Battlefield 2042 is dead and EA should sell DICE – Reader’s Feature

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A reader and Battlefield fan is so exasperated with Battlefield 2042 he thinks the only solution is for EA to sell off developer DICE.

Battlefield has always been my favourite franchise. Battlefield 1942 was my introduction to PC gaming and playing it and its many mods with friends are very fond memories for me. Naturally, I stuck with the series with the sequels, Battlefield Vietnam and Battlefield 2. By this time it was starting to go mainstream and by the time Battlefield 3 came around EA was trying to mould it into their Call Of Duty killer. This is where I believe the seeds of destruction were sown for the franchise.

Battlefield has never had anything in common with Call Of Duty, other than it’s a military first person shooter. The style of action, the scale of the maps, and the sandbox elements with all the vehicles are nothing like Call Of Duty and yet again and again EA has tried to fit that square peg into a round hole, with increasingly disastrous results.

It was Battlefield 4 where I first began to lose faith with the series, since it launched in such a terrible state, with missing features and tons of bugs. Something that EA never seemed to learn from as the same thing has happened multiple times, including with Battlefield 2042.

Battlefield 4 did eventually become a good game, so that earned it some respect withing the community, but it was still downhill from there with Battlefield 1 and then Battlefield 5. Each game suffered the same problems of being launched without enough content and usually full of bugs, poor balancing, and broken weapons.

Every time it seemed to be the same story: EA wanted the game out for Christmas in order to go up against Call Of Duty and they didn’t care what had to be sacrificed for