DICE Is Incompetent & Out of Touch (Battlefield 2042)

Since the release of Battlefield 2042, DICE and EA have proven just how incompetent and out of touch they are with the Battlefield franchise and their fanbase. And I'm going to tell you why...
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[@TheActMan]

YEEEAAAAAASSSS! ACT MAN DOES IT AGAIN! That was something, RIGHT?!

[@J4M_1]

Don’t be sad it’s just how it works out sometimes

[@deepwinter6799]

Great video, Act Man. You're big enough now that there's no way the video doesn't circulate through DICE/EA

[@jacobbhanifon4123]

Love ya Act Man

[@giraffeman326]

Players: “EA plz fix” EA: “I missed the part where that’s my problem.”

[@rrevelationnss]

are you ever going to do a gears of war video? i mean if 2042 can get one its only fair

[@cameronpowell6778]

“Doesn’t deserve a review” is so fucking insulting to a game and you’re 150% correct in saying it.

[@jswagpsn2285]

Gave me AVGN female Ghostbusters vibes

[@cedricnoel-thibeault206]

"Not worth the time to review this game/10!"

[@kebabsaurusrex1601]

I actually have more respect for the fact he said fuck this I am not reviewing this shit.

[@yourlocalhalalbutcher2707]

Cod vanguard also didn't get a review lol

[@JinnYoungKim]

@@yourlocalhalalbutcher2707 More like... Act doesn't care that shit.

[@SomeSteven]

To be fair, your bullets hitting the enemy is a legacy feature

[@GaaraSama1983]

I think we need a version with walkie-talkies instead of weapons.

[@ChimpFromSpace]

Kind of a brutal expectation there...

[@micmccond7]

Apparently branding is a legacy feature

[@Einscrest]

This is what happens when they pander to an audience that don't buy or play battlefield at all. Fcking woke shits man.

[@AlexChangYuan]

I thought eating and popping are legacy features.

[@hbfb1123]

"If you dont like it,don't buy it" legendary quote of dice when they got criticized for bf5. Shameless bastards lmao

[@Nmille98]

BF fans: "Okay, I won't."

[@TRG_R17]

@@Nmille98 Dice:WAIT WAIT WAIT

[@ChrisLoew]

Get woke go broke, I still follow their guidelines and don't buy their games, worked out great for me lolz

[@davemac9563]

And they didn’t which tanked their sales tanked 😂😂

[@jameslough6329]

@@TRG_R17 😂 SO TRUE

[@kamomohilda7954]

"Don't fight your customers. If they are happy, they'll give you what make you happy, which is money." Jeez, do we really have to explain such obvious fact to game companies? ...yes we have to...

[@stagger9660]

We are the hand that feeds them.

[@WarbossR0kt00fSant0s]

@@stagger9660 And yet they're biting it off begging for more money. Like a spoiled child demanding to be fed more after he just had dinner.

[@pbonfanti]

@@stagger9660 just stop feeding them, with money. Most of gamehouses cant get a dime from me for years.

[@twixtwix2915]

Just look at fromsoft they’ve been giving their customers what they’ve wanted for years.

[@planescaped]

@@pbonfanti I see this repeated so much so often for so many years, yet fools never learn and always come crawling back. Because these big tentpole game franchises are tied to their personal identities now. They're an "X" fan and so are their friends, and they have years and years of memories and feelings tied to it to the point where even if it has become absolute garbage, and they hate it, they can't quit it. 90% of the people who say they're done with a franchise will be back for the next one. And there will always be new fresh doe-eyed customers with lower standards and the inexperienced palate of youth ready to replace the few who actually leave.

[@mrhorselegs616]

When they said next level destruction I didn’t think they meant the destruction of the battlefield franchise

[@michaelcrosby7035]

True😂

[@zhenya7992]

shots fired.

[@easygroove]

ROFL!! - should be on top!

[@Johnnybonzo]

In record time too

[@impulseexility5344]

😂 caught me off guard with that one

[@giraffeman326]

Players: “This game sucks. EA please fix it.” EA: “I missed the part where that’s my problem.”

[@AshWinder729]

Only way to EA is going change is when we stop buying and pre ordering their games. Imagine if most people waited a week or so from release instead of buying this at launch.

[@zen_7748]

Players: "I'm gonna put some dirt in your eye." *review bombs 2042*

[@qu1253]

@@zen_7748 Literally makes no difference to EA because they already got your money.

[@SuperMurray2009]

I found a reddit post from 2008 where people were complaining about EAs "fuck you" atitude against their fans. If the gaming community hasn't learned their lesson in 14 years then its a lost cause.

[@Matanumi]

@@AshWinder729 most people? That's not enough- EVERYONE needs to withhold... except for a few who are paid to review it (and even those need to be ignored)

[@ronijarvinen3759]

It is hilarious how BF managed to kill itself even though COD played it all into their hand for years by re-releasing the same game. I cannot imagine how you could f up a plate of food served into your face.

[@natea3799]

COD is at least playable. The minimal enjoyment I got playing vanguard for a week is great fun compared to 2042

[@BananaPhoPhilly]

@@natea3799 No offense meant here, just curious, but why are you still buying new CoD games?

[@natea3799]

@@BananaPhoPhilly I didn't, I received it for free and never touched it after the first week.

[@davidstinger1134]

I still remember all the fanboys in youtube comment sections back in the day fighting over BF3 and MW3 before they both came out, and how one franchise would kill the other. Imagine telling them how things would end, in suicide.

[@AngerMaker413]

@@natea3799 you were able to play 2042 for a week? I couldn’t even log 5 hours

[@carminegalante4925]

DICE did an amazing thing here. Instead of a destructible environment, they made the entire game’s reputation destructible!

[@spectroelectro3772]

And unless they do a massive team effort to win the objective, the map will never change or regenerate to what it was, only be reduced to lower and lower pieces

[@Reabies1]

I think Dice out did themselves. This is the first game that has a completely destructible environment . The entire game can fall apart.

[@FinalPark-bj2vg]

Not gonna lie, you had me in the first half.

[@robertsmith20022]

FUCKING GOAT COMMENT!!! 🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@kylelyons1939]

LMAO, although I wouldn't blame DICE nearly as much as EA. EA has say over what dice can do. And I'm sure any devs that wanted more time before release were told no and to work harder

[@aeraaureliawashereonce]

A truly immersive experience

[@nothere1578]

Fuck that hits hard.

[@jediorsith24]

Never forget that DICE tried to tell us Battlefield performing poorly is Halo Infinite’s fault

[@extraordinarilybasic3250]

Kinda sad when you say a flash in the pan, dying game like Halo Infinite caused all his. Like actually sad that a room full of people thought this was the best angle to play.

[@MR_N0VA]

Where lmao if thats true that is hilarious

[@qu1253]

That's doubly sad considering Halo Infinite released in just as bad of a state as BF2042 and is seeing players leave in droves. What the hell is happening? How are two of the biggest names in the FPS genre competing for 5K players on Steam?

