Yeah, any excitement I had for this just keeps dying down a little bit more every time I hear pretty much anything about it.

I suppose we'll have to see how things are with the beta.

I'll probably still buy it used

That's the problem these days, games developers/publishers will make some very bad decisions (Square/Enix, Konami, Ubi-Soft, Activision, etc) but people still buy it in the millions and then that bad decision doesn't get corrected, or at the very least takes them a while to realize it was a bad decision.

Yes, very stupid. I mean, I'd buy Persona 5 day one if I could just because its Persona but still.

Yeah, I expect that to be the general gist of the game. Solid gameplay, but lack of meaningful content (or simply postponed till the DLC fest), among other quibbles.

So as I said above, still want the game cause Star Wars and I need a good FPS game to play again, but postponing my experience until a complete edition is released.

I don't think Battlefront was ever really meant to be a highly competitive game.

If dice doesn't make competitive games, then I don't see why SWB would be a failure simply because it's also not a competitive game. People will try to turn anything into a competition.

EA is giving us plenty of other reasons to think that the game is going to not be that great.

Eh, it's a DICE game, that's all I need to know to not buy this game at launch. Just recently the Bf4 Summer Patch claimed to eliminate dusting on vehicles (for those not in the know, dusting is the term for when you shoot at a vehicle and you visually see the hit, complete with explosion effect and a large smoke blowout on hit, yet your target recieved no damage because the server screwed up the hit detection) ... it's now worse than ever.


Basically, my jaded advice is: wait out the launch for at least a week or so, read (player!) reviews and if SW: BF is not working satisfyingly at launch and needs patches to work properly, scrap the idea of buying it. DICE patches fix one thing and break two others. And the patch after the next one will reintroduce formerly patched issues.

Oh, and a word on reviews: do not ever, under any circumstances trust any pre-release review for any sort of MP game, or just the MP component of a reviewed game in general. Because even the most thoroughly tested game pre-release (and who am I kidding, gaming journalist reviewers don't thoroughly test games, because that takes time and would mean that whilst you're doing a 100% playthrough, another lazy reviewers just publishes his barebones review first and hogs all the viewers, which is were the money's at!), won't have the same server load the game would have to deal with after launch when thousands of players are playing the game over various internet connections with varying amounts of speed, packetloss, latency, etc. pp. compared to the clean test environment of a couple editor colleagues over a local LAN network or test server. Post-release reviews are the only representative opinion you can get on MP games, period.
The gaming press was praising Battlefield 4 in droves right before the release and we all (ought to) know how that one worked out ...

I'm pretty sure "meaningful" content is just content in general like maps, game modes, etc.

The content can be as engaging as it wants, if there isn't enough of it there I'm not dishing out $80 for the game. I'll just consider it once it goes on sale like I did for Titanfall, which also suffered from a lack of content.