This especially includes the single player, which treads a tightrope across the different epochs of Star Wars and manages to safely get over. Though it’s a much lesser crime than potentially luring teens into spending their savings on digital baubles, the loot crates issue also overshadowed that the dev team – many of whom may in fact not have gotten into games development with the sole intention of one day angering those who play them and ruining a beloved franchise – managed to make a fairly decent Star Wars game. And I don’t want to defend loot crates themselves. My position on loot crates pivoted from ‘it’s fine if it doesn’t really affect the game’ to ‘yeah fuck that, we need better ways to sustain AAA development’ right around the time I realised how much pre-teens love spending money on FIFA Ultimate Team and how much parents love not having to supervise their pre-teens every waking hour.
To be clear, the hate that Star Wars Battlefront II received was not entirely unwarranted, since the microtransactions were jammed into the game’s Star Card progression system as elegantly as someone mashing chicken nuggets into the disc drive of your actual fucking Xbox, except for the purposes of our metaphor they’d also demanded a tenner for every nugget. The traditional post-release cycle of hot-takes would dictate that I explain why I dislike a game that everyone else loved (Why Super Mario Odyssey Is Actually The Worst Mario Game Ever Made), but in this instance we’re showing some love to a game that was on the receiving end of a lot of hate in a display of reverse hot-takery (hot-fakery?).
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