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"EA eventually announced it will lower the character unlocking difficulty by 75 percent. But it seems this didn’t curb the outrage."

From what I was reading last night they also reduced the currency rewarded by playing the main campaign. Thus making the cost reduction negligible. Looks like it was just a misdirection tactic by EA.

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Also worth noting, reducing the cost by 75% still means that darth vader costs roughly $65 or 10 hours of your time. That's one character. There are at least 6 others to purchase.

Wait, 10 hours of gameplay to unlock Vader? That's actually not too bad. I was under the impression that it was 10x that. Not that I'm going to buy this game, but 10hrs is easily attainable in 1 weekend. Especially if the game is fun.

A character that previous games let you play from the get-go and for free.

It used to be 40 hours

Is playing the campaign the main way that people earn currency? I would have expected it to be through multiplayer matches.

The campaign is 5-8 hours [1]. Perhaps in the long run most of a player's currency would come from multiplayer, initially a large chunk would have come through the campaign.

[1] https://www.gamespot.com/articles/star-wars-battlefront-2s-c...

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