I’m sure most of you have read this statement. I would just like to say that I will not be buying Battlefield 5 because I believe It will be garbage just like the new Battlefront games. “Accept It or don’t buy It” sounds like they don’t want people to buy a game they will not enjoy. That being said, I’ve been playing Battlefield since Battlefield 2 on the original Xbox. When I first started playing, I was hooked. It was such an amazing experience with so many epic moments.
I’ve played and thoroughly enjoyed the Bad Company series, along with BF 3 and BF 4. Battlefield Hardline was okay, not quite as good as BF 4. I refused to buy Battlefield 1 for many reasons, mainly because It was not a good game. It felt like It was made just because they could. It felt like no one wanted a world war 1 game, and I was right. BF 1 Is lacking In so many aspects, I wouldn’t play It, even If It was free. With Battlefield V/5 coming out, I feel the same way, though there Is many more problems with this new game.
Of all the Battlefield games I’ve played, Including BF 1943. I’ve never been told, “Accept It or don’t buy It”. Had that statement never been said, I would’ve at least considered playing Battlefield 5. It’s sad how a developer that has made many great games, has now become just like call of duty or some other sell out. Instead of making their hardcore fans excited and wanting to play their games, they use their opinions to let everyone know they’re about to release another awful game.
I must be somewhat thankful, now I don’t have to waste $60+ on a game that doesn’t even care about the people who play It. Most of my friends enjoy playing Battlefield together, though I guess we’ll be playing more BF 4 until something good comes out. I had high hopes for BF 5, funny how fast things can change. I will not be supporting BF 5 at all. If you have anything you would like to add or comment to my post, you’re more than welcome. Is there anyone else who feels the same, or similar?
BF 1 is a great game. Your loss for not playing it. And really nobody cares whether you buy BF V or not. But thanks for stopping by after all these years.
They’re absolutely right when they say “accept it or don’t buy the game”.
Nobody is forcing anybody to purchase the game, And if there is something you dislike about V, There are always other games you can play to fill any voids that V has left, In your opinion.
People seem to not realise how difficult it is for Devs and Publishers alike to create title after title with increasing levels of complexity and try to bring something new to the table without completely alienating the current userbase.
These people working day in and day out for 2 years or more are likely to be working at the studio doing 12+ hour workdays 6 days a week.
On top of that there’s the vfx artists, Audio designers, story writers for the campaign, voice actors, motion capture actors for things like barrel rolling through windows, map designers, scouting real life locations from the war and studying old images and video shot in those locations, creating the uniforms and ensuring the colours match the same that was used in the war.
And that’s BEFORE the game is installed on our systems.
Then we have patches, weapon balancing updates, content and feature updates, new game modes, bugfixing, RSP maintenance and so on.
IMHO They should defend the products they spend years making more often.
People are FAR too critical of games development these days.
Don’t worry you aren’t gonna miss anything, microtransactions won’t feed the game, and with play to win gone from DICE, the game won’t have enough fuel to supply the game what it deserves
“accept it or don’t buy” makes it sound like they give 0 cares in the world about the community. I dislike almost all I see about the upcoming game, but my desire to play a WWII game made by DICE may see me get the game.
I hate the thought of giving money to EA, and BFV looks bad, but I just don’t know.
Isn’t that consumerism right there? Don’t like it, don’t buy it. I don’t think there’s any other way to sugarcoat it.
The game is 4 months away from release, and if the devs tried to pander to everyone’s expectations, the game would be in perpetual alpha stage.
And it really isn’t fair to the devs to say they aren’t listening to the community when they did away with Premium, restructured the classes, added cosmetics (which has been requested by the community for years), got rid of RBD and suppression, and a whole slew of other improvements.
Sure they can say “accept it or don’t buy the game” but why?
I think a good way to look at this is to say okay Patrick Söderlund let’s plunk you down in front of a share holder of EA and have you explain to them how “Accept it or don’t buy the game” is delivering share holder value. My guess is he’s not going to be able to come up with a great reply there. But okay maybe this goes beyond share holders. This is a moral imperative. We want to make a statement about diversity. Why in the world then would you choose to do it in a ww2 game? And why in the world do it in your main series instead of your side series which is known for more creative liberties. Imagine if he tried that convo about his daughter in front of share holders. If I was a share holder (I am not) I would probably say something to the effect of “So let me make sure I understand this right. Not only have I invested in your company but now I also need to help raise your daughter too because you can’t own up? All right Mr. Söderlund. Here’s what you tell your daughter. You tell her daddy messed up. You tell her that when DICE came to him and said we’d like to include the option for players to pick female characters in multiplayer with no respect to their actual representation in the war, daddy signed off on it when it should have been plain as day that this would evoke a backlash from people puzzled why you would make a relatively serious looking and sounding ww2 game and then make a design decision that runs full on against the theme you’ve setup. You tell her that while there were plenty of opportunities to include female soldiers in the game in a manner that reflected their participation in the war, daddy decided to just sign off on the most haphazard approach. You also tell her that in retrospect if daddy was inclined to make a progressive political statement with his game he would have been better off depicting the plight of civilians and finding a way to make them playable. Talk about an underrepresented class of people in wartime games. Virtually no one has tackled that. But finally and most importantly apologize to her. Tell her that this completely foreseeable and preventable situation has served as a recruiting tool for far and alt right groups that absolutely didn’t need a company as big as ours committing an unforced error.”
And another messed up part of this is that some of these people working those 12 hour days might end up losing bonus money if they are based on sales that may be lost due to this fiasco.
Responsible leadership would have said it makes about as much sense to allow players to have over representation of one gender in this game than it does having a women’s NCAA game with half men. They would have said hey this is a totally laudable intention but there is a proper way we can do this. Instead it seemed like everyone with criticism was lumped into the toxic misogynistic category and dismissed out of hand. I won’t get buried in politics here but suffice to say that I lean very hard in the opposite direction of the groups that are usually associated with those hateful orientations which makes it all the more frustrating to hear DICE/EA leadership’s response to this.
Hasn’t this always been a thing with most stuff we buy? No one is putting a gun to your head, you can just skip it like most of my online friends skippedBF1.
The worst statement you can give to your customers. If I’m that guy’s boss I’d fire him. I’m trying to sell my product, saying “accept it or don’t buy it” is againt every logic in marketing.
It’s not the statement that bothers me but rather the reasoning behind the statement. I admire a company that is willing to tell undesirable customers to shove off but it has to be for the right reasons.
Dear Mister Dev, for the record…i accept it and i buy it! Even when i know that this game can be buffed/nerfed and patched to oblivion. Don’t knock it till you try it. And even when this game disappoint me afterwards, it still look great on my shelf with the rest of my BF games.
This goes to you, and others with similar opinions: Yes, but what they are saying, is translated like this: “We don’t give a BLEEP what you; our Vets, Our loyal Community/Fanbase think! Yes, the ones who have made it possible to get to where we are today! We have an Agenda to push! Now be gone yee uneducated sexists!”