Current Events > Star Wars battlefront 2 still SOLD 9 million copies... lol @ reddit, gamers

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Ur movement of hating ea games and destroying lives of people who made this game never worked

9 million in 3 months!
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Not gonna lie I bought it because I thought the game was really immersive in the beta but I got tired of it within a week, the map rotation was so bad and it just felt so shallow :(

I think I'm one of a handful of people who actually enjoyed the singleplayer story though.
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SOLD

caps
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still down from the first game.
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We did it reddit!
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9 million, as opposed to 18 million so who knows dawg.
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It was packed into ps4 bundles.

As such that is a pathetic number.

My brother bought a ps4 and didn't even open the sw:bf2 box till I came over and was like "why not?"
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EA's stock completely recovered, as well
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Were_Wyrm posted...

We did it reddit!

darkphoenix181 posted...

It was packed into ps4 bundles.

As such that is a pathetic number.

My brother bought a ps4 and didn't even open the sw:bf2 box till I came over and was like "why not?"

lol no it isn't
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Is this the new Justice League, whereby people don't understand that with a huge investment you need an even bigger return to recoup the costs of licensing, production, and marketing before turning a profit? They spent so much on the damn thing that the game needed to essentially be the biggest selling game of the year rather than "merely" one of the biggest games of the year to get back in the black.
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neckbeards taking the L, across the globe.
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K181 posted...

Is this the new Justice League, whereby people don't understand that with a huge investment you need an even bigger return to recoup the costs of licensing, production, and marketing before turning a profit? They spent so much on the damn thing that the game needed to essentially be the biggest selling game of the year rather than "merely" one of the biggest games of the year to get back in the black.

This guy gets it
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Old NoiseTank posted...

neckbeards taking the L, across the globe.

Its the Neckbeard thing to do is to buy the game anyway because yu're a fan rather than being a smart consumer. Yea neckbeard took a L. The ones who bought this suck ass game
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Thats... not that many for a game like that
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Is there a campaign or is it just multiplayer?
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I didn't buy the game and loot crates don't bother me so I didn't get the uproar because I just didn't want it. However, this is a dumb thread because its only measuring the success of the outrage based on terms of sales.

The outrage did change things:
-- EA made changes to the game in direct response to the complaints.
-- There is no way of knowing how many units would have been sold if the complaints didn't happen. 9 million is a lot but its all relative and you don't how much they would have sold.
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It was 1 million under target. So it is a slight disappointment. Combining that with the lack of microtransactions EA did feel a hit from the controversy.

Still no where near a disaster though. They would have made their money back.
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Sativa_Rose posted...

Is there a campaign or is it just multiplayer?

Yes there's a campaign, it's about as long as a Battlefield or Call of Duty game.
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Reddit always has this chronic condition of thinking themselves as way more important than they actually are. Bunch of kids with 0 clue as to how the world works lol
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Also FWIW the game is broken to the point where you can't redeem your challenge rewards (such as "get 20 kills with the grenade" or "capture an objective 30 times"), and the subreddit for the game is basically just thread after thread after thread of people asking how to fix it.
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Hexenherz posted...

Also FWIW the game is broken to the point where you can't redeem your challenge rewards (such as "get 20 kills with the grenade" or "capture an objective 30 times"), and the subreddit for the game is basically just thread after thread after thread of people asking how to fix it.

Wow lol, they released something that didn't even work
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I'm 1 of those 9 million. Game is pretty good once you upgrade all your shit. They took out the microtransactions so that's a plus.

it's a fun game
progression sucks, but progression in multiplayer games suck anyway
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Sativa_Rose posted...

Hexenherz posted...

Also FWIW the game is broken to the point where you can't redeem your challenge rewards (such as "get 20 kills with the grenade" or "capture an objective 30 times"), and the subreddit for the game is basically just thread after thread after thread of people asking how to fix it.

Wow lol, they released something that didn't even work

Yeah it's been an issue for the past several weeks and everyone's like what the hell. No word on it getting fixed apparently.
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Call of Duty WW2 sales must have been huge. It beat Battlefront 2 everywhere by a lot as far as I know.

Nothing stops the COD train.
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youngfossil posted...

K181 posted...

Is this the new Justice League, whereby people don't understand that with a huge investment you need an even bigger return to recoup the costs of licensing, production, and marketing before turning a profit? They spent so much on the damn thing that the game needed to essentially be the biggest selling game of the year rather than "merely" one of the biggest games of the year to get back in the black.