[@leventgnel2001]

It was ea not dice

[@dudebruh8534]

@@MR_N0VA Here is a post on reddit that leads to an artical from PCgamer. It's a sad week to be a gamer.

[@kvdrr]

I bet my ass that the only DICE veterans left in the studio are people behind the engine itself, engineers with the biggest paychecks. People actually designing games are paid less and probably left the studio long time ago

[@ziggamon]

That's like Rockstar now. All the biggest players that made R* what is was in the 2000s are gone now.

[@verygoodbrother]

@@ziggamon Unlike Dice, Rockstar doesn't rush games out

[@HCG]

@@verygoodbrother lmfao have you really deluded yourself into thinking that’s why GTA VI isn’t out yet? They’re not taking their time, they literally have no reason to release it as long as GTA V Online continues printing free money for them. If they released VI, they’d be cannibalizing massive potential profits. They will announce VI when V Online genuinely starts dying.

[@NKillBruh]

@@HCG my god you ratio'd him

[@Gatorade69]

Actually I heard that most of the people behind the engine left leaving people that don't know how to do much, hence the state 2042 was when it released.

[@carpedukem]

This really described it perfectly: "Players want BF4 with movement of BF5 and the atmosphere of BF1."

[@Gatorade69]

Well, well, well, that was fun.

[@hyperleap4876]

This really shouldn't even be the hard; they should be able to make this happen.

[@Gatorade69]

What I want is another 2142. That is the most underrated Battlefield game. Titan Mode hasn't been replicated in any game since.

[@mickethegoblin7167]

Bf5? Ehhh

[@corradocampo]

@@mickethegoblin7167 bf5 had great movement what do you mean. The slide was perfect and being able to vault through unbroken windows and tuck and roll when you jumped from a high up surface was badass

[@xxgoldmansionxx]

imagine needing to “carefully evaluate” bringing back “legacy features” as basic as a scoreboard and voice chat,absolutely mind boggling where this game is right now

[@hongo3870]

How the fuck does a game not have voice chat? A triple A multiplayer game. W hat

[@Sowavey]

@@hongo3870 right 🤦🏻‍♂️

[@spacejunk2186]

@@hongo3870 Seriously. Voice chat is one of the easiest things you can implement. You don't even need to code it from scratch.

[@Sanyey]

@@hongo3870 well.. since I personally never in my life used in game voice chat, it doesent bother me.. there's Discord or Skype.. both in perfect working order.

[@joshuamueller3206]

A scoreboard. A scoreboard!? It is a competitive shooter, how are you suposed to get motivated to be better if you do not have one. If you are not motivated, you are just playing to waste time.

[@ALaughingWolf2188]

“If the game isn’t broken, break it and then forget how to fix it”- EA “what? Why is the game failing? Clearly this is Halo’s fault”- also EA

[@RNST7]

Halo? Da fuq

[@oSitaRuSo]

@@RNST7 EA statement. No joke, they clearly said that...

[@tylerbarse2866]

@@oSitaRuSo This is just seriously telling of how idiotic EA as a publisher. They're different niches in shooter games. There's definitely some overlap in target audience, but at the core, they're two different experiences. Battlefield has more grounding in realism which is what the players of battlefield want. Besides, if we look at the steam population charts, it definitely paints a different picture that most of the battlefield players are going back to 5.

[@oSitaRuSo]

@@tylerbarse2866 if I recall correctly even BF 4 has more people now. In this era of remaster/remakes EA had just one job : reskin BF3 or BF4. Or dare I to dream take good things from both and some mechanics from bf5 and 1. Boom !! Succes. Well I am sad now, dreaming hurts.

[@stuartemmanuel3735]

Funny i Wanted to play this Battlefield 2042 before I wanted to play Halo Infinite..

[@Somnia_Timor]

Getting rid of the scoreboard to remove "toxicity" is like getting rid of your cars dashboard so you can "drive better".

[@renegaderules873]

But I find that I reach the destination faster without the dash!

[@ryebread2603]

It’s a disturbingly common thing in recent years for big companies to respond to fan criticism this way. If the fans dislike something they are either racist/sexist and if those claims fall flat then the companies just start saying the fanbase is toxic.

[@kidcell8125]

They have too much money

[@jabronisauce6833]

Abit like Disney now calling star wars fans yet again racist because views are down lol

[@Treblaine]

When EVERYONE hates your game then you just have to find the racists who are equally represented amongst them.

[@davidstinger1134]

Because the current companies are taken over by oversensitive manchildren who are literally incapable of dealing with any kind of criticism. Sure, there's idiots who take it too far with the death threats and such, but devs nowadays behave just a childish.

[@theliberation9061]

The funny thing is that I would actually get behind devs slamming entitled assholes in the playerbase (instead of listening to them which has ruined so. many. games.) but, uuuuh... to be in a position to do that, your game shouldn't look like an alpha version, because that kind of invalidates your position completely.

[@Laxhoop]

The reason they removed things like scoreboards is because they want to “remove the toxic element of their playerbases”, because they listen to the idiots on twitter, rather than the people giving them money.

[@oldmatedave2382]

NO SCOREBOARDS BRO WHAT IT'S A FPS

[@phutureproof]

I personally have this semi belief its so the console people cant see the pc cheaters, "our best anti cheat system to date" or however they spin this shit

[@theronraam23]

@@oldmatedave2382 it's the same reason they tell you kills+assists together instead of making them separate numbers cause they don't want people getting picked on for not doing well, same thing happened with MW2019. They're not selling the games to you, they're selling it to your kids.

[@scifigeezer5271]

The 2 girls playing it need a safe space

[@mattchamp1541]

@@theronraam23 yeah for the most part I agree, but we could balance it out, if you do 95% of damage and some utter torglodyte gets the last hit, I think you should get a assist counts as kill.

[@jimmykearney214]

"Don't be sad, this is just how things work out sometimes"

[@verosotelo2764]

Yup

[@DINKYMOOSE]

How many times do they have to work things out

[@ChandranPrema123]

That was something right

[@illeyez505]

Nah I'm sad.

[@moister3727]

EA DOES IT AGAIN

[@BMK45]

One of the things that pissed me off was the fact they couldn’t even make a fucking map with water and boats I can drive on. WHY ARE THEY GOING TO SAY THAT THE AIRBOAT IS AMPHIBIOUS WHEN I CANT EVEN DRIVE IT ON ANY WATER

[@Airfryer208]

it’s actually insane how smooth bf5 is compared to 2042. they literally took steps backwards. literally, wtf were they thinking

[@rehfeldt12]

Dude they didn't take steps. They took Hulk sized LEAPS backwards. While in Moon Gravity. And in World-Breaker Hulk State.

[@erikmueller2651]

It makes me so angry that I can't climb a wall anymore. While in BF5, it was a feature to climb up things that are higher up than your player

[@CreamedCurry]

Fun fact: Dice HAD a focus group when still deciding on replacing the class system with specialists. The group had almost an entirely negative review of the specialists and they added them anyway lol.

