@UP_LordPlumber wrote:
@RUMPLE9They already confirmed the next game for 2025 though
No they didn’t. It doesn’t reflect in the financials for 2025. They have a weird dating system, so I think they reset to 2026 in the fall of 2025, so maybe it could pop out late in 2025… but I seriously doubt it. It’s 2026 at the soonest. If they rush it again, it will be another nightmare as the roll out for 2042 was.
2026 is way too long without any content to me but I could see it happening.
Wtf dice, make it paired number. 8
@ATFGunr wrote:
@UP_LordPlumber wrote:
@RUMPLE9They already confirmed the next game for 2025 thoughNo they didn’t. It doesn’t reflect in the financials for 2025. They have a weird dating system, so I think they reset to 2026 in the fall of 2025, so maybe it could pop out late in 2025… but I seriously doubt it. It’s 2026 at the soonest. If they rush it again, it will be another nightmare as the roll out for 2042 was.
EA’s fiscal year always ends on March, 31st. Andrew Wilson did mention in an analysts call last year that the next title is not within FY25. This obviously means not before March ‘25. Now, with the officially announced curtain call on ‘2042’ plus the hiring of a new studio I’d wager we’re entering the relatively final stages of development of the new game. It would not make sense for it to be released much later than June ‘25, I’d speculate.
Interestingly also, a Credit Suisse analyst predicts two BF titles within the next four years:
When 2042 came out EA were telling us that they were going all in with Battlefield, there would be a mobile game, a single player campaign, an expansion of the BF "universe", etc, etc, etc None of this happened. Mobile was cancelled, the team behind the single player has been closed (although I think another team has taken over?) and nothing else has been add to the universe of Battlefield. A lot of hot air from EA execs, and I will always be of the opinion that it was EA that screwed up BF2042 resulting in many long standing DICE devs quitting. Publishers need to stay the hell away from what the game makers are doing, and just trust them. Look at Suicide Squad, I cannot believe this is the game Rocksteady wanted to make.
Work will already be well under way on the next title, so I expect to see the next game in Oct/Nov 2025 and I expect it will have a single player campaign; like the previous titles did. But that is one long wait and over the next 18 months I imagine 2042 will die out.
On the other hand, we'll probably get a trailer for BF "next" this time next year. And laughably they will probably invite us to pre-order, bwaaahaaahaaahaaaa
NATO vs a private mercenary army, that's fine, it means they can widen the scope of weapons and vehicles and make up some decent kit for the mercs. But I do feel like this is also a case of DICE distancing themselves from their previous games; they don't want to set to real nations against each other in a game. Even though, y'know, it's just a game. Clearly (and there's no other way to put it) there is some "snowflake" influence going on.
Get ready for the next lie and false gameplay and promises.
It's going to be terrible ,once a liar always a liar.
EA/DICE are liars unless they can prove otherwise as on the release of 2042!!
Do not pre order next BF game wait until servers are fixed and decent staff are hired at a decent wage to fix it.
What a stupid was to end the game. Such a sad time to be BF player.
Games still broken, I take the cancelation of the game as EA/Dove throwing the towel in that they cannot fix it.
