EA-CEO Announcement-He has played the next BF game....

Battlefield is in an unfortunate position. EA now lives and dies by the hype and pre-orders. Every game is tied to revenue and profit and not customer satisfaction. 

So they release games that are minimally viable at the time of release and they use bug fixes and patches as updates.

In order to increase their profit margin, they have to reduce labor (developer hours) to a point that ensures they are profitable.

That is exactly why they pulled the plug on BF2042 literally a month after launch. We had a 6+ month gap with nothing while the skeleton crew broke down the original Season 1 content into 4 seasons. Then they finished partially made maps and released them one by one for Seasons 5-7. Also, remember no new Specialists after Season 4. 

They are clearly repeating the same process for the next title. 

I have a funny feeling they are going to add something else to pre-orders to entice people to buy it. Normally it is early access or something like that. I bet they add some exclusive stuff like a weapon or attachments that you can only get thru pre-order. Pay to win. That would be dirty, but all they care about is the pre-order quarter revenue. 

He might be excited all he wants..good for him.....happy happy joy joy.

But i see this as a big propaganda show...and do NOT! believe a word he says.

They sold a unfinished and totaly broken product to their customers....nope, not falling for it.

It's looking like their adding adds in game also. I hope this is not true.

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@Adamonic wrote:

I bet they add some exclusive stuff like a weapon or attachments that you can only get thru pre-order.

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Maybe a super duper weapon charm.

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@GrizzGolf wrote:

So pretty much from this point on, we are lucky to get 4 new maps per game cycle if they keep that model. What happen to the gaming that I loved?

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It became very profitable so the same kind of people that buy fast food chains and slowly make the burgers ever smaller (and will probably replace pork and beef with rat venison), took over

Historically DICE’s strategy has been to create a good game and then throw in a gimmick or two to help sell the game:

In Battlefield 4 it was Levolution.

In Battlefield 1 it was Elite soldier kits as well as Behemoths.

In Battlefield 5 it was buildable defenses as well as the V1 rocket.

In Battlefield 2042 it was weather effects as well as Specialists.

However, in recent years - perhaps since the EA takeover of DICE - things have felt differently.

It seems that DICE is now being viewed less as a game producing studio and more as a business unit.

Game-related decisions are now being made, not primarily from the viewpoint of making a good game, but from how they can contribute to maximize profits.

Thus Battlefield as a game has now almost become of secondary concern.

It’s sad to witness this as a Battlefield player.

How long have they been working on the new title? A couple years right?

It’s good to see more and more people come to the realization that giving EA Dice money by means of preordering games is similar to leaving a pedophile alone with children in a kindergarten. 

I already arrived at this point during the run up to BFV. I still bought that game at launch though. But after abandoning that game despite their tides of war promises, so we never got to see the Eastern front, D-day and the liberation, they completley lost my trust as a customer.

So no pre-order again for BF2042 and this time no ordering at launch either. And oh boy was I right!

Eventually I picked up 2042 at a discount 7 months after launch. 

I used to pre-order plus buy premium to get all DLC. But it’s clear the old guard Battlefield veterans are not the customers they are targeting anymore. They said it themselves in some earlier communication, they are looking for ways to attract new customers. And we all know who those are, it’s the kids who are willing to spend money on stuff like cosmetics.

Why invest a lot of development time to create new maps to please a few old blokes, if instead with little effort you can make a Santa Clause skin you can sell to a lot of kids?