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EA on Battlefield: Not Just Building a Game but a Platform to Drive Live Services

EA CEO Andrew Wilson shares that they are not just building a game with Battlefield, but a platform to deliver live service content for "decades to come."

-Foxtrot781d ago (Edited 781d ago )

Jesus Christ man

After failure upon failure you’d think they would make sure the next Battlefield game puts other things before all this crap and yet here they are yet again clearly not understanding that this attitude, making a live service game first is what’s killing the franchise

Tacoboto781d ago

Well, Halo Infinite received blame from them for 2042's disappointing launch, and it was marketed as the platform for Halo for the next decade.

In the 18 months they've had to reflect, EA clearly saw that Halo's singular decade was just not ambitious enough.

jznrpg781d ago

I ignore 99% of EA for years now so yeah sounds about right. Star Wars is only thing they have that interests me at all.

ElendilsSorrow781d ago

Good then that they have multiple projects on the way for that franchise, very excited for that

HollowIchigo25781d ago

That man is completely oblivious and he is their CEO.

excaliburps781d ago

Yep. It's like they learned nothing from BFV and BF2042.

JEECE781d ago

Sigh. Battlefield V got criticized for not being an active enough live service. Even though it had a longer tail of support than any prior BF game other than 4, as soon as the last maps came out (almost two years after launch), people started blasting DICE for abandoning the game. You can't say you hate live service/games as a service but then also declare that a multiplayer title is dead as soon as it isn't treated like one.

People say they want a remaster of one of the old BF games, but the reality is that they'd start whining about the lack of support a few weeks after launch if the game wasn't maintained as a live service. The same thing happened to Halo: Infinite. It's commonly accepted now that that game was botched, but when you ask people why it quickly becomes clear that they wanted it to be more of a live service.

MetroidFREAK21781d ago

Great, can't wait to not be there

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‘I think Xbox hardware is dead’, says Microsoft gaming veteran

One of the founding members of the Xbox team has questioned Microsoft’s multiplatform gaming strategy, and said they believe the Xbox hardware business is effectively “dead"

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Goodguy011d ago

Think that rumor that they'll still make a new console but at a profit at $1000 will be true though. The series consoles will remain their cheap alternative throughout next gen I would say. Keep in mind that game pass and pretty much going 3rd party is their main focus. They want to bring xbox everywhere.

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GamerRN3h ago

If they don't maintain some kind of console presence, I think they will lose gamepass subscribers and just become a 3rd party publisher who eventually sells everything off

Cacabunga2h ago

Xbox games are releasing on all platforms. Who needs this hardware? PS or PC is all you need

Flewid6381h ago

I've never owned an Xbox in my life and I have GamePass.

thorstein30m ago

The only Xbox I owned was the 360. I have gamepass for my PC.

crazyCoconuts2h ago

Even if they could get it down to $800 for a box that can run with comparable performance to a PS6 (at, say $200 cheaper) the population of people willing to buy such a thing would be so limited.
It would be the worst of both worlds.

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Futureshark12h ago

A slow, painful and public death too.

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New Flight Simulation Hardware Revealed by Moza

Hardware manufacturer Moza debuted several new hardware peripherals for flight simulation at FlightSimExpo 2025.

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Dark SNES Games Not Made For Kids

As consoles go, the SNES has quite the family friendly image. But, just like a Pizza Hut when you look at its hygiene rating or taste its pizza or breathe inside a restaurant, it’s not always good for everyone.

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Yesyes1d 23h ago

The Lion King. Made for masochists.

gold_drake1d 14h ago (Edited 1d 14h ago )

hahahaha

god i had so much trouble with those damn fking birds, monkeys and giraffes haha

Babadook71d 22h ago

Just played Clock Tower. Yep. That’s pretty dark.

thorstein1d 17h ago

The golden age. No ESRB*. No ratings at all. It was glorious.

*I know the ESRB was formed by the industry to prevent others from stepping in and taking control.

Darkegg1d 10h ago

Interesting on ESRB. “ The industry, pressured with potential government oversight of video game ratings from these hearings, established both the IDSA and the ESRB within it to create a voluntary rating system based on the Motion Picture Association film rating system with additional considerations for video game interactivity.” https://en.m.wikipedia.org/...

Is that how the industry isn’t required to offer consumers a transferable digital token to sell games they no longer play or maybe don’t like? And then treat us all like pirates? That’s how the government is not involved, they had to placate the situation to avoid oversight.