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Not to beat a dead horse but I am simply shocked by what is getting fixed and what is getting ignored. Personally I would much rather have a server browser and squad management than an updated scor...
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@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.
@TAW_Rinko +xp x1000
By now we are approx 5 months after BF2042 launch. And what have we gotten from EA/DICE since then, apart from a few cosmetic fixes, a beanie and a cowboy hat? What have we gotten of new contents for the gameplay of any substance? Nada...
If EA/DICE had any serious intentions to try and salvage this train wreck, then they have already had plenty of time and opportunities to do so.
As the active player numbers dropped so radically fast vertical down even before xmas, it was obvious already at that time to the EA/DICE execs that it was no longer economically viable to try and fix anything of substance of this mess. And during the last 3 months since xmas we have seen this further substantiated by their total lack of delivery of anything tangible.
Just consider this, that even if they did pull out a magic rabbit and got several of the seriously bad freak game-designs corrected, then still how many (few) players would then come back anyway? And how many of them would be willing to spend any serious $ on skins in this game to pay EA/DICE for that effort?
Matter of fact is that the game was such a freak creation, not even half-baked when they rushed it to launch anyway; and the game design and mechanics totally missed the point of what makes a Battlefield game a Battlefield game.
The target audience has long gone on to have fun with many of the better game alternatives from competing game studios, despite not either being the Battlefield game they actually so badly wanted.
So trying to do something now to that BF2042 meltdown is just too little and too late.
And worse longer term is the substantial number of global customers that EA/DICE have treated so extremely bad in the process and who left the game very disappointed.
98% of the customers had stopped playing the game by end of March. How many of them found they got good value for the money they had spent on it and now eager to come back to buy more from EA?
Whether they realize it or not, Dice have things they have to do if they're going to salvage anything from this mess.....including their own studio.
They have to figure out how to unalienate their own community. Because, no matter what some pimply MBA says, they're not getting a big audience from anywhere else. They need to win us back. And that will be difficult because, and there's no nice way to put this, 2042 is an omnicluster.
They're not going to get that audience back unless they actually acknowledge they've left. Nor will we come back unless, in some way, Dice address the fact that we paid good money for 2042 and we were ripped off. This is not the game we were promised, nor is it an acceptable alternative.
Dice really need to get a grip, and take responsibility for their actions.
- @TAW_Rinko I agree, EA/Dice has an audience for BF, but they keep searching for a bigger audience, like Fortnite and Apex.
But it will never happen, the audience for BR-games are not really interested in BF.
They could make good money on BF and instead they have wasted it all on this fail of a game.
But we will see what happens in 2023. Will they give up their 'hero-shooter'-ideas and make a real BF-game or will they continue chasing trends.
And finally, the game as a service is a problem for games like BF. How to balance selling cosmetics without ending in a 'clown-shooter' scenario is probably pretty hard to do.
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