[@jacobremillard]

BFV should get its Russian DLC. I would take that over BF2042 every day and twice on Sunday. At least that game feels like battlefield. Maybe they need a focus group on how to do what the community fucking wants?

[@CSNomad]

That’s so disappointing. Just demonstrates how much the suits push what makes the most money vs what makes a good game.

[@martmine4618]

Sometimes to make money you just need a good game but they cant see that.

[@Deathmare235]

@@jacobremillard wait was an Eastern front confirmed?

[@colinwarren3893]

@@Deathmare235 if I’m not mistaken, someone found portions of an Eastern Front DLC in BFV’s game files. So upsetting. Been playing BFV a lot recently and it’s been a ton of fun

[@ManleyReviews]

for a company called "DICE" They sure can't roll a good perception check.

[@Pixx2266]

This DICE is only DICE in name. Like, 95% of people that did the previous battlefield games have left. And it shows.

[@dawnbreaker508]

Yeah, apparently their dice is weighted to roll snake eyes Not sure why they would do that, but definitely not outside the realm of something they would do

[@spike5499]

bruh that's corny asl ngl 😂

[@spike5499]

@@dawnbreaker508 better joke than op lmao

[@n16161]

GOT EM ayyyyyyyy

[@negativecreep9140]

Gaming had a good run.. I can't believe I'm actually considering putting it down and doing something else entirely because of how greedy and shady these companies have become. Rest in peace to what was once my favourite hobby

[@star-rock6466]

Then just play non triple A games, bruh

[@r.a.fgattaiguy845]

stop playing AAA games and try a different genre go play a Tales game, you´ll love it, trust me

[@jameslough6329]

Go play indie games like Hollow Knight or Sifu! The indie market has been really improving as of late! Or just DO YOUR RESEARCH on triple a games before you buy them!

[@lucianwong420]

I started playing older games and jrpg's somewhere around May/June in 2021 and it was a damn good decision that I have made. (Persona 4 Golden and Trails of Cold Steel were the very first jrpg's i bought) I got so bored of AAA games, i almost quit gaming. Honestly, it is difficult for me to go back now.

[@WILLthePILL6]

The next game will be called "Field." No fighting. You are just running or walking with epic music going on in the background.

[@r.a.fgattaiguy845]

epic music might be too intense, the sound of rain would probably be better

[@DevDog98]

remember everyone, this is their "love letter" to the fans. never buy a battlefield game again.

[@4markie]

Don't buy EA games ever

[@Gemoct]

Imagine how it is to be a part of one of their family members... no care whatsoevet

[@hiddenxalpha7053]

Game still shit, but im pretty sure the 'Love letter' was 'Portal', not the game itself.

[@JayT9626]

My first and last battlefield game is bf3 lol

[@Deaglan753]

This "love letter" is like the love letters written by neckbeards

[@LateNightHalo]

Battlefield 2042 feels almost more like a bundle of random assets on unrelated play spaces than it does a proper game. There’s no atmosphere, the animations feel so stiff and janky, the gameplay mechanics… feel so untested and the game feels like it barely knows what it even wants to be

[@conformistbastard9842]

Your comment feels like it barely knows what it wants to say 😂

[@CommanderSammer]

Definitely

[@chrismarple]

@@conformistbastard9842 nah your just in denial that he is speaking facts

[@TheStargov]

Like it's an inhouse development test of a game in it's early stages. And was never meant to be released.

[@conformistbastard9842]

@@chrismarple I have never even played a battlefield game I could care less lol

[@jimbroaudio]

“That’s why deaths have been taken off the scoreboard.” Meanwhile in Halo Infinite: “HEY THERE BUDDY, I SEE YOU ONLY LANDED 15% OF YOUR SHOTS AND YOU DIED 20 TIMES!” I just find it funny how Halo Infinite, despite all its flaws, is savage about showing your performance. 😂

[@justgot5109]

Halo infinite is worse than 2042

[@jimbroaudio]

@@justgot5109 I never said it wasn’t, my dude

[@Mausso]

The idea that scoreboards "make players toxic" is so stupid. How can players (myself included because I'm pretty average) get better at the game if we don't have the proper tools to measure our performance with? I'm a musician and one of the tools I use to measure my progress is a metronome. Taking away a scoreboard is like taking away my metronome and saying, "Metronomes will only frustrate you when you miss the beats." Yeah, it's true, but they also help me get better.

[@spectroelectro3772]

What is a metronome

[@aguafria9003]

​@@spectroelectro3772they are an object that makes a beat you so you can time things better

[@spectroelectro3772]

@@aguafria9003 Ah thanks

[@voxdraconia4035]

What makes players toxic ... is bad parenting. Period. If parents invest some time into teaching basic manners to their brats and put effort into making them nice and caring persons...no toxicity

[@echomjp]

@@voxdraconia4035In all fairness, we can't rely on everyone being good parents when it comes to toxicity. Toxicity has to be accepted as something that you'll occasionally come across in society. There are two ways to then deal with it. You either discourage it socially and make people more tolerant of it through exposure, or you outright ban it as much as you can and effectively keep people within a safety bubble at all times. Video games in particular in recent years, in their attempts to deal with "toxicity," have become shells of their former selves. By getting rid of things as basic as voice chat (or making it opt-in, guaranteeing most won't use it), you don't get a sense of community or socialization. It used to be possible to make new friends to play games with through multiplayer games - nowadays everyone just goes on a private Discord or voice chat server of their choice with a couple of friends and there's no interactions to be had. It has gotten really bad. We need parenting to both deal with raising kids to not be toxic, and also to not be so easily offended by the words of random strangers - kids need to be taught and raised to be emotionally mature. Yet even if we had such a parenting shift, what people complain about as "toxicity" in the modern day is so laughable that I don't think we could ever really eliminate it.

[@ChewieLewis]

The fact that EA recently blamed the poor launch of 2042 on the “surprise launch” of halo infinites multiplier just further proves act man’s point that they will do anything but take responsibility

[@Miguelon88888]

I watched westies Video and it's so ridiculous 🙄 😒 🤦

[@hallo-mt5tx]

why take responsibility and tell your shareholders that you failed to create a product, when you can tell them that it wasnt your fault? these statements are made to tell shareholders that everything is fine and that these problems are just irregular things out of their control

[@icrywhenisleep2130]

People will still pre order the next battlefield which is the reason why nothing has changed 60-80 dollars for a broken battlefield with only 1 mode and people still pre ordered and bought it which just shows to ea that the consumers will buy any dogshit they shit out

[@martmine4618]

Ah yes halo infinite launching was definitely the reason why battlefield 1 and 5 player counts suddenly increased....

[@yudhiadhyatmikosiswono9082]

That is pathethic come from EA and DICE. Imagine Coca-Cola blaming Dr. Pepper because the low sales.

