We discovered final month that Aspyr Media was growing Star Wars: Battlefront Traditional Assortment, a remastered port combo of Star Wars: Battlefront and Star Wars: Battlefront II, first launched in 2004 and 2005 respectively. This assortment is now stay nevertheless it appears the sport is having a tough begin at launch, particularly for PC gamers.
The viral tweet beneath posted to X (previously Twitter) early this morning is indicative of most of the issues PC gamers are experiencing with the sport:
-10,000 individuals taking part in on launch evening.-Solely has 3 servers which have 64 slots for a complete of ~200 gamers.-Multiplayer would not work in any other case.-Worth Tag of 35 USD
Jesus Christ I’m so dissatisfied that is theft, do not buy Star Wars Battlefront Traditional Assortment pic.twitter.com/JB7oCTHzgh
— seb 🦝📕 (@sebbaku) March 14, 2024
Replies to that tweet spotlight a number of the different points gamers are apparently operating into: zero choices to celebration up with associates and an absence of anticipated quality-of-life enhancements (@damnitbobbywhy), rubberbanding (@SoCalZork), and extra. Nonetheless, some gamers are saying the largest points, like a low quantity of servers and an incapacity to truly get into matches, had been mounted inside two hours of launch.
Over on the Star Wars Battlefront subreddit, dozens of customers are posting memes concerning the sport’s launch, discussions about connectivity points, and extra. One consumer posted a screenshot of them downloading the unique Star Wars Battlefront video games on Xbox (via backward compatibility) to play as an alternative of this assortment, whereas one other says this re-release is “fingers down the phrase online game I’ve ever paid cash for.” It is clear gamers on that subreddit are usually not proud of Aspyr’s Battlefront assortment.
On Steam, the sport, which has a price ticket of $35.01, has a “largely detrimental” score after 1,407 critiques – 21 % of the critiques for the sport are optimistic.
Now, gamers completely have the suitable to be upset a couple of $35 sport they paid for and are seemingly unable to play at launch, which is doubly unlucky when it is clear numerous these gamers had been excited to leap in proper at launch. However, there is a good likelihood Aspyr is already engaged on fixes for the gathering and ideally, per week from now, no person is operating into the problems Day One gamers are experiencing. That is nonetheless not truthful to Day One gamers however if you happen to’re a fan of on-line video games like this, you realize tough launches aren’t all that uncommon, as unlucky as they are often.
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