Fans worry Star Wars: Battlefront II is flirting with the pay-to-win dark side

Electronic Arts and DICE are running an early beta test for Star Wars: Battlefront II right now, and the sci-fi shooter is attracting a lot of positive buzz. I’ve played it, and I can already see a number of ways that it is an improvement over its 2015 predecessor. But some fans might not care about those upgrades because they are concerned that the online multiplayer will give advantages to people willing to spend money on loot boxes.

This beta test is probably a fair representation of how the shooting and some of the special abilities work, but players are also using it to understand the multiplayer mode’s progression system. Based on this early and possibly unfinished system, some people are fearful and angry that players could pay money in the final game to get better guns and perks faster than everyone else. That would give the players who spend the most money the best chance to win.