On the night before Star Wars Battlefront 2 launched, EA decided to pull in-game microtransactions due to an uproar from fans. The microtransactions would have allowed players to purchase loot boxes that contained Star Cards, the primary form of upgrades for the various characters and classes in the game. It’s a system that would have given players willing to spend money an advantage over those that did not, commonly called “pay-to-win.” At the time, the decision to add them back in the game was up in the air pending what I can only imagine were a lot of frantic meetings, but most people leaned towards the idea that EA would eventually find a way to work microtransactions back in. All future add-on content for Star Wars Battlefront 2 is free, after all, so having no post-launch revenue stream makes persistent support difficult. In a statement to the Wall Street Journal today, EA CFO Blake Jorgensen confirmed that Battlefront 2 microtransactions will be returning sometime “in the next few months.” His statement confirms that EA and DICE are actively working on solutions to this problem, the most likely one being that loot boxes will now contain exclusively cosmetic customization options. “We’ll do it when we think it’s ready,” Jorgensen continued. How re-adding Battlefront 2 microtransactions will change the entire progression system of the Battlefront 2 remains to be seen.
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