DICE reflects on Battlefield 2042's long road to redemption

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@RayD_O1 wrote:
@Ironhead841
100% this. 👍

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Make it 200% 👍

"one of the big things we really started to understand was that a lot of our issues came from the fact that players didn't understand how the Specialists were supposed to work."

You mean to sell skins and monetize the hell out of the franchise 🙌

I was waiting for this thread as soon as I read that article. 

just sadness now, I have less than zero hope the game will ever be anything I’ll be interested in. It’s super clear to me now, having blamed their player base for not understanding how to play battlefield. That they are clearly on some other plane of existence. 

"When we look back at the data, and when we really started moving forward with introducing the class systems, one of the big things we really started to understand was that a lot of our issues came from the fact that players didn't understand how the Specialists were supposed to work. And if you don't understand how something is supposed to work, of course you believe that the old way was better. Feedback from players was really good around this. So we had to find a way to give them what they wanted, but still allow us the freedom and flexibility that we originally wanted too." 

I do believe that the player base understood that the specialist were designed for Hazard Zone only, and it would have been an okay move, if they were marketed and presented that way. In a separate game in a Battlefield universe.
But their domain is the Hazard Zone, not the Battle Field.

I believe that they needed to increase the number of gadgets for the troops by 50% to make them viable, is a statement hard to ignore.

If we get blamed that we didn't understand their purpose, that all on the game designers, because they failed to make that point clear. But hey, I can't blame them, because they don't have a purpose in the current implementation, they are only clownish placeholders. 

It's Halo's fault.

Redemption? Wow are they in denial. Been downhill since the great nerf and I'm not seeing anything positive written about the game.

May 22 around 15k players on steam, July 23 around 15k players on steam, yet that dude believes, that the game is heaving an influx of players.So it seems like, it is again the core BF-community that is playing this game, although it is pure garbage...

That dude obvisouly doesn't understand, why this game failed.