Electronic Arts held today its Q4 2024 Earnings Call. In that call, its CEO, Andrew Wilson, said that the next Battlefield game will be a “tremendous live service” title.
This should not come as a surprise to anyone. Still, this is something that may disappoint a lot of BF fans. But hey, both COD and BF will do their best to offer a GaaS model so that they can keep pushing multiple Seasons.
Battlefield 2042 was released in 2021 without a single-player campaign. A lot of die-hard fans criticized that move, especially since its multiplayer was in an awful state. Right now, we don’t know whether this new BF game will have a single-player campaign. From the looks of it, though, EA and DICE will double down on their “live as a service” model.
BF2042 is currently in a better state than it was at launch. So, it will be interesting to see whether the next Battlefield game will also be broken at launch. It wouldn’t surprise me given DICE’s history. Still, and contrary to other studios, DICE has always been able to right the ship and turn the tides in its favor.
It will also be interesting to see what will happen with the next Call of Duty game. Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 came out with a half-assed single-player campaign that was criticized by a lot. Rumor has it that the next COD game will have an open-world single-player mode. And, if that’s indeed the case, I’m a bit worried about its quality, especially after the boring missions we got in Modern Warfare 2.
Stay tuned for more!
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“live service” – hard pass.
It’s going to be so tremendous that it will close down DICE
This is why you should NEVER EVER be excited for ANY new (((gayme))) based on an old franchise you love, get excited for it like the goyim normie NPC you are, only for it to turn out to be a live service, always-online, MTX-infested, rainbow-painted, Talmud-preaching cancer just like that nu-TimeSplitters JuDIEst Satanic cult of death brainwashing ritual that was about to be unleashed into the brain dead goyim masses but got cancelled recently (thank God and for the sake of all of humanity)!
If you STILL can’t figure out (((WHO))) controls the world already, you need Uncle Hitler to educate you on who does. If you are a sane person, you’d much rather that your favorite old series just stay dead for eternity rather than these filthy Jewish companies turning your favorite character into a gay pedophile phaggot like what (((Netflix))) does.
If you still have even the TINIEST ATOM of faith in the (((gayming industry))), your commitment to delusion is immeasurable, silly goyim.
With the next one using the new kernel level EA anti cheat.
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It is gonna made by frostbite 3 engine https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/abc0e5199dc370e007dd67b05574b73d77a887fdb3b9eaee346f5a77079a4d2b.png This game engine came out bac in 2013,they have not update to version 3
It’s time ‘hardcore’ fans of Battlefield realise that the old model of releasing a traditional multiplayer game and call it a day is over. If the developer doesn’t support, continuously update, and offer reward-based progression players nowadays get bored quick and move on—the live service model exists for a reason. We’ll never get another ‘true’ Battlefield again.
You are right. Sad but true.
Indded
Exactly. It’s pointless to protest against the model because of market realities from both ends, publishers and investors, and consumers.
The useful good fight is not giving money to publishers who are selling you broken or incomplete sh*t, not preordering, not buying stupid premium editions, not overhyping UNTIL a game is released and reviewed and confirmed to be good and work fine.
They saw how “based” goymers cried over helldivers s**t and noted what type of games goymers like these days.
THIS FCKING INDUSTRY….NEVER FCKING LEARNS ANYTHING….EVER.
They do, cause these piles of shït sell like hot cake to this awesomely smart generation.
the industry is on a free fall right now my dude, they dont sell.
‘ tremendous live service ‘ isn’t that an oxymoron these days?
Maybe they’ve hired D. Trump to do the marketing.
“Yuge multiplayer. Is the most multiplayer of all multiplayers.”
“You’re going to be so tired of winning.”
The wording is annoying, but there’s no surprise here.
At this point my point of view shifts towards a detached merely wishing them the best. I hope EA doesn’t force DICE to release a broken incomplete mess again that will get shut down such a legendary studio, that players are not ripped of again and there’s something good to play, and that it’s decent if just in respect to the memory of how revolutionary and incredibly good Battlefield was with the first 2 main games.
Dead franchise, thank goodness.
Died with 2 and got zombified until 2042 when it finally stopped moving and got buried.
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Right, although I have to say I sincerely laughed while playing Bad Company 2.
Now I can only sincerely cry when I look at the modern wokeDICE
It was a good spinoff, but that’s all Battlefield games were after the DICE and Kaos Studios layoffs when Battlefield 2 was finished.
Spinoffs more busy trying to push EAs idea business than to an actual Military Tactical Game.
These days having a CEO that says they are even building “games” is rare.
Irony is Gaben started this, calling Half-Life 2 a “product”. Hated it back then, still hate it with a passion now.
Games constantly pulling better numbers than movies brought this.
Just cover it with dirt already.
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Add 50 more lbs to pvt tyqueesha here and you’ve got a realistic representation of the current day US army lul
I would rather download and install ransomware…pay the hackers to unlock my files and be swindled then install this thing…dead franchise,a has been game.
Tremendous f4ggotry made by 70 IQ black/brown tr4nnies and fat hairy unfckable whales.
“Tremendous Failure”
Tremendous Woke Service
They want that fortnite and Warzone crowd but guess what ?
These people play ONLY Fortnite or Call of Duty.
Meanwhile the core Battlefield audience is treated like a dead weight.
The core Battlefield fanbase is playing Squad and Hell Let Loose.
Majority of people who played Battlefield 3 to V were COD kids though.
EA you f*king garbage company, burn to the f*king ground
any game developer that their team is suddenly tasked to make a live service game, should just start searching for another job, the success rate of live service game is like chasing unicorn. the game will fail and the layoffs will come right after that, if not the entire team or studio getting shut down
I kinda get that they are moving in the direction CoD has as a live service. I think it could work because each of the BF games communities live longer lives if they arent preemptively killed so supporting and monetizing one game long term makes sense. They just need to get over that hump of being total a*s on launch. It feels like bad company 2 was the last time a BF was fun and working from day one. Maybe if its free or included with gamepass but no way this get stellar praise on launch.
Imagine being this tone-deaf that you think people actually *WANT* Live Service games. How can you be so dense?
Last one I played was BF3.
That was a good game.
if its anything like the last load, it’s going to be just as shyte
How often do we have to teach you this lesson old man? NO ONE WANT THIS
goodbye to any type of offline mode then campaign is probably scrapped too
How many robotic lesbians does this one have?
I don’t care about the ‘model’ anymore. Was able to buy the season pass with the currency earned just from playing anyways, and the idea of this being Battlefield was lost when BFV marketing made that clear. Bring back decent vehicle physics (wtf was up with moon buggy sh*t we got with 2042) and stop making the maps smaller – that’s COD territory. 2042’s best maps are shrunken scraps of the release versions and worse for it now.
I stopped playing online games in 2002. No regrets.
avg monthly players
bf1-740,000 No cross-platform but cross gen =yes
bfv- 1.8Million Not cross platform but cross gen =yes
2042-418,000 crossplatform! crossgen=No
in comparison cod mw3- 1,950,442 crossplatform and crossgen !!!
The only positive thing this year would have to be the implementation of anti-cheat on bfv https://media1.giphy.com/media/iXPMNiu0DVIxG/giphy-downsized-small.mp4
Goymers here complaining LOL like it’s the news. You’d think the previous BF was Bad Company and totally not V and 2042 junk.