Hawaii Representative Chris Lee recently held a press conference where he talked about “future protections for kids, youth, and everyone” when it comes to the predatory practices of online gaming,” and as one can assume, he was referring to EA’s Star Wars Battlefront II. ![]() ![]() While EA did cave in and took away all microtransactions in the game, albeit temporarily, it might be too little too late given how gamers, and even branches of governments from different countries have already tagged started investigating the game due to its rather “unique” approach to gameplay design and its glaring similarities to online gambling luck putting both players and problem gamblers at risk.Īside from earning the ire of games worldwide, the Battlefront II pay-to-win microtransaction fiasco has even caught the attention of governments too! Not only is Belgium taking a look to see if Battlefront II’s loot crate system is a type of gambling, but even Hawaii is getting in on it as well. ![]() Much has been said already regarding EA’s predatory way of handling Star Wars Battlefront II’s progression system and microtransaction elements, and it’s almost always not good.
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