Players may currently pre-register for Star Wars: Rivals, and in doing so gain access to some bonuses. For the pre-registrations, we'll receive for a limited time, exclusive access to special support units. For those who do so through Goggle Play, they'll receive access to the Imperial Death Troopers to fight alongside players in PvP skirmishes with advanced weapons and cover fire. For iOS users, they'll get access to the Rebel Special Forces, giving them health restoration out on the battlefield.
Instead of a new and interesting 3rd person shooter or action/RPG that many fans have been clamoring for, we are getting a yet another bland, half-assed, cover-based shooter with a Star Wars skin- complete with grind heavy, loot-box-laden bore-fest.
In a post I wrote months ago, "Of Midichlorians and Microtransactions: The Force Asphyxiated," I explained a large part of the Star Wars games' problem:
This doesn't bode well for the Star Wars game as it sounded like the game was "shaping up to be a story-based, linear adventure game," under Visceral's good hands, but now it may be becoming something much closer in alignment with EA's push towards a "games as service model." Meaning it might wind up like Battlefront, being all hype and no substance, and completely riddled with preposterous microtransactions for every little thing, of which we can only expect more of this same old shit from with the release of Battlefront 2 soon. It's the same thing for Star Wars: Galaxy of Heroes, Star Wars: Force Collection, and Star Wars: Force Arena, they are cheap games designed to siphon money off of players instead of creating a unique and memorable story in a beloved franchise. All the really good Star Wars games have been cancelled or shut down- Star Wars: 1313, the mobile game Star Wars: Uprising, the Untitled Darth Maul Project, and the amazing potential of Disney Infinity.
So when EA says, "We want to take the time to get each game right, to make it unique, to make it amazing," I don't believe it. When the game arrives we'll see if they really want a good story and experience, or if it follows the path of the Dead Space games, getting worse with each new installment, getting worse with each step away from a great single player experience, and closer to the large multiplayer messes. We even know that Dead Space 3's original plan was great, and EA flubbed that up in the name of the almighty dollar, proving that they've become the money-hungry monsters worshiping a Marker with a big green S spray-painted on its front.
Will Disney and EA realize that maybe we might want something more akin to the very underappreciated and truly fun Dead Space Mobile game? It's a small, but highly replayable, 3rd person game with a good controls and a great story that expands the lore and universe of the main games, while telling us a riveting stand-alone tale from a completely new perspective. Sure, they could add a competitive shooter arena on top of it, but there's been a plethora of complaints about Disney/EA not wanting to make single player games recently, which is completely idiotic- have they not seen how well The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild has done? Or how about Hellblade, Nier: Automata, Horizon: Zero Dawn, Cuphead, Nioh, and Uncharted 4?
Maybe some of the backlash is due to not producing anything for the neglected single-player market. Just take a look at the mass
We want new mobile games like Dark Forces, X-Wing/TIE Fighter, or the Jedi Academy games. Or how about a Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic version of Marvel Future Fight? With the ever-expanding roster of Star Wars characters, they could have YEARS of material and more than enough income from players. We want them to make something worth playing, worth investing our time and money into, not another pile-of-crap, shovelware game.
Pre-Registration Links [ Google Play ] [ App Store ]
Source [ Star Wars Official ]
Reference and Discussion [ Reddit ]
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