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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@RayD_O1 wrote:
@Ironhead841 wrote:
Couldn't agree more, I would love to see the return of premium DLC's over "live service"
Absolutely, with premium we would have had another 8 maps by now. !
Live service is not a very apt name for what we have currently as BF2042 seems pretty dead doesn't it.
@RayD_O1 @Ironhead841 I swear "Live Service" is actually Latin for "paying more for far less than previously received" ;-) I don't understand people still defending Live Service after BFV and BF2042's horrible content deserts (queue reference about the definition of insanity). Just because it works in other games doesn't mean that it works in Battlefield...this seems to be a general theme for 2042 as a whole. When we look at how much content we used to get on a regular deployment cadence and compare it to BF5/2042 it is staggering how little we actually receive under a Battlefield Live Service. Throw in the fact that some of the loudest players who complained about paying $40 for 12-16 maps, multiple weapons, assignments, dog tags, and camos in one nice package under premium gleefully posted pictures of their multiple Elites in BFV (paying far more than they would have for Premium) and it's no wonder why EA has tries to ram rod a Live Service into Battlefield despite it not actually being a good fit.
Dice is a shadow of it’s former self with regards the staff who created the earlier games and I blame management in both Dice and EA for the decisions in game design/direction though I expect EA to dodge the bullet by throwing Dice Stockholm under the bus at some point.
I really shouldn’t be surprised by now but I am every single time they feel the need to reinvent the wheel and start from scratch rather than building on what they’ve already got. At the very least the previous game should be the baseline on what they should be releasing on day 1.
At this point I’m yet to be convinced the latest version of the frostbite engine is an improvement on the previous one and was it worth the development hell? Seeing the reduced destruction in old maps in portal on the new engine really make me think it’s not as good.
Like most people on here I put in a lot of hours over the years into the franchise and buying BF and any premium backs was a no-brainier. I stopped playing before Xmas, have no desire to come back even if they improve the game and will only but the next game after launch once the reviews and player comments are in.
(BF4 was janky at release but the core design was there and “fun” so I played despite the issues)
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