Battlefront 2 was just announced for 2017, and will evidently include ST-era content:
http://www.gamespot.com/articles/star-wars-battlefront-2-confirmed-features-content/1100-6439682/
Yeah, I saw that the other day. Yearly-releases don’t give me much hope for the franchise, unless the lack of content (and frankly gameplay) in the current iteration was due to restrictions and it being more of a proof-of-concept than an actual game.
I’ll keep an eye on it. Maybe they’ll learn from the first one.
It’s not yearly though? Battlefront 2 will come out two years after the first. This really shouldn’t be a surprise anyway with Episode VIII coming next year.
Will it really have been that long? Jeez.
Well, either way, unless another arm of DICE has been working on it for awhile now, two years is not a lot of time to build a complete game of that magnitude.
It’s not really a surprise to me for the reasons you stated as well as the fact that the “FPS Cycle” isn’t a very long thing anyway. I just hope it’s better this time around.