I have had this thought for awhile now and couldn’t put my finger on the changes to BF and it’s relation to the competition in the FPS market until now. I am aware that popularity typically steers the trends in video games and that’s seen in a lot of titles. The addition of Battle royale and attrition system shows that battlefield would rather chase the market instead of sticking with what made it popular in the first place, combined arms warfare on large maps.
My question for you guys is does this game want to be a tactical or arcade shooter? I honestly think that the game is having an identity crisis that might hurt it at launch.
Yes, the game is definitely having an identity crisis. That’s obvious to any reasonable person. It also should be obvious that you can’t sit on many chairs the same time, trying to please old fans, new fans and potential newcomers. Unfortunately it’s too late to change things.
Battlefield became an arcade game with battlefield 1. So it’s not like BFV is the game where it all turns into an arcade game. If anything, i feel like the franchise with BFV is distancing itself, or at least trying to distance itself from the arcade gamestyle of BF1.
Somehow everyone around me is playing some kind of battleroyal, the interesting thing is, that most of them dont look forward to play another battleroyal game. They want a new BF like they are used to play. They even wont play the COD beta, because it featured COD BR.
With this in mind i would give the developers the suggestion to not overrate the BF Firestorm.
Battlefield has never been a MILSIM, it’s always been an arcade team based game, it was just on the more serious side of that equation than COD which was more like the old school arena shooters like Quake. Frankly I find MILSIMs boring, if I want to walk forever to an objective while thinking this sucks I’ll go back into the Army. Battlefield’s always given me that nice fun combined arms feel with a healthy doze of authenticity without the drudgery of games like Arma.
I wonder if Firestorm and regular will share the same XP and Weapon progression, so if you use a weapon in Firestorm you will still gain XP for it like in regular multiplayer (if that makes sense).
Not that I will really play Firestorm, as I am really bad at shooters.
Also for a business to stay successful and competitive one must look at trends and either follow the trends or be innovating. You can be the same thing over and over or else you will fail.
The nice thing is they are keeping the two games separate…you want classic battlefield you still have it. You want royale, you can now play it with a BF twist.
EVERY game is chasing Fortnite right now. Why? Because Fortnite is making WAAAAY more money than anyone else. Kind of a silly comment to even make because it’s what happens ALL THE TIME. Game developers will always be chasing the games that are the most successful. Same thing happened with Super Mario Bros. back in the 80’s. No different today.
OP if you’re asking whether Battlefield is now a highly-processed product then yes it is. The brand is Battlefield but some people are saying that the game itself is far from what they have come to expect.
As far as influence from other games such as Fortnite is concerned Battlefield does now come in a variety of flavours to suit all tastes.
What EA Dice doesn’t seem to understand is that the flavour has to be relevant to the product because nobody wants a chocolate flavoured sausage.
This is what happens when you listen to a million people on Reddit and the followers of large youtubers. They should make a game with zero input from anyone in the community and see where they land. I understand trying to please large groups from all sides but it clearly isn’t working.
Why are people suprised that they are getting into the br mode? I always thought the gun and gameplay would fit pretty well for a br mode anyway. It’s a massively popular market that is probably not that hard for them to jump into, in comparison to the potential cash flow it could produce.
If a dev wants to chase Fortnite they should make a new IP. It just does not work with existing IP owned by someone else (Star Wars) or an actual historical event (WW2).
They could have made BC3 and done the whole “selling skins funds future development” thing.
But, they didn’t. They screwed up. And im getting closer each day to cancelling my pre-order. I was also going to buy it for my buddy with whom I’ve been playing BF games since 2002. He doesn’t really want it and I can’t believe it would be possible for me not to get BF but… its getting there. What a shame, I wonder if that WW3 game is really going to happen. Sigh, night is fallen on BF, yet another victim of EA and DICE.