Star Wars Battlefront DLC: 10 Specific Things Fans Demand
7. A Proper Single-Player Story
Single-player experiences are important, but if you'd only been viewing FPS's for the past two years you'd probably think otherwise, as studios and their publishers aim to cut costs to maximise profits and make dedicated online-only experiences. Bluntly speaking this is an awful business model to adopt, and has already seen games like Titanfall and Evolve succumb to a barren online community as a consequence.
Ignoring the ethics of retrofitting a campaign to a title via DLC is difficult, and is indeed probably impossible to look past, but given signals from EA in the immediate aftermath of Battlefront's release, the possibility of such a thing occurring isn't too far fetched at all.
Speaking at one of EA's ATMCs, head honcho Peter Moore said that though Battlefront is "lacking a campaign mode in the eyes of players [...] there is more content coming," which seemingly suggests that DICE have been listening to critical reaction regarding said element.
What this bodes for a potential campaign DLC is unclear, but something that took inspiration from the newly released tie-in novel Twilight Company would be very welcome, and would no doubt have a part in further building the Expanded Universe in its current form.
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.
