And that’s great! It’ll be exciting and cool. DICE looks like it’s taking a very serious, faithful approach to its representation of the original films. It would be a shame to limit that to four planets. With Frostbite, DICE could, potentially, be giving Star Wars fans the opportunity to build, and then play in, their dream representation of the Star Wars galaxy. EA has more Star Wars games coming, and maybe they’ll take us to other places in the galaxy.īut those games likely won’t have large-scale multiplayer battles or half a dozen different vehicles or Battlefront’s variety of weaponry. Battlefront is going to look stunning, and this game is potentially the main Star Wars sandbox we’ll be playing in for the next several years. But I especially want to see those worlds rendered in DICE’s powerful engine. I want to play on a rich variety of Star Wars planets, as different Star Wars aliens. This point goes hand-in-hand with the last one. The ones that keep players for years and years give them a good reason to stay. Without a reason to stay, gamers will often play a new shooter only until the next one comes out, and then jump ship. Despite selling more than 7 million copies across PC and consoles, DICE’s Battlefield 4 now has a peak player count of less than 25,000 on PC, according to BF4Stats. After just two months, Evolve has slipped off Steam’s most-played list, and Steam Charts shows it current peak player count at a mere 1300. Today there are more than 500 shooters on Steam, and every new game has to face that competition. And, of course, Star Wars: Battlefront 2. And there were plenty of other shooters, with smaller but dedicated player bases, like Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory.
Counter-Strike: Source had split the community in two. Call of Duty 2 was just beginning the series’ meteoric rise to popularity, but its multiplayer domination was still a few years off. Unreal Tournament 2004 was still going strong. Battlefield 2 was brand new, replacing 2002’s Battlefield 1942. Let’s travel back, for a moment, to the multiplayer shooter scene of 2005. It would also give Battlefront a leg up over the crowded field of competitive shooters on PC, lending it something vital more and more shooters are failing to achieve: staying power. Robust mod support for the new Battlefront wouldn’t just be an amazing opportunity for Star Wars fans to expand on a game they’ve been anticipating for nearly a decade.
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