Finally some truth. (From an ex-EA game changer)

Interesting read. 

that is so disconcerting, the game is a total mess and has no idea on what it wants to be which is even worse for a BF.  seems like they should change the title to COD:BF2042 is what it feels like 

So what? This doesn't really say anything to us, nor by anyone important for that matter.

It is basically just another gamer (clearly not an EA or DICE employee) voicing his concerns over how the players who were supposed to give their opinions/feedback were more or less ignored by the developers...but that sort of thing has been going on in the industry since around 2003 now. It doesn't go into any real detail or specifics about ANYTHING. It's just another non-specific ranting, IMO.

What he says in the article is already very obvious without his comments. There is nothing revealing about it, and is what most of us who have played since the beta already realized. That the franchise is now in different hands and a different mindset than what it was previously. The new developers have a very different vision for BF and this has been painfully obvious for more than a decade now.... it's just become more obvious now to those who are slow to catch on.

To be fair to the devs, I am very grateful to at least have the bots back in the franchise, and also very grateful for Portal modes. I think it's pretty obvious that Portal was their way of supporting old school players who would not appreciate all the new changes. It doesn't have all the missing features that 2042 takes away but it does have some of the important ones, anyway, and that shows that they DO understand and they were not really ignoring feedback entirely.

The new young guns had their own set of new ideas and tried to back it up with a back door of sorts (Portal) in order to please most players... I see what they tried to do...but they went a bit too far by actually removing beloved features. You never REMOVE features from previous games unless those features were poorly received to begin with...and this is, as I see it, is mainly where they went wrong. They removed too many important things, like classes and server browser, team choice, etc.

Success=adding new options/features, NOT removing the old ones. Granted this was an experiment gone wrong...but Portal was the hedge...can you imagine BF2042 without Portal? Exactly, so lets at least be appreciative of it.

I happen to like SOME of the new changes they've implemented in the base game modes, but miss some of the aforementioned missing features and hope they can fix at least some of it this coming year by adding team choice and the unlock game to Portal (Portal already has server browser and classes).

@Hudson009This is my biggest gripe with EA. Their "live service" commitment is nothing but lip service. This is the third live service game DICE has launched in a bad state.

• EA abandoned Battlefront 2 right as it got turned around with amazing content, and the Disney+ shows had everyone excited for the future of the game.
• EA abandoned BFV after just over a year. While things weren't in as good a state as Battlefront 2, it appeared to be greatly improved.
• Now here this game changer tells us they already have the next Battlefield in the works...meaning they will abandon this one after a year or two as well

So what's the point? Why even bother telling us it's "live service" when you have no intention of long term content support? How many times do you think people will fall for this?  I'd say they should go back to Premium pass, but who's gonna buy even that at this point? Would we even trust them to follow through on that? lol