“Everyone wants unique. But when they get it, they don’t like it, because it’s different,” the executive producer opined in a huge interview with Gamasutra.
“I’m a consumer, so I know what I want. I want the same, but different. It’s the classic ‘same, same but different’ mentality. It needs to be similar to what I had, but it needs to be unique at the same time. And the question is only, ‘what is the same?’ and ‘what is unique?’ How daring do you need to go?”
Bach said there’s little point doing market research, because players invariably respond with “I want it like it was, but better.”
Halo veteran Marcus Lehto's studio, Ridgeline, will now be joined by DICE on the project.
Battlefield Producer Jaqub Ajmal, who has worked on fan-fave entries such as BF3, BF4 and their DLCs, has announced he's departing DICE.
That's a bad sign but not unexpected given how EA managed the franchise post BF4.
Hopefully he will start his own company and be able to bring a new spin on the shooter genre.
DICE has heard the complaints about Battlefield V's realism (or lack thereof) and it seems the studio is making some changes.
Looks like the pre-orders (money) is making them suddenly see the light.
If only I cared.
Great they to hear they at least are waking up now, people want the classic Battlefield and not some fortnite costumization nightmare
This is why i think videogame developers shouldn't listen to fans because you can never make them happy. I actually applaud COD for staying with the same mechanics and adding new things. That what fans want and like.
@Mika
Ok get what you saying, but they defo need new engine.
Kind of like how Zipper wanted to change Socom, how did that work out for you Zipper? I see no problem sticking with a gameplay style that the fans know and love, and the gamers also agree, which is why you see games like Socom change and then plummet in popularity.
I dont think anyone wants their games to be different other than maps, features, new weapons, minor tweaks etc.. but these developers think we want a new engine, health , weapon damage, remove features and replace with other crap. Look at the Socom disaster, Gears 2 disaster, Resistance2 disaster, Killzone3 disaster. "resistance 3 bringing back weapon wheel" "gears 3 more like the original!" yea like they should have been in the first place. People want COD like MW1 or whatever, go figure. they complain about being the same game yet they say the original was better.
God forbid you change hairstyles in a game lol fans will go nuts its not the hair i remember, i call boycott.