By offering Star Wars Battlefront II, L 'Epic Games Store generated a real tidal wave: 19 million users recovered the game.
From January 14 to 21, the Epic Games Store created a surprise by offering Star Wars Battlefront II Celebration Edition, normally sold at 40€. A game with very controversial beginnings which has really improved over time and which, for one week, attracted no less than 19 million users.
Read also:
A new Knights of the Old Republic would be in development … but not at EA
A story of redemption
Released three years after the original release, Star Wars Battlefront II Celebration Edition was meant to be the pinnacle of redemption for a long maligned game. Including all of the paid cosmetic items released to date, this edition accompanied the latest free updates incorporating characters and locations featured in Episode IX The Rise of Skywalker.
In April 2020, Star Wars Battlefront II released its last free update before EA decided to stop tracking the game. Since then, the servers were pretty quiet, but that was without counting on the Epic Games Store which created a real earthquake by offering the game on January 14th.
Read also:Ubisoft is working on a Star Wars game in collaboration with Lucasfilm Games
A Celebration Across the Galaxy
With a prodigious influx of 19 million players, the servers did not hold the load during the first days and went into maintenance. Once the backlash passed, the Twitter account of EA Star Wars split a message to thank all these recruits, new as veterans.
Perhaps such a craze will convince Electronic Arts that it is still too early to leave Star Wars Battlefront II aside, or that well-followed Star Wars games have a bright future ahead of them.
If Electronic Arts recently lost exclusivity on video game adaptations of the Star Wars license, the studio is still working on many projects in this universe, still unknown. Could a Star Wars Battlefront III be coming very soon? Hoping in this case that Electronic Arts learns from its mistakes vis-Ã -vis the beginnings of the previous opus.
