Star Wars Battlefront
2015 video game
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| May 24 2025 | Player count on Steam surged to almost 19,000 players, significantly exceeding previous concurrent player peak, marking a sudden resurgence in game's popularity. |
| December 19 2024 | Complete edition of Battlefront II was made available on Xbox Game Pass subscription service. |
| January 2022 | Iden Versio added as a playable character in Star Wars: Galaxy of Heroes mobile game. |
| April 29 2020 | Final content update released, after which the game stopped receiving new content updates. |
| April 29 2020 | EA concluded support for new content updates for the game. |
| April 29 2020 | Electronic Arts concludes content updates for Star Wars Battlefront II, having determined that the game has reached its desired player base and substantially improved since its initial release. |
| April 29 2020 | Final content update was released, adding a Scarif map and content based on Rogue One. After this date, the game stopped receiving new content updates. |
| December 5 2019 | Celebration Edition of the game was released, including all cosmetic options released up to that point. |
| January 2019 | Iden Versio was added as a playable character to the mobile game Star Wars: Galaxy of Heroes. |
| May 16 2018 | First part of Solo: A Star Wars Story content season is released, adding new game mode, map, and character skins. |
| March 16 2018 | DICE announced an overhaul of the game's progression and economic system in response to microtransactions controversy. |
| December 5 2017 | First content season based on Star Wars: The Last Jedi was released, adding new maps, heroes, and a continuation of the single-player campaign. |
| November 17 2017 | Official worldwide release of Star Wars Battlefront II. |
| November 12 2017 | Controversy erupted over microtransactions and hero unlock costs, leading to EA's infamous 'sense of pride and accomplishment' Reddit comment. |
| November 9 2017 | A 10-hour trial version was made available to EA Access and Origin Access subscribers. |
| October 6 2017 | The beta test was expanded to an open beta, running until October 11. |
| October 4 2017 | The Battlefront II beta test period began for pre-order players. |
| July 25 2017 | A tie-in novel, Star Wars Battlefront II: Inferno Squad by Christie Golden, was released as a direct prelude to the game. |
| April 15 2017 | Executive producer Matthew Webster announced the worldwide release date of November 17, 2017, at Star Wars Celebration. |
| May 10 2016 | Development of Star Wars Battlefront II was officially announced, with DICE leading the project, Motive Studios responsible for the single-player campaign, and Criterion Games handling starfighter gameplay. |
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