Battlefield 6 Is Looking Rather Unrealistic
EA Wants It To Be The Next CoD, And The Single Player Campaign Is Having Existential Issues
The executives at EA are doing their best to ensure that loyal fans of the series are disappointed once again. Their goal is to hit “100 million players over a set period of time that included post-launch“, somewhere between 3-5 times as many players as any previous Battlefield game has attracted. Instead of designing a Battlefield game that will blow away the high expectations of the current fan base, or at least what remains of it, they are aiming to replace Fortnite or CoD as the game of choice for people everywhere. One suspects that there is not a huge overlap between those that enjoyed the classic Battlefield experience and dedicated Fortnite fans. That is not stopping EA from designing Battlefield 6 to be focused on the wildly unpopular Battle Royale mode in Battlefield V.
The price tag is every bit as ridiculous as the goals, at over $400 million Battlefield 6’s budget is wildly more expensive than any previous Battlefield game. That budget doesn’t seem to be helping the single player campaign, as development of that part of the game running “massively late”. The teams working on the game are reputedly experiencing extreme stress and burnout, no surprise given the unrealistic expectations EA has for the game.
We can hope that things get better for those developing Battlefield 6 and that they somehow manage to produce a game worth playing, but at the moment it looks like it will be yet another disappointment.
According to the report, the game codenamed Glacier is costing EA "well north" of $400 million, with that number being way more than any entry in series has previously commanded.
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If they make and keep a “battle royale” this time around and make that part of the game free, they will return a larger player base. I’ve played the first BR they did on the previous game and I liked it a WHOLE lot more than cod’s version or fortnite or pubg.
But, they will stick with the attitude of “Sense of pride and accomplishment” and continue to shoot themselves in their collective feet and then stick that foot in their own mouth(s).
I honestly like playing BF 2042, but only after many patches and updates later. The upper management is ONLY focused on deadlines and “the line must go up” to ever consider doing anything the right way.
TL;DR – EA sucks and this new game will most likely suck for awhile too before it is fixed and the player base has already moved on.