Re: Battlefield mobile confirmed!

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@zenn_nme wrote:

Ugh, mobile game. No thanks. 😕☹️

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@zenn_nme my thoughts exactly.

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@ragnarok013 wrote:

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@zenn_nme wrote:

Ugh, mobile game. No thanks. 😕☹️

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@zenn_nmemy thoughts exactly.

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"What, you guys don't have phones?"

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@ragnarok013 wrote:

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@zenn_nme wrote:

Ugh, mobile game. No thanks. 😕☹️

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@zenn_nmemy thoughts exactly.

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Its awful and waste of critical money/time/resources! 

(doesnt matter if they outsource this to 3rd party.  You still need an army of core EA staff to be on top of it)

So EA, please get the core basics right before going off on all tangents again.

Focus, focus, focus!  

I personally can not really be upset about this. It's another game, in another market (mobile) and I have no interest in the mobile game.

I doubt this has any implications on BF6, money or development-wise.

It is probably like the mobile COD-games, they live their own lives.

I think the announcement is meant for shareholders, more than for existing BF-gamers.

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@cso7777 wrote:

I personally can not really be upset about this. It's another game, in another market (mobile) and I have no interest in the mobile game.

I doubt this has any implications on BF6, money or development-wise.

It is probably like the mobile COD-games, they live their own lives.

I think the announcement is meant for shareholders, more than for existing BF-gamers.

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@cso7777 wrote:

I personally can not really be upset about this. It's another game, in another market (mobile) and I have no interest in the mobile game.

I doubt this has any implications on BF6, money or development-wise.

It is probably like the mobile COD-games, they live their own lives.

I think the announcement is meant for shareholders, more than for existing BF-gamers.

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@cso7777 it's still money from EA's development budget that could be allocated towards the main Battlefield game. I'd personally rather have EA release a good Battlefield game before wasting money chasing trends like mobile or BR. You are right, that announcement is 100% for the shareholders.

@ragnarok013I get your concern, but most of the money spent on a game is development resources (time).

And it seems like EA has spared no expense with BF6 (with all the studios helping out now)...

If that is truly the policy for EA when launching what is supposed to be their mission critical next Battlefield game to save their franchise, then I have a better cash savings idea for them:

Fire all employees, cancel all office rental agreements, fold the marketing and sales departments.

Just set up an automated phone answering machine with the message: " We surrender ! "

Agreed @Trokey66 ,

Its one single bag of money with a finite amount available.  But also the classic dilemma on R&D, if you dont put up the money it takes to make something valuable.  You are not going to sell much of it down the line.  So always going cheap is a self-fulfilling path to becoming obsolete, as competition has already shown they do better in recent days.  So if EA seriously consider this as one of their absolute money makers and part of their core identity, then its not the place to do things half...

The judgement will be severe if they screw this one up.

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@Trokey66 wrote:
@ragnarok013 There is every chance that money not spent in one area would been seen as a saving and NOT reallocated elsewhere.

It's what the large defence company I work for would do......

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@Trokey66 ah a fellow Defense Industry guy like myself!  I understand that is a distinct possibility but it's also possible that they had "X" budget for Battlefield and this mobile buffoonery is coming out of it even if they planned from the beginning for that cost. The optics are just bad after the entire BF5 experience.