Although the beta didn't show off a lot of core Battlefield gameplay with vehicle interplay and large maps, players had an implicit expectation that these would be introduced and/or tweaked as the game launched. That did not happen, and instead players got the RedSec battle royale mode, season passes, skins, and microtransactions. Adding insult to injury, the rare patches seemed to introduce more issues than they fixed, namely but not only around the netcode and vehicle balance.
Predictably, there were few new maps — almost none actually large — and players soon grew weary of the constant "meat-grinder" combat, with many expressing feelings that the series had abandoned key elements that made it relatively unique in the first place. All combined, these factors resulted in general disappointment, reflected in the daily player count. Besides Steam, the game is available on the EA App, Epic, and Playstation and Xbox consoles, but the picture isn't likely to be much better there.
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Unolocogringo EA ruins everything it acquires. Used to love the EA lingo but that was many years ago. Reply
wussupi83 Unolocogringo said: EA ruins everything it acquires. Used to love the EA lingo but that was many years ago. Its getting harder to remember those times. Reply
King_V I keep a copy of the old, stylized ECA logo from the 80s to remind me… Reply
SkyBill40 As soon as the news broke of Zampella's untimely passing, I assumed BF was in trouble. And I especially felt a general sense of uneasiness when it was announced that EA would be sold off to the Saudis (et al). Reply
randomizer " made select changes within our Battlefield organization to better align our teams around what matters most to our community." I wonder what they think that is. Evidently "what everyone else is offering" is not it. Reply
alan.campbell99 *sigh* I remember the first BF pretty well, then really getting into the Desert Combat mod, especially trying to master helicopters. Fun times. Haven't played online since BF3 I think. Reply
palladin9479 Yes Battlefield Call of Duty Edition flopped hard. All those sales were purely on name and hype. When players saw there wasn't any big 64+ player maps, they dropped the game. Reply
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