EA are you playing with us?Rush is the only game mode my friends and I are playing (since bad company 2) and they removed it again.... Why? What's the logic behind that?Please enlighten me.

@ElliotLH wrote:@H1N1-DALLASThe featured modes in Portal are always temporary. It'll be back again before too long.In the original plans and messaging on this from EA/DICE execs in the public Q&As we had up until launch, it was described actually even to be expected that the modes/portal experiences that turned out to be the most popular would even be moved from the Portal area and then into the core game area as permanent fixtures. I find this central iron-fist control from EA/.DICE is terrible and detriment for most players over time, when a server experience is proving very popular and attracting players then just to be shut down again by EA/DICE because they insist that those same players now instead should help to fill up other server experiences in which actually they may have no interest to play!It is a sign that those game- and server strategy controllers at EA/DICE have no experience with player population management from previous BF games. Because with this tone deaf iron-fist approach, they put more players off than new players they attract.It takes maturity to understand and respect player preferences and not just iron-fist impose your own opinion on everything around you. But that is required if you want to attract more players than just yourself and a few likeminded friends. But now with so many other symptoms of single mindedness, lack of broader Battlefield understanding and characteristics for what made previous versions work, guess we should not be surprised why EA/DICE still even manage to kill the last few glimmers of life in this mess named BF2042...

Did you notice they reduced the number of featured from 5 to 3 as well. They just realized they don't have enough active players for all the game modes lol.Then they remove a staple of the BF franchise, Rush. Ridiculous.

@edgecrusherO0i know and they still are bleeding players. I didn't think it could get much lower than it has but week over week, they still are losing players. That also means nobody is buying the game and that will come out in the next earnings call which is going to be pure comedy. EA won't even mention BF2042 next time, which would be on par for how they treated it since December.

@ElliotLH The feature modes in Portal are temporary because the playbase is too small to support all legacy modes at the same time.It was already hard for player to find their favorite mode on a weekly basis, but now this becomes even more reliable.So is the decision understandable, sure. Will it help in promoting Portal, doubtful.So DICE did everything to make Portal NOT an viable alternative to All out Warfare, despite the fact this could have been the killer feature in BF2042.It helped to keep some players to return frequently, but I think this will reduce the interest in Portal even more.For me personally I was exited to experiment with Portal to make the BF2042 the "better" game we wanted it to be, like most likely all players that hoped for Classic and Hardcore presets. But DICE effectively didn't kept their promise that the progression in Portal will be the same as in All out Warfare by limiting it to only a handful now half a handful of "featured" modes.

1) They don't want you to enjoy yourself. Suffer like the rest of us.2) Its part of their "fear of missing out" strategy... Get players back for a time because its "limited"Unfortunately point 2 is backfiring because although Rush is definitely fun, its still a layer on top of broken fundamentals.Also, don't bring logic into this. Logic left this game the moment they took whatever direction it is they wanted for this game.

They removed RUSH againnnn! | EA Forums

26 Replies

Daeyon-be
4 years ago
1) They don't want you to enjoy yourself. Suffer like the rest of us.
2) Its part of their "fear of missing out" strategy... Get players back for a time because its "limited"
Unfortunately point 2 is backfiring because although Rush is definitely fun, its still a layer on top of broken fundamentals.
Also, don't bring logic into this. Logic left this game the moment they took whatever direction it is they wanted for this game.
Adamonic
Legend
4 years ago
Did you notice they reduced the number of featured from 5 to 3 as well.

They just realized they don't have enough active players for all the game modes lol.

Then they remove a staple of the BF franchise, Rush. Ridiculous.
edgecrusherO0
4 years ago
@Adamonic It's a good change, and I hope DICE is embarrassed that they need to do this since they made a bad game that can't retain players and are doing little to nothing to fix things.
Adamonic
Legend
4 years ago
@edgecrusherO0i know and they still are bleeding players. I didn't think it could get much lower than it has but week over week, they still are losing players. That also means nobody is buying the game and that will come out in the next earnings call which is going to be pure comedy. EA won't even mention BF2042 next time, which would be on par for how they treated it since December.
CantGetRight
4 years ago
https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1506319526492876805

To put more focus on current available Featured Experiences, we’re reducing how many are featured at any time from 5 to 3
We’ll now also rotate them twice a week (Monday and Thursday), instead of once

The first new rotation goes into effect this Thursday and will Feature 2042 TDM, 1942 vs 2042 Conquest, and Rush Hardcore
edgecrusherO0
4 years ago
@CantGetRight I love how they frame it "to put more focus on current available Featured Experiences" translates to: "We don't have enough players to fill existing featured experiences and need to centralize them into fewer experiences at once."

Because that'll sure solve the population problems instead of like, you know, fixing the game and engaging with the community.
H1N1-JohnyBoy
4 years ago
This is really unacceptable!!
H1N1-DALLAS
4 years ago
Indeed it is!
ElliotLH
Hero+
4 years ago
@H1N1-DALLAS The featured modes in Portal are always temporary. It'll be back again before too long.
H1N1-DALLAS
4 years ago
"It'll be back again before too long" Are you kidding, i want it back now, i payed 80euros to play RUSH with my friends as we do since 13 years.
I can compose with the * characters, the lack of maps, the lack of guns, the bugs, the poor optimization, etc... BUT don t take away the only game mode i m playing.
Anyway, EA just lost four more players.