EA blame Battlefield 2042’s launch failures on Halo Infinite and the pandemic
The failure of Battlefield 2042 seems to be everyone’s fault except EA, according to a report detailing a recent ‘town hall’ meeting with staff.
Although early buzz was positive, Battlefield 2042 quickly became one of the biggest disappointments of 2022, with fans complaining of a litany of bugs and not enough content.
Naturally, that’s not something EA has been quick to admit in public but according to a report on Xfire, by Battlefield insider Tom Henderson, the company recently held a ‘town hall’ meeting with staff in which the failures of Battlefield 2042 were discussed for over 20 minutes.
EA sought to blame the problems on the difficulty of updating developer DICE’s Frostbite engine to modern standards, a process which took over 18 months of the development time, and the problems of working from home. Strangest of all, they said the game’s poor reception was partially due to the release of the largely bug-free Halo Infinite.
Of course, every video game company had to deal with the problems of the pandemic, and working from home, including the makers of Halo Infinite, so it’s not clear why EA felt they alone were unable to cope.
According to the report EA knew that Battlefield 2042 had ‘historic levels’ of bugs for a DICE game but were still convinced that it would review well at launch, stating that ‘early critical reception was good’.
The problem, from their perspective, was the launch of the multiplayer component of Halo Infinite, which was released several weeks before the main game and proved extremely popular.
Halo Infinite was largely bug free, in stark contrast to Battlefield 2042. Although no mention seems to have been made of the fact that Halo is an Xbox console exclusive, so PlayStation owners would’ve been
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