Re: Season 7 is officially the last season for BF2042

I will be very wary of buying the next BF. Maybe I hyped myself up too much for portal but there was so much potential to be had there that they wasted it.  I personally believe if the tem didn't have to play catch up with the state of the game when it was released wr would hqve seen mote content released for portal. 

Probably 2.5 years before next game is out. They aren't going to make BF6 in 18 months

They should delay the next battlefield until they have something impressive.

And in the meanwhile do seasons 8, 9, 10. For 2042.

64 players is not enough for the new game, I will probably pass.

If the new game dont have dedicated servers, replays of every match, spectator mode, so I can bann the cheaters manually I will pass too

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@UP_LordPlumber wrote:
@ElliotLHSadly we have to wait for over a year for the next game to be released. And I'm too worried about it.

So many red flags have been plaguing the Battlefield franchise and the gaming industry as a whole that I'm not sure if I want to see further carnage that might come.

SBMM has ruined CoD and I'm positive EA will do the same to BF. That curse has already touched 2042 and I don't like that. On top of EA's new and useless anti-cheat, visual recoil, and other questionable design decisions, I will live in fear until the nest game comes out.

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Hey, just curious how is SBMM bad? 

They have it in GT7 and i think it works well for everyone. Without it, me and friends would not be able to enjoy the game. I get into lobbies with A+ drivers and it is a lonely race going around and around by myself not being able to catch up to anyone. 

Same thing the other way around. I create a lobby and an A+ driver joins. He is by himself up there at the front of the pack, even laps some people. He leaves the lobby after one race because of the lack of fun/challenge. 

Daily races come in: races are organized by 'driver rating'. The fun and excitement is back. 

Can the same thing not be applied to BF?

About the end of BF2042:

"They promised 4 seasons..."

I need more detailed info on that before i make a full price purchase at launch. 
If the base game comes agin with so few maps, i would like them to commit to 4 maps per season. 
So i know 16 more maps are coming. 
Otherwise i will not see value in the product and may just purchase it later at a discounted price. 

It might sound strange but I am kind of relieved that I will finally be free from the weekly Battlepass OCD once season 7 ends.

Like it has been said above, I come that they will finally eat crow and unlock the full progression in Portal like it was at launch. Nobody cares about what level of T1 mastery others have anymore.

So instead of making content for a season 8, they added a visual recoil no one asked for. I am disappointed they are stopping now. I figured 8 would be the final and come this fall. To go 1.5 years without anything isn't ideal. Player numbers are going to drop more now and why play this game when you have nothing to look forward too.   I mean even COD doesn't do that before the next game drops. You get a season right till the end. I think also having all those studios working on this game could end up not working in our favor.

I just don't have a good feeling about this. I never would have bought anything extra if I knew they only were going to do 4 seasons from the start. I'm down for paying for premium if it means more weapons and more maps.   

The game will be three years old soon.  I recall them saying when it launched that as soon as a battlefield game launches some of the developers jump on the next battlefield already,  if we have to wait till the end of the next year for the next game that means they had four years to work on the next battlefield theoretically. 
In the current game they released only one new map per season. So if they can't show up with a decent product by the end of next year, what have they been doing for 4 years???? They are in deep trouble if they can't show a decent battlefield game with the right amount of content by the end of

Next year. So sad because I love the game. I'm gonna stay positive though. . 

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@UP_LordPlumber wrote:
@JOGAGATYA

1 GT7 is a racing game where you're in a free-for-all all, competing against I believe up to 19 other players

2 Battlefield 2042 has 128 players and there are many many many many more "stats" to take into account other than "My vroom vroom is faster than yours"

3 Its a team AND squad-based game. So setting up a team and squads in a 128-player match with a similar skill level, especially when you're dealing with players that are in top 1% is impossible. SBMM in 2042 ends up shafting itself and you for that matter. I often play with some dumb potatoes against tryhard vehicle turds because there aren't enough 3.0+ k/d infantry players in this game, so I end up playing against heli tryhards most of the time while my and enemy team is filled with infantry potatoes deluxe.

