Bring Platoons back, we need them

I am a general of a large Dice Verified Platoon.  Yes, Dice used to care so much about us that they even gave verified status to the good ones that did things for the community.  They actively encouraged us to build communities.  

Now fast forward to 2042.  The largest maps/ player count matches of the franchise.  And yet platoons are gone.  Platoons are gone and so is a server browser.  No method exists of being able to get more than one squad into these huge games.

Overnight, the communities we have spent so many years building have been ripped apart and trampled on.  We cannot play together in the same match.

I understand that there is portal.  But it's a new game, we all want to experience in it's entirety but we have to split up to do so.  Which is crazy when you consider there are 128 people in a match.

How did we get here?  From actively encouraging Platoons to stepping over them like pieces of rubbish on the street?   We are literally homeless.  With no method of continuing to grow.  Only shrink as everyone splits off just to get a game.

Platoons are like families.  In my case, they are my family as I have none.  We talk daily, we share the bad times and the good times in our lives.  We support each other.  We have fundraisers for those in hardship.  Donated food gift cards, sent flowers for bereavements.  Held meet ups in real life. 

Why would you ever want to take those experiences away from the communities you activity encouraged us to build?

Years of hard work, years of recruitment.  Years of managing our communities and holding them accountable for their behaviour. 

We have a huge sense of pride in wearing our tags.  And now they are gone.  Without any mention.  Like they were so unimportant to Dice all along they can't even bother to give us an explanation.

These Platoons have literally held communities together during the rough times of V.  And now we have been discarded like a used tissue.

We deserve better.  #BF2042bringplatoonsback