Star Wars Battlefront II ‘topped 19 million’ free of charge downloads on Epic Game titles Store

Star Wars Battlefront II was downloaded for free more than 19 million instances through a the latest Epic Game titles Keep promotion, according to publisher EA.

Battlefront II: Celebration Version, which commonly prices £34.99 was absolutely free to down load from Epic’s marketplace from January 14-21.

Celebration Edition characteristics the total collection of customisation content material out there via in-game buys, together with the most new items encouraged by The Increase of Skywalker.

Though Battlefront II received its ultimate big articles update in April 2020, publisher EA has had to offer with a massive influx of new gamers this month, which resulted in momentary troubles as it labored to increase server capability.

The Epic Game titles Store’s cost-free games advertising has observed it give absent titles on a weekly foundation because the storefront introduced in December 2018. It also gave away 15 absolutely free online games in excess of the 2020 Christmas period.

It’s unclear what share of Epic Game titles Shop gamers downloaded Battlefront II for no cost, but it appears to be a important one particular. Epic claimed in January 2020 that the Epic Game titles Retailer experienced amassed 108 million Laptop clients in its 1st year of operation.

It was introduced this thirty day period that Lucasfilm Game titles has finished its Star Wars exclusivity offer with EA by partnering with Ubisoft on a new open up-entire world game, while EA mentioned it will keep on to make Star Wars games “for years to come”.