Long time player of the series since 1942 in 2002 when I was a kid. I agree with this post and unfortunately I bought the base game of this release for $70... fortunately that's all of the money I will be giving to this release. The promise was real encouraging, "the return to form", but unfortunately, this is more like a COD clone wrapped in a different skin. I played for the first few weeks (I play hardcore) but when the portal changes hit I stopped, booted it up to see the season 1 changes and saw the micro transactions and other BS, I had thought I opened COD and immediately closed the game. It's back to BF4 and Squad for me. Maybe one day they will ACTUALLY "bring back battlefield", but that day is not today.