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I also want to add something here in the EA community.
I’ve already mentioned the main topic on Steam — I won’t spam it again.
But I still want to share some important points here as well.
Here’s one of my replies to him:
Hey EA_Shepard,
We want to know if the issue we’re all facing - the shutdown of Hardcore servers - is truly being taken under control and actively worked on.
We appreciated your response earlier, but we need to be sure it wasn’t just a “throw a bone to the dogs” kind of message.
Can you please tell us - what are the actual timelines?
The whole hardcore community isn’t comfortable with this complete uncertainty.
Honestly, I’m afraid that before you even bring the servers back, we’ll have to go through months of “community discussions,” “feedback gathering,” “planning,” and so on...
This could take forever.
Please, just turn the mode back on. There’s nothing complicated about it for you.
Bring the servers back and let us play the game we love.
After that, you can continue talking to the community about how to fine-tune or optimize the mode.
Doing that right now would be the best possible decision DICE could make.
Also, I want to share a thought that many players agree with:
if you ever make changes to the Hardcore mode, they should only be to make it even more realistic - not to simplify it.
As it stands, the current Hardcore setup is the perfect balance - don’t break what’s already ideal.
And please, open your eyes already!
How could this even happen? Really — how?!
Didn’t you see what was going on?
Why would you ever shut down a server like that?
And I also want to reach out to the hardcore community - and to everyone else who might have ended up here by chance.
Push this topic, don’t stay silent.
If we keep our voices loud and the developers actually care about their players, they’ll do what we’re asking for - and fast.
This is 2 months old but Im starting a NEW campaign about Hardcore mode. Now that they barely added SOME hardcore, they basically just make CORE with TKing on. Its VERY soft.