It says something when a paid influencer essentially throws in the towel. The problems with Frostbite is just a symptom of the problem: which is the culture of accepting mediocrity and sloppiness as the norm. No amount of time will allow for a quality product if the culture is broken.
This all goes back to EA’s determination to improve profitability by cutting costs, not great but good enough now seems to be the standard EA games have to meet. Does anyone here think DICE is ever going to have the budget to redo this clunky, awkward UI? Would it really be taking this long to figure out why the network performance has become worse instead of better if BFV was more than a back-burner project at DICE, with most of the devs now working on future games? Assembly-line games with a high tolerance for poor design and bugs seems to be what we should expect from now on.
The odds that I will buy BF6 grow increasingly unlikely, BFV is simply too big of a warning for me to give EA another chance to sell me an unfinished, buggy, cheat-infested game with mediocre technical performance and a trickle of new content. Fool me once…
I’ve been fooled about 4 times or more and kept coming back. BFV was definitely that straw. That other game coming out soon has my attention, and even perhaps my money at this point. 50 vs 50, yes please.
The Influencers are the reason BFV is the way it is. They all are Infantry only players that wanted more Hardcore mechanics and skill. They wanted DICE not to split the player base with Premium.
What we got is more Infantry focused gameplay and to hardcore and it ran off tons of players. What we got was a Live Service game but spoon fed content instead of expansions.
And now they are all Mad. They created this Mess and they should own it.
So a flash trailer, some 2v2 footage because the bigger modes crashed the demo server and a promise from COD that the game is being optimized for the PC. No footage of 50v50 and the game is out in 4 months built on a new engine..
Littery Most of everyone in battlefield throw in towel also Jackfrag doesn’t care if there paying him or not, he now trying get in Pubg streamer boat and the new CoD, biggest issue than that is, amount player and battlefield player lost from the game bigger number compared too 1 YouTuber.
This new systemic damage to tanks was my last straw. I’m not the sit way back camper type and implementing it zapped the fun out of pushing and joining the fray.
They ruined what everyone who was hoping for in a WW2 game right from the first trailer. And it never recovered.
Finally. Maybe its possible to discuss Battlefield again without hearing: Jackfrags says… Implying hes opinion is so much more correct than all the other players who have played this franchise since BF1942 when the truth has always been that he was paid to say what he did.
Hes been nothing but a defender of all the “culture of accepting mediocrity and sloppiness as the norm” since the day I first heard his name pop up a long time a go.
People in general should stop listening to paid influencers like they are some sort of messiah and instead make up your own mind based on your own experience.
Games were more solid when the devs had a vision and launched the completed implementation of that vision. Now they have marketing, influencers and what not but no solid games.
Blaming the influencers for why BFV is the way it is, yet these same influencers were active just one BF game ago when the forum heralded BF1 released, were active when BF4, and BF3 were released. When DICE releases a flop, it seems some people can’t help but perform mental gymnastics to tie gameplay decisions to some crude idea that some BF youtuber said in some video, at some point in time, while ignoring EVERYTHING else wrong with this game not relating to gameplay. Makes sense why community managers stick to reading as opposed to delving into an actual discussion on how to make BF better. Don’t listen to, “them”, listen to “us”, “we” know battlefield, “they” don’t. That sums up the “feedback” you’ll get from here, no real analysis whatsoever. A wall could give better feedback since it isn’t sentient enough to be subject to confirmation bias on steroids.
It’s food for thought though. No Dev team should ever be influenced by YouTubers. They should sail their own course, for better or worse.
When they wanted to improve the ttk/ttd they should have kept on trying, not bending the knee after 1 week.