[@nickbueno9678]

The worst part is that if you watch the trailers, they KNOW what we want. It’s all there. And they chose to go a different way on purpose.

[@HairyTrigger]

"We purposely misled our fans, as a joke!"

[@RebelOfTheNorm242]

This is the part that hurt the most. What is the agenda here? To kill DICE???

[@1lukarioz]

Maybe DICE recoil is also bugged so thats why they missed

[@Aymant279]

"Don't be sad, its just how it works out sometimes!"

[@jamessimono7017]

The trailer represented fun bugs/Arcady mechanics that made the game fun, not the militaristic badass immersive style that keeps a game fun forever like bf4 or 1. Trailer was utter dog shit.

[@Ch0c0lateChimp]

To this day I still CANNOT believe they decided to remove voice chat and scoreboards in a team-based first person shooter...

[@TheAlanReviews]

I agree with these points. It's such a tragic end for Battlefield 2042. I had to pause the video to think about how a 19 year old working at McDonald's knows client services better than DICE.

[@williamsteele6832]

“Battlefield is the trend that other games are supposed to copy, not the other way around” This is the only sentence needed to sum up the anger, frustration, confusion, and sadness of the battlefield community right now.

[@yugatrasclart4439]

Not really. Battlefield always copied CoD

[@kinderx16_38]

@@yugatrasclart4439 I’ve scrolled through the comments for 15 seconds and I saw you every time just trying to be controversial. Go seek attention somewhere else dude

[@yugatrasclart4439]

@@kinderx16_38 lmao people told me I was controversial months ago when I predicted this game was gonna be finished. I have the receipts as well. Stay mad that I'm right and you'll never be

[@RokushoTheRavager]

@@yugatrasclart4439 Alright then mister know it all, how has Battlefield always copied CoD?

[@MrJulio632]

@@RokushoTheRavager even by the numbers, Battlefield came first 1942 was released before COD

[@TheRealGuywithoutaMustache]

Holy crap, removing voice chat and even the damn scoreboard? Glad I didn't even bother getting this, and calling them incompetent is an understatement my dude

[@xXClassicUserXx]

It to prevent toxicity and to entice the casuals to pay micro transactions

[@JinnYoungKim]

I knew Battlefield would get worse. You need to watch Decline of Gaming. Why you people expect from today gaming? Don't be a pet of gaming.

[@trooper7656]

Saw you on the new bill Wurtz video as well as the Halo video as well as fifty thousand other videos

[@TerraWare]

They've lost touch with their player audience. I guarantee those decisions were made by some people that are currently ruining the gaming industry thinking that removing score boards and voip would combat "toxicity". These big publishers let these people into their companies that seek to water their games down to the point where they're just a shell of their former selves and EA needs this. Dice needs this, they need a wake up call because they're clearly asleep.

[@mannygomez3577]

“My dude”

[@Ofxzh]

I love your statement of “They don’t deserve your time, and they don’t deserve your money”. Companies are such big things and it’s hard to remember that you have a say in the matter.

[@winniethepugh14]

My battlefield story (late to the franchise). Battlefield 1, wow! loved it. Airships, Trains, horses, great maps,great gameplay. Even paid for DLC. What a great intro into the series. Battlefield V....oh I was hoping for a Vietnam setting or at least a big change. It's like Battlefield 1 but worse in pretty much every way. Still ok, I'll pick it up for free. Battlefield 2042.....yeah I'm not even going to touch that.

[@tetov1620]

Sorry, you missed battlefield bad company 2 Vietnam by like 12 years. Vietnam would be a good setting to do now

[@lumbagoboi1649]

We really need either a modern battlefield like Bf4, an actually good WW2 battlefield in the style of 1, or like you said, a Vietnam setting.

[@mr.whatever7860]

I love how their solution to "remove toxicity" is to ban everybody from talking so no one's feelings get hurt lol. Like they think they are solely responsible for how people act. Back in my day it was called a mute button.

[@DanyalArcadio]

in today's social climate, their decision to straight up remove the option of voice chat with the intention of removing toxicity, doesn't surprise me at all. The worst kind of solution to any such problems.

[@Iberny3]

@@DanyalArcadio full on censorship. Give an inch and they go a mile. This was predicted.

[@anthonyrodriguez4736]

You need voice chat to mute lol... buh dum tss

[@FohzNA]

in dice’s eyes a mute button is simply a legacy feature

[@Laxhoop]

All these f*cking social activist people would just say “It shouldn’t be on ME to make my experience less toxic! The GAME should do it for me!”

[@waspoptic]

Even former DICE Devs have began making fun of this game and question where the checks and balances for the products went

[@dbz9393]

All the old Devs left that's why they can't produce good games anymore

[@kayagorzan]

Lmao yea, that’s how you know that you’ve fucked up

[@obamajoker7166]

Many such cases

[@Bodwaizer]

They need some of that Bioware magic

[@Wally17.]

That’s pretty funny.

[@W1ndyctymayh3m]

Making a good game must be a legacy feature too

[@Exeggutor_Enjoyer]

No, that was a pre-order bonus.

[@Etherman7]

"We need to take out every part of the game that allows competitiveness, that's TOXIC." "You realize you are making a multi-player shooting game right? Did you even spend any time play-testing?" "YOU'RE SO MEAN TO ME WHY WOULD YOU EXPECT SO MUCH!?!?!" This is what happens when the Tumblr generation graduated from college and got jobs in game dev studios guys. We should have seen it coming.

[@woobharb]

Fun fact: A petition to get DICE and EA to refund people who bought BF2042 has 2x more signatures than the peak player account for that game on Steam

[@aceclover758]

All those suckers from that petition lmao

[@mastervader3171]

Bruh. Respawn needs to make Battlefield with Titanfall mechanics (because Tf3 will probably never happen)

[@aceclover758]

@@mastervader3171 Then might as well not call it Battlefield anymore

[@Thebooooy]

That's rough buddy

[@DonVigaDeFierro]

I love democracy...

[@nicholashayley6218]

Can't wait for the next Battlefield. 5 months into its life cycle, we'll get: "Legacy features such as 'shooting', 'going prone', 'driving', 'taking cover', and many more are being considered and discussed by our team".

[@lolohnah]

"It's time to abandon legacy features such as 'walking', 'communicating', and 'playing the game". Instead, our newest addition to the Battlefield franchise will mostly comprise of the player choosing one of our many well realized, well written specialists; floating around our incredibly detailed, vast, empty maps; and hugging the enemy team."

[@MariOmor1]

Life cycle? Bruh that game will sell less than 2042

[@isaacmayer-splain8974]

@@MariOmor1 decomposition, then.

[@Spearra]

I swear, this is the video game equivalent of what laptops and smartphones are doing. "That's a legacy feature, remove it". "Remove it". "Remove it". Prices increase, and features are minimal. And the features that ARE there end up being worst than how it was back in the day!

