During an investor conference today, EA’s chief financial officer Blake Jorgensen discussed next year’s Battlefront sequel.

While nothing too revealing received mention, Jorgensen did hint at what gamers can expect from the sequel.

“Next year we’ll have [the sequel to] Battlefront, the Star Wars game,” he said at EA’s presentation for the 35th NASDAQ Investor Program. “We were very excited about how [Battlefront] came out last year; it’s a beautiful game, people loved it.”

However, Jorgensen did acknowledge some qualms people had about the game.

“I think if there was criticism, they just wanted more,” he said. “We’re taking that criticism to heart as we build the next game and trying to address any of the issues that they had.”

He also touched upon how the next Battlefront installment will utilize content from the newer movies.

“The other thing is that we were really working with the old canvas of Star Wars, the old trilogy,” Jorgensen said. “We weren’t using any of the new materials that came out of the movie last year because our game actually came out slightly before the movie. Next year, we’ll have the opportunity to start to leverage more of that content from the new movies. We think that’ll even make the opportunity much larger.”

According to Jorgensen, the team working the game will be able to provide greater depth than the 2015 iteration.

“We’re looking forward to bringing to the table next year, a much bigger, a much more exciting Battlefront for consumers,” he said. “There seems to be no waning in the excitement around the Star Wars world.”

Not many details are known about next year’s sequel. Jorgensen most recently hinted in early November that the game has a late-2017 launch date.

We also know that DICE (the studio behind the 2015 Battlefront) is building the game alongside Motive Games, a brand new studio headed by Assassins Creed veteran Jade Raymond.

Motive is adding “a significant new addition to the game.” With this in mind, some have speculated that the Montreal-based studio is crafting a campaign—which EA’s first foray into the Battlefront series lacks—but no official confirmation on the topic has arrived yet. Jorgensen’s comments today perhaps gives more weight to this theory.

“There’s no point in making something in the Star Wars IP if you’re just going to do what’s been done before,” said Motive’s game director Mark Thompson in EA Star War’s “Look Ahead” trailer. “It’s a fantastic opportunity for Motive to really tell the world what we’re about and we’re going to bring that to Battlefront, which is crazy. It’s incredible.”

Jorgensen also said previously (which he reiterated today) that the next Battlefront is to showcase “bigger and better worlds” while utilizing content from “the new movies.”

To listen to Jorgensen’s presentation from today, head on over to the EA investor hub. Jorgensen’s comments on Battlefront begin at around the 14-minute mark of the webcast.

(H/T Game Rant)

(Top image taken in-game. Second image source.)