This will forever disappoint me.
Back when SWBF2015 launched, a large group of players begged EA/DICE to add AI support for all the modes, citing game preservation among a myriad of things. People on the forums at the time gatekept and pushed back against the idea saying it was dumb. But the rest of players who weren’t shortsighted, saw this coming a mile away; and we genuinely loved this game and wanted to be able to hop on it any time we wanted in the future. They eventually released skirmish because of how much we begged, which only supported vanilla WA and FS. All dlc maps/modes were absent, as well as all vanilla modes besides FS and WA were absent. On top of it, you couldn’t progress at all in skirmish.
Now this is the result. Unless you plan with 39 other people, you will *never* find a dlc match on public lobbies. You will *never* find a match for droid run or cargo. You will be met with this screen for 10 ish minutes before you’re booted to the main menu. You’re still able to find vanilla WA games in public matches, but i never joined a full one; the record so far was 26/40. But imagine shelling out $50 at the time for the season pass? I only have the pass because they made it free for a few days back in 2017 from what I assume were abysmal player counts; and even then you can’t find anything.
If you’re on PS or Xbox and want to casually hop on the game to play on the death star, you literally cannot do that anymore. You have to set dates on reddit or discord with no results guaranteed depending on when you’re off work, because everyone is on SWBF2 or just moved on to something else.
Their game preservation philosophy is actually a joke, and seeing EA lose their star wars money making license was extremely satisfying, they deserved nothing less. If any of you in 2015 were on the EA forums pushing back against AI being added to preserve the game, I genuinely hope this was your all time favorite game to play, and that you’re forced to stare at this screen whenever you want to hop on.