[@jolyne_kujo_04]

@@Spearra EA DICE literally turned into Apple lol

[@queueuof]

i lost it when they said a scoreboard was a LEGACY feature, how tf is that legacy? basic information?

[@JacksonD2]

I talked to ea support once looking for help on my account that was banned when I hadn’t played the game for months, they basically told me there is nothing they can do for me. I simply voiced my frustration and said that it was kinda a waste of time trying to get help when this would be the end result, the customer support person then said me complaining was pointless and called me an “abdominal bully”. EA Is the joke of a company

[@vergilthewolf3619]

XD Sheeesh, now they call the customer with a genuine issue a bully. As if outright saying that complaints will just be thrown into the shredder wasn’t enough, they also wanna take shots at their customers. Let’s hope EA ceases to exist in the coming years or some better people are hired, maybe then we’d have one less shit company to deal with in gaming.

[@spectroelectro3772]

That sounds like what a fat positivity supporter would call someone who wishes to be fit

[@Fleetches]

DICE: "Get rid of in game voice chat, we don't want people to say mean things." DICE: "Get rid of the scoreboard, we don't want people to feel bad when they lose." DICE: "Get rid of server browsing, we don't want people sticking to certain servers." Customer: "But.. what about what WE want?" DICE: >:(

[@311mikey]

The world is getting so soft where they have to take things out of games so that people don’t feel bad or that people don’t say mean things. What a joke this world is becoming due to these soft younger generations

[@khosrowzare8301]

@@311mikey The world (or younger generation) isn't the problem. The best selling game of recent times is Elden Ring. A game that doesn't hold your hand. It's not shy about kicking your ass and we all love it for it. People like a sense of accomplishment and you can't have that accomplishment without hardship. The problem is with the current cooperative environment (especially in the entertainment industry). They are in a bubble, an echo chamber filled with the worst of the worst. People who are so uninteresting and unaccomplished that they fear accomplishment. I have no idea how they came to control the most profitable entertainment franchises but here we are.

[@bigdaddyhall7196]

@@khosrowzare8301 wokeism is the problem. Whichever generation or generations thay allow it are the problem

[@griffin1366]

From my understanding the UI team lost key figures along with the engine rebuild... It took them 5 months to implement a (bad) scoreboard... LMAO

[@EljelH]

I can kinda understand why they left out scoreboard and voice chat. Even though it was idiotic, there was a reason for it. There was literally no reason to leave server browser out intentionally.

[@frank8273]

Players: "This game is extreamly broken, and it's a total downgrade!" EA: "wait, one question, did you already pay for the game?" Players "Well, yeah" EA: "then it's not my problem"

[@NechtanGeibhendach]

18:39 Steam: "Well it is my problem"

[@MariOmor1]

EA: "I missed the part where that's my problem"

[@ansrfururactions]

@@MariOmor1 anyone with a shred of sense: *YOUR BOTTOM LINE!*

[@tateranus4365]

The sad thing is that its true

[@Stan_Vanderakt]

Legally, they are required to provide you a working product. I think you can sue EA for selling you a faulty product.

[@RenegadeVash]

There was an interview with a DICE developer years ago where they admitted they don't even know why bad company 2 was popular. They have no fucking idea why one of their all time greats is good FFS.

[@brysonkuervers2570]

I love how you used the BF1 soundtrack for the majority of this video. The atmosphere, the environment, it was beautiful to me. How did we go from that to... this. It baffles me

[@dylankavanagh4264]

Me: " Hey Dice, my bullets dont seem to be going in the same direction I'm aiming" Dice: " Oh, we didnt realise you wanted legacy features"

[@GemTappX]

lol nice one.

[@ProtossExecutor100]

Me: "Hey DICE, I can't communicate with my team. You gonna put in VOIP?" DICE: "VOIP?? What is this, Halo 2? 😂"

[@Ghostcrackerss]

10:30 This part is funny as hell to me, I, a 17 y/o kid who has something less than a part time job at a retail store, interact & handle the more older & frustrating customers way better than a multi-billion dollar company trying to handle teens who just want a playable (key word there) game

[@criowo2376]

I mean we have something to lose (our job) but they can just bs their way out of any blame

[@lucasplayz1016]

It actually looked like such an interesting concept too. Taking 2 different points of time and putting them together made me genuinely excited.

[@zoeadkins9095]

When pondering how a gaming studio can decline so hard, it's important to remember: a company's logo and name may not change but the people and leadership within do.

[@Natalietrans]

I now have the Bungie logo stuck in my head. Because it also happened to them.

[@BlizzardofOze]

Bioware

[@albaniqn]

@@BlizzardofOze swtor :(

[@HI-hr5up]

@@Natalietrans yep, Bungie is a prime example of that.

[@TheGary108]

I do know that quite a few people in DICE moved to other places after BF3/4. Doesn’t surprise me if whatever’s left barely pulled the new people together to make BF1, then when those little few left we got V and this.

[@SnipeMD]

My favourite gaming quote of all: "EA rolls a six-sided die whenever a new DICE game comes out. The higher the number, the less they care about the game."

[@timloth2994]

@Edwards94 I got a nat 20 on initiation, 2 more nat 20s due to crit, along with a 3x multiplier, withe the last roll being a 10

[@animarthur5297]

They rolled 2 dice and got a 12

[@knifegun1064]

I bet they're using a D100

[@Ty-bp1nl]

It's funny how after 3 mediocre Seasons, and adding game features that should've been in from day 1, people are willing to forget the mess that this game is, and still is tbh. Shows how much of the players and well-known streamers suffer from Stockholm Syndrome...

[@incomplet1396]

have you played ot recently?

[@MONTR65]

​​@@incomplet1396 yes many people have played it again or watch videos about new updates. But nobody wants to come back. Player numbers are still shit. Game is still shit

[@incomplet1396]

@MONTR65 incorrect. player numbers are consistently rosing with updates, and it has a large player base on consoles because it was free

[@supahflykev]

​@MONTR65 The game has a healthy player base now. It's not my favorite BF, far from it but the game is still fun after updates.

[@MONTR65]

@@supahflykev im not saying it's dead. But having less players than the last battlefield or even other games that are way older isn't exactly a good player count

[@AjLechtenberg]

every time i hear about 2042, i am reminded... Battlefront 2 post-launch development (which totally remade the game into something pretty good) was stopped for this trainwreck

[@ipastsavagei9553]

Honestly I feel like with the direction they went with the operator based classes vs the role based classes that alone ruined the game for what it is regardless of bugs and glitches

[@diabeticmonkey]

As soon as I learned about that, I knew it was gonna be a disaster

[@WarriorVII]

100% agree. That alone turned me off during the Beta.

[@phil_zupra_b5880]

100% true. I could look past most of the problems if it still had classes in the main multiplayer mode. That would be enough for me to come back.

[@dillonc7955]

The specialists are what mainly influenced me not to buy the game to begin with. Adding operators and removing most class limitations would completely disintegrate the sorts of teamwork that Battlefield was iconic for. Not to mention how the game made you feel like a faceless, expendable soldier on the Battlefield in past games.

