Star Wars: Battlefront II publisher reduces time to unlock heroes like Darth Vader by 75%

You’ve won. Star Wars: Battlefront II developer DICE has revealed it will reduce the time it takes to unlock hero characters by 75 percent. This comes after players calculated it would take somewhere between 40 and 80 hours of playtime or $80 to unlock the top-tier characters like Darth Vader in the shooter’s online multiplayer. EA tried to respond to that thread on the Star Wars Battlefront subforum on Reddit, but in a collective outcry, fans turned EA’s statement into the most downvoted comment in the history of Reddit.

But it wasn’t just downvotes and fair criticism. One EA developer, whose tweets are now protected, said that they had received multiple death threats over the way microtransactions work in Battlefront II. Other angry players didn’t make direct threats, but they made justifications for those who did.