A new roadmap for Star Wars Battlefront II goes over the new content that players can expect throughout the rest of 2018. Kicking things off this month will be the introduction of Hero Starfighters, a new four vs. four PvP mode that will pit players against each other in hero ship battles. As well as ...]

Here's when to expect specific Clone Wars characters and maps.

Here's when to expect specific Clone Wars characters and maps.

Electronic Arts took a ton of flak last winter for how Star Wars Battlefront II handled loot boxes, but somehow it's always seemed to avoid the same sort of push-back when it came to its EA Sports titles and Ultimate Team modes. It sounds like the publisher is trying to get ahead of the story this ...]

Star Wars Battlefront II was the game which stirred the most vociferous action against loot boxes, but it wasn’t the first EA game to make use of the random blind purchase model. EA Sports titles - FIFA in particular - have offered similar purchases for years as part of the wildly popular Ultimate Team mode. They aren’t going away, but EA does plan a significant change for them starting this year.
Starting with this year’s EA Sports titles, EA will now disclose the odds for Ultimate Team packs. That change will affect FIFA 19 and Madden NFL 19 most obviously, and could indicate that EA plans to move toward more transparency for this monetization scheme across any future titles - though don’t expect them to drop the loot box model entirely.
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“Our model is sustainable,” EA Sports vice president and COO Daryl Holt tells . Holt says that the controversy over Battlefront II has “certainly changed us - in the way it always does in terms of anything you hear from a player or from the industry - in how we all react and adapt to it.”
The disclosure of pack odds for sports titles is one such change coming as a result of that feedback, and Holt says it’s an indication of “how we communicate and we deal with live service models and how we test things and implement feedback across all of EA.”

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