Star Wars: Battlefront II microtransactions returning soon after sales come up short

Microtransactions are coming back to save Star Wars: Battlefront II. EA has sold 9 million copies of the Star Wars shooter worldwide, according to an interview with Electronic Arts chief financial officer Blake Jorgensen in The Wall Street Journal. That is short of expectations (10 million) and of the previous entry in the series through its first quarter (13 million).

EA could have revealed the sales numbers in its quarterly earnings report today, but it didn’t. Instead, it took this opportunity to reach out to Wall Street. Jorgensen wants the market to know that it has plans to bring back the microtransactions “in the next few months” after removing them from Star Wars: Battlefront II following a backlash from fans and Disney itself.