{"id":237966,"date":"2017-11-17T11:01:32","date_gmt":"2017-11-17T09:01:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=237966"},"modified":"2017-11-17T11:03:22","modified_gmt":"2017-11-17T09:03:22","slug":"ea-pulls-microtransactions-from-battlefront-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/gaming\/237966-ea-pulls-microtransactions-from-battlefront-2.html","title":{"rendered":"EA pulls microtransactions from Battlefront 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Electronic Arts is\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ea.com\/games\/starwars\/battlefront\/battlefront-2\/news\/pre-launch-update\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>removing all in-game purchases<\/strong><\/a> from Star Wars: Battlefront 2.<\/p>\n<p>The option to purchase crystals &#8211; an in-game currency &#8211; is now offline, and all progression will be earned through gameplay.<\/p>\n<p>DICE General Manager Oskar Gabrielson said the company listened to feedback from the community and would make changes to Battlefront II to reduce the potential for unfair advantages.<\/p>\n<p>He said microtransactions will return to the game once changes have been made and more free content has been added.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The ability to purchase crystals in-game will become available at a later date, only after we\u2019ve made changes to the game,&#8221; said Gabrielson.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/gaming\/237854-vive-universal-tracker-launching-next-month.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Vive universal tracker launching next month<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Electronic Arts is removing all in-game purchases.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":237924,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[47350,47348,33370,11439],"class_list":["post-237966","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gaming","tag-battlefront-ii","tag-loot-boxes","tag-microtransactions","tag-star-wars"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237966"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=237966"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237966\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":237974,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237966\/revisions\/237974"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/237924"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=237966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=237966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=237966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}