[BLOG] EA Authorize Fan-Made Revival Of BattleForge, Maybe

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[BLOG] EA Authorize Fan-Made Revival Of BattleForge, Maybe

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BattleForge was a combination of card game and RTS that was launched back in 2009, and had its servers shut down back in 2013. Now in a post on the BattleForge Reborn forum, community manager MrXLink has made the announcement that EA has apparently permitted a fan revival of the game called Skylords Reborn to be a thing. According to the post, EA has officially sanctioned this revival with the help of a company called Ardent Peak; and the revival will bring the game back up to the same standard it was at before the server shutdown with potential new content in the future.



Originally developed by EA Phenomic, BattleForge was a freemium game where players could build armies not with resources but by collecting and trading cards with other players. Cards were divided into frost, shadow, fire and nature, with players having to use special BattleForge points to get more cards - which in traditional freemium fashion meant microtransactions and quite a few of them. This was back when they were only just beginning to take root in games, so people didn't quite hate microtransactions as much as we now do.



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This new version though is stripping out all of the microtransactions and upping the amount of BattleForge points you can get through regular play of the game - the Skylords Reborn team promise that the game will never "Pay2Win or Pay2Play". The team have also have a new server run by Ardent Peak, and have apparently been given permission to alter the original BattleForge client mostly to remove all references to EA. However, the post does also state that while they can "alter the server in such a way to release additional content", they will not be allowed to "release any paid DLC or paid updates for the game." For now the aim of the team is to simply restore the game, although it does make you wonder how they will continue to fund both server upkeep and any further updates afterwards - apparently the team are allowed to "commercialise the game to the extent that we are allowed to gain money for the project" but we've no idea what that means other than to take donations from the community. We'll see in time I guess.



It certainly sounds interesting, but it is worth noting that the post is not from an official EA source and EA themselves haven't made any statements on their own sites or social medias. Maybe wait for that before you jump into the game; it'd be a shame to make any progress only to have EA come in and shut it all down again.
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