I would say I will never buy a game from EA.
BF2042 seems totally abandoned with tons of bugs after and developers are gone for vacation without any responsibility.
Before 2042 EA already abandoned BF5.
And EA will do that again another game.
There's no trusty left.
If a campaign mode is included, yes. If there isn't a campaign, then the price have to be right and the multiplayer must be out of this world.
Also im not pre-ordering again. I'll first do reseach about the state of the game..forgot to do that with this game..not gonna happen to me again.
Only after I rent the game. I rented BF2042 via EA Play for $15 and decided it wasn't worth buying. I'll rent the next Battlefield game too, and if it's good I'll buy it. I love these new subscription services, they save me so much money and allow me to make informed decisions as a consumer. 🙂
Never again.
Sorry for DICE, maybe everything is EA responsibility, but what happened with BF2042 was so dishonest.
I can't imagine how fooled must, the people who bought gold / ultimate edition, feel. And no apology / explanation, no promess to fix things... It's like "you bought our * because you believed all the trailers and announcements, eeeh, that's your problem dude. Now we will enjoy some holidays, financed by your money!".
The communication since the release is an absolute mess. I mean, I think we're a lot of players expecting that things will get better, that the game can be improved. And there's no transparency on what is happening. Now they're rumors about the season 1 coming in 3 months, with 1 new map... Some people paid 100€ for an uncompleted game, and no one even bother to tell them if / when new content will be released.
We still have absolutely no idea about the reasons of the poor performances of the game. Is that inherent to 128 players mode? Is that because they were so in a rush that the optimization work hasn't been done? "Hey customer, figure it out yourself!"
In short word, we've been screwed before the release, and apparently they think we like that, because they aren't changing anything.
When you're developing multiplayer games, with a 20 years old community, you have to respect those who are supporting you. If not, keep your future *, we keep our money (my opinion).
And as you said, BF V is so great nowaday, all it needs is a last patch to fix few more bugs, and some admins to manually ban cheaters. But even that, is asking too much.
First there's the FIFA rehash... Stopped buying those yeaaars ago...
Next there was BioWare with Mass Effect Andromeda, wasn't bad but wasn't that amazing either and obviously could have used more time.
I skipped BFV because of the disasters I read about plus I didn't like WW1 or 2 stuff anymore.
Then, there's Anthem... The live service horror that got the plug pulled just before the reworked Anthem 2.0...
Now its BF2042... Bugs and technical issues aside, the game is just so frustratingly badly balanced and it feels more like CoD than BF. Honestly, I feel like I've paid 90 euros for a beta version while EA should have been paying us to do their QA playtesting because so many things in this game just don't feel right.
So NO. This has been the last game I purchased that has EA's logo on it.
Every single person in this thread will buy games from EA again sooner or later.
@BizzyVaping wrote:Every single person in this thread will buy games from EA again sooner or later.
The opposite can also happen. I left cod after COD waw. Never returned.
Depends on which direction the game takes. Cod took the wrong one imo. The same can happen for BF or is already happening.
@SirBobdk wrote:
@BizzyVaping wrote:Every single person in this thread will buy games from EA again sooner or later.
The opposite can also happen. I left cod after COD waw. Never returned.
Depends on which direction the game takes. Cod took the wrong one imo. The same can happen for BF or is already happening.
You're still alive... Never isn't here yet 😉
I wasn't going to play another COD after BO2 as I got tired of the formula. Didn't play another one until MW2019. Ended up buying MW2019 because I saw a video of a singleplayer mission where the graphics looked ridiculous, and I ended up buying it just to try that level. Ended up playing the multiplayer for 300+ hours and bought Cold war to after that (skipped vanguard since the new battlefield was coming though)
Battlefield is the only EA game that I care about. However with 2042 they have started to head into a direction that I cannot support any longer.
So if the next game is building up on the poor design changes made (specialists, large and empty maps, lack of platoons, 128 players, downgraded graphics etc.) here, I am definitely out. I would rather burn my money instead of giving it to EA/DICE for another game like this. Glad I already cancelled this after the Beta. Looking into my friendslist which comprises around 70 people also manifests that almost no one cares about this game any more.
I will only return to Battlefield if they return to their DNA. I want to see classes back, interesting maps with cover, decent quality control, 64 player conquest as a permanent mode, platoons + all the other "legacy features".
At this point I would be happy if they they took any orientation from Battlefield 5. This game has had plenty of issues, but in contrast to 2042 it feels like a Battlefield game at least. Back then I thought that it could only get better, but they really managed to hit a new low for the series with 2042. My only expectation from now on is to get another Battlefield game in the Battlefield-franchise one day. Because this game has nothing in common other than the name printed on it.
So my answer is: No, I will not buy another game any more unless they make a true Battlefield game again that is worthy of its name.
