Good point. Better be completely toxic then!

Where did anyone say this?

Everyone had ample time to see the state of the game before it launched both from the Beta and Early Access periods. It was clear that the game was broken from the jump and that should have known to never preorder anything.

This information was widely available to any interested parties and the Battlefield series has…

Provoked? In what world is voluntary purchase of a shoddy product a provocation? In what world is expressing some human emotion about expectations people are yelling at you provocation?

There’s a lot of exactly what you’re talking about in BF3, 4, 1, V and 2042

The bigger issue is that Battlefield has been so many things in so many iterations that it is basically impossible to say exactly what a Battlefield game is meant to be other than “combined arms warfare on big maps”

Then it would help for the devs to explain that change from franchise norms rather than just saying “trust us” as they have with other significant changes to the Battlefield formula.

I will say that I hope a potential explanation is less condescending than yours

No one is arguing otherwise.

It’s possible to tell that to the developers without toxicity and threats. It’s as simple as that. 

I have generally had my fun with the game while playing 99% as Angel since he’s closest to my preferred support role.

I just hate that invariably there will be this vocal group of people that jump to toxicity when a product has real problems worthy of criticism.

For example:

- Map design is just not good enough for…

To be clear, DICE/EA do not run /r/Battlefield2042. These are actions being talked about by the volunteer moderator team. 

“little worm”

“deserve whatever vitriol that comes their way”

This is exactly the kind of toxicity that people are talking about. The lack of self-awareness is astounding.

The game absolutely has problems and their decision to call things “legacy features” is confounding, but to say that they deserve what they get from…

The subreddit is incredibly toxic. There’s a ton of “I’m a REAL Battlefield fan, so only my opinion matters. Everyone else needs to shut up”

If you can’t see the differences between scenarios that involve children and don’t and things that are part of emergent gameplay experiences we as a society have clearly condoned for ages vs taboo subjects we’ve all pretty much agreed upon, I don’t know what to say to you. They’re different, full stop.

It’s one thing when players have the option to do crazy shit in the game. You can absolutely not run people over or murder your way through the city outside of missions.

It’s another when the purpose of a level itself is to simulate a school shooting. There are any number of scenarios where SWAT is involved that can…

Current kinja is a hellscape of bad experiences

It’s obviously not the same scale due to the IP being bigger but according to court docs, Borderlands got 115 Million to be exclusive to just Epic on PC. There’s a lot of money to be made by being exclusive to one of the big first party publishers.

Huddle close for a secret: If you’re on desktop, you can shrink the width of your window to put it all on one page.

I used to think that there was some magic to the video game release cycle when I was growing up. Then I started working in games marketing with visibility into marketing budgets and the ways that publishers and developers work together. Now, I’m far more of a cynic about things because it’s the nature of the business.

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Geoff charges publishers like Activision-Blizzard hundreds of thousands of dollars to air their trailers on the game awards. And that’s only for the right to air the thing. That doesn’t get into sponsoring parts of the show, having segments on stage etc.

So, Keighley was never likely to say anything that would rock…

And I don’t even think that it would have been hard to tone this back and still have holiday skins.

Imagine they use the red and green to make some sort of holiday camo and have easter eggy kind of additions to the uniform like maybe a mistletoe outline or reindeer horns or what have you as those special sprinkles on…

I’ve generally been pretty blase about the direction that DICE has taken skins. A TON of them are good and in line with the themes and aesthetics of the franchise while there are others that are clearly...shall we say, incredibly odd choices. Like, I imagine a world where they use the colors of the holiday to give a…