10 Reasons You're Wrong About Star Wars: Battlefront 2
8. There's Real Engagement With The Community
EA
One of the biggest issues facing multiplayer shooters in this day and age is whether or not they have the ability to retain their playerbase. First person shooters in particular often suffer from a massive decline in users after the first month or so, with the only notable exception in the last couple of years being Rainbow Six: Siege, which has somehow managed to achieve a steady level of growth since its own release in 2015.
As a result, studios endeavour more than ever before to engage with their community, first to ensure that people remain interested, and second to encourage a greater level of interest in their product. Responding to feedback and constantly implementing tweaks and updates is a great way of doing this, and it's a simple truth that DICE have retained a constant dialogue with their community throughout Battlefront II's most important periods of transition.
The original plan was to release additional content closer towards the beginning of 2018, but the decision to refocus the studio's efforts on implementing a new progression system forced a delay. This was all a result of community feedback, and with the new progression system being one heck of a lot better than the original, it's fair to say it was worth it.
WhatCulture's very own resident movie guy, Ewan has been working in the content creation biz for over 10 years now, having started as a freelance contributor to WhatCulture Gaming all the way back in 2015. After graduating with a First-Class Honours in History from Northumbria University in 2017 (where he won a prize for a totally killer dissertation on the Watergate years), Ewan took on the role of Comics Editor at WhatCulture and quickly developed WhatCulture Comics into one of the biggest superhero-focused channels on YouTube. He followed this with a brief hiatus at Screen Rant in 2021, where he worked across the Gaming and Film sections as a writer and editor, before returning to WhatCulture as a Senior Content Producer / Presenter in 2023. He started his own podcast, We Love Dad Movies, in 2022, and has contributed several written pieces to the Eisner-nominated comics website Shelfdust as well.
In his current role, Ewan incorporates his love of cinema, comic books, and history into written pieces and video essays for WhatCulture's Film & TV channel, as well as WhatCulture Gaming and WhatCulture Horror, with a particular focus on nineties-era Dad Movies, old school Westerns, and Golden Age Hollywood Noir. John Carpenter is his fave, and he thinks Batman Beyond should never have been cancelled. If that's your vibe, you'll probably like his stuff.
