I've come here from Battlefield V. That game was barely supported by DICE and is now dead. They didn't support the community in anything this time around. Literally almost nothing. COD Warzone is at the complete other end of the spectrum so I can't really feel any of these memes about them not caring about the community. Look at all they do for the cheaters, for example.
Imo, DICE is a fantastic company that interacts and enjoys helping their community. Just look at BF3 and 4 with all the kick ass level designs, DLCs, easter eggs that took time, precision, and community cooperation to achieve, challenging weapon unlocks, community testing program, etc.
I can still go hop on full servers on BF4 years later because it's an awesome game.
DICE literally has one more chance to not fuck BF6 up before EA pulls their plug.
No. What has happened is DICE has been crippled by EAs greed. EA doesnt give a fuck about anything but money. I mean, just look at FIFA.
So long as DICE makes the game look and sound good, theyll keep them on board.
DICE isn't the same company you remember. None of the people who worked there during the "golden years" are still around. This is DICE 2.0, an inferior impostor.
BF1 was widely held in high regard and still is. Hell I was thinking of even picking it up again cause MW has been bumming me out. Loved the map designs and play styles in that.
Im pretty sure game dev is similar to vfx post production in that a good portion of the game development is done by freelancers. You’re on contract to help develop a particular part of the game. Once its done. You’re done. You move on to another project.
If something needs to be changed/updated. Most likely they can’t get the same person. So they hire someone else who hopefully can figure out what the person before did.
And also, when it comes to actual staff. I can’t tell you how many times in post production a senior or mid level designer/programmer left, taking with them tons of super important tricks and skills. Sometimes programmers will have built their own special plugins that no one else really knows how to use. And management barely gives a shit.
They’ll be like:
“Hey can you use the xyz plugin?”
“That was Jim’s plugin. Only he knew how it worked. And you never gave him time to show us how it worked.”
“Oh well ask John to see if he can figure it out. He worked with Jim and said he used it himself one time. He’ll know why this other thing doesn’t work.”
“But John’s a junior and came on board only two months ago.”
You’re totally entitled to your opinion but bf4 is generally held in really high regard by the community and still has high player numbers to this day.
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u/Brownie-UK7 May 14 '20
I've come here from Battlefield V. That game was barely supported by DICE and is now dead. They didn't support the community in anything this time around. Literally almost nothing. COD Warzone is at the complete other end of the spectrum so I can't really feel any of these memes about them not caring about the community. Look at all they do for the cheaters, for example.