Haha, that last line was pretty good! And yeah, I saw that comment. To me it seems like they would actually be better off by making a single player game like that. I mean look at the success of 'The Last of Us'. I think reputation for a good game counts, and would add up more sales overtime than anything. Just look at the decline of sales in the new battlefront.
For me, battlefront is a roleplaying game more than anything. You can tell EA knows this just by playing the game, but I fear that the online focus is stripping that away. Its lost its uniqueness.
Imagine the dramatic sales boost if the next game was offline oriented:
• original battlefront fans would absolutely praise the game, therefore recommending it and also regaining many lost fans.
• there would be news articles everywhere over the internet talking of the big changes and how fans are so pleased spreading good news of the game everywhere.
• the game would be accessible for people with no internet or just bad, laggy internet- heaps more customers available.
• the sequel would increase in sales rather than decrease.
• casual players or people who just can't master the game wouldn't complain about dying all the time therefore they could actually enjoy the game and want more.
•you could focus your development money on more maps and whatnot rather than online problems like balancing. This would therefore make for a larger feeling game- people would feel there hard earned money spent on it was worth it.
I'm sure there are more things, but to me, that seems enough.
