Paid loot boxes will disappear from the online shooter Star Wars: Battlefront II. The remaining boxes with random loot will be issued for game achievements and contain only cosmetic items and game credits, according to the publisher of the game Electronic Arts.

Electronic Arts re-activates microtransactions in the online shooter Star Wars Battlefront II. This was confirmed by the company’s management.

Criticism of the online shooter Star Wars Battlefront II hit not only the reputation, but also the capitalization of Electronic Arts. The company lost $3.1 billion in market value when its shares fell by 8.5% since the beginning of the month.

Belgian Justice Minister Koen Geens said that he wants to ban games with a certain type of loot boxes in Europe. We are talking about loot boxes that gamers buy without knowing what kind of rewards can be waiting for them inside.

The initial sales of physical copies of the online shooter Star Wars Battlefront II turned out to be 60% worse than the figures of the first part, released in 2015.

Shares of the Electronic Arts gaming corporation fell by 2.5% after public criticism due to loot boxes in the new online shooter Star Wars Battlefront II.

Electronic Arts Corporation temporarily disabled microtransactions in the online shooter Star Wars Battlefront II a few hours before the world release of the game after a scandal due to the presence of loot boxes and calls for a boycott of the game.

The Gaming Commission of the Belgian government has launched an investigation into the online shooters Star Wars Battlefront 2 and Overwatch. She can equate both titles to gambling because of the presence of loot boxes in them.

Electronic Arts has clarified its policy regarding loot boxes in the online shooter Star Wars Battlefront II. EA assured that gamers will be able to get almost all the game content without additional investments.