Paracelsus
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7.3 is good if you don't ask what game it is. It's pretty bad for an AAAA game and worse if you think it's half of what the previous game made. A lot was off the bargain bin to add insult to injury.
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Battlefield 5 Fails To Meet Sales Targets, And EA Explains Why (7.3 million units sold)
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Manstructiclops
Banned
I played the beta and got bored after a few matches.
It's all the same shit I've already played. Maybe the SJW bollocks is simply a cry for help/mania from a dev team forced to make the same slop year after year.
It's all the same shit I've already played. Maybe the SJW bollocks is simply a cry for help/mania from a dev team forced to make the same slop year after year.
Croatoan
They/Them A-10 Warthog
-3d spotting gone is a good thing.
-The revive mechanics are much better than they used to be.
-How is the laying around different from before?
-The extra animations are more immersive
- the game has been rebalanced and the guns are in a pretty good spot.
Have you actually played the game, or do you just spend money on gold nameplates for forums and spew absolute garbage for fun?
I mean, your points are completely against what the core battlefield community wants.
BF 5 isn't perfect, but the community is pretty happy with how it is right now provided they continue to work on it.
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How much more poorly can things possibly go for EA before they retire Andrew Wilson. Every major bet he's made that led to short term gains is now back firing with decreasing long term stability / profit / reputation. He clearly doesn't have any new innovative ideas to replace their dying predatory microtransaction business. It's going to be glorious watching EA and Activision implode over the next half-decade.
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angelic
Banned
1 year too early. Half empty menus, Enforced politics. Antagonising your audience. Admitting the game was totally unbalanced and changing the TTK dramatically. Pandering to vocal minorities in a tasteless way. You want to show women in the war? Show the real ones, the female snipers, do it properly. Don't have one single little girl grab a machine gun and plough through 200 enemies. More supply drop bullshit.
I'm 44 and in my entire lifetime, EA have never, ever, ever been a company I have had any affection for. Their high point was PGA tour 2 on the Megadrive, and maybe Dungeon Keeper (who's grave they well and truly irrigated with executive piss).
I'm 44 and in my entire lifetime, EA have never, ever, ever been a company I have had any affection for. Their high point was PGA tour 2 on the Megadrive, and maybe Dungeon Keeper (who's grave they well and truly irrigated with executive piss).
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angelic
Banned
This too, stop trying to make every game have every feature. I know this picture is old but it makes me laugh whenever I look at it, or imagine the concept.
Heimdall_Xtreme
Jim Ryan Fanclub's #1 Member
Adding.
REAL EVENTS OF WWII.
Not more stupid scenes like the snowman create in battlefield or stupid "Fornite" humor.
More respect to the costumer.
More and Huge Maps or different Battle camps
This too, stop trying to make every game have every feature. I know this picture is old but it makes me laugh whenever I look at it, or imagine the concept.
No way.
that would be the last ridiculous
What would it be next, get off a plane with a parachute in the shape of a soccer ball? and dancing like a moron?
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Scopa
The Tribe Has Spoken
You are assuming that SJWs are capable of learning their lesson. History says otherwise. I expect a double-down.
-hadouken
Member
The opposite for me. Every time my arm waves an ammo or health pack in my face, it takes me out of the game. Same thing when I prone and then see my legs sticking up in a bizarre way. The new animations are hit and miss.
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MiyazakiHatesKojima
Banned
iconmaster
Banned
I would not expect EA to bring that up at all publicly, for multiple reasons. Internally may well be another matter.
Rhazer Fusion
Member
Well then, if they get rid of the single player mode in the next installment, looks like I’m done with Battlefield as well as Cod for including no single player campaign.
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Rhazer Fusion
Member
The video game industry is truly in dark times when 7.3 million in a few months is considered a failure and doesn’t make enough for shareholders. What’s going to happen when games end up costing half a billion to develop?
GlassAwful
Member
I find those sales disappointingly high.
When the game was revealed it wasn't the prominent presence of a woman I found jarring, it was the goofy makeup, clothing, and general lack of WWII visual identity. It looked like it could be a steampunk WWII alternate history and that would have been cool as shit but for some reason it wasn't? It was like they had all this goofy shit and random races, genders, disabled people with warpaint on frontline battles and trying to play it straight. It made no sense, except that they were pandering to the social justice crowd and demeaning the setting with fortnight esque customizations with realistic graphics, physics, etc. during real battles..
When people complained it didnt resemble WWII and for some found disrespectful of history (as was their right) Dice had the gall to call those people uneducated... Unbelievable... Dice literally misrepresented history and instead of acknowledging that and coming up with a viable argument they instantly lump all complainers in with alt right, woman hating, white supremacists. This is when they lost my sale.
