Via Gamespot.com:

Following the big Star Wars: Battlefront II multiplayer reveal earlier, GameSpot spoke with design director Niklas Fegraeus about the sci-fi shooter’s free DLC plans and more.

A number of high-profile games are offering their DLC maps and modes for free, including Halo 5 and Titanfall 2, and the Battlefront sequel joins them for some of the same reasons. Fegraeus told us that giving away DLC maps ensures that everyone can play together. In 2015’s Battlefront, EA added numerous maps as paid DLC, and as time rolled out, the community became more and more splintered, leading to player figures falling.

“I think the main thing here is to keep the community together,” Fegraeus said about Battlefront II’s free DLC model. “In terms of the brand, to me, when it comes to Star Wars, that’s a family feeling. If you’re a fan, you’re a part of the family. And splitting that up and saying, ‘If you have this content you can play here, but if you have this content you can play here.’ And if you don’t share, you will be split up. What we wanted to do was have a journey that starts at the launch of the game. So when the game launches, this journey starts with different seasons [of DLC].”

Battlefront II’s first season of themed DLC launches in December, themed around this year’s new Star Wars film, The Last Jedi.

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