{"id":122169,"date":"2017-11-18T15:00:16","date_gmt":"2017-11-18T13:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=122169"},"modified":"2017-11-17T14:35:22","modified_gmt":"2017-11-17T12:35:22","slug":"electronic-arts-scraps-battlefront-ii-microtransactions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/pc\/122169-electronic-arts-scraps-battlefront-ii-microtransactions","title":{"rendered":"Electronic Arts scraps Battlefront II microtransactions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Electronic Arts is\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ea.com\/games\/starwars\/battlefront\/battlefront-2\/news\/pre-launch-update\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>removing all in-game purchases<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0from Star Wars: Battlefront 2.<\/p>\n<p>The option to purchase crystals \u2013 an in-game currency \u2013 is now offline, and all progression will be earned through gameplay.<\/p>\n<p>DICE General Manager Oskar Gabrielson said the company listened to feedback from the community and would make changes to Battlefront II to reduce the potential for unfair advantages.<\/p>\n<p>He said microtransactions will return to the game once changes have been made and more free content has been added.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe ability to purchase crystals in-game will become available at a later date, only after we\u2019ve made changes to the game,\u201d said Gabrielson.<\/p>\n<h4><strong>Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/gaming\/237854-vive-universal-tracker-launching-next-month.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Vive universal tracker launching next month<\/a><\/strong><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Electronic Arts is\u00a0removing all in-game purchases\u00a0from Star Wars: Battlefront 2.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":226,"featured_media":122047,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,11681,4],"tags":[175,25190,6431],"class_list":["post-122169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pc","category-playstation","category-xbox","tag-ea","tag-loot-boxes","tag-microtransactions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122169","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/226"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=122169"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122169\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/122047"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}