Completely agree. Dice/EA has really shown their distain or at least lack of understanding for their core long term communities.
Compare the number of communities still playing BF3/BF4 together vs playing BF1 or BFV. Those games could have been 10x more popular and successful if they had things that BF4 had - even without being a modern game.
With 2042 and touting "Core Battlefield experiences" but stripping everything meaningful from people who play together (squads management, platoons, etc) it just shows how much the marketing and production arm of EA determines what gets made/prioritized and how little they play their own games the way their players do.
Think about this: If I am playing with 3 friends in a match, and a 4th friend gets online....the ONLY way to play with that friend in BF2042 reliability is to leave the match, party up, and start over.
So so true. We have had to split up so much already. And we don't want to split up. Others have just left. Gone to play Forza or something else. It is actively putting the guys off playing. Which is heartbreaking. We are all fans. We all want to see this do well.