[@ThisisKyle]

If you're looking for a game that has that mechanic and isn't an older Battlefield game then I recommend Planetside 2. It's free to play and just had a new update adding a new map to their other continent sized maps. FYI though it does have over shields like Halo

[@kedsarama]

Honestly I've come to hate the concept of "seasons" in games. It's basically turned into an excuse to delay features that should have been in the game from the start.

[@quisquiliarum7710]

thats assuming each season is actually an upgrade often they'll add more bugs than features or remove something players love or just completely wreck the balancing of the game cause ehhh why not

[@woogle463]

Cod Mobile does it pretty well, each season seems to last around a month so the changes are near constant and keeps the game fresh.

[@IdeasAreBulletproof]

The idea of Seasons is alright but If you use seasons as a Excuse to not put content in the game.

[@rasmustarkiainen3267]

I feel so betrayed by their incompetence because I actually really liked the core gameplay. But the lack of features and no new content till summer is killing the game

[@skittledirt698]

“B4.5 essentially” couldn’t have said it better

[@naturallyartificial4090]

I'm surprised when the 2042 beta video came out people STILL criticized you for it. You were right all along. The apologists have revealed themselves and we have you to thank.

[@TheActMan]

Hey man, I understand it. Denial can be a bitch sometimes haha

[@naturallyartificial4090]

@@TheActMan Next comes anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance to complete the stages of grief.

[@TheeOnlyDjinn]

Doesn't help either that the words alpha and beta have lost all meaning, it astounds me when i saw a beta such as this and people think that some how all those problems and more are going to be fixed in 2 months. I'm thinking this is NOT a beta this is an insult to every potential customer, mean while like you said a lot customers defend it.

[@napalmblaziken]

"There is no reason to harass or berate the customers." Oh there are plenty of reasons, you're just not allowed to do it.

[@xinnocent88x]

He means it doesnt get anywhere

[@RokushoTheRavager]

I will happily berate and ridicule every single f***ing idiot that spent more than $60 on this because they deserve to be laughed at. Granted harassing is going too far in my honest opinion, but by all means make fun of them, maybe they'll learn next time.

[@TruePT]

I’m pretty sure he means don’t berate the customer when they haven’t done anything wrong.

[@Walker-ow7vj]

RokushoTheRavager it’s not that serious dude, people were hopeful for a better game than bfv. Not a good purchase for them but they don’t have to be ridiculed what

[@habu9344]

Yeah working in fast food taught me that lol.

[@shannonm3841]

2042 will go down in my gaming history as the game that finally convinced me to never ever ever ever pre order a game again.

[@handlesarefeckinstupid]

@Bo Sann same, although they managed to redeem the game later on.

[@TRG_R17]

Cyberpunk 2077 Should've Convinced You

[@dashadark2295]

Legacy feature: game being able to boot up

[@fuckshitfuck69]

Wdym the game's fixed now😂

[@white2765]

@@fuckshitfuck69 But It was terrible at launch. It is the reason why almost no one plays it

[@fuckshitfuck69]

@@white2765 have you seen bf4's launch? You literally couldn't play

[@fuckshitfuck69]

@@white2765 and 2042 has a decent playerbase

[@dragonbornexpress5650]

@@fuckshitfuck69 That doesn't make it okay.

[@solidsnek1776]

"This game does not deserve a review." Goddamn, that was actually pretty savage.

[@valisthevaliant]

Lol I just find it hysterical that their "legacy features" have literally been apart of games for over a decade, and even .io games like Krunker can implement these. They aren't "legacy features" they're basic asf features that make up the core of the game. You're right, these clowns are out of touch with reality, and their dwindling fan base.

[@justasimplemanworkinghiswa1569]

If im correct Goldeneye and Conker Live and Reloaded had these features.

[@GodWarsX]

The battlefield 1 music fits so well with the opening monolog

[@sofasfeeltasty7440]

Score boards are vital, I some times check the score board thinking I got like 5 deaths, but no I got 10, if you didn't accomplish anything before dieing you don't think you died your brain sort of automatically directs you to respawn and continue.

[@kaizermierkrazy6886]

Another thing: Stop having betas a WEEK before launches. Betas are meant to be held months before launch to find bugs and apply feedback.

[@MrSp3ctre]

Ikr it’s just an early release for ppl who preordered

[@darknessofevil117]

Its pretty much a demo disguised asa beta

[@woogle463]

I hate to break it to you buddy, but these "betas" are little more than server stress tests. The release client is already well on its way or already made, and you just bought into another of their tricks to secure easy preorders.

[@_SUPERN0VA_]

Laughs in halo infinite

[@hawx00145]

Ikr, what happened to getting an Alpha and more than one Betas...

[@H3Vtux]

The worst part of all this is that now when I tell people my favorite battle field was "twenty-ONE-forty-two" they're going to think im referring to this......

[@u.nforcesalx9892]

How many orbital strikes have you sent??

[@FiveTwoSevenTHR]

I wish I got to experience 2142, it looked like so much fun.

[@mr_indie_fan]

I dont even know what the fuck your reffering to rn

[@whenshekeepssucking6916]

😬 Oof

[@alexboss9374]

@@mr_indie_fan battlefield 2142 a battlefield game set in the future look it Up it was pretty good

[@sorarocks531]

The sad thing is, the community relations manager they had before was great when it came to talking with the Battlefront community. The fact he left DICE after they were told to stop releasing content for Battlefront and to start working on Battlefield 2042 really says something.

[@nathanpalmer1568]

Does anyone else wish it was 2010/2014 when we had good games like Battlefield 4, CoD BO2, Halo Reach and Assassin's Creed Black Flag, y'know, before these games fell off a cliff?

[@dualwieldroxas358]

A moment of silence for the EA devs who blamed Halo Infinite for the poor performance of Battlefield 2042. Logic is completely gone in that company

[@lolohnah]

Just like how activision devs lost their shit because Elden Ring is popular. History repeats itself way too often nowadays.

[@Adoooly1991]

But I can see their point since Halo Infinite is free and actually a good game why would I buy another shooter when I have good one for free!?

[@dualwieldroxas358]

@@Adoooly1991 free?

[@Adoooly1991]

@@dualwieldroxas358 Yes the multi-player is free for everyone and campaign is free on Gamepass

[@dualwieldroxas358]

@@Adoooly1991 ah, that is what you meant

[@MrNocturnal1]

Honestly, DICE isn't even DICE anymore. An overwhelming majority of the Devs who worked there on the past games have since left and made their own studio. The talent that made Battlefield what it was is long gone.

[@apotato6278]

There's a documentary series made by the Swedish state media called "Det Svenska Spelundret" or roughly "The Swedish Video Game Wonder" where they go through the history of video games in Sweden. I watched it while sick a few weeks ago and in it they cover the Battlefield series and the origins of DICE. Seeing that small collection of original misfits go from making pinball games to brute-forcing together a functioning 3d engine was honestly pretty inspirational. Quite a contrast to the DICE which sees scoreboards as "brutal expectations".

