Will Battlefield 2042 be apolitical?

@Rope  I completely get where you're coming from, and I 100% agree!

Nothing ruins a good game, movie, book, TV show, comic book, etc. more, for me, than when a character starts propagandizing about a current-day political topic--and they usually fall on the side of having more government intervention, control, lockdown, censorship, etc. Being a Voluntaryist , I absolutely HATE it!

If I could push a button and end all governments, I would do it immediately--and I would keep pushing it to make sure they never came back! It would be the best thing to happen to humanity in thousands of years.

But I digress.

I sincerely hope that EA & DICE will leave all politics out of this game, and future games. We are purposely bombarded by political messages everywhere we turn, these days, so many people turn to the things I mentioned above as an escape. When those escape outlets also begin to bombard us with those political messages, they cease to be escapes--and that's when I cease buying them.

I understand that war is caused by rival ideologies, and that's not what I'm talking about. What I'm talking about is embedded messages (signs, posters on broken building walls, little comments from characters here and there, heavy in-game police presence and visuals, in-game support or sympathy for a political group or cause, etc.), and outright in-your-face political messages that are sprinkled into everything, to make you more accustomed to seeing and hearing them, over time. It's psychology and sociology--basically, you're being condtioned and manipulated, and I don't want anything to do with it!

When CoD started doing it before every match, last year, I thought my head was going to explode! I stopped playing it until they stopped with the politics. And even then, I never really got back into it, and felt a little icky from even loading it back up. I would mainly get on when some friends wanted to hang out and play for a while. Now, I don't even play it, at all. I'll pass on cheaters and politics, every time.

It didn't even matter so much who or what it was about; I just have so much hatred for politics and propagandizing in my "entertainment"--and knowing that a company is trying to force-feed and manipulate me makes me furious!

There's a cut-scene in BF3 where one soldier says to another that the United States' Founding Fathers were "terrorists" (yes, I still remember that, DICE!). The Founders weren't 'terrorists'; they broke away from an oppressive government that wasn't about to let them go in peace, and (sadly) founded yet another government--one that has also become oppressive and ridiculously thieving--but they weren't "terrorists." They were stupid to believe that a piece of parchment with words scribbled on it would stop psychos and power mongers from taking over, and the age-old nonsensical belief that just voting harder and having the right people in office would change everything. History proves that it doesn't work that way.

I don't want to see anything like that in BF2042--or any game that comes after it! I've spoken with many others who feel the same way, too.