Well if it is about the money and profit/revenue maximization, they should look to replace who pulled the trigger on that decision as it is a seriously misguided one.
I'm all for corps making as much as they possibly can out of their customers thats fine, its the lack of respect to just inform customers to touch base with them I find insulting (And I've been a major fan of BF since BF2).
The ROI of BF2042 was probably set up so high (due to EA not selling as many Fifa 22 packs) that they needed to quickly stop the XP farms to sell bundles - Fine by me - Getting rid of Co-Op/Solo??? doesn't really fit that logic (I've never managed that many kills against Adv AI when not in a V - maybe 30 a game on foot)- maybe it was a knee * reaction on last Friday - but should have been far more prioritized than Doziers sheild or the Proxy ball as it f's over 3 separate groups:
- Solo/Co-Op players (who want to play in Portal or AoW)
- HC MP who can only set up their servers in Portal (The only MP I ever play - and rarely)
- People wanting to go back and Play the older games.
They could save face by having a system wide notification that they are re-enabling all XP and if any server is set up that averages out that players earn >2,000??? XP Per minute you will be perma banned (game key/system id/account)- this can be done retrospectively and with analysis with those peoples historic XP gain rate to try and mitigate false flags(it would be quite easy to do as the data is all there) - So you could let the people set up their servers but they will get caught.
I love how when they disabled Exp for Portal that they said Exp in Solo-Coop was lowered, but also somehow either broke or intentially disabled unlock progression... and have been silent about it and still haven't issued a fix for Portal or Solo-Coop for the entire week of Early Access. Something WE ALL PAID A F'N PREMIUM FOR!
I'm tempted to ask for a refund but they'll probably laugh at me cause I have 45 hrs into the game. Though 99% of that time has been waiting and hoping each day that they would fix something for PVE... and nothing! This is all beyond pathetic and totally unacceptable.
I haven't played a BF title since... well long term it's been since a month into BF3 before I gave up on it. Then took a long break from gaming till I saw BFV and thought I'd give it a shot. What a mess that ended up being... didn't bother with BF again till I saw videos for 2042 and it was looking pretty good or so I thought.
Hadn't touched a CoD game long term since 4 months into BO2. Friend talked me into getting MW2019 and wasn't too bad, but totally got sick of MP with sliding, quick scopers, bunny hoppers and cheaters... so I deleted it till Cold War came out and got it only for Zombies which was pretty good. Got into playing zombies with my daughter and were having a blast. Vanguard was about too release and everything I read and saw looked totally horrible for zombies, so I opted to get 2042 instead.
Now I wish I could get my $90+ back so I can just buy Vanguard... may not be exactly what I was looking for, but for sure it can't be worse than this cluster **** of a mess that's going on with this release. I'm so mad I prolly will never buy another BF game after this ordeal.
Guys I honestly had a sliver of hope left and I thought to myself DICE couldnt possibly be dumb enough to release the game and its heavily advertised poster child, Portal mode without having xp or progression enabled for it or Solo/Coop for that matter. They are delusional and/or dont give a damn about us or about delivering us what they promised. I guess this is it. Thank you guys for constantly upvoting and bumping these threads over the past week and if you're gonna keep on playing I hope you all have fun <3
Shocking stuff, You thinking refund?
Thank you @Lunatlque for raising the issue. I can imagine that they will reenable xp & progression with one of the coming updates, but yeah, by then it's way too late. While the gameplay is fun, and especially in Portal, I think I'll hold off for now and go play something else.
To paraphrase one of the cringe voice lines on the after-match character screens: "Well, well, well, that was dumb." It's hard to believe that despite all the requests, reports and risks of refunds and a negative publicity they did exactly nothing about it for the release.
But as I checked, the in-game store isn't rolled out either, so I am curious if all the stuff is online/enabled as expected and if they will at least try to save solo/co-op throughout the day. But I am starting to doubt about it.
