Star Wars: Battlefront will have no Microtransactions

Destiny will have microtransactions soon, which is both a good thing and a bad thing, but it’s not the only Sci-Fi shooter that’s currently looking to make money: DICE’s upcoming Star Wars: Battlefront reboot is also coming out, and since it’s a DICE game, people are already beginning to worry that it, too, will be full of microtransactions, both cosmetic and less-than cosmetic.

Well, here’s some good news, then--while the game will have two forms of currency, Points and Credits, neither of them can be purchased with real world money--and in fact, there’s no option to use real-world money to buy anything. Star Wars: Battlefront is micropayment-free.

This comes to us from an interview with GameSpot, where Battlefront design director Niklas Fegraeus says that every currency in the game is based off performance and skill, not your real-world bank account, and thus everything you unlock has to be unlocked by not sucking. Bad news for me, but good news for the world in general.

"If you're really competitive, the coolest things you can get is star cards to best suit your play style. If you really like to snipe, for example, you should totally go for the blaster cannon. Or if you're looking for something cool in terms of expressing yourself, then I would say if you gather a lot of credits, you can buy some expensive in-game items, such as being able to play as an alien race. You can be a Rodian while everyone else is human."

Star Wars: Battlefront will available on November 17th.