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(Updated with EA's statement)Hours ahead of the game's launch in North America and after its launch in other territories, EA has confirmed that crystals cannot be purchased any longer to use toward in-game crates, which include Star Cards, emotes, and other resources. Instead, all progression in multiplayer will be accomplished via gameplay. Crystals used for microtransactions will be re-implemented at a later date."We’re turning off all in-game purchases," DICE GM Oskar Gabrielson's statement reads. "We will now spend more time listening, adjusting, balancing and tuning. This means that the option to purchase crystals in the game is now offline, and all progression will be earned through gameplay. The ability to purchase crystals in-game will become available at a later date, only after we’ve made changes to the game. We’ll share more details as we work through this."

This is what $100 could get you BEFORE microtransactions were disabled.

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"...We’ve heard that this is overshadowing an otherwise great game. This was never our intention. Sorry we didn’t get this right," Gabrielson wrote.Battlefront II's devs have been continually addressing the negative feedback fans have had to the game's progression and loot crate system, including in a recent AMA ahead of its launch . During that Q-and-A session, the developers vowed to fix the progression system based on fan response."We were incredibly saddened by the negative response from you, the community on Reddit about the game", associate design director Dennis Brannvall said. "In-fact, we hated it, we truly did, because we want to make a game that you love."We've made a really cool, fun and beautiful game but it was overshadowed by issues with the progression system. We will fix this."Developer DICE is very much treating Battlefront II as a live service game, meaning changes to core mechanics are always possible. In fact, major elements of the progression system have already been changed twice since the game's open beta.We awarded Battlefront 2 an in-progress score of 7.0 - singling out the progression system in particular as a negative.Fears about Battlefront II's microtransactions came up during the game's beta, and IGN discussed the topic of whether the loot and microtransaction system made Battlefront II's multiplayer pay-to-win.Developing story, check back for updates...

Jonathon Dornbush is an Associate Editor for IGN. Find him on Twitter @jmdornbush