https://venturebeat.com/2018/03/01/...-call-of-duty-back-to-world-war-ii-this-year/
Just like World War I got a sequel,
Battlefield 1 is getting a followup later this year. The game is Battlefield V. It was previously known as Battlefield 2 internally at EA. Battlefield V will return the series to World War II in a main entry for the first time since 2009’s Battlefield 1943, GamesBeat has learned from sources familiar with EA’s plans. These sources wish to remain anonymous.
https://kotaku.com/after-the-loot-box-fury-the-people-behind-the-next-bat-1823475844
“No one’s gonna do any pay-to-win stuff anymore,” one person close to the next
Battlefield told me recently. “We didn’t take any of the loot box controversy lightly.”
A series of reports this week, starting with
VentureBeat, have pegged the next
Battlefield as
a World War II game. In most years, the venue of a new big game would be its most newsworthy attribute. That’s not quite the case with a new game from EA, a company whose handling of micropayments has become major news. What may be of more interest to players is that the website
US Gamer reported yesterday that the upcoming
Battlefield will include
cosmetic-only loot boxes, as 2016’s
Battlefield 1 did.
That report is accurate, if a bit premature, say people I’ve spoken to. Two people close to DICE told me that, while microtransaction plans for the next
Battlefield have changed before and will no doubt change again before the game is out this fall, the company is indeed hoping to stick to cosmetics. One person added the caveat that
US Gamer is “making a conclusion about something that is still inconclusive.”
Much more at the link.
