EA was adamant.

When I first heard 2 hot FPS titles are being released in the same window published by the SAME company, my business senses obviously said that one game had to be delayed. We knew it wasn't going to be BF because of unusually long dev cycle and usual holiday launch,...So it had to be Titanfall2 which prolly will release in March-2017.

But what EA said maybe surprised not just me, but everyone who understands these things. I am guessing this decision was solidified after the bad reception of CODIW, and EA said we should get Titanfall too in this release window since (whatever small/big) CODIW fans who doesn't like BF1 can flock to Titanfall2.

But I think the change in ideology from the first game, and the fear of being too different made Titanfall2 a lesser of a game than its predecessor. Added to this must be EA saying they had to strike the COD hammer while it is hot. My gaming hat says delay Titanfall2,...but again I know my business hat is saying, Respawn and EA will release this game in this same state. (even though it will hurt EA, they're risking something and are being adamant about it.)

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IIRC, DICE didn't worked on Hardline. It was mainly handled by the Dead Space Dev Team.
The mostly core DICE team was still working on BF1 from Oct 2013.

They need to fix the damage output from anti titan guns to titans they do little to no damage and titans need to do more damage to titans and I would call it's a great game. Until that's fixed I just played the pilot on mode.

I still don't understand why EA is releasing this game at the same time as Battlefield. Its like they want this to fail.

There was nothing wrong with the first one. Just improve upon what made the first game so fun. No need to overhaul the whole damn game.

It's just bad business for EA to release these two AAA FPS games in the same holiday season

i couldn't agree more. i just don't understand what EA is thinking at the moment. give BF1 all the marketing than launch TF2 in February 2017 and give it full support. TF2 isn't ready to launch and needs more time

TF2 needs more development time. BF1 is coming before and COD is coming after it and TF2 will be lost in shuffle

people who have played it are giving it bad opinions and saying things like it feels very different from first and not in a good way isn't gonna help TF2. i can already see many 7.5 out of 10 while the game has the potential to be one of the better shooters

take this feedback/complaints and make proper improvements/adjustments

but knwoing EA it's gonna come in october and will very likely not live up to critical/commercial success that EA expects

I played a lot of Titanfall on the 360 when it first came out and really enjoyed it, so I was really looking forward to this. But the first tech test felt very different to me and I didn't enjoy it at all.It did not feel like the game I played 2 years ago. I've heard from a lot of people who like the changes and new modes, but I don't belong to that group ...so I'll be sticking with overwatch this fall.

Tfall 2 was great in the second weekend after they fixed some of the issues fans complained about after weekend 1.

Better idea. Cancel Titanfall 2,scrap the franchise and put Respawn on a new FPS project like a new Black or Singularity

I was impressed with Titanfall 2. It's odd how some would have this game delayed, when anyone with a bit of common sense knows this will have less launch issues than BF1.

Titanfall 2 felt very much like the last one

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They shouldn't release it against BF and CoD. It'll get lost amongst those two. I'm happy for it to be delayed in order to give it a chance. I really enjoyed the first Titanfall.

I'm going to be honest after playing Battlefield 1 I actually really miss Titanfall. This is probably not a popular opinion but the battlefield formula starting to feel old this feels like a reskin. I don't know I think I'm just tired of all multiplayer games looking for something new Titanfall seems to be to me something different. I feel depressed all these games coming out all feel the same nothing original.

I know they are testing servers but with the game so close to launch why is it the best thing they had to offer was an alpha? Probably should have been a beta at this point unless EA is pushing Respawn and they didn't have time to put one together? Whatever the case I am a little concerned about the game and I was a big fan of the first one (Gen 9), I just want it to be a successful game.

I am not a big fan of the first game... I tried since I wasn't finding anything to play on Xbox One when I did own the console but the multiplayer only focus (which wasn't amazing to begin with) really killed the game. It was cool to hear they were going with a full campaign this go around but in reality it feels like it was just tacked on and that from what I did play in the beta that the multiplayer is even more average. Unless there is some dramatic change this will be the last game in the series.

I'll choose Titanfall 2 over Battlefield 1 and CoD infinite any day of the week

I was debating between TF2 and BF1 and will definitely get BF1. The fun and novelty of TF wore off quickly from the first game, and now with the beta, I got bored after one match.

I have one major complaint with the game, but it unfortunately is a game breaker for me. The game is just boring. Nothing interesting happens. There we full 2 minute segments in every game I played where literally nothing happens. 10 players isn't ebough, and adding targets (ai grunts) for me to shoot at doesn't really help if they pose literally no threat.

I was a fan of the first one. At this point I dont care if this gets delayed... or even released. Theyve decided to go in a different direction and thats OK, but I'm not on board.

It's fine let them release it already , beside they are Respawn they can fix it .

Needs more than a delay. Needs to be taken back to code and started over again. I hate what they have done to what was a really good game game in Titanfall 1. All they had to do for TF 2 was a campaign and more customization and they would've been sweet but they changed the core mechanics of the game (for some unknown stupid reason) and have made it a CoD clone. God damn it Respawn, u had 1 job

Nah sad thing is I think TF2 is actually better than BF1 from the betas I've played.

I have to admit, they tweaks to the controls/movement impressed me. It finally felt more like the original. The first tech weekend was terrible and I couldn't understand the changes to the movement, but it appears as if they went back and made it more like the original. I think it is good to launch, should have had it come out in September as opposed to end of October.

I didn't enjoy the first tech test it was way to slow. But I enjoyed it a lot the second weekend. I still play the first one everyday and now I miss the grapple lol

I've enjoyed both tech tests. BF1 on the other hand, I still haven't got into a match

Tell me again how the multiplatform strategy was supposed to fix everything. Look at your results and compare them to Nintendo, which keeps thriving with exclusives. Your loyal fans are gone. And let’s not forget the pile of IPs you purchased only to let them rot.

The worst thing is this is down from last years numbers/expectations which was down from the previous years numbers/expectations. You think about how long “down” has been a consistent part of the communication and you realize those subscriptions are what’s holding that boat together. The price cut of gamespass is still a price raise in a string of price raises. They are trying to use players to offset the missing revenue. Now call of duty is out of gamespass, which is literally WHY they bought the company. To draw people to the subscription. They realized they missed a boatload of money and that wasn’t sustainable. Now you pay for it like you would have if they never bought the company… so why buy the company? Mind you those billions still need to be paid back. Yeah it gives you a chance to say we make the biggest FPS… but the internal conversations must be brutal at high level on topics that really matter. Like revenue. Profitability. And ROI for the shopping spree.

Is this like the 10th quarter in a row they're down 33% on hardware how is that even mathematically possible. You would think their mediocrity would Plateau