Yeah this comes off as a disgusting, greedy move with poor justification from a person who clearly viewers the playerbase as a bunch of wallets, not people.
The Star Wars one at least could possibly make some sense after some extreme mental gymnastics
You'd have to be a mental gymnast to try and rationalize EA's Battlefront games. How the literal, figurative and metaphorical fuck do you make two Battlefronts and neither of them have Anakin Skywalker or Obi-Wan Kenobi in them? Now a quick Google search is telling me both were added later to BF2 but how much bleach chugging is required to omit either from the release version, never mind both?