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the newest Star Wars game has people mad Star Wars Battlefront 2 officially will be released on Friday November 17th however people who pay for EA access were able to play a version of the game early here's what they found unlocking a character like Luke Skywalker would take 40 hours of gameplay or you'll have to pay to get him this did not sit well with players a reddit post entitled seriously I paid $80 have vader lot got an official response from EA the games developer in part the response said the intent is to provide players with a sense of pride and accomplishment for unlocking different heroes this comment managed to rack up six hundred and fifty eight thousand down votes as of this reporting this is also the most downloaded comment in the history of reddit to mitigate the backlash EA said it's making some changes by reducing the amount of credits needed to unlock characters like Darth Vader and Luke Skywalker each will be available for fifteen thousand credits which is down from sixty thousand credits that would mean it would take around 10 hours of gameplay instead of 40 to unlock those characters Star Wars Battlefront 2 is also drawing heat for the amount of microtransactions in the game essentially it puts gamers on an uneven playing field since some people will just pay for more powerful characters instead of earning them the EA's changes satisfy you let us know for more coverage check out cnet.com and GameSpot calm Amaya's actor and I'll see you online