Why did BF2042 turn out the way it did?
Why did BF2042 turn out the way it did and what should we expect from the next Battlefield? The next Battlefield is going to be a carbon copy of the level of support we received with BF2042. The gam...
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@AdamonicLol, that bloke is just grifting using the latest alt-right buzzwords. oooh it's ESG, and DEI and Sweet Baby Inc. That guy is acting like he knows what went on internally at EA when he never worked for them, and he's acting like he knows what modern megacorp game dev is like when he left Blizzard in 2006. ESG barely existed as a concept by the time he left Blizzard, and wouldn't become mainstream for a decade!
Where's his evidence of any "DEI" or "ESG" group somehow deciding to give EA hundreds of millions of dollars AND that said money somehow lead to a bad game being made? EA had $5 billion dollars in cash on hand in 2019. Sure, companies love cheap money but where's the proof? He says "ESG funds are failing so they have to do this".. but Vanguard's ESG ETF has a 13% annual return for the past 6 years. iShares ESG ETF is at 9%, Fidelity's US Index fund is 15% 5 year annual return, Calvert's is 10% annual. Sure, not all of them are doing better than cash rates but that's the nature of stock trading. He says "that source of Revenue", the so called "ESG Funds" that gaming supposedly is taking billions of dollars in, is "drying up", but there's no evidence of that either. It's just grifter buzzwords with nothing behind it.
2042 sucked because DICE had finally petered out as a game developer running on the fumes of the best last people from the good ole days of DICE (BF2, Bad Company 1/2, BF3) and had failed to adequately build up/refresh it's institutional knowledge combined with typical capitalist greed where releasing a broken game is better for the CEO's bonus than not releasing it, working on it another 2 years and becoming successful then.
Because of that, DICE screwed up Battlefield 4, Hardline sucked, BFV was butchered by a horrendous design (eg maps, factions, lack of care about historical accuracy) and Patrick Soderlund's silly response to criticism, BF1 was hampered by people having given up on the franchise after three disasters in a row (and the lack of accuracy in the WW1 gunfighting), and 2042 was the worst of the worst because it did all that AND the EA Execs decided to meddle with it, forcing in the cringe operators & releasing it early.
Not because of some mythical gamergate boogieman.
