Battlefield 2042: Should We Be Worried About the Delay? MP1st dives a little bit deeper and figure out what's really worrying regarding EA's announcement, and it's not the delay exactly but something else.
Electronic Arts CEO Andrew Wilson stated in a recent EA Earnings Call, that the next Battlefield "it is going to be another tremendous live service.”
Another? ANOTHER?
Is he honestly trying to make out like the last Battlefield was a huge success, not just as a game but as a live service game? I'm sure these guys live in their own echo chambers, they are so far removed from reality or they just like talking out of their arse trying to rewrite history.
Also why say such a tone deaf statement when you know the state of live service games at the minute and how many gamers feel about them. Bigging up the next BF game as live service does not give me any excitement or hype.
This is nothing too new
https://www.eurogamer.net/e...
They had plans of a universe of live service games
Also these studios made 2042 there is no new massive team its the same team
https://www.eurogamer.net/t...
Well same team minus the seattle boys that were canned
https://gamerant.com/ea-bat...
This is all again same news different year but it seems very few remember what happened before covid.
At least they put car freshner trees up their asses to think smelling their own farts smells good at this point to be so out of touch.
EA:
While we’ve enjoyed and are proud of creating these seasons of additional content for Battlefield 2042, it is now necessary for us to turn from the present to the future. What this ultimately means is that Season 7 will serve as the final season for Battlefield 2042. After Season 7 concludes, we will continue to support the game with new in-game challenges, events, modes, and of course, ongoing maintenance, but we are moving away from delivering official seasons.
Streamer Shroud says that DICE paid 60 to a hundred content creators to help develop Battlefield 2042, but ignored every single advice.
No wonder the game ended up the way it did
What they should've done was ask BF fans. Most general content creators typically go for the trend and the top creators stream games like LOL, fortnite, dota, gtaV, battle royale etc.
A lot of times people want a game to be something else and I'd probably guess a lot of people wanted call of duty or a lot of it's features.
Bf2042 is amazing now but was not so much at launch. A lot of improvements made the game an amazing game with its own identity. I'm hoping the new battlefield game coming next year improves upon everything in bf2042 and is more akin to bf3 and bf4.
A ton of people have written the game off now. Which is unfortunate because I find it to be one of the best multiplayer shooters available now. I've been aware that a Battlefield game has not launched in a good condition since....I don't remember. So I never played at launch due to the horror stories, but it seems to have pulled a Battlefield 4 and really turned itself around. Good stuff. Love getting 4 kills on an apc with a well placed RPG, or Stinger to a loaded chopper lol. No other game has given me that kind of joy. lol.
Look, I wouldn't pee on an influencer if they were on fire, but why pay for their feedback only to ignore it?
I don't know. Maybe they thought it was a good idea at first but eventually found out that it was best to ignore influencers' opinions?
I’ll give some advice and take money for it. You can use it or not use it just make sure to pay me
Battlefield fans just want Battlefield to be Battlefield. Which means a focus on Conquest-mode (5/6 flags), some gorgeous and fun maps to play on, 4 balanced classes, and that's it.
The suits keep wanting to turn Battlefield into everything else BUT Battlefield, so first they wanted BF to be more like Call of Duty, so they copied a bunch of stuff from CoD. Then they wanted to take advantage of the Battle Royale stuff, so they went after that crowd. Then they saw the heroes stuff in Overwatch and so they brought in specialists. Etc.
Guys, we just want Battlefield. Not every games has to be everything to all people. Specialize in what makes (made) your series great, which is large(r) maps (appropriate size for the amount of players, which IMO should be 24-32 max, so not just big for bragging brights), integrating vehicle-combat, and just allowing the freedom and flow which made those matches in older Battlefield games so special at times.
Unless you want more Cyberpunk 2077 situations, stop demonizing delays.
I'm worried about this delay, Cyberpunk was only delayed for 1 month and the game was still buggy. The Battlefield Beta was infested with bugs and very poorly optimized, the impression it gave is that they could use a good year to improve the game, as did Halo Infinite.
It's only a month it's not like it's six months. Most games going through a delay cycle and honestly it's mostly a direct result of project management attempting to hit deadlines that simply push workers to hard.
I've worked in a number of teams and flat out said it's not going to happen on X date and you get a response like ok let's make this our soft date or let's leave it open to moving it back next minute its the public launch date.
Project management guys typically get a performance bonus for getting things delivered under time so they speak to the exec teams and promise a date get the wheels in motion and it's the Devs that get abused for not hitting the mystery date.
No
What's even a month? If it's really in trouble and they care enough to make sure they deliver a finished product they'd delay it another 6 months at least. A month is not a sign of troubled development. Of course it could still come out broken like many of the previous BF. We'll know when it's out