You forgot to mention Dice reneging on full progression on portal, They used it as a selling point to sucker people into buying and remove it less than 2 weeks later once people have racked up enough time they can't refund the game.
another issue we have is Battlefield playing like a Call of Duty game, Tiny meatgrinder maps, copying game modes from CoD titles and focusing far too much on building a Battle Royale while the actual paid game is neglected. How long did it take for them to patch the drone & sledgehammer exploit? despite it being a very vocal complaint from the player base they would rather focus on Redsec.
Then the cheater problem... Yes, The one that people are so vehemently denying exists despite there being hundreds of videos of losers selling these cheats all over social media.
Overall, I think EA/Dice has fumbled this game big time and the player count reflects that. It isn't a "bad" game but it would be a lot better if they kept focus on what made Battlefield different from Call of Duty.
I Could care less about portal brother, it sounds like they catered to teh wrong crowd. The top .001%, the "pro" player....as every game company marching to their own slaughter in the past has done. When they really should only care what the avg player thinks, the actual community ...lol Because throwing bags of garbage against a wall can be a competitive sport if the people took it serious enough. The core of your community is what matters. Thats what took LoL to ESPN in 2014. And then unfortunately the smurfs rage quit the playerbase and it died literally a year later as like retalliation. lmao.... and society just watched as if it was their right to destroy them. They coined that derogatory term for the, "smurf". LIke CS, the most popular E-Sport of all time, coined the term "Stacker". And if you are a so called human that wants things "fair". You would want everyone to have equal points and not this half step to p2w candy carebear singleplayer bs anways. IMHO, only a cheater would be against people levelling on a private bot server lmao. Sorry if I offended anyone. but I'm a competitive multiplayer who treats this like football. And this is classic conquest BF. where the base guns are usually the best anwayas. pro tip. let people have their fun who don't like getting stomped by non competitive online nerds who hate society or think they fooling and impressing someone.
dude, it wasnt just the pve solo vs bot crowd that got shafted. Portal has the only hardcore gamemodes, the custom maps and conquest with higher tickets. All of those got shafted. Portal is a lot more than just the ones who wants to fight bots
I understand that. but apparently the reason it got shafted is cause it gave people xp. I'm saying that is not a valid reason to get rid of bots in portal, or get rid of portal or whatever happened. I'm not sure why people care, especially bf veterans.
I think it's likely because not only was it used as a selling point when advertising the game, but the older titles had dedicated portal servers which harboured little communities of players, clans and was manually moderated so cheaters got the boot immediately, When you remove bots and require a set limit to start a game most people don't have the patience to sit in a lobby queue for an hour until it fills with enough players to start the game whereas if it had bot backfill people could play and the bots would be replaced immediately when a player joins.
The whole exp thing though I understand wanting to combat the exp farms but they could have just removed the ability to spawn unarmed bots or place them in a static position so someone could just stand still and mag dump.
I just think EA/Dice could have handled this much better and it's not like the forums don't have an entire encyclopaedia of feedback and suggestions on how to improve things. Instead they have ignored everything and decided to make poor choice after poor choice which had inevitably resulted in a mass exodus of players.
