Da Battlefield-skaberne fra DICE hørte, at EA var i snak med Disney om licensen til Star Wars, insisterede de straks på at de fik lov til at lave et nyt Battlefront. Det fortjener EA's Patrick Söderlund i et interview med CVG.
"The DICE guys Karl Magnus Troedsson and Patrick Bach were talking and I told them we were in dialogues with Disney over this deal and they just looked at me and said, 'Why haven't you spoken to us? What are you doing? We want to make Battlefront.'"
"DICE is a very particular place and they are very proud of what they do and you don't really tell them what to do. I didn't anticipate them wanting to work on a license - they've always been new IP or their own IP. But they were just like, 'we would kill to make this game' and the whole studio started talking about it like, 'please give us this game'".
"That's when I called Frank [Gibeau, EA Labels boss] and I realised we had something here. 'If they want it that badly, then the game will be freaking awesome - we have to figure it out'. So we figured it out, we got them the game and it was that simple. They begged to do it, the opportunity was there and that's exactly why you'll see a game that will be what it needs to be".
Söderlund siger også, at det nye Battlefront udvikles af DICE i Stockholm af folk med erfaring fra Battlefield-serien, herunder Patrick Bach.