We have a tremendous relationship with Disney and built amazing games together. “You shouldn’t believe everything you read in the press. In the same call, Wilson denied that Disney had anything to do with pressuring EA into temporarily removing microtransactions from the game:

The reboot of Battlefront sold 14 million copies by the end of the 2016 fiscal year, but its sequel’s digital sales made up more of the overall total with 37% compared to 32%, which effectively gives more money to EA. Revealed in a call to investors (apparently the only time when a publisher is really truthful) by CEO Andrew Wilson and CFO Blake Jorgensen, the “disappointing” sales were blamed on the game’s backlash, though they did point towards the upward trend in digital sales. Despite failing to achieve their 10 million sales target, Star Wars Battlefront 2 still managed to shift 9 million copies and will go into double digits before EA’s fiscal year is up. The backlash against EA’s Star Wars Battlefront 2 was arguably the biggest gaming story of last year, even hitting mainstream press, being the talk of governments around the globe, and fundamentally shifting the conversation on loot boxes or anything that might constitute gambling within a game.Īlthough EA point towards the controversy as hitting them in the pocket, the damage was not as bad as you might expect.

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