Battlefield 4 had major issues at launch in 2013, but you shouldn't expect the next installment in the series--2015's Battlefield Hardline--to run into the same problems. In a new interview, Hardline creative director Ian Milham of Visceral Games laid out the reasons why the game "will work" at launch come early next year.
"What you're basically asking is, 'Is your game going to work?' and the answer is yes, it's gonna work," Milham told GameRevolution. "We actually started on this more than a year before Battlefield 4 came out. We've been working with the DICE guys for a long time; some of our engineering work is actually in Battlefield 4 and things they've been doing since then."
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.
This is the 5th article I have seen about BF:Hardline over the past 24 hours. It looks like EA is doing their damage control sit-downs to drum up support.
These devs can ty and assure me as much as they want, NO WAY am I buying BF:Hardline at launch
I'm never pre-ordering ANY game again whatsoever.
Yeah I've heard that before, and yet every time a BF game releases it's riddled with problems. BF4 was worse than any other, sure, but no BF game this past generation has launched in an acceptable state.
Less talking more proving... Never getting my money again regardless!