As a huge fan of battlefield 5 how does a title fail in bad way. I feel this was on the development team and designers. This game could have been a masterpiece if done right and with the correct content provided. But we as fans see what happens when poor planning is put in place by lazy minded people.
A big factor in V not doing as well as it could have is down to the WWII purists not wanting to accept DICE's vision and desire to break the mold of all things historically accurate. I believe the Pacific chapter added a bunch of great content but it was sort of too late at that point.
Server browser is still full and the game certainly isn't as dead as many believe.
@NativeKing2002The game was actually very well designed and developed, but it was completely and totally hamstrung by EA DICE executives and their... unfortunate... decision making and the atrocious marketing that followed.
It simply was set up to fail... and it did.
@TTZ_Dipsy Blaming anything on the fans and the "purists" is just repeating the same mistakes... EA DICE's "vision" was clearly flawed or else it would have succeeded despite their own self-sabotage.
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A big factor in V not doing as well as it could have is down to the WWII purists not wanting to accept DICE's vision and desire to break the mold of all things historically accurate. I believe the Pacific chapter added a bunch of great content but it was sort of too late at that point.
Server browser is still full and the game certainly isn't as dead as many believe.
@TTZ_Dipsy I'll vehemently disagree about the purists and fans having any negative effect on the game's success. It was the well documented dev drama that made that happen as long time fans don't generally respond well to ultimatums like "Don't like it, don't buy it" especially when DICE was always receptive to community feedback up until that point.
BF5 started to turn around when DICE started heeding the community's complaints and making a game that more resembled WWII in the visual and tone department with 5.0's launch. However the coup de gras for BF5's death was DICE forcing and subsequently walking back multiple unwanted TTK changes on the community...not once...not twice...but three times. The third TTK change happened right after the game was in an awesome place and the community very happy with the 5.0 Pacific expansion. So naturally they have to make another controversial change. 5.2 is when I personally uninstalled the game and stopped playing even when my friends were playing it.
If DICE wanted to do WWII in a way that wasn't historically authentic then they should have made an alternate history WWII game and stated that up front. If they did that a lot of the backlash would not have occurred regarding the theme. The backlash on game systems like attrition would have undoubted still happened.
