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Intrinsic

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AdmiralBulldog just finished the campaign. Took him just about 4 hours on hardest difficulty. Parts of it visually looked really impressive. Can’t really say much about the story as I was in / out of stream all morning.
 

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Wow. Just wow.


Guy playing arcade mode and was earning credits, the game stopped him, and now says he has to wait 3 hours before earning more credits.
 
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Utnayan

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In addition to the above stream link, someone else reported that it's a progressive time gate. It gets worse. After 3 hours, you earn more credits for a limited time, then gated you to 24 hours.

And wow on refunds. "Hey guys, we are making this too easy. Let's frustrate them and they will give up on trying to get a refund".
 

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Wow. Just wow.


Guy playing arcade mode and was earning credits, the game stopped him, and now says he has to wait 3 hours before earning more credits.
Thats nuts. Its sad...I've wanted to play both Battlefronts but I can't even bring myself to pay $10 for the first one when its on sale.
 
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spronk

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millions of bothans died to bring you this game

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Apparently for completing the campaign you used to get 20k, now you get 5k. So rewards scaled back to match the new cost!

You used to get 20k in a crate at the end when Vader cost 60k. Now you get 5k when Vader costs 15k. That's a single reward. So zero change in the one reward, but it's 75% faster across the board.

At the end of the campaign you will have earned about 10k credits. There are something like 250 achievements, many of which give credits. I had 23k credits probably 6 hours in, and thats without the campaign credits, and only about 5 achievements completed.

As far as the credit lock on arcade mode, they are faster games againts bots and they give out more credits. Most games give reduced rewards for fighting ai. It's all optics, if EA had reduced the credits per match against bots instead of capping them each day people wouldn't care.
 

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Honestly a big thing being overlooked through all of this is you get the same amount of credits for being top of your team and for being bottom of you team. You are not properly rewarded for playing better in the slightest, that's my first actual problem with the game.
 
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spronk

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If you bought it on PC you can still get a refund online go to https://help.ea.com/en/refund/

i bought it on PS4 and i think i'm screwed, Sony has always been kinda shitty about doing refunds. Imma play the campaign today and if the digital uproar convinces Sony to give everyone a refund, i'll join in the mob and get my $80 back. I sorta feel like a guy who was just eating a baguette during the french revolution and got caught up in the mob. Sony does have a rep of only giving a refund ONCE per lifetime per account though, and I got a refund long ago on Driveclub.

If you bought it (digitally) on xbox microsoft.com is supposed to be pretty good about giving out refunds.
 
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If you bought it on PC you can still get a refund online go to https://help.ea.com/en/refund/

i bought it on PS4 and i think i'm screwed, Sony has always been kinda shitty about doing refunds. Imma play the campaign today and if the digital uproar convinces Sony to give everyone a refund, i'll join in the mob and get my $80 back. I sorta feel like a guy who was just eating a baguette during the french revolution and got caught up in the mob. Sony does have a rep of only giving a refund ONCE per lifetime per account though, and I got a refund long ago on Driveclub.

If you bought it (digitally) on xbox microsoft.com is supposed to be pretty good about giving out refunds.

You can get refunds on ps4. Contact them. A lot of people are doing it. This is No Mand sky meets Hiroshima as far as the PR fallout, Sony will be protecting themselves at this point.
 

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Ooooohkay I take it back. This is all very clearly unethical.

Good lord.
 
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Namon

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Wow I stopped playing Candy Crush because I thought it was a shit model... and now they ported that model almost point for point to a 60 dollar game? I'm usually not one to squawk at micro transactions but holy shit this is like god tier levels of shit scum. Damn I'm almost impressed at their ability to have a straight face for this.
 
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Kiroy

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Wow. Just wow.


Guy playing arcade mode and was earning credits, the game stopped him, and now says he has to wait 3 hours before earning more credits.


Literally a free to play mobile game that you play on your computer and pay $60 for.
 
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