DICE reflects on Battlefield 2042's long road to redemption

My concern is this wasn't some Exec from EA that reads a Powerpoint slide and notes given to him by his staff. This is a DICE senior producer's viewpoint. This clearly shows why the game failed, there was a complete disconnect with the BF community.

My theories are:

1. They saw the success of Apex Legends and tried to bring that concept into the Battlefield universe, and it failed miserably. If we wanted Apex we would just play it.

2. A majority of the development staff were not Battlefield veterans, so they had no first-hand knowledge on what makes a great Battlefield game. 

There are so many problems with the game AND a bunch of "legacy" features that were omitted from the game, but I still want to know who thought it was a good idea that every player on a server could be the same character, same skins, etc, so that you could potentially have 32 Falcks shooting at 32 other Falcks who are rezz'ing other Falcks who all look EXACTLY the same. Talk about an immersion killer. 

They should've just called the game Battlefield Specialists and had more legacy content in Portal for those that wanted to play BF3/BF4 on both new and old maps, without Specialists. 

I have pre-ordered every possible BF title since BF1942, the next one will be the first one that I do not pre-order. These companies live off of pre-orders because it gives them current revenue and then they can project future revenue due to live service. Without the pre-orders, they are hosed.