Last patch on PS4 was excellent. Fixed most of the issues. There is some bugs left but atleast it is playable now and it was a huge improvement.

Lack of development. End of story.

the point is the game is FUN AS HELL and a whole universe better than it was at release now that the crashes have dramatically decreased.

Why BF4 is buggy!

Simple Math

EA + 5 platforms + EA rushing DICE to release before COD = BUGGY MESS!

EA ruined Mass Effect, and now this. Excuse me if I never buy an ea game again.

So it was the games code and nothing to do with ea wanting to beat cod's release date... sure.

EA - Should own up and give a map pack away for free.

Keep your excuses for yourself. I pay for the game, the game should work! Period!

"This game is a buggy mess because we wanted as much money as possible by launching for the holidays and the actual game came second."

FTFY

As a software dev, i can tell that test plans was not well done. You can not assume as a test team that all final users will have the perfect environment. Test plans must be well written an cover at least 80% of all possibility. Maybe management team pushed all resources to validate builds as quick as possible... and here we are... buggy code and lot of excuses.

Dice needs to get away from EA, they'll be able to put out better games then. Or should I say good games when they are ready to release not rush and have it fall apart. Sadly DICE will go out of business before EA.

None of this makes sense, just stop making excuses, it makes people more and more mad because anyone with common sense can instantly counter saying - It was released too early, it's literally your decision as a publisher/developer to release a game that's completely broken, no item producing company on the planet is supposed to release something that doesn't work, so you CAN'T make any excuses, it's impossible. Not to mention everyone was flat-out lied to about the status of the game, "Pre-order now!", "This game will and does run better than the BETA!" This is just 1 tiny example.
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I like Dice and all, but certain people working for EA need to grow some balls and man up including Rickard Svensson. Anyone who supports an immoral company while making excuses for something that is 100% their fault needs to think twice about where they are in their life. This is why we have so much trouble with our Government/Cabals/Military Complex's today, is because people like Rickard won't stand up for the right cause and say NO regardless of his job status, "Sir yes sir, I will Chem-Trail the nation without thinking". When something is wrong, or someone is telling you to lie, or do something immoral, you say NO and don't do it,maybe even spread the word if you are in the position. Stand up for whats right and be a man. Thanks

I bought the Game because i had too much money apparently and it was horrible on launch, absolutely unplayable.
They spend too much money on advertising and promo goodies.

This only explains pc though. Why would my Battlefield 4 crash all the time on a closed environment like X1 or PS4? I mean really it's not like PC is the only one having crashing problems. This all just sounds like BS to me. Had they developed the game to run how they wanted with at least the min specs than they should have been fine.I get the threading issue from the days I took software engineering classes but this still seems like BS. This could have easily been tested out through beta and the information they received should have told them to wait. So if he is telling the truth that no one really said f-it release it anyways then they are incompetent and are even worse off.

Can you explain why it was released then?

Dice should not of made themselves EA's b1tches. Yeah EA are evil but Dice are to blame also.

If we are going to have a new BF every year then to workforce needs to expand or we have a 18 month cycle.

The latest patch fixed a lot of things, at least for the PS4. Also, with BF4, it really depends on the platform. There is no way to patch the resource hog BF4 is on the PC. It's just going to take a really high-end PC to be satisfactory, or crank the resolution and graphics down like it is on the XBO to play very crappy. On the PS4, having 64 players on a console is really crazy. The water craft are actually bobbing around on rolling waves. That is crazy to think about the calculations to do that. It is a buggy game but the destructibility, vehicles and nature effects are very next gen on the PS4.

"Because we rushed it out so it can release before COD and because we work with EA so that means we don't care about the quality of our games we're just in it for the money".

Seriously this game sucks and I really wish I would've never wasted 60 dollars on crap. I'm done wasting my money on "modern day war shooters" like BF and Cod they're all the same year after year. I deleted BF4 off my PS4 and it won't be going back in my PlayStation ever again.

