It’s worth mentioning that you can no longer spend a dime, so your point is moot. They removed the premium currency after the backlash. The progression was also changed. Still sucks, but far less than it did in the beta and launch week.

A disappointment to you, but thanks for speaking for all of us.

You’re absolutely wrong. Disney has been cherry-picking the EU and trying to rebuild a better continuity. Hell, we just got a new Zahn book about Thrawn that largely maintains his original backstory. Give it time.

Criterion actually did the starfighter battles in Battlefront 2, so they’ve already had their hands on the IP.

Years ago I was in a meeting with EA leadership where I presented first quarter revenue projections for my project and one of ‘em replied “I wouldn’t get out of bed for less than (twice the amount I projected).” So...yeah.

Sadly, almost all of the Republic Commando team was let go shortly after it was released, but there was actually early work done on Imperial Commando. Reading Rogue Leaders: The Story of LucasArts always breaks my heart.

Be careful what you wish for

Yes. It’s all about search engine optimization. Unlike other platforms where discovery isn’t such a huge obstacle, mobile game titles either a) tell you exactly what the game loop is (Flappy Bird) or b) are constructed to play off the names of Top 10 games (Clash of Insert Thing Here) in the hopes that you click on…

Projectile from Dark Empire II’s Galaxy Gun (1995)

And you can go back to telling kids to get off your lawn. Fuck off, you have nothing of value to offer to this thread. Just another armchair designer comparing game development 20 years ago to the challenges of modern game development with entitled assholes like you to contend with.

EA’s justification is the cliffhanger left in the launch version of the game.

Malice is different than just not having a moral compass. I would agree with the OP that malice is not the driving factor, they just give zero fucks.

So, you read the Wikipedia article, good for you. It’s not based on the lettering in those comics, it’s an early 90's take on hand-lettering in comics in general. The designer just happened to have those two comics handy when he was coming up with it. It gets some of the informality correct, but lacks any…

The Upside Down is a dark, toxic, nightmare version of our dimension. It’s just a more contemporary way of saying “we’re through the looking glass.” What’s so hard to understand?

Sure, so using the GTKRWN acronym was just ironic. Advocating for an ethnostate is easier to sell to the masses than admitting they want to exterminate anyone who doesn’t meet their ideas of purity. Or did you just skip those parts of the article?

I love fun, so I loved Pocket Camp for about a day. There’s almost no content, and no variety in the game loop. Nearly everything that matters to AC fans is missing - no skill required for fishing or catching insects. No museum (and no fossils). Frustratingly small amount of customization. World isn’t seamless, just a…

Disney pressured EA because Star Wars is a flagship property and the bad press pissed off Bob Iger.

You’re an interesting person, willing to defend a publisher that consistently undermines customer trust. They don’t care about you, they care about their quarterly earnings. They will fix this game just enough to quiet the bad publicity, and not a bit more.

So what? That’s not a statistical sample, you cannot extrapolate anything from that example.

You realize that the P2W system was turned off before the game launched, right? The people who pre-ordered and were playing it a few days early had a very different experience.There’s nothing convincing about you saying you’ve “never had an issue” with a game that’s a couple weeks old and had its most contentious…