One or two servers WORLDWIDE have players, and not always, very sad to see how this game has died.
BF1 Servers are DEAD, they should revive the game by making it FREE!!
There’s a real thought, why don’t they just give the game away for free?
It will be like a test for EA/Dice to see if there were any players willing to play it for free at this point, rather than buy it when not a single server is available.
IMO they can get all kinds of valuable data from such a move and even market the next title or promote upcoming releases with this FREE for all move. Just a penny for your thoughts.
I’ve logged on to BF1 on a Thursday evening 8:00 PM Eastern time USA. ( XBox1. Conquest Mode.)
The servers were almost completely empty. I was shocked to see no one playing! I got depressed that my favorite online game was on it’s way out.
The auto game matching never works, so I have to manually select my own server…been a few weeks since I last check to see if it was picking up at all.
Sometimes I feel videogames as a whole are in a lull. Not much online activity, and not much in the way of new A list games being released. Plus games are so complex, they are in 3 year cycles it seems.
**Since August I’ve had one single instance where I could find no servers for Operations - a Tuesday, pre-corona virus, waiting at home for a plumber to arrive, it was 8:30 in the morning.
Besides that little traumatic experience, I have had no problems at all finding servers for what is in fact not even the most popular mode, Ops.
Anybody who says the game is dead is either living somewhere very remote or their search settings are screwed up.
One would think, that as you go to the official BF1 forum to complain of a completely dead game and you see said forum being alive and active, that some sort of dime would drop.
US East Coast plenty of servers here! Never use quick match, been broken for years. Also check your search parameters and set for 0 ppl, that will show you all available servers. Some game modes are tough to find, but Conquest, TDM, and Operations campaign should be available.
The game is more than active enough to have a full game every time you want to play in Europe.
But even if it wasn’t; making the game free is no solution.
The game was already 50% off three months after release
The game has been sale many times after that
The game is €20 now with the introduction on Steam
The game is free to play for players with Origin Access
Everyone who ever wanted to play Battlefield 1 will have the game by now. And besides that; if you can make a new account for free, it’s even more inviting for people to start cheating.
There’s really nothing to gain for EA by making the game free. That’s not to say they won’t ever, but it’s highly unlikely. Of course there’s been a few rumors that the next Battlefield may be free to play. I’ve never been a fan of that model though, as it usually pay to win.
It’s dead on PC. One or two servers at most, that is DEAD in the population of the WORLD!!!
They would give the game away for free, but charge for content, and promote future titles while gathering valuable data for their sacrifice. It’s not a loss, it’s actually a way to get the most out of a old game… smart to give the base game away for free for a limited time to boost the game sales and liven up the servers.
What if I told you… and get this right: That EA doesn’t want an old game like Battlefield 1 to survive?
EA wants you to buy the newest title that’s out and not linger around on old titles like 3, 4 and 1. That’s why they conveniently announce that they’re dropping support (content wise) right before the next BF title comes out. For example:
BF1 Monthly updates were stopped in June 2018 just as BFV was announced.
Very recently, BFV’s content updates were stopped this month (June 2020) in preparation for the announcement of the next Battlefield title, whatever it may be.
Point is, there’s very little money to be made if at all when people linger around in old sunset games. I’m not saying it’s fair, it’s just the way it is.
Yep. They’ve also given away the DLCs and Premium for BF1 in the past. They even gave away BF1 itself on Xbox a little while back (this might have just been on Xbox though).
Why did you do it Battlefield 1 forum users? why do you hate women so much you refuse to play Battlefield V? Why are you so racist against women to play BFV? WHY WHY WHY! - Dice.
