Without much noise, but expected by a significant number of users, Last week, Star Wars: Battlefront Classic Collection went on salea pack with classic Battlefront (the one from 2005, not the 2015 one), Battlefront II (the 2006 version, not the 2017 one), and three other maps (one for the former and two for the latter), in a design that invites us to reviving two of the most notable titles in the veteran and prolific Star Wars series.

We find ourselves again with a call that directly appeals to the nostalgia of those who played them back then, but of course, taking into account that each of the classics has a price of 9.75 euros on Steam, Aspyr Media (developer and publisher) had to offer something more than two titles in order to be able to sell this collection for 34.14 euros in the online store Valve. And the thing is, otherwise, given that we’re not talking about remasters or anything like that, it would be rather difficult to justify.

So Star Wars: Battlefront Classic Collection has two strong points, on the one hand the aforementioned additional maps, which are always liked, and on the other hand the deployment of a server platform capable of providing an optimal gaming experience. online. First of all, for better or better, it has been fulfilled, although we can see many players criticizing the brevity of the experience. It’s worse when we talk about servers, because at least in the early days The experience seems to have been quite negative..

“The upcoming release of Star Wars: Battlefront Classic Collection does not include any code or content taken from unlisted sources.” https://t.co/GjrJY2E0wM
I’m not in the credits @AspyrMedia

– iamashaymin (@iamashaymin) March 14, 2024

So if we check his Steam file, we see that the ratings are mostly negative, and the automatic rating done by SteamDB based on previous ratings gives him a shameful 22.85%. Although this alone would be more than enough to be quite critical of Aspyr, now it seems that the situation is even worse because, as we can read in VG247, Aspyr included an unofficial mod in Star Wars: Battlefront Classic Collection without asking its creator for permission.

Worst of all, Aspyr was aware of this issue as the mod was already identified in the game’s first trailer and They confirmed that it is present in it, but that they will remove it in the final version. However, despite committing to it, the mod is still present in the game, and to make matters worse, the developer didn’t even bother to credit its author, iamashaymin, in Star Wars: Battlefront Classic Collection.

Sometimes you feel like that things cannot be done so badly by accident, but stubborn reality tries to show that it is possible. Of course, this requires those responsible to forget that players expect something more than an appeal to their own memories to be satisfied with a design like this. We already saw this in 2021 when Rockstar released GTA The Trilogy, but on that occasion we at least faced an attempt at remastering. In this case, it’s not even like that.