This guy gets it

Not just that, but even if the game was marginally profitable, nobody spends a huge amount of money to only make a small amount of profit. That's a horrible ROI.
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prince_leo posted...

it's a fun game
progression sucks, but progression in multiplayer games suck anyway

I have hundreds of hours into this game and I'm only level 30. XP goes up so slow in this game.

K181 posted...

Not just that, but even if the game was marginally profitable, nobody spends a huge amount of money to only make a small amount of profit. That's a horrible ROI.

I really don't think 9 million sales in less than 3 months would have been a horrible ROI for them.
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Darmik posted...

Call of Duty WW2 sales must have been huge. It beat Battlefront 2 everywhere by a lot as far as I know.

Nothing stops the COD train.

that was so depressing. I tried the beta, knew it was going to be garbage, gave my predictions about the future of the game after launch, got called a troll by a bunch of idiots excited about "boots on the ground" Call of Duty gameplay by the best company ever omg123123!@!!!!!! and then... got to see my predictions come even truer than I ever anticipated, and see those same idiots who did spend money on it complaining about the company.

I don't know what the hell is wrong with people that they're willing to throw money away like that.
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K181 posted...

Is this the new Justice League, whereby people don't understand that with a huge investment you need an even bigger return to recoup the costs of licensing, production, and marketing before turning a profit? They spent so much on the damn thing that the game needed to essentially be the biggest selling game of the year rather than "merely" one of the biggest games of the year to get back in the black.

but only sold 1 million less than what they were expecting
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we did it reddit
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We didn't do it Reddit!
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Pretty sure 9 mil is already a huge ROI. Games don't need several million to break even all the time. It's just that they can earn even more money with even more sales and even more microtransaction
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if they sold 9 million copies how come the original has more players online
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Darmik posted...

K181 posted...

Not just that, but even if the game was marginally profitable, nobody spends a huge amount of money to only make a small amount of profit. That's a horrible ROI.

I really don't think 9 million sales in less than 3 months would have been a horrible ROI for them.

When it was under their target projections and without a big chunk of their microtransaction income, yeah it was.

marc55 posted...

K181 posted...

Is this the new Justice League, whereby people don't understand that with a huge investment you need an even bigger return to recoup the costs of licensing, production, and marketing before turning a profit? They spent so much on the damn thing that the game needed to essentially be the biggest selling game of the year rather than "merely" one of the biggest games of the year to get back in the black.

but the only sold 1 million less than what they were expecting

Less than their low end projections and without their ancillary income that they had been banking on. So, in reality, they probably expected a lot more and expected a huge infusion of supplemental income from their purchasers on a regular basis.
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K181 posted...

When it was under their target projections and without a big chunk of their microtransaction income, yeah it was.

Being under target projections (which likely would have been insane) doesn't mean it was a horrible ROI.

This was a game developed in two years built off the previous game that already sold 14 million.

We're talking about a game that was expected to be insanely profitable being kicked down to crazy profitable.
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If Microsoft is serious about buying EA they'd be happy about this news at least lol
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Darmik posted...

It was 1 million under target. So it is a slight disappointment. Combining that with the lack of microtransactions EA did feel a hit from the controversy.

Still no where near a disaster though. They would have made their money back.

Once again you talk out of your ass about things you have no clue about

http://www.pcgamer.com/ea-tells-investors-turning-off-battlefront-2s-microtransactions-will-not-affect-earnings/
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ZombiePelican posted...

Darmik posted...

It was 1 million under target. So it is a slight disappointment. Combining that with the lack of microtransactions EA did feel a hit from the controversy.

Still no where near a disaster though. They would have made their money back.

Once again you talk out of your ass about things you have no clue about

http://www.pcgamer.com/ea-tells-investors-turning-off-battlefront-2s-microtransactions-will-not-affect-earnings/

They're turning microtransactions back on in March. Not sure what point you're trying to say here. You don't think BF2 wouldn't have made more money if they've had the microtransactions on?
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https://www.gamespot.com/articles/star-wars-battlefront-2-underperforms-microtransac/1100-6456447/

yay.
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So whens the free dlc maps coming out?
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Nostalgic posted...

So whens the free dlc maps coming out?

the first season had a couple that came out in december
the next season is set to come out soon
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Were_Wyrm posted...

We did it reddit!

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