There aren’t that many people that want a “realism” MODE.
I think you’re mistaking people that want the THEME of the game to be more realistic. As in they want more people using bolt-action rifles, less people using automatic weapons, LMGs to be primarily mounted on bipods, etc.
There have been very few people so far on these forums that have suggested what you’re suggesting right now - and I’ve been here since the first hour they put this forum up.
And I don’t know what you’re talking about saying RO2 has a huge playerbase, because I regularly play it as well (AND ARMA 3), and just looking at the Steam charts I can tell you right now that the average playercount for the month of May was just over ONE THOUSAND players.
That’s not a huge playerbase at all.
And in the past 30 days, the average player count for ARMA 3 was only just over 24,000 players.
BF4 has 100,000+ daily players and it’s literally JUST as old as ARMA 3. So I don’t know where those “huge” playerbases are, but they’re definitely not migrating to BF, because it’s nothing like those two games at all, no matter what game mode you play.
DICE is not making a big mistake by not including “realism” mode. They haven’t included it thus far, and their games still make hundreds of millions of dollars.
I’m telling you - it wouldn’t be anywhere near as popular as you’re making it out to be. Believe it or not - the majority of Arcade Shooter fans aren’t that in to realistic shooters. You can simply look around these forums and see the majority response to people wanting “more realism” in these games.