2 target audiences, as far as I can tell...
The long-term, rusted-on Battlefield players (particularly BF3 & 4), plus casual Fortnite/Apex players.
Shareholders demand that every new product launch needs to sell more than the last, and Managers are incentivised accordingly. Dice/EA quickly realised that a legacy Battlefield game would not meet the sales objectives due to ageing customer base and fragmentation/casualisation of the gamer audience. So why not try to try and appeal to both?
@Lancelot_du_Lac wrote:2 target audiences, as far as I can tell...
The long-term, rusted-on Battlefield players (particularly BF3 & 4), plus casual Fortnite/Apex players.
Shareholders demand that every new product launch needs to sell more than the last, and Managers are incentivised accordingly. Dice/EA quickly realised that a legacy Battlefield game would not meet the sales objectives due to ageing customer base and fragmentation/casualisation of the gamer audience. So why not try to try and appeal to both?
They see how well that worked out... lol
Im sure the game started that way, but the crowd that derives its self esteem from stats won out.
@Lancelot_du_Lac wrote:So why not try to try and appeal to both?
We do now know, why not to try to appeal to both, and miss the target audience on both attempts, don't we.
So technically it was a nice tale to provide the players with Portal, and the promise, that you would be able in Portal as well as in the main game.
People speculated they would be able to play with BF3 classes and BF2042 gadgets and weapons, but this isn't possible. It might be me expecting always the worse outcome, but I believe we can't do this, so no one can proof, how much better balanced classes are than the specialists ever can be.
@Lancelot_du_Lac:
@kregoraPortal is a HUGE disappointment - I expected more maps (a lot more). I would have bought the game just for Portal if it had the most popular and updated maps/weapons/vehicles from each game plus some new stuff. What we have now is half-baked.
I don't have any faith that EA will fix this in the next iteration of BF.
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It's funny, because when 2042 was 1st released, everyone was saying that Portal was the one saving grace.
And since release, they have done absolutely NOTHING with it.
