@CantGetRightAll BF-games has had this discussion. Snipers destroy the game, campers destroy the game, this is just like COD etc etc.
But BF seems to be changed now, more than it ever has.
If EA wants a hero-shooter with a 'narrative', then the game will probably be something else in the future and how long do the core BF-formula (conquest, combined warfare) work with a hero-shooter?
They should have copied one thing from COD, make a free BR and a paid for main-game. If Firestorm had been F2P then things could have been very different than what we have today.