EA's new 'Star Wars' game is so unpopular a developer is apparently getting death threats

The official response defended the game's progression milestones as "challenges that are compelling, rewarding, and of course attainable" and said the company wanted to "provide players with a sense of pride and accomplishment."

In just 18 hours, the comment earned more than 250,000 negative points.

A Reddit spokesperson said the company does not maintain a ranking history and so can't confirm that the comment is the most downvoted.

The intent is to provide players with a sense of pride and accomplishment for unlocking different heroes. As for cost, we selected initial values based upon data from the Open Beta and other adjustments made to milestone rewards before launch. Among other things, we're looking at average per-player credit earn rates on a daily basis, and we'll be making constant adjustments to ensure that players have challenges that are compelling, rewarding, and of course attainable via gameplay. We appreciate the candid feedback, and the passion the community has put forth around the current topics here on Reddit, our forums and across numerous social media outlets. Our team will continue to make changes and monitor community feedback and update everyone as soon and as often as we can.

The outrage runs so deep that someone who professes to be a developer claims to have received death threats. A Twitter user who goes by the name Sean and claims to be a EA developer in his bio tweeted Monday morning that the game has inspired "personal attacks."

EA could not be immediately reached to confirm the Twitter profile.