BFV dedicated servers

Battlefield V General Discussion
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You’re late to the party mate :pensive:

Already aboned all hope again once I saw Ali “Soon” Hassoon being the one person who is in charge on this.

But the gamechangers aren’t helping, the EA stock not crashing is not helping, the fact that Live Service is the mainstream business model is not helping and the sheer fact that EA compares literally all their titles to FIFA is not helping.

I am expecting the same right now as what has happened with Medal of Honor a franchise that in fact was quite healthy but not to the likings of EA.

If BF “6” does not meet the expectations then the franchise will be cancelled on order of EA. As simple as that, they will think (read assume) that people have lost interest despite that likely to be untrue.

There is also this simple issue that many companies now have that is as follows

Investmens = decreased profits for a while with high risk and unknown reward. Companies are no longer willing to take huge gambles. The Apex Legends article about the development proves that. EA did not want to invest into Apex as they simply did not see how that game would be a succes. Respawn Entertainment was certain of what they were doing and here we are, it worked. They pulled it off. How did EA respond? Within a week there was an EA backed tournament on Twitch. EA is now literally throwing money at it. Even Anthem is already being ignored by EA as it failed already.

BFV and Anthem, two major titles that need post-launch fixing to bring the game to the state it should have been at launch.

Apex, where EA was told to F off and just invest and let Respawn Entertainment do their thing: no post launch fixing needed, just some bug/issue/balancing fixing that can be deemed minor.

The difference? BFV and Anthem have EA pressure on release dates and fiscal years they have to launch in.

Apex had no pressure at all.

The result speaks for itself.

Then we have the fact how EA treats development studios. It starts with introducing more and more EA developers into the studios they own or bought. After a few years the core developers of those studios are no longer happy and leave, after that EA closes the studio and moves the developers who sticked and those who were introduced into the studio in question back into EA itself. Next step, repeat process.

Which brings me to the amount of DICE devs from the Stockholm office that are leaving. Here is something more simple going on. In Stockholm a lot of development studios have made their way. For a long time DICE was the only developer with potential and size. Now there is more choice, even Ubisoft has an office there now. Result? Devs from DICE leave to simply go a new way, have a new fresh experience. For some ofcourse, the whole EA strategy may be a thing but that won’t be said out loudly of course.

842

@HonorguyXNL

An aside, Axelrod has been fighting this fight since before BF1 released. Not late to party, just frustrated by it.

843

I don’t know about you, but this is my last Battlefield game, my last EA game.

Unless dice and EA want to pucker up and kiss my and apologize.

844

It’s a complete shame . BFV is a good game . EA is an arrogant company . The management should all be removed . They have no clue how to run a business . WHY would you spend millions of dollars developing a game with no vision for the future of this game . The garbage roll out numbers are embarrassing . I have said this before , if you did it right you could be selling this game for 100.00 a copy and it would be selling right now . What’s it selling for now 9.99 ? You don’t introduce a new product to sell for one day . I have 40 or so guys in my group who did not buy this game , no private servers . I can’t imagine how many other groups have a similar number .

A lot of guys/gals on here are not going to buy BF6 . EA your business strategy stinks .

845

I think ea wants to kill off the Battlefield franchise . It’s either that or they want to alienate themselves from players by driving them away. I not sure which it is.

Either way, no real dedicated servers will get ea both.

846

It has been so frustrating to push people to play BFV-it needs more content, and the fact that some people do not want to play only in official servers anymore. Server rentals could fix the situation but it should come asap…I have lost my faith about server rentals…
This is going to a bit sidetrack, but Squad CQ was great (only 3 maps though) and it was removed, Rush is coming only for 2 weeks (unless they extend it) and apparently it has also 3 maps only.
People are playing games like Anthem, Apex instead.

847

I agree with you. But hey, you get free dlc at least.

Bf4 had 33 maps to play on.
BF4 had real dedicated servers
BF4 had more players than BF1
Bf 4 you had to pay to get quality and content.

