EA modtog ærlig talt megen harme fra vrede fans inden udgivelsen af Star Wars Battlefront II, og til sidst spirallerede situationen så meget ud af kontrol, at de besluttede sig for at fjerne mikrotransaktionerne fra spillet. De lovede dog på pågældende tidspunkt, at de ville vende tilbage i en revurderet udgave på et senere tidspunkt. Nu er der dog opstået tvivl om hvorvidt de overhovedet kommer tilbage.
For nylig talte EA's presseglade CFO, Blake Jorgensen, netop om denne problemstilling ved NASDAQ's investorkonference (via Glixel), og her såede han tvivl om hvorvidt EA faktisk har kastet håndklædet i ringen.
"Clearly we are very focused on listening to the consumer and understanding what the consumer wants and that's evolving constantly. But we're working on improving the progression system. We turned the MTX off as an opportunity to work on the progression system inside the game. We're continuing to do that. I think there's an update this week and again next week."
"Over time we'll address how we will want to bring the MTX either into the game or not and what form we will decide to bring it into."
"But it's been a great learning experience for us; we consider ourselves a learning organisation. If we're not learning, that means we're failing in some way and we're constantly trying to watch what people do and how they play and listen to them to decide what's the best way to build great games."
Selvom det er muligt at EA bringer mikrotransaktionerne tilbage, så er dette første gang at de offentligt udtaler at de overvejer at lader være.
