Battlefront 2 is criticized for its loot boxes. To unlock game content without real money, you have to grind for quite a long time. Now, a player calculated that it should take 4,500 hours to unlock everything. But isn’t that actually a good thing?
Battlefront II has been heavily criticized by many players for days. A shitstorm is raging on Reddit about the supposed Pay2Win loot boxes. Many players are also angry because recently you had to grind for 40 hours to unlock famous characters like Darth Vader. However, this has been revised downwards.
In the meantime, players have calculated how long it takes to unlock all content.
“Loot box grind in a full-price game just doesn’t work!”
According to the current calculation, it takes 4,528 hours to earn the 3,111 loot boxes needed for all game features without spending real money. The basis for the calculation is that the player already owns all Star Cards and they are at level 3. In this model, the player has used all one-time rewards for levels and challenges to bring all Star Cards to level 3.
Alternatively, you can also buy all the boxes with real money. You would then need 248,880 crystals, the real money currency of Battlefront 2. If you buy these crystals only in cost-effective $100 packages, the total cost comes to $2,100!
This is unacceptable for many players. After all, they have already purchased the game at a high price, so they expect to have a large part, if not all, of the game’s features immediately available.
Other users criticize that you only make progress through loot boxes, and the whole game is designed around acquiring these boxes. An alternative way to access content, such as via achievements or challenging missions, would have been acceptable to them.
Grind = Content!
Many players see no problem in the grind for loot boxes at all. 4,500 hours of grind means 4,500 hours of motivation and fun! For many players, a game is only interesting if they can dig into the grind and work for something. If all content were available right away, many players would find the game boring.
An example is Destiny 2, which has significantly less grind than its predecessor. Instead of grinding for weeks for the “God Roll” on weapons, which has been removed in Destiny 2, many Guardians have already completed their collections. Therefore, they have no motivation to log in regularly now.
Battlefront II – Many thousands of hours of content or miserable grind?
But how do you see it? Does a proper grind simply belong to a good online game, and is 4,500 hours of hunting for loot an excellent reason to play Battlefront 2 for months? Or do such numbers immediately kill your desire for the game? Participate in our survey and let us know!
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