@X-Sunslayer-X wrote:
@HJ_Spacewari think whoever at DICE is calling the shots as to what gets fixed in what timeframe has come to the realization that its just impossible.
the game has so many issues and lack-luster features that there is not enough time and working-force left to fix most things. i mean this game was supposed to have a stocked shop to buy any cosmetics and it is to this day empty so they do not earn anymore money with the game and some higher up at EA most likely crunched the numbers and decided the game is a net-loss and so as little money is to be invested now as possible.... so now they just go for what can be fixed relatively fast and cheaply and nothing else
It's pretty blatantly obvious that Dice are now doing the bare minimum to avoid legal action by those who paid for season passes.
And not a tiny bit more.
I'm sure you're right when you suggest they came to that position through a simple cost analysis process.
Thing is, that process may have been a bit too simple.
2042 is not your average battlefield game, in the sense that BF games often have poor launches but get remediated later. 2042 launched with far more bugs and missing features than any BF game to date, and the reaction from Dice to that launch has been severely lacking.
I don't think Dice realize that they're not just going to get forgiven this time. That they wont be able to just move onto the next game, leaving a very large number of people with an unfinished game they paid premium prices for.
People are pissed. People are angry. People feel cheated, with good reason.
If 2042 is not fixed properly, those angry people will remember when Dice want to launch a new game. Expect a ton of posts reminding people of the promises made about 2042, and the utter failure to deliver them. Expect multiple reminders of the tone deaf and rude comments made by Dice employees in response to justified criticism of their work. Expect whole internet campaigns where it is laid out, in excruciating detail, how Dice deceived us pre launch, then ignored us post launch.
Expect it to reach mainstream media on slow news days. Expect it to severely impact preorders. Expect resistance.
Unless, of course, Dice pull their finger out and start trying to fix 2042 with a sense of urgency, a sense of trying to deliver to their customers what was promised.
Because, if Dice really, truly, think their handling of 2042 is acceptable, then there's no hope for anything new from Dice.
