It's EA, they've got time to shoot themselves in the foot multiple times before full release. If it gets more attention, you know the execs are going to start sticking their head into more doors.

the game looks amazing. reminds me of bf3. if they can make a modern bf3 game then thatll be amazing. my hope now is that its not on old hardware like ps4 xbox one or switch 1 or 2 and itll only be on ps5, pc, xbox series x. i wonder what the final version of this new bf game will look on my ps5 pro or my pc. hopefully ill get into alpha build even though the queue says over 100 thousand ahead

It might easily beat these past years Call of Duty that's for sure. No matter what.

They should give us an open beta playtest

That's not a good analogy at all. Regardless of athletes moving from team to team, they're still playing the same sport. BF is unlike any other FPS, so not having any experience creating the good BF games is actually a big deal. Have the Yankees swap out their entire roster for golfers or basketball players and let me know if they're still a great baseball team.

There is something seriously flawed with your logic, going by that, Veilguard should have been a 10m+ selling masterpiece because Bioware and we all know how that turned out.

I'm no expert on game development but whenever I watch end-game credits there always a bunch of other remote companies involved, many of which are external.
Many years ago I worked for a company that did localization for xbox games. We weren't based in Redmond.

The fragmentation has been a big issue with Ubisoft games. Different standards of quality, polish, design, etc, at the different studios.

Someone didn't read the article.

TBF - the developer does say that next month they are releasing the largest map they have released in a Battlefield yet in Golmud. (4x the size of Mirak Valley)

And then in July comes Tsuru Reef (even larger) which I actually think looks really sick

I couldn't agree less with you actually.
EA hav3 listened to the people before releasing this B6 game.
It plays much better and more battlefield like than the past 3 installments.
Personally, it's not bigger maps this game needs. They've dropped the player count which is a great compromise imo.
Bigger maps with only 32 v 32 means more running around doing nothing.
Keep the new maps coming & aiming for old style battlefield games and it's a win win for me.

I remember in BF Hardline the server browser didn’t have any dedicated DLC maps, and the entire player base fell off accordingly. When people pay good money for DLC maps, they want to be able to actually play them, and that means dedicated DLC ONLY servers must be programmed into the server browser by the devs.

EA should do what Bungie did for Halo 2 in 2005. When Bungie basically invented DLC maps for online matchmaking they were smart enough to realize it could split the community. DLC maps had DEDICATED PLAYLISTS so players who spent good money on the DLC could hop right into matches. Later, the DLC maps became free and also became a MANDATORY DOWNLOAD for everyone so that the DLC maps could be integrated into all standard playlists. This prevented the game from dying and the community from being fractured.