Star Wars Battlefront: "very few people actually play the single-player on these kinds of games"

[daze23]

EA's New Empire: An Interview With Peter Moore

I want to switch to Star Wars Battlefront. Surely yourself, and the rest of the EA executive team, must be kicking yourselves for not including a single-player campaign?

Well, you never kick yourself about these things. You make a decision, years out, and you plan for what the world looks like when a game ships in two or three years. That's about the intuitiveness about the executive producer, and his or her vision for the game.

Between when a dev team starts work on a game, and when it finishes, the world becomes a different place. I remember when we started work on Star Wars: The Old Republic; at the time, the model to go for was subscription. By the time we had the game ready, the model to go for wasn't subscriptions. That's why we had to stop the game, and rebuilt it as a free-to-play title with microtransactions, but even then there were some people who said they wanted to keep their subscriptions.

I totally understand that you have to think ahead when planning games. I was more thinking about Battlefront with more crude algebra, in that, triple-A games with single-player traditionally sell better than those with multiplayer.

So, there's two phenomena with that statement. The first is that yes, you might be right. The second is that very few people actually play the single-player on these kinds of games. That's what the data points to.

 

[-DMP-]

Wait there's no single player campaign on this shyt?

damn I thought we were gonna be able to relive the Star Wars movies.

 

[NZA]

BF SP isnt played because it is straight trash. people actually play COD's campaigns

 

[Heelmatic]

BF SP isnt played because it is straight trash. people actually play COD's campaigns

I actually enjoyed the BF4 campaign

 

[NZA]

I actually enjoyed the BF4 campaign

have you played BF: bad company 2? that game spoiled me. after that it was all down hill

 

[daze23]

yeah, I played through the BF3 and BF4 campaigns, and they were pretty weak. but some of that is because it just ends up being 'generic war game'. Star Wars on the other hand already has story, lore, and characters to draw from. it seems like a missed opportunity to use the licence but not included a single player and/or co-op campaign

 

[spliz]

Wow what a dumb ass move. Smh. Games released without a single player campaign should be less money off rip. And to not have a single player campaign In a Star Wars game is a damn sin.

 

[HNIC973]

Dice single player?No thanks

 

[Chris Cool]

ain't played a fps story since they killed my nikka ghost.

ain't a big deal to me.

 

[RatherUnique]

It would be trash but i couldn't even complete BF4 main story cause shyt deleted my saved progress twice

 

[Dirty Mcdrawz]

i've never played a bf single player campaign and i've played all of them. i also haven't played cod single player campaign since world at war. with that said i probably would have played battlefront's campaign...

 

[Mowgli]

No single player but the game launches with a few more MP maps then battlefield 4.

This shyt is a fukkin JOKE. Cashing in on fanboys.

People dont play single player because their single player staff is garbage.

 

[-DMP-]

Damn just realized it's gonna be 60 for multi-player only game and you gonna have dudes buying dlc and on top of that you gotta pay for online if you on console

Things just ain't the same for gamers

 

[Bathing Ape]

It would have been trash anyway.. next battlefront you better believe they will have a story mode since the movies will be out then. They probably didnt wanna retell the OG trilogy because its not alot to build off any more.

 

[CarltonJunior]

BF2 had very fun SP modes, especially Conquest. Granted, I played it because I didn't have online back then