They could be in the middle of some internal reorganization? The entire clown clan replaced with a real dev team to clean up this mess maybe?
@Adamonic wrote:They could be in the middle of some internal reorganization? The entire clown clan replaced with a real dev team to clean up this mess maybe?
There was another thread that got deleted for some reason today (an open letter to Andrew, EA CEO or something along those lines) where we were talking about management and what it takes to right the ship.
I won't repeat myself here but rest assured that there is basically NO WAY (even if the management was replaced with competent people) that they are able to hire good developers in the short time it would take to do that to save BF2042. And just hiring is not enough, even good devs would need some time to get up to speed with a new engine and development process. Given the very bad reputation Dice now has as a employer, I would be surprise if they could find half decent devs working for them, let alone good ones.
I am myself in the process of hiring new developers for our company, doing technical interviews. I can tell you that even at a company like ours (won't say which, but let's say we are a lot bigger than Dice and also pay better) it is really hard to find new people. Given the reported working conditions there I don't know if anybody even applies there -- so even if they take 'everyone' half decent they will have a hard time hiring people.
But, this is the better communication they promised. Really no point in posting anything on the forums, only actions are moderators telling posters to stop calling people * and *....
@edgecrusherO0 we will see, that seems like our only hope at this point.
Back to the topic, looking back they averaged a post/game update per week from launch to December 8th, then they went dark.
Since then, we had an update on Jan 19th, Feb 1st, Mar 3rd, and Mar 7th with two of those dates corresponding with small game updates (required posts). So since the start of January, 11 weeks, we have had 2 true game updates. One on Feb 1st called the Journey to Season 1 (where all the lies are at), and March 3rd (Core Feedback post - pure comedy).
The Journey To Season One is hilarious now if you go back and read it. The opening line reads:
You’ve waited patiently to hear from us...
What foreshadowing. Who knew this would apply every day since this post.
we are heavily invested and committed...
Really, I would love to see their definition of heavily invested.
working on taking action on multiple fronts...
Pull devs, gag order on CMs, reduce earnings projections, got it.
We’ve had to make some big decisions...
Decisions? You moved the Season 1 release back, that's all you did.
This decision gives us the time to focus on improving the Battlefield 2042 experience while finalizing the development of our seasonal content to ensure that it all reaches our standard for quality.
You need time to focus on improving the game you released? Isn't that what you do with a live service anyway? You are also going to finalize your seasonal content? It's not done? What?
Then they mentioned was the scoreboard, VOIP, and Player Profile in that update, all apparently legacy features. Those are base game features. How can you possibly go to work every day on this team? It's an embarrassment. Who wants a job to work for this clown show? No one in their right mind with those skills is signing up for this. They probably had to force some interns into action at this point.
Other launches were bad, but this one just feels different. It might be the complete silence on their end, but too many things point to this being a completely different outcome than BF5 and previous other titles that recovered.
