The only trend that worked in favor of Battlefield is 3's Close Quarters DLC. Call of Duty was raving in popularity; Battlefield wanted a piece of that. So, they released tighter maps that focused more on infantry combat. Of course, if you played on console, BF3 felt like a refined CoD on account of the smaller player count and map redesigns.
Okay, seriously, the phrase "no-pats" is seriously exceptional.
Never thought I'd see the day where Battlefield got the Paper Mario and Banjo-Kazooie treatment.
They start doxxing players a la Fallout 76.
and people gave hardline shit for not being battlefield enough...
you can, but to do it on the scale of battlefield you'd hit league of legends numbers of heroes while having a solid enough base to support it (heros meaning actual different skillsets and personalities etc.). for example if all your heroes do is kill shit at different speeds everyone will just grab the best one because it's simply the best option, so you'd need you'd to go back to more objective based play, and we all know the BF playerbase of cod rejects is too dumb for that. OW/siege just limits how many you can bring into a match so you don't need as many. in a match with 64/128 you can guess how many you'd need (alone to not re-enact the clone wars). inb4 "just lower player numbers".
Why is Respawn trying to save their asses?
It's like how Joss Whedon was paid to course correct for DC, and look how that went.
EA's orders most likely. They lost Medal of Honor for Battlefield. I doubt EA wants to lose Battlefield, at least for now.
They're going to lose Battlefield if they keep trying to force it into becoming a hero shooter.
Battlefield was more about the classes, not the particular heroes. You were infantrymen fighting for a particular country or faction. Working together as a team for the objective. Hero shooters is just going to distract from that vision.
but what if it's a team of heroes...?
No Hedy Lammar, no thanks.
you gonna get the blackwashed quipping zoomer version and you gonna like it!
You mean this?
Unironically SJWs taking over DICE according to some stories.
While we're here lamenting the absolute state of this game, 1.6 people are still arguing for the merits of exponential spread increase over Global Offensive's logarithmic one.
Here we see the duality of the Swede in action. One group rapes your wallet but gives you quality at times (Overkill), and the other just hates you for being a white male but still wants all your money (DICE).
