All titles drop off until you are left with a core group of players who simply enjoy the game for what it is. There are still thousands of players on BF3, BF4 and SWBF which will comprise of a community who enjoy the basic game play of each title.
Hopefully the RSP gets sorted out early in the New Year, this will help to strengthen the BF1 gaming community.
There was double the amount of players on line with BF4 at this time when it was released. Pretty sad BF1 only has this number at one time since its release.
Another fun one…getting on a server that has 4 of 24 guys afk for a half dozen maps on end.
While I don’t think BF1’s PC community is doing well (I gave my opinions prior already), I don’t like it when people give false info. BF4 at this time of the year in 2013 had stats like these:
PC
70,674
PS3
57,845
XBOX360
48,392
XBOXONE
26,466
PS4
41,170
It’s not hard to flip through old BF4 forum and find population stats that people posted. Both BF1 & BF4 launched in October, and both games by December saw a dropoff. Of course in BF4 the problems had more to do with technical issues. While in BF1 the reasons for dropoff are less technical, but more to do with content & RSP.
BF4 had a ton of potential at release that carried it for 3 years with a very strong player base. I logged 1800 hrs on BF4.
BF1 on the other hand, I have a little over 100 hrs, doesn’t really have the same draw as BF4 or 3. It gets real boring real fast after about 50 hours or so. Feels like a chore to play.
BF1 had issues at launch and more then 2 months later still has issues. I mean really Dice you cant do any better after all these years of programming.
BF1 is pretty much a Battlefront reskin.
I have a feeling people in general are going to loose pride in owning/playing BF games. They be like yeah man I remember the good ole days of BF (1942, BF3, some what 4), but now ahday its just like a generic fps that has issues…
BF1 also suffers from dropoff for technical reasons. DirectX crashing, poor performance on good machines…
Overall the game is fun, and it’s going to take less work than BF4 to fix. But the current state of RSP and the Server Browser is basically unacceptable. And what bothers me most is that they intentionally released both in this stripped down fashion. They should have known such a bare RSP wouldn’t fly. And a server browser that shows 50 results? Ridiculous.
People need that unlocking hamster wheel. There are very few guns in BF1 so people quit because they don’t care about competing they just want to unlock things. #2 reason is the decision to use fairfight alone (wihout punkbuster) is terrible anticheat that relies on a player having inhumanly possible stats in order to give out bans. Punkbuster + fairfight in BF4 was much better.
Every BF game has these threads a few months after release.
The only reason I would quit playing are cheaters, like any other online game.
Not saying BF1 is without it’s issues, but to put things into perspective, some people have been saying the exact same thing starting with Battlefield 1942 in the year 2002 regardless.
has been dumbed down for the casuals and the new community is stupid.
had more teamplay and was much more fun.
So personally I can’t take this saying all that seriously anymore after all these years, I build my own opinion and try to have fun playing. 
160ish hours here and frankly I just got a bit bored. The weapons didn’t leave me anything to play for either.
I agree this game is unfinished. I’m was more busy solving all the issues in this game then playing it. Bought a Premium season pass (130 euro’s) but it’s definitely not worthed..
- Bad hit-reg
- FPS drops
- High CPU
- Bad graphics
- Stuttering/lag
SPECS :
i7-3770
16GB DDR3
GTX 1060 3GB
1000 GB Hard disk
Windows 10 64x
Problem is everything is massively unbalanced, level 10 unlock weapons are crap, mag sizes are so small and shots to kill is way too high, 2 well placed body shots from a rifle should kill none of this pump 4 lumps of lead into someone and watch them run away and pull out a pistol from 100m away and kill you.
The only weapons that are balanced are shotguns and smgs SMGs have high rof and accuracy and the shotgun is fine for close encounters and rubbish for any type of range.
Sniper’s are crap at close range anything under 100m should be an instant kill.
Hardcore mode at least needs 150% damage and hit markers, the faction outfits look way to similar at range.
Why can’t light tanks outrun people ? How the hell can aircraft take so much damage, you can pump a whole volly of bomber killer rounds square on a fighter and get tonnes of hit markers and a sheet of at paper will just fall off.
Way too much grenade spam with gas bases and normal grenades has weak splash damage.
Several maps are just choke points after choke point.
I’m going back to BF4 since that actually runs good, has little to no bugs and tons of maps. Plus rush is actually 64 players, 24 play rush is trash. I also dont like the limited amount of weapons, gets boring really fast. They decided to add in tons of weapons that were barely used in ww1 so they could add way more if they wanted.
I’ll give BF1 another go in a year when its patched and I can get premium for dirt cheap. I done the same with BF4, bought it on release played for a month or two then uninstalled and replayed it a year+ later. BF3/BC2 are the only ones I played from release to the next game.
Yeah they intentionally released 1/4 of the full game so they could sell the other 3/4 as free release and premium content dlc. Pretty shady way of doing business.
They should have at least had the bugs squished before they released a piece of the pie as a whole pie.
It is now 2017 and BF1 is nick named Bugfield 1. My God 15 years ago when games released they were in proper working order with a full volley of content. Any dlc was an after thought that was added in at a price.
Anyway, there is absolutely nothing spectacular about BF1, it is a reskin Star Wars game with a terrible rsp system and issues…
This is nothing new, they have always been doing this…yet every game they sell will sell millions of copies and break records…people need to stop buying games on release or they will never change their way of doing things.
Yup and people can’t even pin point the problems with always fixing the problems because everyone on pretty much every setup has the same issues, it’s not a hardware problem, and that’s a pain because we wait on other people to fix.
The FPS drops, high CPU usage and stuttering is caused by high GPU usage with 3GB on a 1060 do you have the GPU memory limited option checked in game settings?
I haven’t quit playing, I put it about 5 hours today, but Im not playing it all the time, I mean I been busy with the holidays and what not, I also am getting annoyed of the bugs in this game, Like getting stuck on things and not being able to jump a 2 foot rock but your able to jump a 10 foot wall… Gets me killed everytime.
I also fall thru the map at times when you get stuck on things, I found a way to do it all the time on Amiens, by F on conquest you can jump a curb as if your jumping over a wall and it will shoot you thru the map, and Spawning on flags to get your head blown off on some maps just because every map is wide open… And for whatever reason the Quit button sometimes works, EA seems to force me to stay in the server or deal with a black screen, good thing alt+f4 works.