Unfortunately, there was some loud people who were a bit too upset of woman and races being so prominent in the game, to the point of being disrespectful of the idea of representation for the sake of it. There was no need to be so vitriolic about it and unfortunately that only fed the idea that it was largely misogynist alt righters leading this campaign. I feel that drowned out the more valid arguments and now EA/DICE and the social justice inclined media will never acknowledge the real reasons many were down on the game.
When the game was revealed it wasn't the prominent presence of a woman I found jarring, it was the goofy makeup, clothing, and general lack of WWII visual identity. It looked like it could be a steampunk WWII alternate history and that would have been cool as shit but for some reason it wasn't? It was like they had all this goofy shit and random races, genders, disabled people with warpaint on frontline battles and trying to play it straight. It made no sense, except that they were pandering to the social justice crowd and demeaning the setting with fortnight esque customizations with realistic graphics, physics, etc. during real battles..
When people complained it didnt resemble WWII and for some found disrespectful of history (as was their right) Dice had the gall to call those people uneducated... Unbelievable... Dice literally misrepresented history and instead of acknowledging that and coming up with a viable argument they instantly lump all complainers in with alt right, woman hating, white supremacists. This is when they lost my sale.
Unfortunately, there was some loud people who were a bit too upset of woman and races being so prominent in the game, to the point of being disrespectful of the idea of representation for the sake of it. There was no need to be so vitriolic about it and unfortunately that only fed the idea that it was largely misogynist alt righters leading this campaign. I feel that drowned out the more valid arguments and now EA/DICE and the social justice inclined media will never acknowledge the real reasons many were down on the game.
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Sales were less than expected but what was expected was already reduced in their warning last year. 
Plus they discounted the game heavily while not meeting sales expectations and it's still 50% off at Walmart in the US and has been since week 1. Nevermind does sold mean sold through to customers or sold to retailers?
IT's not just the marketing either. Many players don't care for the game.
Plus they discounted the game heavily while not meeting sales expectations and it's still 50% off at Walmart in the US and has been since week 1. Nevermind does sold mean sold through to customers or sold to retailers?
IT's not just the marketing either. Many players don't care for the game.
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I don't know. I remember Dr. J vs Larry Bird. IN the beginning EA was Electronic Arts and their name meant something. Now their name means shoddy product that does it best to annoy customers.
PuppetMaster
Member
Come On Tars
Member
It's a shame because I really like the gunplay and the revive system. Just waiting for more maps. Politics aside the game is great just undercooked as battlefield games usually start out.
Allnamestakenlol
Member
Poor EA. They sure do have it rough.
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Supreme Allah
Banned
You will get 1-2 more maps at most.
Imtjnotu
Member
If your not willing to listen to your fan base, how can you expect to succeed?
You pushed and agenda, you told us not to buy it, you put in game modes that you thought would grab the kids and twitch attention, and fucked up online damages with out anyone's consent.
Start giving a shit about what your fans want and stop fucking ruining your franchises that have BF abbreviations
You pushed and agenda, you told us not to buy it, you put in game modes that you thought would grab the kids and twitch attention, and fucked up online damages with out anyone's consent.
Start giving a shit about what your fans want and stop fucking ruining your franchises that have BF abbreviations
Great Hair
Banned
Battlefield Royale incoming!! U nos aim rite ... EA has the biggest peanus! Hence their royale will have 500 people at once!!!! And or vehicles ....its gonna be the biggest shit eva - Snoop Dogg
Screamer-RSA
Member
"Not only that, but Wilson suggested that EA's decision to prioritise Battlefield 5's single-player over the new battle royale mode, "
Clearly he is talking out of his ass, they did not spend a lot of time on those piss poor agenda driven "untold stories". If they did, oh my, how embarrassing
In the end a friend made me cave and I bought it to play with him. I have spent 50 hrs and I've seen what there is to see. This game is Battlefront in a battlefield skin. An inch deep puddle.
Clearly he is talking out of his ass, they did not spend a lot of time on those piss poor agenda driven "untold stories". If they did, oh my, how embarrassing
In the end a friend made me cave and I bought it to play with him. I have spent 50 hrs and I've seen what there is to see. This game is Battlefront in a battlefield skin. An inch deep puddle.
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Starfield
Member
NO!
Holy shit, how can you be so out of touch???
That's literally the only thing that HELPED BFV otherwise it would have been an even disasterous launch.
Releasing a game with zero content and stupid unnecessary political messages that don't fit in a shooter about WOLRD WAR TWO hurt Battlefield 5.
