DICE TeamRespectfully that's revisionist fantasy, while performance issues surely played a part (as well as lack of weapons, maps, so-called "legacy" features etc. etc.), the vast majority of displeasure voiced about BF2042 at launch revolved around the heroes and their abilities.
@Ironhead841LOL, well then, Respectfully those are facts that I stated. The game ran horrible for myself and for some of my friends. If you can’t play the game, then you’re not going to stick around. It’s one part of what hurt the game at launch. You can see the statistics of the most used hardware on Steam.
Do you have any sort of data or statistics to back up the claim that the majority of players had a problem with the lack of classes?
I would argue that between really bad performance and the lack of content played a bigger role then the absence of classes.
I'm not saying that all of that DIDN'T play a part but from a lot of what I saw on these forums, Redditt, Twitter as well as customers' reviews at launch, specialists weren't being warmly received by the Battlefield community at large.
Classes, love them or hate them, are a foundational core feature of a Battlefield title.
EA/Dice's experiment with specialists failed, that is why they are trying to shoehorn classes back into this game NOW.
I don't agree with that decision this late in this game's life cycle but that is WHY they are doing it.
