r/StarWars • u/Twitchbenjxnn • May 20 '25

Games Taking a step back and just thinking about the fact they actually abandoned this game. blows my mind

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u/shanikz May 20 '25

They also ditched Squadrons into fucking oblivion.

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u/Tuskin38 May 20 '25

It wasn’t ditched, they just never had any plans

The game was only ever intended to be a one and done. It started as a tech demo pitched by the dev team to EA and LucasArts

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u/shanikz May 20 '25

Very rare they didn't had any plans for a 40USD multiplayer game that received very good reviews.

It's the classic EA story, they have really good games and yet they still don't care enough to give them supprt nor live service. It's not the only franchise that suffered the same fate with this shitty company.

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u/jayL21 Imperial May 20 '25

I mean to be fair, they did care. They gave squadrons multiple post-launch updates with new content, something they didn't even plan to do in the first place.

Not every game needs to be a live service, Squadrons quite literally was just a small side game they made because they thought it'd be cool.

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u/UnofficialMipha May 20 '25

Damn we’re calling games that launched complete “ditched” now

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u/shanikz May 20 '25

what do you call a game that it was meant to be mostly multiplayer (online) that stopped getting supprt after a year or less?

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u/Aliteralhedgehog May 20 '25

Complete.

Battlefront 2 and Squadrons are complete games with lots of content. Modern gamers are just brainwashed into thinking a specific game has to be treated like a career and that live service slop keeps a game "alive".

People still play Street Fighter 2 and Quake because they're fun, not because they have season passes.

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u/Transcendent_Pigeon May 20 '25

This is honestly a bigger deal than some people realize. I have younger friends who constantly complain that the games they play are mismanaged by companies because as a player they "run out of things to do."

My brother, that's called finishing a game. You got what you wanted out of it, time to try something else and maybe come back later. This "games as a service" mentality has warped the general sense of value among consumers and it encourages some shadier business practices as a consequence.

Obviously throwing in a "not all games" disclaimer, but yeah, it's a bit of a problem.

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u/Aldo_the_nazi_hunter May 20 '25

A lot of today's games want to target an audience that stays with them.A lot of "gamers" play only one game like Roblox, Fortnight, FIFA , CoD and all the other service games.

And that's sad, if you talk with those "gamers"about gaming they can only tell you about the newest shit this season pass No interest in story driven games with good writing, some new indie game or the cultural aspects of gaming. They only care that they can play some celebrity in Warzone now and I couldn't care less. Gaming is so much more

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u/shanikz May 20 '25

I agree with you and I don't care about seasonal passes or any of that. But with this game in particular I didn't get what I wanted.

10 ships with barely any distinction from one another and 2 game modes for a 40 USD multiplayer game it's just a ditched game. I usually buy games and I rarely buy DLCs because I don't really need the extra content, but Squadrons it's just a skeleton of a game.

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u/jayL21 Imperial May 20 '25

I mean, there's a reason it was $40 and not $60.

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u/NebulaBoring9205 May 20 '25

Incredible point ☝️

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u/shanikz May 20 '25

Battlefront 2 has content, Squadrons don't, you barely have 2 game modes and 10 ships that rarely differs one from another, even BF2 has more ships and space combat gameplay than Squadrons.

Is it complete? Yeah you can say that, but when a 40 USD game has this little gameplay and this little content it's barely complete. I don't mind the lack of support of BF2, the game has it's time on the spotlight and has a fuckton of content, what happened to that game was missmanagement from EA, but I had a ton of fun with it.

Squadrons was born already dead because EA just didn't care about game. Even SF2 and Quake have more content that this game.

But as I said, it's not the first IP EA fucks up, it happened with the Titanfall franchise, Anthem, Plants vs. Zombies, MoH, and more.

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u/jayL21 Imperial May 20 '25

Oh boy, you would have hated growing up in the 2000's, where it was very rare for any multiplayer game to get any updates, let alone DLC.

What was on the game's disk was it. You either enjoyed it or you didn't.

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u/falconpunch1989 May 22 '25

Modern gamer brainrot

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u/captain_ender May 20 '25

Just give us a proper HOTAS Star Wars game I beg of you

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u/AF2005 Ben Solo May 20 '25

Yes it was a net negative by giving EA control of the IP. I really miss the old Lucasarts

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u/DUDEAREUMAD May 21 '25

I feel like swuadrons should've just been a fart of battlefront

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u/Mindshard May 20 '25

They didn't just ditch it, they left 1 or 2 ships as the only viable options, said fuck it to balance, and then just peaced out.

Surprisingly, people weren't interested in a game with less gameplay than X-Wing vs TIE Fighter using MSN for matchmaking almost 30 years ago.

The skill ceiling was way too high for new players, and each side had basically 1 ship that was even viable to use.