Yeah if hardcore is gatekept in the portal mode, the servers will ALWAYS be dead. And then its pointless, it just exists in a capacity so the studio can say, see look its there. Now STFU.
I want to play the game against other people not hope the subset of players that want hardcore take the time to find it (they dont). So it ruins the mode. There is no shortage of core players, but there is a smaller % of them that want hardcore just like it was in BF4.
Honestly, we wouldnt be having this discussion if we just had a server browser. Then we would all be forced into the same pipeline of our personal preferences for game types, and all and be exposed to the same listing of games post filters. rather than having to jump through hoops to get to it.