How about you did not waste resourced on a crappy SP and focused on MP only, just like BF1942, BF2 and BF 2142

my experience with the game is mostly negative with the corrupted files during single player, that and single play being a bit lame. They should of did what Arma did, and released slowly with an explanation as to why. The game already is the most discounted with sales so no biggie if was incomplete.

yeah blame frost bite because 3-4 is such a hugh leap that it totally wrecks you're game, get the fuck out!

still say the worst i have ever seen for a game is ro2 that has to be in history the worst launch i have ever had next after that would be sim city<---yeah another ea game.

they rushed it to compete with cod... end of history, the game had a huge potential in the long run, but they wasted it to be "there" in launch... imagine in this time a good next gen battlefield polished and ready to play... simply awesome but instead, another crappy mess fps to pacth for a full year

and now the new mirrors edge suffers from this crap... if they release mirrors in the same state we can bury the franchise for good... please DICE learn from this and bring us a finished game.

Game developers sure do a lot of explaining these days...

Just shut up and fix the damn game already!

A rushed multi-plat game. And this is multi-plat at its worst! PS3/360/PC/PS4/X1. That is just begging for an onslaught of issues.

Ok I'm confuse I thought that Frostbite 3 was next-gen ready?After reading so many articles on N4G about how PS3/360 was holding them back.Now its confirm that it wasn't the hardware but the developers.

I blame both EA and DICE for the problems that BF4 is going through.People we be really dumb if they really think DICE had nothing to do with the state of this game at release.

Not defending it, but this is one of the first game engines that can actually take advantage of more than just a few cores. I don't think most people here even know what thread safe is, he gave reasons not just excuses.

I'm not reading the article but I highly doubt it says "Because EA is jealous of COD's money so they made us rush to release a game that wasn't ready" or something to similar effect.

Anything other than that is a bold-faced lie.

Because you wanted to get it out before the end of the year because your sales would have sucked otherwise.

Because DICE were playing real life version of their game mode "rush" agaisnt Activision and won. Except it cost gamers millions of dollars of regret in the process and Activision actually set off the last mcom at 5 tickets remain and won.

I'll be honest here. I could care less about why. I want to know when. When will it be fixed?

Hell, Destiny had a release window of spring 2014 and now its late summer / early fall 2014. I'm guessing Watch Dogs needed more time as well for testing. As much as the consumer hates having to wait. The consumer hates wasting money on broken products more.

If something needs more testing then do it. Rushing something out the door will always cost more later, and I'm not just talking about money.

Crashes are one thing... this hit detection and "lag" is ridiculous, it wasn't present in BF3 to anywhere near the degree to which it infects every corner of BF4.

I was only going to boycott the DLC, but unless they "fix" this new, netcode, or whatever to bring it in line with BF3 and other FPSs, this WILL be my last BF game until they regain my confidence in them.

I already ditched CoD years ago, since after MoD war 2, not afraid of ditching BF either, sad as it would be to have to.

Was this written by a high school kid? "He explains that the coding is very different from BF3 (Frostbite 2) and BF4 (Frostbite 3) and that one of the reasons for the big changes are that they want to use the new hardware better by squeezing out the maximum capacity of multi-core PCs and nextgen-consoles." What?

Eh, even the best testing can't catch crazy bugs. Like the one from Killzone 3 which only happened every 200 times a specific game combination was chosen from the lobby.

The user claims that they were not prepared for all the issues with Battlefield 4, and that no one EA or DICE has ever said “F*ck it, let’s release it anyway.”

Annnnd yet they did exactly that with the release. Sounds like a bunch of excuses for rushing a game that they thought could be fixed with early patches.

This anonymous person claiming to be a Dice employee is essentially blaming BF4's launch disasters on Dice. We've already had an anonymous person claiming to be a Dice employee blame BF4's issues on EA forcing Dice to release the game unfinished.

So who to believe here? I think it's far more likely that EA's to blame. This new anonymous person is probably someone from EA.

Tbh I'm enjoying it, had a few crashes... but that's it. It is bad how other players have suffered. Just my personal experience hasn't been too bad...

So the timing is off due to the math in the programming? So fix your math. Developers want to make a game using one generic code for all systems. If said systems are different for receiving code then it requires more coding for those systems. This is what bothers me. The developers cry that they want more money for their games, but yet are too lazy to give proper code to each individual system. Put in the work and effort to produce a good game for each individual system instead of using one set of code templates across all systems and then maybe you can ask for more money.