EA accidentally uses mod screenshots on Star Wars Battlefront storefront page, oops

It seems that the folks at EA have pulled a big oops situation with their store page for Star Wars Battlefront (2015). While it has been quite some time since we had any news regarding the franchise, EA has been keeping the store page looking fresh, but have mistakenly used screenshots taken from several mods.

It was pointed out on the game's subreddit showing that the EA website and PC launcher were both showing screenshots not taken directly from the base game, but were taken from two mods by creator Spifferino.

The Star Wars Battlefront franchise hasn't seen a great deal of action lately as the franchise sits dormant with EA

In a thread created by u/OpoChano the user points out that "The white Shore Trooper retexture was made by a user on Nexus Mods called Spifferino. EA also used at least one of Spifferino's screenshots of a 501st Storm Trooper texture mod." It's hard to know what happened, but the images are certainly pulled from the modding website NexusMods.

A few Redditors believe this could have happened when an employee who perhaps wasn't familiar with the game Googled for images to use on the pages. It's a bizarre occurrence given the company would have access to hundreds of images stored locally. The screenshots have been on display for some time and if you head over there now you can still see them.

Another user, u/jayL21 points out how bad the discrepancy is saying: "It really feels like they just uploaded a bunch of random Star Wars Battlefront (2015) cinematic screenshots. The 2nd image (on the page) is a clear example of that, that's just not an image you'd use for a store page.

"Hell it looks like someone just messing around with cinematic tools. Not to mention three out of the five pictures are Scarif, which isn't even apart of the base game. Also the Vader picture, he isn't even holding his saber." Hopefully EA gets round to updating this sooner rather than later.