[@racekrasser7869]

Sadly, it's happening that way to a ton of different game companies...They get bought out by a corporation that milks their major franchises into the ground and moves on to the next.

[@ViViDG]

Same goes with Blizzard, they haven’t made a good game since WotLK.

[@ShantoShmento]

Yup. 100% this. It's almost like every game dev companies who have vets working have already left and all the shitty new devs are working on these games now and they're being released half ass & broken

[@gurkensohn9401]

It's woke Dice. They got no talent or knowledge. At least they have diverse people but seems like they aren't really talented or useful.

[@genericracer07]

Dice needs to know that they can't keep rushing their games into release because that is going to hurt their franchise, because people have patience and they can take as long as they need to to develop the next one. I still hold out hope for the franchise and know that they can still find a way to get themselves back on track.

[@silasstryder]

Nah dude it's dead, it's over. I waited since BF4 for 2042 because I don't care for WWI-WWII shooters, I was unbelievably patient, 7 years from the release of the last BF4 DLC to the launch of 2042, 7 YEARS, a quarter of my entire life! (I'm 29) and this is what they gave us. I just don't care what EA did to make DICE fall anymore, EA ruined them and there's no recovering after this. RIP Battlefield.

[@genericracer07]

@@silasstryder Can I please have my own opinion? I get tired of people constantly replying to me saying "battlefield is dead".

[@silasstryder]

@@genericracer07 you can, but it's wrong lol

[@hllyenaylleth9576]

@@genericracer07 Yeah, the Battlefield franchise is dead, and is deserved.

[@qu1253]

Battlefield 2042 has officially dipped below 1,000 concurrent players on Steam. This game, which isn't even a year old, is less popular than games that came out over 10 years ago.

[@KircherTalksEntertainment]

I work for a pest control company, and from my experience, you’re absolutely right in that a company shouldn’t act in spite of their paying customers. DICE saying that it’s unreasonable to add basic features and make the gameplay functional would be like me telling one of my customers “you expect us to spray your house and remove your spider webs? Outrageous!”

[@digitalbabylonaustin]

Former pest control tech here: this response is right on the money.

[@TheActMan]

Maybe you can help DICE with their Roach problem, seems there's a lot of those in their offices

[@wilsonjonah]

I work for a community water system and even I understand how important it is to please our customers and do what we can to keep the water supply safe and drinkable. If my boss and the board ever started to act like EA then not only would they lose their jobs and credibility, but the water might not even getting taken care of properly which could destroy lives and people's health. It's an important job, so how is it that EA and DICE are so completely conceited and arrogantly against making an actual GAME? Are they really so stupid where they don't realize that people may like them again and even praise the company again if they just DO THEIR DANG JOB THE RIGHT WAY?

[@mrjohnnyk]

@@wilsonjonah That's what happens when developers become political activists.

[@cheekyfantasy1314]

Its easy to see why it happened tho, Dice is now populated by people who dont play it or are fans of the franchise, and actively hate people who are fans, with such a shit product they still lecture fans on what is "good"

[@connormclernon26]

I'm going with "Investors who don't know squat about gaming are the ones making the most important decisions." It's what killed Atari, it's what will kill the big companies.

[@qu1253]

EA had its best year ever in 2021 despite Battlefield's failure. Remember, their revenue comes almost entirely from sports games and microtransactions now. Battlefield doesn't even account for 5% of their revenue anymore. Activision Blizzard also had its best year ever in 2021 in spite of the big scandal. The gaming public has gotten significantly dumber since the 80s. They happily throw their money at companies that hate them and then act surprised when they get served garbage. EA will be fine.

[@yurichtube1162]

@@qu1253 EA sports should be their only focus then. They should sell Dice to sony or xbox.

[@qu1253]

@@yurichtube1162 They'll dissolve DICE long before they ever considering selling them off. It'd be stupid of them to sell off DICE and let them go make money for a competitor.

[@GamingWithHajimemes]

@@qu1253 Idk if it's stupid. They are stupid, but the deal of giving it away for a billion or few million dollars, isn't.

[@speed3414]

@@qu1253 man, I couldn't agree more

[@Ty-bp1nl]

Almost two years later, and this video is still relevant lol. Aside from some bugfixes, and a little content sprinkled in, this game is still lacking, and DICE still has the same attitude...

[@thonyarrieche]

One of the main problems with the gaming industry nowadays is there's a lack of humility, connection with gamers and overall consumer respect. They basically want to milk IPs as much as they can and then blame the community when their soulless projects fail. F*ck that

[@danmchugh7106]

The sooner gamers realise ‘live service’ is just code for ‘demo game’ and stop paying full price for these shambles the better.

[@hezgillies1916]

This^

[@jffry890]

RIP Skull and Bones

[@OrionDawn15]

Live service by itself isn't the issue, it's the companies behind them.

[@Obi-Wan_Kenobi]

*Dice After losing 90% of the player base:* Not to worry! We are still flying 1/10th of a ship.

[@ramenbomberdeluxe4958]

General Kenobi...

[@mrrandomant1104]

Dice after looking at ign and other Ea paid review companies giving it a 7 or above: *Another happy landing!*

[@darthvader9173]

Dafuq u doing here kenobi

[@Shadow-rb6pn]

Star wars battlefront 2 died for this

[@JorgeGarcia-gp5cf]

Ah! The Negotiator....

[@prof.idoobz9944]

Act Man I love that you not only review games but also talk about game companies, I feel like a lot of companies have dropped the ball on PR and consistency with releases. It really feels like there's only a few companies left that are a ray of hope in the sea of greedy and uncaring game companies out there. Keep it real man, these big companies really don't care about the feedback gamers give as long as you're still buying the games and they're making money. (Edit: Grammar Fixes)

[@SakiyaN00mba]

18:36 Yeaaaahhhh angel does it again

[@slicer940]

Shoutout to halo for keeping the scoreboard, calling it “kills” instead of “eliminations” and separating kills and assists. Also showing deaths.

[@bricaaron3978]

I haven't played Battlefield 2042, but I know it's one big elimination, if you know what I mean. Also, not showing deaths? I can't even wrap my mind around that. What _do_ you see?

[@JK-qy3gk]

Hey! Hey!!!! You cant say kills!!! My 8 year old is trying to buy a purple disco skin on this game and saying the word kill is offensive to me and my child. I know this game says its rated M but that does not give you the right to say such awful things like death and kill. I prefer the word eliminations so me and my good Christian family can enjoy this shooter game in peace. /s

[@qu1253]

But Halo still stifles interaction by disabling voice chat by default and not having pre- or post-game lobbies.

[@Xfaction1111]

If a scoreboard is a legacy feature then so is paying for their games.

