@Stew360@Stew360#1 You're doing the same thing by demanding Specialists and the current form of "Battlefield" being the only new version available to the community. Pot meet kettle.
#2 Portal is an emaciated version of what they sold. The maps they chose were no where near the best in form and they know it. It did not live up to their "love letter" expectations and is underwhelming to say the least. It should also NOT be the scraps upon which the majority of their community feeds, that is the purpose of the main game.
#3 If they can do a server browser in Portal, they can do it in 2042. There was absolutely zero reason not to include it other than the game's original intent being a trend chase battle royale/hero shooter akin to Overwatch. Because of this hard shift after they panicked, EA/DICE did not have the resources to tackle the server browser issue and decided to see how the fans took to it. If the fans took umbrage, then they would look to "bring back legacy features" (great spin btw, touché Public Affairs).
#4 2042 is hardly superior to anything gaming wise, let alone any other game touting the "Battlefield" name.
#5 The XP debacle of Portal is entirely EA/DICE's fault. The community came up with solutions one day after they made the idiotic decision to take XP away and EA/DICE ignored it (probably out of pride). First and foremost, the XP farming did absolutely nothing negative to the gameplay of 2042 full stop. All it would mean is that some people (who for whatever godforsaken reason) would get the locked weapons a bit earlier. It would offer them minimal if anything in the way of in game advantage since the guns were completely bugged and broken to begin with (PP SMG was king for basically the first month) not to mention hit detection neutering all of the guns anyway. The only real reasons I can see why they took it away in the first place would be that they wanted to slow the player base from moving on from 2042 after they unlocked everything and realized how void of content it actually was, and/or drive people back to AoW from Portal because they weren't able to keep sustained 128 player numbers on a majority of their servers.
@-DFA-Thump I'm not disagreeing with your post but you state that "the only real reasons I can see why they took it away [XP] in the first place would be that they wanted to slow the player base from moving on from 2042 after they unlocked everything and realized how void of content it actually was". I would also offer another explanation that could be that they had plans to reward higher-ranked players with future updates / DLC content as progression rewards. Allowing users to abuse the system for a progression rate that wasn't intended would cause more angst with players leading to less than desirable comments/reviews..... again. Either way, in the eyes of today's consumers, they will never do anything right and every decision is criticized.
@R00zillaWell i have played Gungames of times or whatever andi had all sort of weapons from all sort of eras in the same game ..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jl0fz3j5tXE
I had a WWII solider and using weapons from BFBC2 BF3 and 2042 .. so it as to be possible somehow !
@R00zillaThat's a possibility as well but I see that as naturally limiting as they are going to want to entice the non-Colonels out there by making it at least moderately easy to achieve (especially when it comes to paid DLC as I doubt it would be free). If they held it only to those who ranked 100+, they would more than likely see unachieved expectations as far as money earned by those DLC and conclude that the content wasn't wanted (when the it could have simply been that people didn't want to/couldn't sink Colonel levels of time into the game. The key question would be whether or not they offered any tangible advantage to the game. If so, you would be looking at a self-induced problem that could have been mitigated by something as simple as only being able to earn progression through player kills or nerf only the XP gained against bots (to an extent) via some percentage reduction. This would make people want to still play portal as their main source of BF entertainment while allowing for progression through effort. In any case, it will be interesting to see how DICE/EA dig themselves out (if they even attempt to). They could have avoided this criticism by simply making the Battlefield that they sold and not the hero shooter they ran away from.
