Flicking through various message boards, forums and article reactions, there is an astonishing amount of people disappointed, upset, or even angry at the existence of Battlefield 4.
There appear to be three key problems with the idea of the next game being Battlefield 4 - but VideoGamer is struggling to understand the logic behind any of them.
EA is laying off an unknown number of individuals from across its Battlefield teams, including workers at Criterion, Dice, Ripple Effect, and Motive Studios, IGN understands.
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When logic meets EA it generates anti-matter ..... so try not to apply it in any meaningful way. Entropy is what matters in there !!
cue the apologist saying that these are mostly just contractors hired for this specific project bla bla bla
The free-to-play reboot topped 15 million players in under three weeks, but EA now claims it needs to reshape the development team.
The community warned them this would happen but nope they knew better they continued with the live service push the made the art style cartoonish and this is the result
It's always so bizarre when studios announce something super early in development under the suggestion of forming the game to player feedback, and then they push against all feedback heading straight for the cliff while everyone is warning them along the way
The Congressional Labor Caucus sent a letter to the FTC warning the debt-financed, largely PIF-owned deal could be bad news for workers
lol ya think? they're sending all that work to the cheaper labor market as soon as possible. and FYI, that labor market has exploded in the last 5-10 years. They have enough people to replace every single job. But honestly, EA is over filled with useless upper management as it is. You could probably trim 25% of their staff with no real loss in production. They aren't gamers, they're business execs. Just look at how many AI related jobs they're already starting to post. Its also hilarious that PIF owns Battle field 6
Wait,
The same congress that attacked Lina Khan when she fought the Microsoft Activision purchase.
The same congress that allowed Disney to buy 90% of Fox
The same congress that allowed Liv Golf to buy the PGA
The same congress that sits back while Paramount tries a hostile takeover despite losing the bid for Warner Bros.
NOW, the suddenly cares about doing what's "right" for works? Yeah, right.
EA now owned by The Saudis and Ubisoft to inevitably be owned by China. In hindsight, once EA and Ubisoft started having their financial woes, they should have pulled a Koei Tecmo/Bandai Namco by merging their operations into one.
The main problem is, people don't want it to launch this gen, it's way to soon for another main series BF game, another Bad Company would be fine.
before people counter-argue saying we don't know when it will launch well that is true but why have a beta for BF4 next year on current gen systems if it's a next gen game? it's a tad pointless considering they will need to have another beta once the next gen systems launch to port it all over and make the improvements.
this seems like EA are just pushing DICE to make this to compete with COD and it's a shame because BF was always my preferred title.
The problem is these ELITE BF PLAYERS thinking that EA owes them something. If there is too much things to fix that can't be patched it only makes since that you release a new game.
Maybe this one would be the perfect BF game that everyone is looking for. *Since BF2 was sooo perfect*
I don't mind a new BF3 game because I will eventually stop playing this once all the DLC gets old.
The problem is that all the anti-COD people were praising the Battlefield series because it wasn't on the same launch schedule as COD.
Now that its on a two year cycle people lose some of the ammunition they had against COD. Had Battlefield 3 sold like Bad Company did, they probably wouldn't rushed out a sequel so fast, but EA is finding it difficult to turn away from 12-15 potential sales.
Well, it's somewhat unusual for a numbered entry in this series to come so soon, which has people worried about the impact it may have on quality. It may also suggest that this will not be a significant departure from 3, a game which many series veterans feel is a step backwards. All we can do now is wait and see, really, as there's simply not enough information to suggest anything about the game's quality or content.
The problem is that I don't want to have to buy a high end pc to enjoy the game. Ps3 and 360 struggle to run it. Why not wait till the next grn consoles. So I can fully enjoy what the game can really do.