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.
No, just no for insta or retrospective bans, ever. There should be a warning or a suspension at most. Imagine if your kids take your account for a spin and do some stupid sh*t. Then you come back and find your account with dozens or hundreds of games on it - banned.
@StuntmanLT never factored in the Kids angle,
I'm no programmer but as part of the "suspension/warning" your account could be reset to your unlocks & level prior to the farm - maybe that's too hard to do? I don't know, adding a password/login to your account on login to the game (which would require a patch and new system so might be a no go.)
There needs to be something for this to be re-activated (and i'm seriously pissed about this - don't misunderstand me) - as I don't think they've come up with anything so far (or don't care)
