Blizzard Pokes Fun At Star Wars Battlefront 2 On Twitter

Except you had to buy 3 games to get Starcraft 2....

Haha, Blizzard poking fun at others for this type of bullshit? That's rich.

that's ironic in the typical blizzard fashion when you take a look at the billions of dollars that company earns and yet they make paid boxes in a game that is not free to play like overwatch, feels like they just want to wear the goodie goodie hat, but in the end they are as greedy as EA

I'm "trying to get over it" but I cannot until someone allows me back into the chatroom, I was talking about blizzards issue with EA.

Didn't all of the extra commanders in SC2 only become accessible with $4.99 in real cash?

Not defending EA, but wasn't Starcraft 2 split into 3 games where you could only use one faction per expansion?

"number of hours before you can play any co-op commander = 0"... maybe I'm wrong, but I think you only get to demo most of them, and then you have to pay to keep em (with no way of earning in game). Seems worse than Bf2's deal to me...

Let's not forget this is the company that brought you Diablo 3 v1.0 (aka, the game who's endgame was designed around people selling each other items [and maybe Bliz even created/sold some themselves] for significant amounts of real cash that Bliz of course took a hefty cut of).

And WoW sells its own gold (and manipulates the market to accommodate it). And WoW time gates 6 hours worth of content over several months...

And then there's Hearthstone (period).

etc, etc, etc.

They're both scum, but I'd argue Bliz is actually worse.

I think it's quite brave of Activision-Blizzard to be playing the "Aren't we so good" card considering their recent patent filings and the crap they're pulling with loot boxes in the new COD.

Overwatch popularized lootboxes.

“Bordering on a pay-to-win scenario”.

Umm no, the loot box system is explicitly pay to win. Might want to change this line.

But Starcraft 2's story is divided into 3 parts. You only get the first part for free, and then you need to buy the expansions to continue. With Battlefront 2, the single player story is 100% there, with no future DLC needed to complete it.

That's kinda funny, but Blizzard isn't anything special to me anymore. Not sure they've earned much turd-slinging credit in a long time

Kind of funny blizzard tried to do it when their hearthstone maintenance cost can cost upwards like over $500 per year and overwatch loot box revenues causes dev to try to imitate the profits (and in some cases like battlefront 2, made it worst)

I hope the game industry is taking notice to BF 2 bad publicity...

I don't really understand why Blizz is talking shit when the cost to actually enjoy hearthstone is at least 10 packs from each xpac and then crafting staples which costs dust which costs more packs cuz dust generates from duplicates.