Cute to pretend that they didn't abandon it way before it was a failure
I hope some cosmetics are class restricted, too. I keep seeing lots of characters with aviator helmets and it honestly looks weird on anything other than tankers and pilots.
It failed because they abandoned it.
No it failed about the MTX.
https://www.reddit.com/r/StarWarsBattlefront/comments/96hfzt/uf8rge_dice_and_ea_the_reason_nobody_has_spent/e40rhlh/
https://www.reddit.com/r/StarWarsBattlefront/comments/96hfzt/uf8rge_dice_and_ea_the_reason_nobody_has_spent/e40vnm8/
They didn't even try
Man, between the massive dropoff of preorders to the major community backlash, EA is proving the critics wrong and showing that they genuinely don't care about money.
Because, you know, nobody's going to give them any.
This is why you don't antagonise you core base.
EA has a history of doing this shit.
Command and Conquer: C&C fans don't want to play C&C, they want to play Starcraft 2. Lets make a crappier version of SC2 so SC2 fans will play our game.
Dragon Age: Origins: It was Bioware's best selling game ever, lets give the fans what they want by making Bioware shit out a sequel in less than a year but instead of making a game that the customer base of DA:O loved, lets make it more of an action game.
Mass Effect: we have to shit out Mass Effect 3 as quickly as possible so the fans don't forget about the game they've been hyped up for years. Also lets throw out the great writing the first 2 games had
to be fair Mass Effect's problem started way before 3.
Inquisition is really good once you get past the fact that it is nothing like origins.
Ironically this time it's partly because EA's marketing department didn't pull the least fast enough to stop one of DICE's devs to treat criticism to the game's historical authenticity as "you're just sexist", "you're on the wrong side of history" and "lmao don't buy the game if you don't like". And so people didn't. I doubt it was EA's plan all along because marketing wise they're usually competent.
I’ve already seen the CM for BFV being downvoted to hell and back because skeptics with their previous “live service” in mind are asking about a post-launch roadmap and the dude is intentionally misunderstanding the questions and acting as if they’re going to drop it after the first DLC.
The ride never ends
Have you seen Rainbow Six lately? Updates every couple of months, new operators, new maps, new character/weapon customization, the most of which can be bought with in-game currency. And then there is the competitive scene.
Not anymore, but that changed several months into the game so it really isn't a good thing.
that was his point? I bought siege and thought it was a dead game after a month, now its more popular than ever because ubi didn't drop it. They are doing the same with for honor even with the abysmal playercount. Ubi isnt a bad company tbh.
EA makes them do this under contract unfortunately
tbh Ubi has pretty much recovered from all the 'bad' things that they had done in recent years. The bug-ridden yearly Assassin Creed games was fixed by Origin which also changed up the formula. The infamous Watch Dog got a pretty nice follow up sequel that fixes most of the problems. And all the other games that were somewhat lackluster on release all received update throughout the years, fixing some, if not most of the issues on release. The only issue that hadn't really changed was the DRM thing and uplay which started from AC2 but I guess people doesn't care anymore and it doesn't matter for the way their games nowadays.
https://www.reddit.com/r/StarWarsBattlefront/comments/9a14c2/what_battlefrontupdates_has_to_say_about_this_im/e4s2ot3/
actual shit heads
How hard was it to make a 'gritty' WW2 shooter in the same vein as BF1 that worked on the known criticisms of the game like the unsatisfying gunplay? I'll probably end up buying the aesthetic is so strange and the only reason you can tell it's WW2 is the weaponry and vehicles.
but they didnt?? im not going to defend EA one bit, but they launched with a shitty way to do things (aka lootboxes to give cards for characters, etc) and had their whole system built around that
when it failed epicly, they had to go full 180 and dice spent months redoing the entire system to make it based around leveling, etc, so they couldn't work on season pass shit at the same time
and then ea 'partially' abandoned it because it just turned into a huge timesink
its not the same as ubisoft with siege at all, siege never launched with big issues like that, they just had a slow start, that was all
I'm glad they did that, it's done decently, even after the immediate removal of lootboxes we got two pretty good seasons, and both parties seemed pretty happy with how it turned out.
The real failure was probably around late June or July. The end of the Solo season and the beginning of E3 was when everything truly fell apart.
I'll never forget that night when everything looked promising, to the devs and to the players then suddenly without warning every BFII dev save like 2 changed their twitter bio to replace all mentions of Battlefront II with Battlefield V a couple hours before the official announcement.
This was right after Dennis or Ben were talking about how the dam had been blown, and that they were happy with their numbers. Then EA murdered them and the game by pulling everyone off just before Clone Wars.
We're still getting things but it's the most pathetic pace possible, and there's no way to tell if there'll be more. Direct promises made are actually broken. F8RGE recently said that "The deal has been altered" in response to being asked if EA was going to let them deliver on "new weapons "new cards" promises that were made. The developers and the players are both equally frustrated.
And the same grooves of what happened are rhyming with this title, the same promises and question dodging. The same embarrassing CM fiascos. At least this time the skin is shit enough that I can easily ignore it.
I'm not worried about the future of BFV, after all BF4 really managed to turn out just fine eventually. Batllefront 2 was a licensed game, but Battlefield is DICE's child, and not even financial loss will stop them from making it a great game.
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