@cso7777 wrote:
@TAW_RinkoThe funny thing is that people preordered 2042 after BFV, which was exactly the same mess (on a smaller scale but still more or less the same problems).
I personally preordered after getting caught in EA/Dices lies (being ahead of schedule, many studios working on the game blah blah), and hope I will not do again in 2023, when the next game is launched (which according to EA will be a return to form, best BF-game ever blah blah blah).
I'd argue (and the EA investor call earlier this year backs this up) that 2042 shipped with more known bugs than BFV. They knew, at release, that 2042 was in the worst state of any battlefield game previously released. This is a simple matter of, now, public record.
Furthermore, I think that some people were hoping BFV was an anomaly. That it was a mere dip in the arc of a fabled game series.
2042 comes along, and it becomes immediately apparent that Dice have learned NOT A DAMN THING from BFV, and have doubled down on many of the worst design decisions of the earlier game. Couple that with the extraordinarily global lack of polish in 2042, and I think this has changed how the community sees things.
2042 was the chance many were prepared to grant Dice. And they've, metaphorically, spat in our faces. All of that, and what can only be described as an extremely glacial pace to fixing 2042 and I think we're in a new place.