[@TheActMan]

holy shit what a roast

[@yourself1210]

It’s not even worth it to pirate the game either

[@sirtickleshitz]

Not having the scoreboards screams, "everyone is a winner if nobody's keeping track" type of mentality.

[@watermelonman9797]

They took everything that made battlefield good, and threw it out. They eliminated destruction, classes, and squad play. Those are literally THE fundamental concepts that made the franchise a thing

[@fuckshitfuck69]

Classes are coming so that point is invalid

[@Turnenkof]

It has desdruction

[@chroniclegends995]

Really love how they can’t admit their own failures. Just read a few news articles saying they blame COVID as well as halo infinite for their lackluster sales/player count. It’s honestly mind boggling how they can keep this up.

[@51bowtie]

Yeah Cold War was better than this and had more content. Modern shooter games are pretty much dead now.

[@Hotdogwateryum]

It’s mind boggling to you that people can’t admit their own failures. Really?

[@Sockren]

@@51bowtie ultrakill and doom eternal still prove that there is light. we just dont follow the super big ones

[@davidbanan.]

Wait, i didnt realize a great game (atlest compared to 2042) would pull more people than a little peice of trash

[@mac1bc]

It's also sad what has happened to this once good franchise 😕

[@mclovin2155]

"The things you want take time to design, scope, and execute". SO STOP RELEASING GAMES EARLY. THIS IS NOT DIFFICULT. The impatient can wait. Give us a complete game for the first time in 20 years, EA.

[@cheekyfantasy1314]

I dont think the new "Dice" can do release anything complete even if they had all the time kn the world, remember old Dice has been gone

[@Antramblings]

Its too late this is the end of bf , dunce no sorry slip of the tongue dice and ea. I honestly think ea will not be able to sell games based on lies and fancy trailers any more .I have a household ban on letting ea getting any money from me or anyone i know , they still owe me £63.99 .

[@mikehimes7944]

It's not impatient gamers. You can't promise shareholders a delivery date and not deliver it. We are not their customers. We are a metric of how well the investment of their real customers is going. Look up ESG. We are not consumers. We are the products.

[@TheSuperappelflap]

its the customers fault. as long as millions of people keep buying, even preordering, unfinished games, the publishers arent going to change their tactics. i vowed never to buy another game from EA, Ubisoft or Activision over 10 years ago and havent really missed them. If something original comes out that has passable gameplay, like Far Cry 3, which happens very rarely, i dont feel bad about pirating it. Basically the only big release I have bought in past couple years, after pirating it to try it out, is Borderlands 3, because Gearbox actually knows how to treat their customers respectfully and doesnt launch games in unplayable state.

[@Walamonga1313]

A complete 2042 would still have trash specialists and maps

[@akaimizu1]

After talking about the lack of focus group works at 14:35, I heard the words "But instead, you pursued" and my mind immediately said, "Lu Bu?" But of course, if that were the case then in the 3 Kingdoms Lore, Lu Bu would've come in on a Hovercraft.

[@Moose745]

Let them lose money, that's the only language they speak

[@Dr_Martex]

Dice: "Am I so out of touch? No... It's the consumers who are wrong."

[@lukemew7437]

Yup who at the company thought that?

[@mayank4897]

Very true, you cannot fight customer, especially when it is service industry. Dice should have learnt lesson long back, but i am shocked they still are so arrogant.

[@ikmalfikri666]

Hey act man, can you make a follow up? State of Battlefield after 1 year, and the future of Battlefield (What DICE needed to do for the next Battlefield release)

[@cllnanderson9]

I would genuinely love for a higher-up in the company to explain to me how they thought that pushing out this garbage was a better financial option for the company than delaying it and making a good game

[@militanthd6484]

Following business ethics rather than common sense that’s what happen

[@TheBizzerker]

Get all the money for it now, finish the game later, rake in the good will from people who are super impressed that we finished the game instead of just abandoning it. GG.

[@Akarayad]

Most publicly traded companies these days don’t make money from selling a product, they make money from investors. (Obviously selling a product is important and necessary, but it’s more for revenue than profit.) You get more money by showing growth and progress, so releasing a new game on schedule is designed to appeal to those investors and keep money coming in to the company. This is also why so many games that release in bad shape can seemingly stick around for years and end up being fixed (or at least improved). There’s a balance though, and creating a DOA title that misses target sales and bleeds almost its entire player base in the first months is on the wrong side of that. You see this a lot with VC funded startups, it’s not unique to gaming. It’s just an unfortunate feature of the way investment and profit works these days.

[@HamletTwin]

It's all in the name of short term gains. Push a product out, even if it ain't finished, within Q4 to rake in the Holiday sales. It doesn't matter what happens to the game months after because all the execs at the top have already patted themselves on the back and received their bonuses. It's all just a giant circle-jerk for them.

[@d3fct]

Those people probably never have even played a video game, let alone one of their own. It really shows in their decision making.

[@roluevasreisa5730]

DICE Fails with EA Star Wars Battlefront 1 EA Star Wars Battlefront 2 Battlefield V Battlefield 2042 EA: this is fine LITERALLY ANY OTHER COMPANY Fails 1 game EA: YOUR DONE! CLOSE THIS COMPANY DOWN! I do not understand how DICE cannot make a game that makes money and yet they keep getting rewarded again and again and again

[@acevadergames2260]

And then battlefield 4 was in a horrible way back when it were released and now it’s the “best”

[@Magswap]

Don't forget how they actually fixed Battlefront 2...and then pulled the plug on it for 2042🙃

[@jblazerndrowzy]

@@Magswap Same for BFV Game was finally picking itself up after the Pacific update, only for development to stop for 2042.

[@SifsBestFriend]

@@jblazerndrowzy And then is garbage, but we’ll have to see if the pattern continues. But I don’t have any hope for 2042 anyways.

[@quistyquiet]

The reason EA doesnt do this is because Battlefield as a series has a too large Community, Battlefield is one of the Biggest Shooter game series out there Along side with COD, Fortnite and whatnot. EA would be shooting themself in the leg if they said to DICE to close their company down, since they have a big following of players and the Notoriety.

[@mars7357]

How did we go from battlefield 1 to this?

[@fuckshitfuck69]

I could say that 2042 slams 1

[@Malek-bd6gl]

@@fuckshitfuck69 no battlefield 1 was atleast good at launch. I never give games another chance when the launch is shit.

[@Steven141]

The last battlefield I loved was battlefield 2, so a good while ago. Every one I hear about now I always hear bad things

[@ItzKyber]

I love how EA tried to blame Halo infinite for it's negative reviews. Apparently they thought Halo was too polished.

[@FlowTrick12]

wtf dude, is this realy a thing? EA is delusional.

[@SuperSonicGamer763]

Half Infinite is pretty content light too, but what's there is actually good.

[@RatSpleam]

Halo infinite is missing sooooooooooooooooooooooo much content

[@rifath8152]

Sauce?

[@dustindubbo2892]

It’s missing content but at least the core game isn’t broken and absolute shit.