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Unlocking Everything in Battlefront II Requires 4,528 hours or $2100

Aokiji

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I can't do anything but laugh. This is so hilarious yet so sad all at the same time. Holy shit EA. Really?
There is a grand total of 324 cards. Upgrading these will require a total of 155,520 crafting parts. This requires opening a grand total of 3,111 loot crates which will require 4,528 hours of gameplay.
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The 600 credits received from a hero crate is worth 27% the cost of a hero crate. This is equivalent to 30 crystals. To account for this, I reduced the cost of a hero crate from 110 crystals to 80 crystals. 12,000 crystals can be bought for $100.

Opening the required 3,111 loot crates requires 248,880 crystals. If you only purchase $100 crystal packs, this will cost $2,100.
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Link to the site of the guy who calculated all the math: http://www.swtorstrategies.com/2017...-or-2100-to-unlock-all-base-game-content.html

Lock and fine me $2100 worth of SWBF2 credits if old.
 
Aprikurt

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I wonder what you'd see if you did this for all those constantly updating iOS games. Unfortunately I doubt this will put a large amount of EA's market off at all.

I really hope this business model eventually dies a horrible death, but I have doubts.
 
JeffGubb

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I haven't unlocked all of the skins in Overwatch or the items in Rocket League yet after hundreds of hours, but that is cosmetic bullshit. Locking star cards behind similar kind of progression is so dumb.
 
Neurom

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Sheesh, I have spent lesser time on the original Destiny and by the end of 3 years had pretty much everything...
 
Squishy3

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If you equated the minutes required to one cent, you'd be saving about $600 by spending money.
 
Garou

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Witty response: Must be a miscalculation, EAs online-servers won't be up for that long...

But for real, I kind of miss the days of being able to comfortably 100% a game like that.
 
Aprikurt

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Helpful reminder that they revived the servers for the real Battlefront II with the sick battle mode on the Mos Eisley map.
 
RadioJoNES

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Fart Master

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Garou said:
Witty response: Must be a miscalculation, EAs online-servers won't be up for that long...

But for real, I kind of miss the days of being able to comfortably 100% a game like that.
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Those days aren't done it's just that some games are fishing for some fat whales unfortunately. You're witty response is not even wrong tho, i can guarantee you this game and the original won't last till the new consoles come out.
 
Heatster101

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Any comparison with similar games that offer the same "pay to win" structure ??

Would be interesting to see where it sits in the grand scheme of things
 
Riderz1337

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At least I'm getting my money worth by playing the game!

Right guys?? Who's with me?! Anyone...?
 

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They're gonna need to add hundreds more hours and much more cash once the dlc starts dropping lol
 
Sun_Gaming_YT

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4,528 hours = 0.516895 years(It's a quick Google calculation that doesn't factor in if you only play for a certain number of hours per day), provided that each loot crate/box/whatever gives you only new items and there are no duplicates.

That is an absurd amount of time, I can't think of one game I ever sunk that much time into, even with multiple playthroughs.


EDIT: This isn't even counting the content they'll add from DLC and shit.
 
Aprikurt

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ps PainTrain said:
This quote comes straight from the Oblivion Horse Armour discussion thread.
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You nailed it yeah. I guess the writing was on the wall back then, I remember being really annoyed when cosmetic items stopped being cool unlockables and started being income per capita.

I would say Nintendo are our last refuge, but I wouldn't like to think how much I'd have to spend to get all the costumes in BotW
 
oni-link

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If you play just an hour a day it will take you just over 12 years to play that many hours

Of course, paying for loot crates is just an option for those who don't have a decade plus to dedicate to one game

Thanks for being so considerate, EA!
 

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spekkeh said:
And just to be sure, all of this is already on the disc? So it's not necessarily a way to pay for new maps and characters.
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Correct. Maybe now some people who were unsure why people wanted the game to be slammed in the reviews thread understand more. Supporting this shit is completely detrimental to the entire industry.
 
Crayon

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This is weird and tacky to us but normal people play free cell phone games and they eat this shit up. It's not weird to them.
 
Crossing Eden

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Birdseye said:
I liked it better when you received a complete game after you bought it
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How is the game not complete? How many games offer you all cosmetics, perks, characters etc. right out the gate? The idea is that this game is meant to be played and supported over a time span of at least two years, so I doubt they expect people to unlock literally everything when the game is focused on specialist playstyles. It's the same way games like Overwatch, Rainbow Six, For Honor, Halo 5, etc. operate. In the same vein, I very much doubt that they're expecting a sizable amount of players to purchase exactly $2100 worth of lootboxes.
 
Coolwhip

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I remember when unlocking things were a fun side activity, not a way to squeeze money out of kids.
 
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