The Epic Games Store offers its users another high-quality free game: Vom 14. until 21. January “Star Wars: Battlefront 2” can be downloaded for free. Once the game is in the library, you can play it permanently for free.

“Battlefront 2” came 2017 for big account failures on the market: In early game versions, which testers could play before the start, an aggressive lootbox system was included. Important game characters for the multiplayer shooter could only be unlocked via loot boxes with random content – in addition to money, luck was required.

Important game characters such as Darth Vader and Luke Skywalker could also be unlocked without microtransactions, however only with great expenditure of time. Players perceived this strategy as particularly cynical and raised the alarm on all channels. As the discussion spilled into mainstream international media and politics, Electronic Arts removed all microtransactions from the game. They later came back in severely limited form.

The excitement surrounding “Star Wars: Battlefront 2” sparked an ongoing debate about loot boxes in video games. Among other things, this led to the ban on loot boxes in countries like Belgium. In its blockbuster video games, publisher Electronic Arts has been comparatively cautious with loot boxes since the “Battlefront” debacle. An exception are the annual sports games such as “Madden” and “Fifa”, whose Ultimate Team modes continue to generate huge sums of money with the sale of loot boxes.

Trailer for “Battlefront 2”

(Source: EA / DICE / Motive / Criterion) “Battlefront 2” fought its way back “Battlefront 2”, on the other hand, developed splendidly: The single-player campaign remains playful and irrelevant in terms of content, while the developers have continuously expanded the multiplayer mode over the years . With numerous new maps, game classes and heroes, “Star Wars: Battlefront 2” has developed into a multiplayer hit, despite the worst possible start. On Steam recommend the game 89 percent of the above 13. 000 Reviews, a very good value.

Regularly “Battlefront 2” costs 40 Euro on Steam. If you buy in the Epic Games Store, you can still save a lot of money. PC gamers cannot avoid EA’s Origin client on Steam or in the Epic Games Store – it is a prerequisite for playing most EA titles. Anyone who has subscribed to EA’s subscription service EA Play can play “Battlefront 2” for free anyway.

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