The Star Wars Battlefront Collection is receiving a plethora of negative reviews, and fans are demanding refunds after a disastrous launch.
This year seems to have some issues. There were games being released that were so overwhelmed by fans that the servers couldn't handle it. Well, games like Helldivers 2 and Palworld had more than good reasons for this, as they generated such a huge hype that there were simply way more players than expected. On the other hand, Star Wars Battlefront is facing far more issues that leave angry fans.
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The Launch Of The Battlefront Collection Was A Complete Disaster
It could have been so beautiful. Aspyr, the devs behind Battlefront, had already successfully released the remastered version of Tomb Raider 1-3 earlier this year, which delighted many fans. The Battlefront Collection was supposed to follow on March 14 for $34.99, but the launch was a complete disaster, resulting in a slew of negative initial reviews.
It didn't take long for a major issue with the collection to become apparent to everyone: the servers. But we're not talking about server overload issues like what happened during the launch of Helldivers 2.
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Players complained that there were only 3 servers, each with 64 slots available. With a player count of over 10,000 people, these servers were obviously insufficient. Since Battlefront is primarily a multiplayer title, players felt scammed.
The servers were eventually expanded, but the problems didn't end there. Due to game-breaking bugs and stuttering, the collection ended up on the refund list for many players, some of whom couldn't even join matches.
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For most players, this collection isn't worth the $35 price tag, especially considering that the game's download size is a massive 63 GB. For comparison, the original versions of both games included in the collection only require a total of 12.4 GB. Fans are now asking: What's taking up all that space if the games are much worse than the originals?
Hopefully, Aspyr doesn't leave it at that and releases a few more patches, because in its current state, the Battlefront Collection is likely to die out faster than Leroy Jenkins did in the rookery.
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