They would never purposely kill a game that was doing well - They reached the end of their support cycle and had to officially shift gears toward other titles in the franchise.
@TTZ_Dipsy wrote:
They would never purposely kill a game that was doing well - They reached the end of their support cycle and had to officially shift gears toward other titles in the franchise.
This was what I was leaning towards too when reading the comment.
We have the proof of the deliberate BF4 server limitations that were added into the very last patch on the server side code!
That was intentional to reduce the number of players to remain with the older and now no longer money generating game. As by drastically limiting the servers still live 24/7 the players could no longer join any server they wanted. Only Server owners and admins could restart a server if going empty at any point of time. This is the matter of fact situation still today, since that fateful day back in January years back when that part of the server side code got updated for no other reason.
I have had multiple exchanges with EA folks and at a time also a dev on this. So despite being very well aware of this, EA declined to roll it back to functioning correctly as we had it the first many years. Just go to the BF4 forum area and you will see the hundreds of posts on this very subject from many very very disappointed server renters!
This was though done at the time that the BFV game was tanking and not picking up the number of buying customers as expected. It was the exact same time that EA deliberately tinkered on the server side, to disable all the well functioning API's in place, so we all had transparent visibility to the total player populations and stats across all the BF games and across all the platforms!
But obviously it was found to be too embarrassing for the sr leadership at EA/DICE to see their past games discontinued years earlier were still more popular than their latest wonder... That is when the fragile egos had already started to derail this train wreck we have today.
