To big cheers at Star Wars Celebration, Respawn’s Vince Zampella confirmed upcoming Star Wars game Jedi: Fallen Order is a single-player story adventure with no multiplayer and, crucially, no microtransactions.
Ahead of a panel on the game at the ongoing Star Wars Celebration event in Chicago, Zampella took to the stage to briefly discuss Jedi: Fallen Order.
It’s a “padawan’s journey who survived after Order 66”, Zampella said. “We’re going to see his journey.”
Then, to a big cheer: “It’s a single-player story game.”
“No multiplayer,” Zampella continued. And, finally, to an even bigger cheer: “No microtransactions. It’s a story game.”
You can see the crowd’s reaction in the video, below, at the 5:03 mark.
Confirmation Jedi: Fallen Order is single-player only and doesn’t have microtransactions comes as something of a surprise given the game is published by EA, which has focused on multiplayer and microtransactions in recent years. Perhaps the powers that be at the mega-publisher hope to avoid a repeat of the Star Wars: Battlefront 2 launch disaster, which generated mainstream headlines around the world for its egregious loot boxes and progression systems.
The news is also interesting in the context of ongoing difficulties at fellow EA-owned studio BioWare, which recently released the troubled multiplayer-focused shooter looter Anthem. BioWare, which has its roots in single-player, story-driven role-playing games, is working on Dragon Age 4, although what form the game ends up taking won’t be known for some time now.
Also interesting is unlike other studios at EA, which build games using the divisive Frostbite engine, Respawn is building Jedi: Fallen Order using Unreal Engine 4.
So happy to be working on a single player story focused game again, no multiplayer and no MTX for #JediFallenOrder pic.twitter.com/UIJDjfErLo
— Blair Brown (@BlairBroon) April 12, 2019
Meanwhile, according to Jedi: Fallen Order’s poster, which leaked ahead of Zampella’s appearance at Star Wars celebration, the Jedi you play as is accompanied by a little droid. The game is due out this Christmas.
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