Will EA/DICE Learn From This Failure?
If they truly are taking "lessons learned" from BF2042's failure, they might want to start here. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UgHTehCBLMg
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@Anobixthey just going to go in the direction they want to, and not listen to everyone else trying to tell them otherwise. Battlefield will never be the same again.
Its a shame but probably the most likely situation. BF was always my main FPS, but watching it burn and turn to ash like this hurts, as I dont really have another main FPS. Unless they do a massive u-turn for the next game, then Battlefield will just always be a hollow husk of its former self and continue to fade into history.
I mean what do we know, we only been playing them for 20ish years, apparently EA knows what is best for the franchise
@Spidder81 Yep, sadly, I agree. My first big/multiplayer FPS was TFC [team fortress classic] in the late 90s/early 00s where I played competitively. I got into 1942 and pretty much every subsequent Battlefield release over the years as my "realistic" shooter after moving on from CS1.6/Source/etc.
I can understand not wanting to just release the same things over and over and want to bring in new people and the difficulty of not alienating existing fans while appealing to others. But this was such a LEAP in the wrong direction that I find it hard to believe, honestly.
I can understand not wanting to just release the same things over and over and want to bring in new people and the difficulty of not alienating existing fans while appealing to others. But this was such a LEAP in the wrong direction that I find it hard to believe, honestly.
@Anobix wrote:
I can understand not wanting to just release the same things over and over and want to bring in new people and the difficulty of not alienating existing fans while appealing to others. But this was such a LEAP in the wrong direction that I find it hard to believe, honestly.I feel quite strongly that Dice actually decided to alienate their existing fans with 2042.
It's hard to think otherwise when so many core features are missing from the game, and the entire game mechanism is set up to actively prevent groups larger than four playing together.
With BFV they started to go in this direction, and were roundly criticized for it, with 2042 they've doubled down on those unpopular decisions.
2042 is built purely for drop in and drop out players. It's built to drive away anyone who doesn't want to play like that.
- @TAW_Rinko keep in mind there is also a contingent of people who have gotten into the game industry that absolutely hate old school gamers and want to burn down everything old school gamers enjoy and remake it in a away that will * everyone off
@Psubond wrote:
@TAW_Rinkokeep in mind there is also a contingent of people who have gotten into the game industry that absolutely hate old school gamers and want to burn down everything old school gamers enjoy and remake it in a away that will * everyone offAnd those people remind me of the person happily sawing away the branch of the tree they're sitting on.
What PartWelsh sneeringly called legacy players are the backbone of this game. They're the people keeping servers alive so that drop in/out players have servers to play on.
They're the people who create a community around these games, the people who happily contribute battlefield moments to various social media, the people who have made the battlefield series what it is...or was.
By choosing to drive these people away, Dice have seriously crippled their own game, and you have to wonder who will be buying anything else from Dice after this.
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