You get what you pay for.
Bf4 $120 with everything
BF5 is $30 for practically nothing.

I have money to spend. Let me spend it how I want. I want a good game with more than 8 maps at launch and I have no problem spending $100 a month on real 3rd party admin controlled game servers with a server browser that allows players to find my server.

I have been waiting for going on 3 years now as a lot of other players are. If you make it, I will buy it. Others will too. Maybe more than the mere 7 miking that regret buying bf5 and the even less that will buy the next Battlefield Title.

848

EA’s only concern is roll out numbers . They are discounting for more numbers at this point . They went into this game with no plan . I’m starting to think they have interns working for free on this game . That would make sense .

849

I don’t think EA wants to kill Battlefield off. That wouldn’t make business sense. I believe they’re morphing BF into a more casual shooter that isn’t going to have the polish of previous games. Every year they spit out a half-baked game for $59.99 that appeals to the casual couch gamer. Within 8-10 months, most players are bored and ready to move on to the next BF game. They’re probably crunching the numbers now to see if it’s worthwhile to kill off PC so they don’t have to deal with the cheats or a RSP. All they have to do is make their future games have native M/K support on consoles and BF will become a casual shooter. It will generate enough $$$ to make the shareholders happy.

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I know :slight_smile: we al remember each other I believe, at least I do. First time I came across @Axlerod1 was august 2016.

Not clear for me yet as it simply depends on what the game is going to bring and what setting it will be. I dislike futuristic settings big-time and as such I only got 2142 for collection and disliked the last BF4 DLC with all that laser stuff.

IMO the Live Service has killed BFV but as you said and I agree, the lack of dedicated servers did the most work. I still think that BFV would’ve been more playable despite the lack of content if communities had their go.

Ever since the launch of BFV I also have the feeling that EA is actively trying to kill the Franchise. Actually, the whole marketing campaign already gave me that feeling. Not a single business in their right mind would’ve done such a bad job on this game at the marketing as EA did. Even a company that has no clue how to do marketing would’ve done it better. Heck, even a company that did nothing to market at all would’ve done better.

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EA are pushing their subscription base business model so have no need to rely on a “big money” title release, if it fails its not a problem.
BF1 and the lack of community base focus lost my interest in the future of the Battlefield series, I didn’t buy BFV and probably wont at this stage, out of over 100 members in our community less then 10 got BF1 even less have BFV …

852

To add to EA’s troubles, Anthem is reported to be bricking some consoles.

853

What ever EA’s reasoning is, after the BF1 failure, I will not buy anymore EA titles. I won’t even play EA’s free to play game.

When EA can make a game that is fun to play, looks good and can support all my friends and admins then I may come back.

Until such time, to me it looks like the only way EA can get people to play their games is to go with free to play. Apex Legends has 50 million downloads now.
Has not proven to have made any money yet but they at have have people downloading their game.

854

Unfortunately, that’s the problem and EA know it..They know that there’s a large core loyal group of gamers no matter what you do they will keep on coming back on hope or a half baked promise with double meaning that may or will lead to nowhere..

In saying that I truly believe that now even the most loyal BF gamers patience’s is wearing thin and is not even looking forward to whats at offer in the future because of the predictability of this franchise.

855

https://twitter.com/BFBulletin/status/1105203754658344960

Lets wait and see. ..

856

Its got to go back to 3rd party rental server companies. DICE fubar’d it on BF1.

857

It would be astonishing to get 3rd party rentals back. It’s too astounding to even let myself think about, because of the potential disappointment of it not happening.

858

If this doesn’t happen , the pc end of Battlefield will die out . Might even be too late for this game .

859

DICE had a meeting to discuss when they convene for another meeting to determine how they will communicate to the community that we’ve heard you on things which we cannot discuss at this time. More to come. Exciting!

860

Exactly. Look for more news about it in a few months.