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Re: Weekly weapons Scrap Exchange updates

When I started playing in 2021, every week I saw something new in the exchange and never posted here on the forum because the exchange was working.
In 2023 and 2024 I write here every week and the exchange employee either regularly makes mistakes by posting the same skins, or simply does not update anything.
How long will we BF1 fans have to grovel and beg for skins?
Why not make one BF1 fan responsible for the exchange?

22 Replies

  • ElliotLH's avatar
    ElliotLH
    Hero+
    2 years ago

    @4elabaka86 I have merged your new thread with this one. However, there is likely zero chance of EA handing over control of the exchange to players I'm afraid.

  • HUN_gattaca_lg's avatar
    HUN_gattaca_lg
    Seasoned Ace
    2 years ago

    @ElliotLH 
    never say never


    ea employee should update four things in the BF1 game:
    -Operation Campaigns
    -weekly game mode rotation
    -weekly scrap exchange
    -community XP boost


    The operation campaign was last updated 35 days ago.
    Weekly game mode was last updated 9 days ago.
    Weekly scrap exchange was last updated 9 days ago.
    Community XP boost was last updated 5 days ago.

  • ElliotLH's avatar
    ElliotLH
    Hero+
    2 years ago
    @HUN_gattaca_lg They wouldn't give a player control of the exchange as that would be a big security risk, among other things.
  • SpellCastinWizrd's avatar
    SpellCastinWizrd
    Seasoned Adventurer
    2 years ago

    What actually is it preventing them from just putting everything on the store at once and leaving it there, indefinitely?

    They can completely abandon bf1 after that too, that's what they want isn't it?

  • norway5279's avatar
    norway5279
    2 years ago

    I'm now thinking giving up this game.If that just what they want,old players went away and new players played like 50 hours and quited,ok ,EA made it.😡

  • ElliotLH's avatar
    ElliotLH
    Hero+
    2 years ago
    @SpellCastinWizrd I believe it's been mentioned in the past (by EA_Atic if memory serves, but I've not gone searching to check) that there are technical limitations which prevent that. That definitely rings a bell with me anyway, but I could be mixing it up with something else.
  • riiiiiiiik's avatar
    riiiiiiiik
    Rising Novice
    2 years ago

    @ElliotLH  I think the alternative could be something like Star Wars Battlefront II, where they gave everything to everyone and then abandoned the game entirely...
    I don't think that people still buys battlepacks with money to be honest. 
    Look at my example, I bought the game exactly on the same week that Fedorov skins were on the exchange rotation, at the time I didn't have the Fedorov unlocked and I found it was my favorite weapon weeks later, so I'm playing for almost two years now and I don't have a single Fedorov skin, this is so sad.

  • ElliotLH's avatar
    ElliotLH
    Hero+
    2 years ago

    @riiiiiiiik That could work, if everything was unlocked at an account level. I guess the issue there is how long it'd take before that kind of decision was made. Taking BF1943 for example, that game was only withdrawn from sale and had multiplayer turned off in December last year, and it Origin came out in 2009. Then again, I'm just thinking out loud more than anything else and could be way off.

  • 4elabaka86's avatar
    4elabaka86
    2 years ago
    @riiiiiiiik I've been asking for Fedorov skins for a year now. And they only post Ross MK3, Revolver No. 3 and Henry with a Mosin rifle.
  • HUN_gattaca_lg's avatar
    HUN_gattaca_lg
    Seasoned Ace
    2 years ago

    @ElliotLH 

    According to Jaqub Ajmal (ex Dice producer) on Twitter, the user Interface's technical limitation is not true.

    EA deliberately does not make all skins available in scrap exchange (there are legendary exchange exclusive skins)

    the guinness record:

  • ElliotLH's avatar
    ElliotLH
    Hero+
    2 years ago
    @HUN_gattaca_lg I did say that I could have been misremembering.

    However it is a moot point as even if it is technically possible, at this point EA wouldn't spend the resources on a large-scale change like that would be. The game is no longer supported in that way.
  • Time to delete Bf1 , this time for good, no point in playing any more, they give zero support with trivial things as exchange, and again operations are infested with hackers. It was fun while good time lasted.

  • 4elabaka86's avatar
    4elabaka86
    2 years ago

    Well done for updating the operations, and can the exchange now be updated?

  • norway5279's avatar
    norway5279
    2 years ago

    I believe they really give up this game.I just on the game,no update.....

  • KBAYSTSB's avatar
    KBAYSTSB
    Seasoned Ace
    2 years ago

    No exchange update? That is rally, really poor. How difficult can it be to do? Surely the work experience kid can do it?

  • riiiiiiiik's avatar
    riiiiiiiik
    Rising Novice
    2 years ago

    @KBAYSTSB  I'm starting to believe that they're not updating exchange on purpose for some reason...

  • KBAYSTSB's avatar
    KBAYSTSB
    Seasoned Ace
    2 years ago
    Which is fine, but it’s the lack of transparency that is indefensible. It demonstrates a distinct lack of respect.
  • It's so childish not to update the exchange))
    Guys, if someone forgets about this game due to the non-updating of the exchange, it’s definitely not me!
    Even if there are no skins at all, I won’t stop playing.
    Because the best thing about this game is the game itself!

  • RomillyMacAran's avatar
    RomillyMacAran
    Rising Veteran
    2 years ago

    OMG, I'm at nearly 60k scraps, and nothing to buy again this week.

    I'm guessing someone is sick, or on vacation, but it'd be super nice if you could do the next round

    with several weapons that people have been asking for:

    RSC 1917 (I don't think I've seen this in 2-3 years I've been playing?)

    Fedorov (ditto)

    Short, Magazine, Lee-Enfield (SMLE) (again, it was on the exchange last 2-3 years ago, and was the 3rd most produced rifle of all time).


    Thanks in advance, this is a great game!

  • HUN_gattaca_lg's avatar
    HUN_gattaca_lg
    Seasoned Ace
    2 years ago

    The Fire and Ice operation campaign was replaced yesterday by the Beginning of the End oparation campaign after 40 days.
    The duration of the current Beginning of the End campaign (combined Kaiserschlacht and Beyond the Marne opertations) is 28 days.

    However, the weekly game mode (now Back to Basics https://battlefield.fandom.com/wiki/Custom_Gamemode#Standard_Issue_Rifles_/_Back_to_Basics) and the weekly scrap exchange (rifles Martini Henry, sidearms NO. 3 Revolver, vehicles Light Tank) were last updated two weeks ago on January 15th.


    I hope the weekly game mode and the the weekly scrap exchange will also be updated by Dice today.
    Or answer from EA that: How can players get exchange exclusive skins without scrap exchange?