Evidence points to Star Wars: Battlefront Classic Collection dev using mods

Aspyr Media isn’t having the best time with the launch of Star Wars: Battlefront Classic Collection. From the botched launch met with glitches, bugs, and not enough servers to the large file size that it takes up on your system, unsurprisingly, fans haven’t taken too kindly to it. Now, it’s being accused of using a mod without the author’s permissions.

Star Wars: Battlefront modder iamshaymin took to Twitter showing more evidence that Aspyr, hot off the heels of the well-crafted Tomb Raider I-III Remastered, used their mod to bring the original Xbox’s DLC characters — Kit Fisto and Asajj Ventress — to the other versions of the game. In the 2021 mod, the two DLC characters were reskins of existing fighters, meaning some of the established character traits like Ventress’ linksabers are absent.

Seriously, @AspyrMedia I’m beginning to feel insulted.
Nintendo Switch launched with just straight up all my hero stuff from my mod. Same glitches and bugs. We’ve datamined it and it’s the exact same files just using the proper lightsaber attack anims.
(This is before patch) pic.twitter.com/3tWGgc8MzI

— iamashaymin (@iamashaymin) March 16, 2024

It was a “gut punch,” as the dev assured fans that the game won’t feature any sort of content that isn’t credited. Instead of including credit, which would’ve saved it a lot of headache, it simply stripped the fragments of the mod, per IGN. It should be noted that the issue isn’t the use of the mod itself, but rather the credibility of Aspyr since it blatantly lied to fans about whether it was using uncredited content.

“Some of the files were only modified in my mod slightly in order to work on PC but still differ from the official models in some noticeable ways and the force bubble effect is a completely different projectile I had to create myself.

I’ve never had issues with them using my mod, but now that they responded by saying what they did, shipping these files in multiple versions of the game and not crediting the source is an issue. Not because I demand credit but just on the credibility of Aspyr. How can fans trust a company which doesn’t seem to value the fans’ passion?”