Star Wars Battlefront 2 Dev Wants to 'Get the Band Back Together' For Another Game
After the success of Andor Season 2 on Disney Plus, there's been a surprising rise in interest in Battlefront 2. The game has seen a bump in players, and both Reddit and especially TikTok have been inundated with fans asking for a Battlefront 3.
In a response to a Reddit comment, developer Mats Helge Holme, who worked on both the initial release of Battlefront 2 and it's re-release, said 'Me, and having heard around my group of ex-colleagues, we want to get the gang back together.'
Holm also noted that something like a content pack from Andor would still take six months to create, and that's if the proper team was even available. He adds that he has no idea how feasible it would actually be to try and reunite the original dev team as, 'we are spread far and wide.'
The team behind Battlefront 2 was disbanded in 2020 when support was ended for the game, and developers were shuffled onto Battlefield 2042 and other projects.
There's been a sort of perfect confluence of events that have pushed players back into Battlefront 2. Andor is obviously a part of it, along with the recent Star Wars Celebration in Japan, May the 4th events, and the latest season of Fortnite including Galactic Battle. Battlefront Updates on X says that on May 21, according to a reliable source, the game peaked at 160K+ concurrent players – the highest peak it's had in almost five years.
Star Wars Battlefront 2 first released in 2017, and was immediately met with immense backlash to its highly predatory loot box design. Outside of cosmetic items, the system meant iconic character like Darth Vader were locked, and players would need to spend dozens of hours grinding in order to unlock them.
EA eventually reversed its microtransaction plan to remove them from the game entirely. Despite those initial stumbles the game did find a passionate and vocal fanbase, with a stream of post-launch updates – especially after a 'Celebration' re-released in 2019 gave the game a wealth of new content.
DICE is currently one of three studios working on the Battlefield game, which is set to release sometime in 2025.
Star Wars Battlefront 2 is available on PS4, Xbox One, and PC.
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