Get your fucking shit together you money hungry suits
michaelius
Banned
It's corporate life basics - never admit you did something wrong - it's always bad combination of factors or the plan bringing lower results than expected etc.
Starfield
Member
Here is what you have to do for the next Battlefield EA:
-use your time and take 1 year more for development
-If you want to make a Single Player story then make ONE concentrated story, not this War Heroes bullshit. BF3's story was fine for example
-If you want to scrap SP alltogether then take those ressources and deliver a phenomenal MP only Battlefield with atleast 15 maps on launch. (not 8, wtf is 8???)
-offer customization but within a natural way, no unrealistic bullshit, if you want to do that atleast don't make it a fucking WW2 game lmao
-remove "SANITÄTER" feature. It fucking sucks
-make piloting aircraft actually skillful again
-CUSTOM SERVERS!!!! Seriously why the fuck aren't there any? Where are the Panzerstorm 24/7 servers or whatever you want. Holy heck this was one of the best features in this franchise.
oh and don't go woke until you want to go broke (Again)
-use your time and take 1 year more for development
-If you want to make a Single Player story then make ONE concentrated story, not this War Heroes bullshit. BF3's story was fine for example
-If you want to scrap SP alltogether then take those ressources and deliver a phenomenal MP only Battlefield with atleast 15 maps on launch. (not 8, wtf is 8???)
-offer customization but within a natural way, no unrealistic bullshit, if you want to do that atleast don't make it a fucking WW2 game lmao
-remove "SANITÄTER" feature. It fucking sucks
-make piloting aircraft actually skillful again
-CUSTOM SERVERS!!!! Seriously why the fuck aren't there any? Where are the Panzerstorm 24/7 servers or whatever you want. Holy heck this was one of the best features in this franchise.
oh and don't go woke until you want to go broke (Again)
II_JumPeR_I
Member
The setting really wasnt the problem... how they used that setting however... yikes
kraspkibble
Permabanned.
that's what they get for being assholes and setting it in a world war.
let me know when they do a modern/futuristic game again...until then i'll just keep playing BF3 + 4. i was tired of World War FPS back in 2006 and i still am.
battlefront games are the best thing dice has done since 2013.
let me know when they do a modern/futuristic game again...until then i'll just keep playing BF3 + 4. i was tired of World War FPS back in 2006 and i still am.
battlefront games are the best thing dice has done since 2013.
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petran79
Banned
Because they think they own and bought anything
kraspkibble
Permabanned.
this is EA...not some small studio/publisher.
7.3m might sound a lot and it is but they expect far more than that.
Starbuck2907
Member
I bought but haven’t played much. The short TTK, the lessened importance of squad mechanics, the new spot system, It all makes the game more like Call of Duty and less like Battlefield. If I wanted to play CoD I would. Go back to BF3 setting and gameplay and I’m in.
GenericUser
Member
They lowered their expactions before the game even launched and now the game failes to meet even these expectations. Dice definitely needs to step up their game with the next battlefield or things could get even get worse.
Ulysses 31
Member
Sold quite a lot actually but then again the game got discounts a few weeks after release.
Thiagosc777
Member
Most of those sales happened at a heavily discounted price.
ZywyPL
Banned
Everybody wanted the return to WW2, the thing is, they never deliver, instead they went for some sci-fi "WWI" while CoD:WWII filled the nostalgia exceptionally. And a year later, when the nostalgia was already filled, they went for yet another sci-fi "WWII" game. Still, over 7MLN is a lot, they just need to lower their expectations and focus on making good games instead of chasing CoD sales, because this will never happen.
MilkyJoe
Member
What a load of shit
If their projected was 8 million and only sole 7, then that was only possible to it selling for peanuts a week after release.
The marketing campaign failed to capture the key audience, the woke brigade are not buying the games, no matter how loud they are on Resetera.
The campaign lacked a campaign (and changed the reality for virtue points)
It's like 2 people in a lift, one farting and blaming the other fella. Hilarious to watch really.
I played this game on PC for years before 360 and PS3 came out and made Battlefield more popular.
Supreme Allah
Banned
During the PS1 era a game hit "platinum" after selling 500 000 copies and that was considered a big success.
Oddvintagechap
Member
Everyone is playing battle royales
Woo-Fu
Banned
I keep imagining this as a powerpoint graphic in the meeting. Wokeness on one axis, brokeness on the other.
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RedVIper
Banned
DICE were the ones that fucked up right? They're the ones with the retarded PR moves.
Mista
Banned
True. The statement where they said “if you don’t like it don’t buy it” fucked it up and I think they should’ve issued an apology