification features.
On a bright note, these patch notes read as if Massive went down a checklist of primary player complaints from the betas and addressed them, thoroughly. This is a very welcome change from the norm we've grown accustomed to over the years. Good on them.
@butterworth: I'm glad to know that you did that for exactly that reason! While I'm not happy that there are any microtransactions in the game, I'm glad that it doesn't seem to be what I had initially feared.
You put down slow progression as a negative, and the game has microtransactions to boost XP gains.
That is a major problem. Progression systems in which microtransactions are offered are always designed to curtail the player's advancement just enough to convince them to spend more money. This is unacceptable for a full-price title.
This isn't a Rainbow Six game...it's yet another bastardation of a good title and once-amazing series. Publishers are too scared and far too greedy to allow the creation of another Raven Shield.
This game is still plagued by issues we reported to Zenimax during our time in the closed beta 8 months ago. This game deserves the score it's received.
@GSGuy321 I consider myself to be a console gamer before a PC gamer, and I will say this: PC gaming is coming back, and it is coming back for total domination. The Xbox One and PS4 simply are not nearly as impressive as they should be, they're underpowered and running on four-year-old hardware. They're already miles behind, and the PC gaming industry is making new developments every day.
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