Blizzard is jumping in on the "Star Wars Battlefront II" action following their announcement for their own game "Starcraft II." The "Starcraft II" developer recently published a series of social media posts that seemingly jab at the monetization schemes of the "Star Wars" game.
Recently, Blizzard, the developers and publisher of the award-winning real-time strategy (RTS) game "Starcraft II" has announced that the first game in the title, "Wings of Liberty" is going free-to-play. In line with this, the game's official Twitter account has posted some tweets supposedly implying that their company did it better than the developers of "Star Wars Battlefront II."
In the tweet, Blizzard stated that "Starcraft II: Wings of Liberty" would not require any excessive player effort for players to access the campaign of the game, perhaps referencing how "Star Wars Battlefront II" did otherwise. It is worth noting that the "Star Wars" game recently had a series of controversies which angered their player base due to the allegedly abusive implementations of microtransactions and other contents of the game being restricted.
In addition to the initial tweet taking shots at Electronic Arts (EA), the developers of "Battlefront II," Blizzard seemingly made fun of the "Star Wars" game's penchant for locking out some of the heroes of the game behind a pay wall, requiring either tedious amounts of in-game toil or real-world money to overcome. The "Starcraft" Twitter account suggested that it takes no effort to be able to play any co-op Commander in the RTS, unlike "Battlefront II."
Over the past few days in the gaming community, "Star Wars Battlefront II" has drawn ire due to how it became a pay-to-win game due to its microtransactions. Essentially, players with extra real-world money to spend in-game will have a significant advantage over those who don't. For a game which already costs $60-$80, this came as an insult to a lot of players.
Blizzard, in one final coup de grace, has even released an ad for the free-to-play announcement for "Wings of Liberty," and it also references the monetization scheme of EA, or any other pay-to-win game mechanic, for that matter.
