Battlefield Briefing: Launch Update & The Road Ahead Response

@Straatford87 in Battlefield Briefing: Launch Update & The Road Ahead, you clearly mentioned Server Browser as something you were evaluating and would have plenty to say around them, but have not mentioned Server Browser since launch and the biggest threads in this forum are directly related to SB and MM.

Of all the things you can add to the game, this one is the most important and would bring a lot of players back. I can't tell you how frustrating it is to be recycled back into an MM queue after every round. I just want to pick the server (region, map, mode, etc), and be able to play with friends or random PUGs who I later add as friends after our squad stays intact after the round ends (this builds the community). I also like to know the map rotation or lack thereof. There is already a Server Browser in Portal, so I don't understand the reasoning behind not adding one to AOW (or merging the two and having tabs for AOW and Portal).

This is what was stated back in November upon launch:

"We also want to give you the assurance that we’re carefully evaluating your desire to see legacy features return. End-of-match Scoreboard, Server Browser, and features like Voice Chat are big topics for us to cover all at once, and we have plenty we want to say around them. We’ll come back to you when we have things that we can show to you, including details about our long-term vision for certain features and functions."

All I want to know is that Server Browser is on the radar and will be added at some point or not. If it is, it gives me hope, if not, then I can use my valuable gaming time elsewhere; but keeping us in the dark on a topic that you mentioned seems out of character for you. So to make it easy, all you have to do is reply "Y" if it is on the table, or "N" if it is not.

Thanks in advance.

- Mods - please do not merge, this is specifically addressing a comment made in Battlefield Briefing: Launch Update & The Road Ahead -

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28 Replies

Ironhead841
Hero
4 years ago
@Adamonic
100% couldn't agree more, we really do DESERVE and answer on this.
RayD_O1
Hero
4 years ago
@Adamonic
Sums it up perfectly, now all we need is an answer.

The community has been very vocal on this topic and have been patiently waiting for a response, I think we are owed that much.
Mackstan71
Seasoned Ace
4 years ago
Again...EA/DICE....any comment on this?
Albake21z
Seasoned Hotshot
4 years ago
Dice seriously needs to address this, it's gotten way out of hand at this point. I don't even care if the answer is "We have reviewed the idea of bringing back the server browser, but will be sticking to MM".

At least then I can finally move on from this dumpster fire.
rippedwire01
4 years ago
"We also want to give you the assurance that we’re carefully evaluating your desire to see legacy features return. End-of-match Scoreboard, Server Browser, and features like Voice Chat are big topics for us to cover all at once, and we have plenty we want to say around them. We’ll come back to you when we have things that we can show to you, including details about our long-term vision for certain features and functions."
I still find it incredibly telling that they lumped end-of-match scoreboard and voice chat into the label of "legacy features". Insane that they considered so many things to not be important enough to implement or outdated. Ridiculous
<insert long list of things missing or otherwise known as the list of legacy features>
RayD_O1
Hero
4 years ago
@rippedwire01 wrote:
"We also want to give you the assurance that we’re carefully evaluating your desire to see legacy features return. End-of-match Scoreboard, Server Browser, and features like Voice Chat are big topics for us to cover all at once, and we have plenty we want to say around them. We’ll come back to you when we have things that we can show to you, including details about our long-term vision for certain features and functions."
I still find it incredibly telling that they lumped end-of-match scoreboard and voice chat into the label of "legacy features". Insane that they considered so many things to not be important enough to implement or outdated. Ridiculous
<insert long list of things missing or otherwise known as the list of legacy features>
I agree and I am even more amazed that they still haven't acted to bring the most important one the Server Browser.
I would also note, sadly they have definitely NOT had much to say about it either.
TAW_Rinko
4 years ago
Given the reason stated for delaying the specialist feedback and not making any comment on that decision for weeks, I don't expect even the most basic forms of courtesy or honesty from Dice.
Things are said, deadlines promised, and next to nothing delivered. Delivered late, at that.
It's pretty obvious now that anything Dice say can not be relied on. That Dice itself feels no obligation to be honest or upfront.
And I'm still curious as to how Dice feel that acting like this wont impact sales of any future games they release.
Psubond
Legend
4 years ago
silence is an answer. if they stay quiet and don't build a server browser people might stay. if they say they're not going to build one people will leave.
RayD_O1
Hero
4 years ago
@TAW_Rinko wrote:
Given the reason stated for delaying the specialist feedback and not making any comment on that decision for weeks, I don't expect even the most basic forms of courtesy or honesty from Dice.
Things are said, deadlines promised, and next to nothing delivered. Delivered late, at that.
It's pretty obvious now that anything Dice say can not be relied on. That Dice itself feels no obligation to be honest or upfront.
And I'm still curious as to how Dice feel that acting like this wont impact sales of any future games they release.
Oh future sales will be impacted alright, you can fool some of the people some of the time but the damage inflicted by BF2042 will reverberate for years imho.
TAW_Rinko
4 years ago
@RayD_O1 wrote:
Oh future sales will be impacted alright, you can fool some of the people some of the time but the damage inflicted by BF2042 will reverberate for years imho.
Quite so.
2042 isn't just another poor release from Dice in the process of being fixed. Because, for a start, Dice are not fixing the fundamentals. They're just fiddling around with peripheral issues.
Secondly, Dice seem pathologically unable to be honest about their intentions, and congenitally unable to take player feedback into account.
Add in the chronic mendacity of their public statements, and its a toxic, studio killing, brew.