I think it's sad that everything around the Battlefield franchise nowadays is focused on bringing in more money for EA.
Money, money, money.
- Game released too early because EA's executives focus way too much on the short term and on how to increase revenue there.
- Game has Specialist because EA's executives have spreadsheets that say it's a good idea so they can sell as much cosmetic items as possible.
- Game has no Server browser because EA's executives have surveys that show player retention can be increased via SBMM and that other term I forgot what is (which is not possible if people can freely pick which server they want to play on) - and increased player retention equals more cosmetic items sold etc.
etc.
etc.
@DPsx7 wrote:
Doesn't need a browser. I hate trying to join a game that fills by the time I enter. Random join is just fine.
That is probably the worst take I've seen on here in a long time, playing with a large group of friends is an unnecessarily difficult chore in this game because of the random matchmaking crap they've saddled us with.
Not to mention the repetitive nature of getting stuck playing the same 3-4 maps on a loop most of the time, with no control of which map you want to play, it's always just a roll of the dice.
Not having a reliable way to play with more than four friends or pick which maps we want to play (based on map/ping/location/rotation etc. etc.) has decimated any sort of community building that existed in prior BF games, and many long-time BF players/Clans/Platoons have opted out of BF2042 altogether for that very reason.
I suspect the reasons server browsers as well as persistent servers are missing in BF2042 is
Battlefield games NEED a server browser and persistent server, period, full-stop.
