Yea. Much as they’re allowed to watch 18 films in the Home.

Huh, I didn't think they were allowed to.

Fair enough.

“Big things coming in 2014 to single player”

http://www.rockstargames.com/newswire/a ... ators-this

Can’t control your own spending and expectations.

Whales on mobile games spend tens of thousands, though, so the line isn't quite that clear cut.

Not convinced. There's a finite payout on a fruit machine, too: the amount of cash in its cash box. Doesn't mean it's not gambling. And if my reading of BF2's economy is correct, you could keep buying loot boxes and receiving duplicates of things you don't want forever, so there's not a finite max spend.

However in this case it’s the duplicates you want isn’t it, as it’s them you can exchange for credits and exchange for heroes. Unless you’re a completionist, which is where the gambling is potentially infinite. That’s how you can work out a finite max cost, being “winning” every possible item one by one, and having all your duplicates being the lowest credit exchange value possible.

So now we’re conflating an arguable gambling aspect where (because it only works with duplicates) there is a finite max spend of £100 (maybe less) with life destroying and potentially unlimited loss gambling addiction. Mmmmhkay.

Defending this crap has to be one of the dumbest hills I have ever seen anyone choose to die on.

I played as Vader at the weekend. Turns out he's only locked in certain multiplayer scenarios* - in others, you just pick Vader from a list of baddies (assuming you get to pick first, as he's quite popular).

* The ones where you earn "battle points" as you play that particular game, and can spend them on gadgets and weapons and airstrikes an things - or you can flip into a "hero" character, which can only be heroes you've unlocked. Battle points are wasted if you don't spend them in that game, it's not a third currency.

AND play a particular game mode

So, you can be Bader a lot of the time

"All the game modes you bought the game for," I think. Grim... is referring to the two-player Arcade mode which, from the reviews, sounds like a sideshow and not the thing you're mostly playing.

Looks like all that pissing and moaning sure did the trick! Hardly anyone bought Star Wars... That'll teach em!

This isn't doing particularly well in reviews.

Single player is short and uneven, (when it's good it's very good, when it's bad it's horrid), of the five multiplayer modes only two are any good, and whist the microtransactions might be gone the loot box system still hobbles it.

Seems to be a 5/10 to 6/10 kinda deal at a lot of places, just taken on its merits as a game.

Angry Joe's review is pretty good. He goes for 6/10.

But they don't - you get kill bonuses and objective bonuses.

The lies around this game - especially from people like Eurogamer - are starting to get really silly now.

But they don't - you get kill bonuses and objective bonuses.

The lies around this game - especially from people like Eurogamer - are starting to get really silly now.