Star Wars Battlefront II DICE Developer AMA

Hi. I only have one question and I’m sorry it’s a long one. I’m sure there will be plenty asking about loot boxes and unlocking heroes but I want to ask about gameplay rewards. Only just yesterday I was playing Battlefield One, a great game (at least I didn’t feel like I was getting destroyed by people that were spending money on loot crates and that shouldn’t be the new benchmark for what makes a good game from now on by the way) with a sense of actual personal achievement when you play well. Myself and another guy in my squad finished in the top 3 in a game that lasted over half an hour yet I had half the kills that he did and over twice as many deaths. But I finished in the top 3 with a decent score because I was playing the objective and I got rewarded for it with experience relative to what I achieved during the match. Two other guys in my squad decided they were going to snipe for the entire game, they didn’t do very well and any time we spawned on them we were miles away from where we needed to be. They both ended up in the bottom 6 players with only a percentage of the score the top guys achieved and, in my opinion, deservedly so as they never changed tactics or tried anything to realistically assist us. Now with the new system in place in Battlefront 2 those same guys will have earned the same amount of credits as me. This is the biggest problem I have with the game and this is where I get my sense of personal achievement when playing games like this. I feel like I’m being forced to accept that I’m the same as everybody else, not better and not worse and no matter what I do to help my team win I will be rewarded with the same end of game credits as a guy that decided it’s just as easy earning credits by doing the minimum amount of to not get kicked from the match. I REALLY want to play this game, I really do. But where is the fun in that?

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