November 17, 2017 – StarWars Battlefront II goes live to the general public. By then the elites, pro-games, streamers and pre-orders would have already racked up hours of gameplay and earns new guns and abilities while they slaughter new or inexperienced players at will.
I’m still undecided as to whether I will be joining the battles. Game sequels carry a mixed taste, basically, you want more of what happened before but you want it 10 times better, faster and bigger. No doubt EA is banking on grabbing at least 20 million players globally with this title and it being a big part of the annual $3.147 billion net sales.
Tales of the Expected
Star Wars™ Battlefront was simply a childhood movie fantasy come alive. I remember the first time my anonymous team brought down an AT-AT walker….sheer geek ecstasy.
Hard to see how that feeling of aweeeeesome can be genuinely repeated.
I last played 30-Sept 2016 at 10:23 am after reaching the maximum level 50 at the time. I never bothered with DLC so Part II kinda feels like a massive DLC. Even if the single game PvE is a good story, the community will be looking at the 40-PvP campaigns.
It’s gonna be absolute carnage.
Time waits for no one
I had a lot more time on my hands in 2016 and would play non-stop for days without anybody bothering me. I don’t have that luxury solo gamer environment anymore so I would have to recreate it or suffer from unacceptable mid-game interruptions.
Only self-paced titles like Horizon Zero Dawn work well for me. I need to be able to randomly play for 10-60 minutes irregularly without it hurting the quality of the experience.
So, I’ve answered my own question. I will not be joining StarWars BattleFront II this November.
“Train yourself to let go of everything you fear to lose.” Yoda