After Complaints, EA is Lowering Hero Unlock Costs in Star Wars Battlefront II

<p>Today has not been a great day for the behemoth video game publisher&comma; Electronic Arts&period; While people are still worried about how EA will monetize <em>Titanfall 3<&sol;em> after their purchase of Respawn Entertainment&comma; and there are still elements of <em>Star Wars Battlefront II <&sol;em>that have people fuming&comma; the publisher has backpedaled on one aspect of the latter&&num;8217&semi;s content&period; In <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;ea&period;com&sol;games&sol;starwars&sol;battlefront&sol;battlefront-2&sol;news&sol;swbfii-changes-launch&quest;utm&lowbar;campaign&equals;swbf2&lowbar;hd&lowbar;ww&lowbar;ic&lowbar;soco&lowbar;twt&lowbar;swbfii-launchchangesblog-tw&amp&semi;utm&lowbar;source&equals;twitter&amp&semi;utm&lowbar;medium&equals;social&amp&semi;cid&equals;41287&amp&semi;ts&equals;1510608729384">a statement released today<&sol;a> by the Executive Producer at DICE&comma; John Wasilczyk announced that changes to the cost of unlocking heroes will be coming in an update released today&period; They will decrease the amount of credits required to purchase heroes by 75&percnt;&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The initial cost for hero characters like Luke Skywalker and Darth Vader were estimated to require about 40 hours to accumulate&period; <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;reddit&period;com&sol;r&sol;StarWarsBattlefront&sol;comments&sol;7cff0b&sol;seriously&lowbar;i&lowbar;paid&lowbar;80&lowbar;to&lowbar;have&lowbar;vader&lowbar;locked&sol;dppum98&sol;">EA initially responded claiming<&sol;a> &&num;8220&semi;<em>The intent is to provide players with a sense of pride and accomplishment for unlocking different heroes&period;<&sol;em>&&num;8221&semi; Obviously having to spend 40 hours to unlock a hero is preposterous&comma; and it didn&&num;8217&semi;t take long for EA to be forced into lowering the costs of characters like Skywalker and Vader to 15&comma;000 credits&period; Other characters like Emperor Palpatine&comma; Chewbacca&comma; and Leia Organa will cost 10&comma;000 credits&comma; and Iden will cost 5&comma;000 credits&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><em>Star Wars Battlefront II <&sol;em>releases on November 17th for PS4&comma; Xbox One and PC&period; Do these changes make you more likely to purchase the game now&quest; Let us know in the comments below&excl;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><strong>Source&colon; <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;ea&period;com&sol;games&sol;starwars&sol;battlefront&sol;battlefront-2&sol;news&sol;swbfii-changes-launch&quest;utm&lowbar;campaign&equals;swbf2&lowbar;hd&lowbar;ww&lowbar;ic&lowbar;soco&lowbar;twt&lowbar;swbfii-launchchangesblog-tw&amp&semi;utm&lowbar;source&equals;twitter&amp&semi;utm&lowbar;medium&equals;social&amp&semi;cid&equals;41287&amp&semi;ts&equals;1510608729384">EA Games<&sol;a><&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;