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@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).

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@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).

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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.

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. 

I hope we get more weapons soon