Would your opinion of the game be any different? Just consider everything to this point as a beta (felt like it). The game is in much better shape than at launch and it seems like it is finally poi...
Sometimes BF 2042 updates feel like a dog chasing it's tail. Fix one issue, create a new issue, rinse, repeat...
Certain issues are deep code related and not easily fixable, like the ability to handle more ground and air vehicles without destroying your console and PC hardware due to rushed coding...
For example, the game code simple can't handle more than one attack air vehicle in 128 player mode, so now 1 of 64 players gets to fly an attack air vehicle in a 128 player match per side. This was sold to us by Dice to help infantry, but it actually hurts infantry as the reason I T1 leveled up both stealth helicopters in less than three weeks is because there is only one enemy attach air vehicle to take me out. And when that one attack air vehicle is someone who is clueless joy riding the map, I easy to run 100/1 KD ratios dropping tactical nukes on ground infantry for easy, easy multi-kills. Just a second air vehicle would double my risk flying stealth helis...as a good jet or night bird pilot can kill the stealth before you can react, but not an issue with a single joy riding enemy on the other side in a 128 player game....
How was such not predicted in a simple QFD analysis???
Thus has the game been "improved" or has it just been diluted with nerfs and eliminations of many features that made BF such a amazing legacy title over the years?
Personally I think they should have recalled the product early on, and launched 6-8 months later. The base code, not just the gameplay, needed major repairs. I think the short term profits will not outweigh the long term losses, but I hope I'm wrong on that theory...TBD via BF "NEXT"...
Personally I think they should have recalled the product early on, and launched 6-8 months later. The base code, not just the gameplay, needed major repairs. I think the short term profits will not outweigh the long term losses, but I hope I'm wrong on that theory...TBD via BF "NEXT"...
Sadly, it does not work like that when a project is just a part of multiple different projects that the risk is split into.
The shareholders always expect that next increase in the value of the shares in the next quarter with long term being damned.
As that dude in the third Pirates of the Carribean movie said "Nothing personal, it is just good business"
What you describe works as motivation when the project is so vital that it is sink or swim for a company.
For things to change, it is we the customers who need to change first. A good business-hound will always follow the profit.