4 Any FPS game is a casual environment whether you like or not. I shouldn't be punished simply because I managed to get better than other players.

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Thanks for that, I still believe SBMM can be beneficial. Ultimately the experience comes down to 2 things. 
- 1 on 1 shooting as infantry so K/D

-  vehicle combat so maybe time spent in vehicles

Since so many stats are tracked, i think it is ok to consider these two stats when matchmaking. 
Even for the casual gamers, the one on one shooting experience is what matters. If it is frustrating, there is no joy, less time playing the game/ less money spent on cosmetics. Maybe this experience is even more important to casuals! But whatever floats the boat. I am ok without the SBMM too. 

In GT7 there is also the safety rating that is considered when matchmaking. (If you tend to hit other cars, you get matched against other terrible drivers. Works well. 🙂

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@UP_LordPlumber wrote:
@RUMPLE9They already confirmed the next game for 2025 though

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No they didn’t. It doesn’t reflect in the financials for 2025. They have a weird dating system, so I think they reset to 2026 in the fall of 2025, so maybe it could pop out late in 2025… but I seriously doubt it. It’s 2026 at the soonest. If they rush it again, it will be another nightmare as the roll out for 2042 was. 

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@UP_Hawxxeye wrote:

It might sound strange but I am kind of relieved that I will finally be free from the weekly Battlepass OCD once season 7 ends.

Like it has been said above, I come that they will finally eat crow and unlock the full progression in Portal like it was at launch. Nobody cares about what level of T1 mastery others have anymore.

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I agree, it’s almost a relief. I like to complete things, so after S7 I’ll be free to move on. Helldivers is sounding so fun. 

I know games eventually come to an end (the bad ones). But, what a stupid way to end the game. The last 3 seasons were just awful, no creativity at all it felt more like a testing ground. Man I was really looking forward to "2" new maps.

2026 is way too long without any content to me but I could see it happening. 

Wtf dice, make it paired number. 8

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@ATFGunr wrote:

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@UP_LordPlumber wrote:
@RUMPLE9They already confirmed the next game for 2025 though

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No they didn’t. It doesn’t reflect in the financials for 2025. They have a weird dating system, so I think they reset to 2026 in the fall of 2025, so maybe it could pop out late in 2025… but I seriously doubt it. It’s 2026 at the soonest. If they rush it again, it will be another nightmare as the roll out for 2042 was. 

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EA’s fiscal year always ends on March, 31st.  Andrew Wilson did mention in an analysts call last year that the next title is not within FY25. This obviously means not before March ‘25.  Now, with the officially announced curtain call on ‘2042’ plus the hiring of a new studio I’d wager we’re entering the relatively final stages of development of the new game.  It would not make sense for it to be released much later than June ‘25, I’d speculate.

Interestingly also, a Credit Suisse analyst predicts two BF titles within the next four years:

When 2042 came out EA were telling us that they were going all in with Battlefield, there would be a mobile game, a single player campaign, an expansion of the BF "universe", etc, etc, etc  None of this happened.  Mobile was cancelled, the team behind the single player has been closed (although I think another team has taken over?) and nothing else has been add to the universe of Battlefield. A lot of hot air from EA execs, and I will always be of the opinion that it was EA that screwed up BF2042 resulting in many long standing DICE devs quitting.  Publishers need to stay the hell away from what the game makers are doing, and just trust them.  Look at Suicide Squad, I cannot believe this is the game Rocksteady wanted to make.

Work will already be well under way on the next title, so I expect to see the next game in Oct/Nov 2025 and I expect it will have a single player campaign; like the previous titles did.  But that is one long wait and over the next 18 months I imagine 2042 will die out. 

On the other hand, we'll probably get a trailer for BF "next" this time next year.  And laughably they will probably invite us to pre-order, bwaaahaaahaaahaaaa

NATO vs a private mercenary army, that's fine, it means they can widen the scope of weapons and vehicles and make up some decent kit for the mercs.  But I do feel like this is also a case of DICE distancing themselves from their previous games; they don't want to set to real nations against each other in a game.  Even though, y'know, it's just a game.  Clearly (and there's no other way to put it) there is some "snowflake" influence going on.