After long and tedious debates around the monetary concept of Star Wars: Battlefront 2, the sequel to the action game may finally be released in fiscal 2020. 24e2b
During the Q3 2018 earnings call, Electronic Arts (aka EA) announced that Stars Wars: Battlefront 3 will be launched by Respawn Entertainment — a company acquired by EA in November 2017 — between April 2019 and March 2020.
The release of the also peculiar to Star Wars: Battlefront 2) required a stroke of luck and a great deal of money to get a certain item. Such a combination was then considered as gambling, equating loot boxes with vintage slots, roulette, and other casino games of chance.
The first country to take action against boxes out of the game.
EA CFO Blake Jorgensen, in turn, has a different point of view. During the Quarter 3 2018 earnings call, he claimed “We do not believe that loot boxes and similar mechanics are forms of gambling. I think there are plenty of governments around the world that have agreed with us on that. And there isn’t just us, it is the entire industry. We work very carefully and closely with all of our industry partners and the ESA the industry live services with them, that some may be misconstrued as a loot box or a gambling mechanism.”
Whichever side you choose in this dispute — be it EA or Belgium, it doesn’t actually matter now as the hype surrounding the blatant “pay-to-win” mechanism in Star Wars: Battlefront 2 has waned, giving EA a virtually free hand in proceeding with the development of the next Star Wars game.
Unlike the previous two Battlefront games won’t be long in coming and can be expected closer to Summer 2019.
