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.

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CyberDyme
4 years ago
@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...
kregora
Seasoned Ace
4 years ago
@CyberDyme I think they made some assumptions to rectify some short cuts they took in development. And I assume that one of the assumption was to have 30000-50000 concurrent players on Steam and not 2000. My conclusion is, that the player base is no longer viable for the number of official and featured modes.
I believe the situation would be worse, IF portal were a viable option to All Out Warfare.

So all the warnings, starting with the announcements over play test and beta were ignored. The players realized that the situation actually was worse than the rumors suggested at release, and still I have the impression the the EA/DICE management believes that the release a top game, but the players are to blame that they are to stupid to see the mangements wisdom.
cyberfredcobra
4 years ago
they removed the mode again....
oh wait , they let the rush mode but with SMG only and with 64 players and the same number of tickets....
it s just incredible... the person who take deicsion on portal is completely stupid
Sgt_Kecsi
4 years ago
I am very sorry. It's all we play, but they make it completely impossible to play. There is no logic behind it. Just immense stupidity. But who approves them, I don't know. Who thinks this is a good idea? The only game mode that is playable. They're making a 32 v32 mode for that. They're all idiots. They're doing this on purpose.
fwsedo
4 years ago
I agree with you. I do not know why battlefield is changing the game mode play every week but it is disappointing. Last week they did a good job with game modes such as Rush, and TDM with vehicles. This week I do not have words for they did. SMG Rush sucks and free for all. I wish they stop adding game modes that are horrible, like musical chairs and roulette. Rush and TDM is the only reason I play battlefield. I did like the fact players can have vehicles in TDM but without vehicles is just as good for me. BF please do a better job on the game modes you post.
Sgt_Kecsi
4 years ago
I think that there is no need to change the game modes. Let's have the basic, Cq, domination, rush, Tdm. The rest of the * and add it every week and play it who wants. I just don't see the point. But the patch is still not coming. It should work on that. But it's too much to expect.

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