Season passes are pretty much expected by gamers now with each new video game release these days, with developers regularly adding content to the game after its launch that players can get all of with a season pass. However, it looks like Star Wars: Battlefront 2 will be bucking this trend when it launches this year, though the developers do have something else in mind.
Creative director Bernd Diemer recently spoke with mashable about the game, where he revealed that they “don’t have a season pass.” However, it does sound like they have something else lined up to take its place, though at the moment the details are not being shared. He said “I cannot talk about the specifics of this, but we have something different in mind that will allow you to play longer, be [more] invested in the game without having a fragmented community.”
The fragmented community he’s referring to is the one for 2015’s Star Wars: Battlefront, which stopped people from playing together if they didn’t have all of the additional content. He noted that that game’s “community is falling apart because there are simply not many people playing the different modes. So we definitely want to avoid that. We don’t want to segment our community.”
He then goes on to discuss the mindset they had when going into Battlefront 2, and how a season pass didn’t line up with the kind of game they were making this time. “We decided on that, and it’s one of those difficult decisions because it has so many implications all around,” he explained. “When we looked at the way Battlefront had evolved over its lifetime, with the DLC and everything, we decided, ‘You know what? For this type of game, season passes are not the best thing. We need to [take it apart] and come up with something better.'”
Star Wars: Battlefront 2 will launch for PlayStation 4, Xbox One and PC this November.
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